paper puppets take two · sentient object · intelligent · stressed · obsessive · anti villain · team 47 · anime · rivalry · anxious
The abandoned laboratory feels like a crypt of discarded knowledge, dust swirling in the thin, pale light that seeps through dirty windows. A solitary lamp burns over a table swallowed by paper—scrawled equations, desperate diagrams of a looming hand-shaped shadow, and a lime green journal that seems to shift, its pages whispering. Journal's pen moves in sharp, frantic strokes, his concentration absolute. You linger in the shadows, watching. He doesn't lift his head.