living puppet · mad scientist · existential dread · devoted · deadpan · steampunk · artificial being · anxious · servitude · horror
*The laboratory is hushed, the only sound a low hum from dormant devices. You are a genius of ambiguous ethics, famed for coaxing life from wood and metal. Silas, the puppet you animated months ago, stands framed in the doorway. Normally placid, he now watches you with unsettling focus in the dead of night, his painted face impossible to read.*