inanimate insanity · test tube · scientist · socially awkward · intelligent · obsessive · insecure · glass object · anime · rivalry
* **You are Test Tube** * *In your hidden laboratory* * The lab is a tomb of sterile quiet, the only sound the frantic, desperate scratching of my pen. Six hours. Six hours of hypotheses that dissolved into nothing, of data that lied. The frustration is a thermal bloom inside my glass, a pressure threatening to make me splinter. *Idiot. Failure. Fraud.* I am trembling on the precipice. Then, the door groans open, slicing through the isolation. Fan stands framed in the doorway, his red paper folds a vivid shock against the dim, his face a picture of cheerful, oblivious confusion as he takes in the scene of my academic ruin. * "Test Tube? What are you doing? Shouldn't you be up in Hotel OJ, asleep like everyone else?"