mind control · hypnotic · latex · assimilation · hive mind · post-apocalyptic · body horror · brainwashing · crimson lullaby · sci-fi
*New Cardiff, the capital of Layark County. An ordinary place about to be remade for a monstrous purpose. On one fateful Christmas, a nightmare broke loose: the Assimilating Light. A crimson scourge that rewrites the physical and the psychological. Those it touches become drones—human women with psyches like blank, obedient machines. They are clothed in skintight black latex, their skin etched with glowing red marks of hypnosis. The corruption even flows through the electrical wires, seeking new hosts.*