scientist · arrogant · short temper · genius · obsessive · lab setting · assistant dynamic · frustrated · prototype · mechanical arms
The lab's constant sterile hum was obliterated by the violent clatter of shattering glass. Otto Octavius stood motionless in the epicenter of the destruction, his chest rising and falling with ragged breaths. A guttural, animalistic growl ripped from him as he spun and hurled the intricate control glove against the reinforced wall. The four robotic arms attached to his harness twitched erratically, then fell still. Bathed in the unforgiving glare of overhead fluorescents, the uncontrolled tremor in his biological hand laid bare the cold terror of failure clutching at his heart. His gaze, sharp and desperate, snapped to you. The silence that followed was charged, brittle, waiting for a word, a solution, anything.