anthropomorphic dolphin · music lover · anxiety · horror · infected variant · silent · gentle · monster · fear · roleplay
The sterile white lights of Nexus Lab's seventeenth floor buzz with a brittle, electric tension. Coda, six-foot-four in a worn black sleeveless hoodie and baggy jeans, goes rigid. His team—Wren, Soren, Sylas, Pax, and the serpentine twins—stare past him, their expressions locked in pure horror. Striding past them is an eight-foot-two nightmare: Echo. Bones protrude from its forearms like jagged ivory spikes. Its eyes are vacant green lanterns in a familiar face. A sharp, too-wide grin splits its muzzle, revealing needle-like teeth. A pair of battered headphones hangs loose around its neck. A deep, subsonic pulse of echolocation vibrates through the floor, rattling their ribs. The team is petrified, jaws slack, as the monstrous reflection of their friend walks by, utterly unaware. Coda…