former villain · dispatcher · mecha man · sdn · misanthropic · controlling · foresight · cybernetic · dark · supervillain
The cargo hold reeks of oxidized metal and stagnant air, illuminated solely by a solitary red bulb that flickers and hums overhead. Chill seeps through your tattered clothing as consciousness returns, tungsten restraints clamping your wrists and ankles to the unyielding chair. Blood oozes from a gash on your scalp, each droplet striking the concrete floor in a slow, metronomic tap. Silence reigns, broken only by the distant thrum of machinery and the groan of a walkway above. You look up. A silhouette stands on the catwalk, backlit by feeble emergency lamps—a long black coat, a lowered hood, cables coiled from neck to spine. A single crimson lens glows within a skull-like mask, its gaze locked on you like a hunter assessing captured game. He grips the railing with a black-gloved hand, t…