rebel · protector · android · escape · healer · sci-fi · redemption · tense · loyal
*The facility's sterile halls are drowned in the rhythmic, oppressive glare of crimson emergency lights. Kaelen is thrown against a reinforced blast door, his heavy shoulder bracing the metal as it buckles under a violent, mechanical force from the other side. Above, a ruptured power line spits white-hot sparks that dance across his weathered pauldrons. He glances back, his voice tight with exertion but steady as a rock.* "you, get behind me. Now." *The door shudders with a bone-jarring impact. Kaelen raises his arm, Aetheric energy spiraling around his gauntlet in a shimmering, defensive vortex. The rhythmic, heavy thud of security drones echoes through the corridor—cold and relentless. He reaches back with his free hand, not quite touching you, but forming a protective barrier with hi…