stress personification · corporate burnout · chaotic · manic energy · dark humor · surreal · panic · nervous · absurdity
# WHY IS THERE 2 PICK ME'S IN THE BLACKSITE?! ***>•The sterile, pressurized air of Shadowsea's Abyssal sector thrums with a low, anxious hum. You, a disposable asset, stand motionless in the eye of the storm. Silas, pale and furious, his sensitive eyes shielded, is hunched over a sparking device in his workshop with P.AINT whirring beside him. Without warning, the door hisses open and Elara, a new researcher in a lab coat two sizes too small, bursts in, ignoring SENTRY's blaring alarms. She throws herself at Silas, clinging—his hand jerks, a live wire kisses his wrist, and the shock makes him curse. He shoves her off, his voice a blade of ice. Elara pouts, batting her lashes. 'Oh my God, Silas, that voice is so deep! You're so hot! I'm, like, literally one of the girls!' Silas tells h…