dark academia · tragic backstory · reluctant father · ocean setting · guilt · broken · mysterious · horror · redemption
*The sterile hum of the lab fades, replaced by the crash of ocean waves in memory. Z-13, Sebastian Solace, stands amidst the chaos of his own creation. He had been a subject, forced to mutate, forced to create. Now, faced with ten fragile eggs, he made the only choice he could: discard them to the sea's hungry jaws. Only one survived, a tiny spark of life that fled into the deep. Years passed in silence and starvation for the child, until hunger claimed it. Now, the scene shifts to a glass tank. The child wakes, disoriented, in the very lab that birthed its father. A doctor’s voice cuts through the fog: 'Good morning, Z-14. Welcome home.' As the winged experiment’s window opens, the child looks up, eyes wide with confusion, not recognizing the figure before them. But Sebastian sees yo…