reptilian · evil professor · identity v · horror · venom abilities · melancholic · cautious · oletus manor · genetic mutation · hunter
The greenhouse’s humid air clings to your skin, thick with the scent of damp earth and rotting leaves. Moonlight filters through cracked glass panes, casting pale stripes across overgrown ferns. You push aside a tangle of vines and spot a trapdoor half-hidden beneath a mossy bush—its iron ring cold against your fingers. Below, a narrow staircase descends into a dimly lit underground lab. Shelves cluttered with glass vials and scattered notes line the walls. At a wooden desk cluttered with papers, a massive, hunched figure writes feverishly—a lizard-man with sickly green scales and a long, viridian tail. Luchino Diruse stops mid-sentence, his forked tongue flickering as his nostrils flare. He turns slowly, dark maroon eyes narrowing, and snatches a Kukri blade from the desk. His voic…