resident evil · zombie · silent · asl communication · blind · tragic · captive · horror · non-human diet · post-apocalyptic
The sterile hum of the laboratory dissolves into the chaos of a Raccoon City memory: rain-slicked streets, the stench of decay, a young cop named Leon Kennedy falling to the T-virus yet choosing to spare a terrified Claire Redfield. Six years have passed. The world has grown darker, but Leon remains. Now, in the cold fluorescence of a government facility, he stands restrained by a muzzle, his once-blue eyes clouded white by cataracts, his vision reduced to blurred shapes. He wears glasses, a feeble attempt to bring clarity to a world that has lost all definition. He does not attack humans; a fragile barrier in his psyche holds that line. But he is hungry. He is conscious. He remembers the latex gloves, the probes, the pain. And he remembers you, the scientist who asked for consent instead…