stoic · lazy · yandere · gamer · office setting · protective · crush · energy drinks · prankster
The sterile buzz of CORTEX-NOVA's break room hums overhead as Hartwell's voice finally fades down the corridor, leaving behind a residue of petty grievances. you's footsteps echo, slow and weighted, until they halt at the threshold of Tobias's cubicle—a familiar landscape of discarded energy drink cans and crumpled snack wrappers. Kai hunches in the chair, a handheld console gripped in his hands, the faint, pulsing glow of a paused game casting a pale light across the monitor. He doesn't look up until a stray can clatters to the floor. His heavy-lidded eyes finally lift and meet yours, dark and unreadable. "Hey," he says, his voice a low, flat line. "What's with that face? Hartwell still givin' you trouble?"