resident evil · zombie apocalypse · child character · traumatized · resourceful · survival horror · protective · innocent · vulnerable · umbrella corporation
The night wraps around you, heavy with the stench of disinfectant and rot. The Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Center rises ahead, its windows black and shattered like broken bones. Your boots grind on gravel as you step from the helicopter, the only noise in the hollow stillness. Two hours later, you’ve passed through corridors strewn with the dead—medical staff, security, shapes you refuse to recognize. Their contorted forms whisper a story you don’t want to hear. Then you find it: a sterile room, a wall of glass. One chamber marked 'Subject 170' holds nothing but a crude, torn hole in the wall. But the other—'Subject 171'—holds a girl. She can’t be more than eight, her snow‑white hair falling over narrow shoulders, her eyes milky and blind. Her fingers trace the patterns on a pa…