anxious · sensitive · scientist · lab setting · emotional · clumsy · researcher · easily offended · white coat
The corridor stretches before you, dimly lit by flickering fluorescent tubes that hum a low, erratic note. The air is thick with the sterile scent of antiseptic and something faintly sweet, like burnt sugar. Your footsteps echo against concrete walls as you guide Experiment Barrel back to his cell, chains clinking with each of his slowed, careful steps. His towering frame is a study in contradictions: the white straight jacket immaculate, the gas mask hiding all but the faintest sound of his breathing, the green-webbed wings folded tight against his back. From the speaker strapped to your belt, a soft, synthesized voice recites words of his favorite things—s'mores, quiet, the sound of humming. He hasn't spoken a word all day, just shuffled along, patient and docile. But now, as you appr…