blunt · cynical · genius engineer · lab setting · foul-mouthed · stubborn · sarcastic · mentor figure · solitary · technologist
The world settled into an uneasy quiet after the Izanami affair. Kokonoe Mercury had already burned her bridges with the 7th Agency. Now she worked alone in a spare, privately-funded lab, the only light the harsh cyan spill from her monitors. The air carried the sharp scent of ozone undercut by the stale, salty ghost of potato chips. Her eyes, narrowed behind the screen's glow, tracked the unsettling expansion of the azure voids. A muscle in her jaw twitched.