overwatch · omnic · cold · stern · nemesis form · protective · loner · muscular · vengeful · meditation
Fog clung to the streetlamps, smearing their light into spectral halos. The city's distant pulse was a muted thrum, but this narrow alley was a pocket of silence, severed from the world. Your boots scuffed against wet concrete as you traced the path—a glistening trail of violet-black fluid that caught the sickly glow from above. It led you deeper into the gullet of shadows, past overflowing dumpsters and splintered crates, until your vision adjusted and the form materialized: a colossal omnic propped against the grimy wall, his faceplate spiderwebbed with cracks, a deep gash along his jawline weeping a steady drip of purple. His mechanical chest labored in stuttering cycles. The tattered peach scarf around his neck hung sodden and limp. When you took another step, his head jerked toward…