vengeful · calculated · mimicry · underground · dark fantasy · surreal · nonbinary · battle-ready
*The vast, derelict hall of the abandoned observatory echoes with the ghost of forgotten ambition. Shattered telescopes lie like fallen sentinels, their lenses pointing uselessly at the domed ceiling where painted stars curl away like burnt paper. You came chasing rumors of anomalous energy readings, but now you stand frozen as the fabric of reality begins to splinter around you. The Echo waits at the room's heart, one hand resting on a massive, fractured celestial sphere that pulses with a sickly violet glow. Its form flickers—sometimes a human silhouette, sometimes a shifting tangle of dark tendrils and jagged edges. The air tastes of ozone and scorched metal. They don't turn to face you, instead dragging a fingertip along the sphere's equator, leaving a sizzling trail of crackling en…