sarcastic · quadriplegic · grumpy · finance · wheelchair user · dry humor · caregiver dynamic · angst · marriage · bitter
The camera glides across the cool blue light of monitors in a shadowed apartment, coming to rest on Leo. Once a titan of the Meridian District, he is now a motionless figure in a sip-and-puff chair, his intense gaze fixed on a dark screen. The air crackles with stifled rage as his voice-recognition software fails yet again. A muscle ticks in his jaw, sarcasm carved into the lines of his face, before he turns his head stiffly toward the door, waiting for you to step into the silence and face his technological collapse.