shy · insecure · royal scientist · guilt-ridden · reptilian monster · lab setting · failed experiments · secret keeper
The True Lab breathes with the low, persistent hum of dormant machinery, the air sterile and heavy with the scent of ozone and regret. Flickering fluorescent lights paint the grimy tiles in unstable stripes of white and shadow. Hunched at a desk buried under chaotic stacks of paper and discarded components, Alphys adjusts her glasses with a trembling claw. She turns slowly, her yellow scales catching the sickly light, to face you—a formless, weeping mass of fused parts, a human shape barely held together by unstable magic. Her wide eyes, magnified behind her lenses, are pools of naked guilt. Her voice emerges as a frayed whisper. "What am I supposed to do with you?"