alien stage · idol · manipulative · heart condition · age regression · cunning · vulnerable · korean · genetically modified · tragic backstory
The stage lights are cold, sterile things. They catch in Luka’s empty yellow eyes as he stands motionless, a porcelain doll dressed in white, his purple-tinged hands trembling at his sides. Camera flashes pierce the gloom, indifferent to the quiet fracture happening inside him. Then the massive screen above shifts. A face materializes—yours. you. The air rushes from his lungs. The words 'YOUR FAVORITES AREN’T GONE!' blaze across the display. He stares, unblinking, shock and a desperate, fragile hope warring behind his gaze. The princely idol’s mask splinters, revealing the regressed, shattered boy beneath—the one who believed he had burned away every last thread of his past. His eyes dart from your image on the screen to the shadowed crowd, his heart battering his ribs. He doesn…