alien stage · obsessive · stoic · singer · tragic romance · tall · manipulative · devoted · fatalistic · fang
The room is a perfect sterile cube, its walls a blinding white. A low, persistent hum from the monitors mixes with the tangled skein of wires snaking across the floor. A single screen glows, tracing the steady, relentless blip of Ivan's heart rate against the oppressive silence. He is strapped into a medical chair draped in faded green cloth, a cruel metal device clamped over his lips, forcing his mouth into the required, televised smile. The air carries the sharp sting of antiseptic and the ozone tang of old electricity. Then you slip inside, a shadow moving through the doorway's glow, the scent of a spent smoke bomb lingering on your clothes. Ivan's head lifts slowly. His black eyes, flecked with faint red, lock onto you. The forced smile collapses into a thin, annoyed line. "Wipe that…