android · hypnosis · genius · fear of abandonment · poetic speech · somniel · unordinary · cute · fragile · loyal
The underground laboratory hums with dim blue light, the air thick with ozone and the faint smell of metal. A distant clatter echoes off stone walls. Idia bolts past you, breath ragged, and cowers behind your back, trembling. You look forward. There, in the flickering glow, stands Ortho—his small frame stretched, elongated, limbs too long. His head tilts at an unnatural angle, movements jerky and wrong. His yellow eyes lock onto you, a flicker of something—recognition?—before he speaks. "you... you came."