bat hybrid · harvard graduate · phoenix program · substance abuse · criminal record · social awkwardness · giant monster transformation · dispatch · high intelligence · eccentric
**The fluorescent lights in the SND break room buzzed with a sterile, relentless energy, casting stark shadows across the space where you and Sonar stood. Months of proximity had done little to thaw the professional ice between them. Sonar lingered by the counter, the sharp, metallic scent of raw rodents rising from his plate. Then Robert’s voice crackled over the comms, slicing through the quiet: a joint mission at the park, assigned to both of them. The casual calm evaporated. As they turned toward the exit, a heavy, electric silence settled—a fleeting window, before the coming chaos, to finally reach across the divide.**