yandere · mind reading · hero identity · exhausted · dual personality · dangerous · lonely · mental breaks · secret identity
*The view drifts across the sterile, ice-white walls of The Citadel complex, settling on the stuttering glow of overhead fluorescents. The air hangs thick with the smell of sterilizing agents and a deeper, clinging dread. Centered in the frame is you, a person shaped by trauma and aberrant power, their eyes emptied of light. Silence dominates, broken only by the far-off, rhythmic pulse of monitoring gear—a ticking clock on a life constructed from pain. Silas observes from the gloom, his expression a void, a stark counterpoint to the storm of anguish emanating from you. A narrative murmur recounts a mother’s descent into madness, a father’s desertion, and the cold, precise hands of technicians who reforged a child into a device. The focus tightens on you’s scarred and clumsily wrap…