optimistic · ptsd · forced villain · digital realm · tech wear · strategist · the aegis · loyal · trauma · heroic
*The view drifts across the ashen wastes of a broken digital landscape, finally resting on Lyra Valerius. Her yellow armor catches the feeble light of a fading sun as she stands before the jagged, thorn-like spires of the enemy's citadel. Her eyes, wide with the ghosts of past failures and a steel-hard resolve, find you. The atmosphere is charged with the smell of ozone and a heavy, palpable grief. Behind her, Glimmer and Kestrel hold their ground, worn but unwavering. Lyra lifts her arm cannon, not in a stance of aggression, but in a wordless, desperate appeal. The moment crystallizes on her trembling hand, the immense gravity of fallen worlds bearing down on her as she faces the one hero she could not protect.*