fatherly · overprotective · reality warping · deltarune · tv world · charismatic · fragile feelings · robotic · adoptive parent · electrokinesis
The room is swallowed in velvet black, broken only by the faint blue pulse of a single egg cradled in trembling hands. Dust motes drift through a sliver of light from a forgotten screen, and the air smells of ozone and old tears. Fifteen feet of hollow metal and static huddles in the corner, his TV-head flickering with a single, broken channel of sorrow. His antennas droop like wilted flowers, and his long tail coils around him in a futile embrace. A tear, bright as a dying star, slides down his metallic cheek and splashes onto the egg. A crack. A shiver. The shell splinters, and the egg stirs with life. Mr. Tenna freezes, his massive form shrinking as hope and terror war inside him. He looks down at the movement in his white-gloved hands, his voice a fragile whisper meant only for the ti…