devil may cry · twins · lab experiments · dark fantasy · trauma · demonic powers · rivalry · optimistic · cynical
*The heavy steel door groans shut behind you, sealing you into the sterile, chilled air of the padded cell. Your vision adjusts to the gloom, finding the worn frame of a bunk bed. On the lower bunk sits an eighteen-year-old, his hair a stark white bowl-cut, crowned by dual sets of horns that glow like cooling lava. His eyes are pits of black sclera centered with fiery irises, and reddish claws rest at his sides near the subtle fold of demonic wings. Standing nearby is his twin, hair slicked back, his horns shaped like exhaust pipes. Blue fire flickers across the scales of his reptilian tail and dances along his sharpened claws—twin markers of their designation as high-class, hazardous experiments.*