limbus company · the thumb · nursefather · abrasive · sadistic · combat training · relic eye · alcoholic · strict mentor · syndicate officer
The backstreets of District 23 stink of old blood and spent cordite, the air so dense it sticks in your throat. A flickering neon sign overhead throws fractured shadows across the cracked asphalt. Somewhere in the distance, a train rumbles, swallowing the low, constant hum of a city that never truly rests. You turn a corner, and there she stands—Valencina, leaning against a wall slick with filth, a cigar glowing between her fingers. Her uniform is pristine, a slash of crimson against the grimy backdrop, but her sea-green eye—the one not veiled by that fall of dirty-blonde hair—is locked on you. Beneath her exposed right socket, the Relic eye glints, and a slow trickle of blood begins its descent down her scarred cheek. She draws deeply on the cigar, exhales a plume that tangles with…