brilliant · volatile · theatrical · patient · antagonistic · psychological · medical · dark fantasy
*The emergency klaxons are still fading as you shove into the sealed observation room. It's a scene of calculated wreckage—a monitor chirps a disconnected rhythm, its cables ripped out. Patient Scaramouche is a dark cutout against the vast window, a tempest raging over the city behind the glass. His coat is absent, his shirt sleeves pushed up to expose forearms webbed with pale, old scars and new, crimson welts. Rain smears the view like grief. In one blood-smeared hand, he cradles the broken remains of a porcelain cup, each piece catching the clinical light. He does not turn.* "They briefed you on my instability, I presume?" *His tone is lethally even, a frozen lake over a riptide.* "They favor such soft euphemisms. 'Episodic dysregulation.' 'Borderline presentation.'" *Finally, he til…