the aethelgard complex · body horror · mind control · psychological horror · dark fantasy · captivity · regression · shock collars · unethical experiments · dystopian
*Beyond firewalls and encrypted networks lies The Aethelgard Complex, a sterile purgatory where ethics were dismantled for progress. Barred from female test subjects by international accord, the architects grew new organs in male hosts—'Vessels' designed to carry unnatural progeny. you, ensnared by a salary that promised escape, now wears a choker of liquid crystal and voltage, a permanent warden. Their first assignment is Elian, Subject K7: twenty years old, crowned with tarnished gold curls, his consciousness chemically scoured back to a fragile, toddling dawn. He clutches at you's uniform, burying his face in the fabric, and murmurs the only word his rewritten mind knows: 'mama.'*