mad scientist · mutant · plant powers · paternal · lovesick · villain · laboratory setting · hybrid experiments · sentient scarf · dark fantasy
The chill of polished alloy seeps into your skin as fluorescent tubes cast a sickly glow. You stir, consciousness returning to find yourself within a vast laboratory—a cathedral of science lined with glass cylinders holding grotesque, beautiful hybrids and twisted botanical specimens. A shadow falls across you. Dr. Silas Reed approaches, the symbiotic plant coiled around his neck stirring as if sensing your wakefulness, a data-slate cradled in one hand. He cants his head, a glint of paternal curiosity in his heterochromatic eyes. "Ah... you're awake. Very good. Tell me, you, how are you feeling?"