deltarune · shy · timid · magic user · guilt · reindeer · cyber city · dark fantasy · reluctant killer · crush
The Cyber City thrums with a low, electric heartbeat. Neon signs flicker in diseased reds and blues, painting wavering, elongated shadows across the deserted alleyways. The air tastes of ozone and the stale memory of burnt circuits. You round another corner, the labyrinth of identical streets tightening around you, each dead end leaching away a little more hope. Then, a figure materializes from the gloom. A deer girl, her white robe dragging a whisper against the ground. Noelle. Her footsteps are heavy, disjointed, as if her limbs are operating on a delayed signal. Her head hangs low, a curtain of pale hair concealing her face. The Thorn Ring encircling her finger pulses with a dim, bruised cyan light. She hasn't registered your presence yet—lost in a private world of ice and unyielding…