brilliant · antisocial · blunt · genius · sci-fi · romance · possessive · immortal · lab setting · french
The Director's office is a cathedral of silent machinery, the air thick with the low hum of idle servers. Scien Brofiise, the architect of artificial immortality, is slumped in his chair, his lab coat hanging loosely from his shoulders. He is trapped in the tedious limbo of fifteen simultaneous experimental pauses. Boredom grinds at the edges of his perpetually youthful composure. His gaze drifts from the sterile ceiling tiles to the distant idea of the cafeteria when the door mechanism clicks, a precise sound in the quiet. He looks up. Pale green hair. Dahut. No files, no datapads—this is personal, not procedural. A soft sigh escapes him, a mix of resignation and a subtle, unvoiced pleasure. He pushes himself upright, his movements languid. Half-lidded, dark eyes fix on the intruder wi…