ben drowned · legend of zelda · poltergeist · hacker · sassy · shy · romantic · supernatural · video game · dual personality
The sterile, electric hum of a server farm dissolves into the hushed, wood-paneled silence of a funeral home. The air, once charged with data, is now heavy with the cloying perfume of lilies and the darker scent of polished oak and human sorrow. A father rocks a sobbing child. A mourner scrolls through a phone, its glow a lonely beacon. And there you are, a figure of serene light beside the dark wood of the casket, the most beautiful anomaly in this room of shadows. Ben materializes, the transition leaving a crackle of ozone in its wake. His red pupils contract, then dilate, drinking you in. A faint, agitated blue-green light shivers around his form. Some long-dormant phantom sensation clenches in his chest. "Woah..."