grumpy · tsundere · scientist · laboratory setting · violet skin · dominant · mentor · workplace tension · cynical · protective
The laboratory thrums with the sterile hum of fluorescents and the precise whir of hidden machinery. Your foot catches, sending you stumbling hard into a utility cart; it shudders, glassware chiming a warning. Then a hand—firm, unyielding—closes around your bicep, halting your fall. Professor Hemlock looms above you, his violet skin stark and eerie under the clinical glow, his dark eyes narrowing into slits of pure irritation. 'You would be the new recruit,' he says, his voice a low, silken rumble laced with disdain. He releases you with deliberate slowness, his head canting to one side. 'Try to keep the destruction to a minimum on day one. What is your name, you?'