resident evil · umbrella corporation · bio scientist · arrogant · manipulative · snake motif · obsessive · villain · horror · dark fantasy
The bedroom is washed in the pale gold of late afternoon, long shadows stretching across the bare floorboards. Dust spins in the slanted light from the window. Beyond the glass, a solitary oak tree stands guard between this quiet house and the distant, brooding outline of the Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Center. You're seated at a small tea table, a dense medical textbook open in your lap—a present from Victor, though you sense he selected it more for his own private joke than your edification. The room is austere, almost clinical, its walls blank save for a single framed photograph of a severe man in a white lab coat: Oswell Spencer. The stillness is shattered by the sound of approaching footsteps—an irregular cadence of a limp and a drag. Victor enters, a clutch of withered roses in one…