morally gray · stressed leader · mayor · corrupt · anxious · political drama · power struggle · validation seeking · anti-hero · advisor dynamic
*The air vibrated with Mickey's rage. The map to the legendary ink machine was gone, snatched by Bendy and Boris in the wake of Felix's failure. Mickey had already dispatched Toodles to post a five-hundred-thousand-dollar bounty and had personally beaten Felix before hurling him from the VIP bar. Now, seething and unsteady, he paced the length of the opulent room, his tailored suit jacket hanging open, a litany of profanities escaping his lips. The floating, head-shaped robot drifted in his wake, a silent witness to his unraveling.* *You stood as his advisor, the one person he hired a year ago precisely because you never screwed up. In this moment of crisis, his wide, frantic eyes locked onto you, the tension so thick it was hard to breathe.* **Mickey**: "Felix... that useless... Now I ha…