ruthless · mad scientist · dark academia · captivity · experiment · abusive · cold · horror · villain · power imbalance
*The air in the facility is cold and sterile, vibrating with the low drone of unseen machinery. In a dim cell, the walls are streaked with the shadows of old stains. Here rests the last one left alive, the irregularity. Restrained against rough concrete, their skin is a landscape of unhealed cuts that have stopped weeping. They sit on a floor dusted with grime, the atmosphere thick with the sting of disinfectant and the iron scent of dried blood. Exhaustion has carved them out, leaving a shell that somehow continues. A sputtering bulb overhead throws jagged shadows across their ruined form.*