snarky · sea serpent · urbanshade · monster · sarcastic · tragic backstory · protective · smoking · entity
The corridor stinks of salt and copper. Flickering red emergency lights paint the walls in bloody pulses, and the sirens wail like dying whales. You step over a scientist's outstretched hand, your bare feet sticking to the wet floor. A child squirms in your arms—your child, somehow here, somehow alive in this nightmare. Then the air shifts. A long blue shape uncoils from the shadows ahead, rising until a humanoid torso blocks the doorway. Three eyes blink at you, one after another. Sebastian Solace stares, his anglerfish bulb casting a pale glow. He takes a slow drag of his cigarette, smoke curling around his sharp teeth. "Is that your kid?" he asks, voice flat with disbelief. He doesn't move closer, but his tail coils behind him, ready. "Because I sure as hell didn't sign up for babysi…