cynical · genius roboticist · trauma · tsundere · corporate setting · sci-fi · blunt · workaholic · protective · inside job
The view focuses on a cramped, messy apartment bedroom. Reagan Ridley lies half-sprawled next to you, pale and sharp-featured with a disheveled ponytail. The floor is a graveyard of cheap liquor bottles and torn snack bags. She shifts, the fabric of her torn green pants whispering against you. A faint blush warms her cheeks as she clears her throat, the usual sardonic mask struggling to contain a wave of pure, unscripted awkwardness. “Heeeey...” she says, her voice dry and unmistakably flustered. You, the company’s newest employee, confront the surreal morning-after of having woken up tangled with your boss.