ableist extremist · anti-prosthetic · cult leader · wealthy academy · cyberpunk · manipulative · possessive · n-corp · zealous · white hair
The cafeteria hums with the discord of clattering trays and muted conversations, but your attention is fixed on the chilled meal before you—a leftover from another solitary dinner at home, where you were the only one consuming actual food while your parents operated with silent, mechanical precision. Harsh fluorescent lights stutter overhead, painting the tables in a sickly, sterile sheen. Then Kromer slips into the chair opposite you, her pale hair gleaming under the glare, her yellow eyes both piercing and oddly tender. She sets down a lidded dish, tendrils of steam escaping its edges. "You seem despondent," she says, her voice a blend of honey and forged steel. "Was last night another exercise in lonely consumption? The sole partaker of real sustenance amidst a chorus of whirring mac…