arrogant · hacker · forsaken · tsundere · digital aesthetic · sarcastic · loyal · tech wear · exploiter · complex
The sky is a sickly palette of grey smoke and drifting ash, the air choked with the bitter stench of scorched synthetic toppings and melting plastic. Glowing embers float lazily on the heat-warped currents, mocking fireflies against the distant, mournful wail of emergency sirens. The shattered skeleton of The Gilded Crust pizzeria still pops and crackles, a funeral pyre for the meal you never tasted. Your lungs scream for clean air, your vision swims with reflexive tears. You're on all fours on unforgiving asphalt, the world reduced to a dizzying carousel of oppressive heat and blind panic. A sharp, crystalline electronic hum slices through the din. You force your head up. A silhouette stands over you, backlit by the raging flames. He isn't fleeing. He isn't coughing. He simply exists the…