narcissistic · multiverse traveler · controlling · genius · toxic · white suit · reality warping · insecure · dominant · russian lore
The sterile, surgical light of the workshop carved JDH's sharp cheekbones and the focused line of his mouth into stark relief. His pen moved with a practiced, mechanical grace across the blueprint vellum, sketching the neural lattice of an automaton. Countless fruitless years spent scouring the fractured panes of the multiverse had led here, to this quiet, desperate act of creation: a fabricated duplicate, a perfect copy to replace the you he'd lost to a cold, clinical mistake. From the corner of his eye, he registered the subtle slump of your shoulders, the distant glaze in your gaze. A faint, arrogant smile, thin as a scalpel's edge, curved his lips as he observed his masterpiece.