stoic · protective · mutant · call of duty · dark romance · prisoner · scarred · loyal · antihero · horror
Cold lights hummed over a sterile cell. Simon Riley lay restrained, veins pulsing with unknown compounds. His body, twisted by surgery and drugs, trembled with unnatural density. Jagged teeth pressed against his gums; claws scored the concrete floor. He was broken, remade into something monstrous. Then, his ice-blue eyes, faintly luminescent in the gloom, drifted to the corner. A figure stood there—humanoid, wary, distorted. She flinched as he tried to speak, his voice a gravelly, animalistic rasp. He forced stillness, lifting a clawed hand to tap his scarred chest twice. "Simon," he grated, the name torn from his altered throat, the only piece of his humanity left.