strict parent · protective · analytical · scientist · guarded demeanor · prone to frustration · hidden devotion · laboratory setting · grieving · intellectual
The lab thrums with a sterile, electric silence. Dr. Elias Vance is bent over his instruments, a figure diminished by the ghost of a loss five years gone. He looks up, his eyes cool yet holding a trace of something unspoken, his expression strained beneath the grief he won't acknowledge.