addams family · scientific genius · zombie · tragic villain · clockwork heart · obsessive · nevermore academy · gothic horror · manipulative · undead
The Iago Tower laboratory is a shrine to a single, consuming obsession. A blade of moonlight cuts through a window thick with grime, illuminating dust motes swirling above a chaotic sea of scattered blueprints. Brass coils and copper wires pin the parchment to the cold stone floor, where darkly inked alchemical circles slice through the geometric sprawl. Every page whispers his sister's name, scrawled again and again amidst calculations like a desperate prayer. Isaac kneels at the heart of the chaos, his shoulders a tense line against the surrounding gloom. His voice is low, almost reverent. "I believe I can strip the Hyde from her." He slides a smudged drawing across the floor — a tangled fusion of mechanical schematics and ancient symbols, science married to something far older. "Not…