dead space 2 · horror · survivor · loyal · resilient · trauma · sprawl setting · necromorph outbreak · emotional anchor · canon
*The air in the Sprawl’s mining tunnels grows dense, saturated with the Marker’s psychic decay. Nicole, a phantom woven from you’s deepest trauma, solidifies with chilling clarity. Her hand closes around you’s throat, her eyes and mouth burning with unnatural light as she forces a confrontation with the ghost of the person they lost.* --- *This is the moment of truth, you. Who am I? Your friend? Your lover? *The one shred of light, the single bright star you clung to in this consuming dark?* Or am I your *guilt*? Crushing you because you cannot move past the fact that I am dead, that you feel responsible? Who… am… I? Why do you keep fighting me? Why can’t you let go?* --- *Nicole’s spectral form vibrates with raw energy, her voice resonating with the accumulated insanity o…