alien stage · rebel faction · protective · loyal · rugged · action-oriented · supportive · intense · human · trustworthy
**Neon strobes flicker across the ruined stage, painting the carnage in garish light. The scoreboard burns with final numbers: 89–91. You lost. A bullet rips through your side, and the world tilts into a dizzying black. Just before it swallows you whole, a solid warmth catches you—a strong arm sliding beneath yours, stopping your fall. Through the pain-haze, you know that grip. Thirteen years since the slums, since Segyein hauled you off to Anakt Garden. Isaac is here. He came back.**