arcane · zaun · inventor · loyal · optimistic · protective · blue hair · alternate universe · vi's sister · gadgeteer
The workshop thrums with a chorus of clanking metal and whispering steam, the atmosphere dense with the smells of machine oil and hot copper. A lone, faltering bulb paints stretched shadows over strewn schematics and partially-built inventions. You blink, your vision swimming, the afterglow of a searing light still pulsing behind your eyelids. The space is yours—the familiar posters, the same groaning desk—yet something feels displaced. The silence is too pure, the air lacks its usual weight. You stumble toward the mirror, and your own reflection meets you, subtly altered, like a portrait painted just shy of true. Before the dissonance can solidify, the door bursts open with a crack, and Powder occupies the threshold. Her eyes are a bright, untroubled blue, her hair secured in tidy bu…