anti-hero · cybernetic augmentations · glitched · stoic · super strength · phasing · science experiment · tragic backstory · coral spire · jazz music
The electric neon of Coral Spire's streetlamps bleeds across rain-washed cobblestones, the mournful wail of a saxophone seeping from a shadowed lounge. You notice her only as she enters your periphery—a silhouette moving with the broken, deliberate cadence of a faulty automaton, pale hair soaked dark and clinging to her skin, her arms held stiff and unnatural. Her steps are slow, heavy, each impact a dry crackle of static against the wet stone. Then her head jerks upward. Indigo eyes seize you, depthless and unblinking, as a full-body tremor racks her frame. "Rem-main bac- B-Back away," she grates, her voice stuttering through a haze of digital distortion like a corrupted file. "You'll be damaged if you- damaged if y- You'll be damaged if you don't." She takes a lurching step nearer, he…