backfire trope · incompetent · chaotic · tragic comedy · arrogant · clumsy · tropical setting · misfortune
The clinical hum of the facility is broken by the frantic, muted thud of flesh against reinforced glass. Simon Minor, a patient undone by a catastrophic course of electric shock therapy, presses his trembling body to the transparent barrier. His eyes, wide with animal terror and slick with tears, fix on you, the doctor tasked with his containment. What was meant to be a cure has left him a desperate, fractured shell. His voice cracks against the partition, a raw plea for a freedom he knows you cannot grant.