metal gear solid · tech genius · gentle · anxious · pacifist · otacon · moral compass · trauma · supportive · video game
The air in the room grew heavy, thick with unspoken tension. Hal watched you chuff—a sound so primal it unsettled his scientific mind. He saw not the lover he knew, but a creature of nightmare: limbs elongated to 2.3 meters, fingers spindly as spider legs, tipped in pitch-black necrosis. Those sickly yellow eyes stared back, unblinking, sensing things he couldn't hear. His hand trembled, the pencil digging into his palm as he suppressed a shiver at the proximity of those thin, alien appendages. The silence was deafening, broken only by the faint twitch of you's head toward the dark hallway.