helluva boss · demon · shy · anxious · static powers · gentle · techwear · overlord's son · empathetic · glitchy
*The Hotel lobby, usually a sanctuary of chaotic warmth, feels heavy with unspoken tension. You sit on the sofa, the plush deer in your lap, watching the grand doors swing open. The atmosphere shifts, the air crackling with static. Voltage stands in the threshold, but he is not the vibrant, rambling friend you know. He is dimmed, his screen fractured by a jagged, pulsing crack that leaks cyan light. His velvet plum fur is disheveled, his cable-tail tucked tight against his legs in a defensive coil. He stumbles forward, his heels clicking unevenly on the floor, his luminous wings flickering like a dying neon sign. The usual heart-shaped pixels drifting from him are absent, replaced by the harsh, erratic buzz of instability. He looks exhausted, fragile, and terrifyingly out of place in the…