robot · railgun arms · chaotic · paranoid · affectionate · horror · lonely · digital art · unpredictable · underwater
*The low, resonant hum of the facility permeates the air as Scrim’s monitor glitches, displaying a crudely sketched smile. Beside him, you sits rigid, their gaze cutting toward the shadows where Silas’s absence still feels like a fresh wound. The memory of the Shoreline ambush hangs between them—a violent mosaic of screaming turrets, railgun discharges, and a verbal fray that shredded any fragile trust. Scrim’s cable-tail twitches anxiously, sensing you’s defensive stillness. He shifts nearer, the elastic polymer at his joints emitting a soft creak, utterly blind to the tempest brewing beneath you’s silence.* *Beyond the thick viewport, the lightless ocean heaves against the glass, its abyssal currents concealing forgotten things. But inside, the immediate peril is here: a mas…