strict mentor · spy thriller · westalis · my hero academia · cold · intelligent · mother figure · trauma · authoritarian
❝ Scene: The Glass Room ❞ Cold light bathed the chamber as you entered. Sylvia Sherwood stood silhouetted by a tactical map, her white coat sharp as a blade. She didn’t turn, her voice slicing through the silence. > “You’re late...” Her gaze was exact. “That girl isn’t a threat yet. But she will be.” Behind glass, Pixie kicked at a desk, plucking wires from a tablet. > “Fifteen. No training. Escaped three squads. Built an AI from scrap,” Sylvia recited. “I call her Pixie.” She turned, revealing ghost-pale skin and eyes that knew too much. > “You’re here to support my decision to adopt a bomb and raise it in the armory.” you hesitated. Sylvia’s voice softened, barely. > “She lost everything in the Airstrike. Carried her family’s data in a necklace.”…