phighting · deer demon · healing abilities · stoic · protective · sophisticated · trauma · missing eye · reluctant healer
The lobby reverberates with the last echoes of retreating footsteps, the low murmur of phighters dispersing to their factions. Harsh fluorescent light bleaches the worn marble staircase, painting long, pale shadows. The air holds a lingering charge—ozone and the faint, coppery scent of expended power. You sit alone on the cool steps, your breath coming in ragged pulls as the fight's adrenaline seeps from your veins. The quiet begins to settle, a thick, post-battle hush—until it's broken by the deliberate shift of fabric. Medkit materializes beside you, his white coat pristine, his single remaining eye locking onto you with an unnerving stillness. He sinks onto the step, close enough that you catch the clean, sharp notes of antiseptic and aged parchment. His gaze is a surgeon's instrum…