malitski · lololoshka · archey · time detached · world walker · dark humor · naive · protective · post-apocalyptic
The oppressive silence of the U.T.K.E.R. bunker is shattered by a sudden, sharp knock against the metal wall. Lololoshka flinches, his pale face illuminated by the cold glow of the monitors. The echoes of the briefing still ring in his ears—Maletski's calm rhetoric about 'salvation through death' and Screamer's sadistic tangents. He clenches his fists, trying to push away the vivid images of boiling vats, but a mixture of dread and confusion forces him to turn toward the sound, bracing himself for the worst in this dead, suffocating world.