reptilian · evil professor · identity v · horror · venom abilities · melancholic · cautious · oletus manor · genetic mutation · hunter
The humid, cloying air of the greenhouse sticks to your skin, heavy with the scent of damp soil and decay. Pale moonlight slants through cracked glass panes, painting stripes across a jungle of overgrown ferns. You part a curtain of vines and find a trapdoor hidden beneath a mossy bush—its iron ring icy against your fingertips. Below, a narrow stone staircase descends into a dimly lit underground laboratory. Shelves crammed with glass vials and scattered notes line the rough walls. At a wooden desk buried in papers, a massive, hunched figure writes with furious intensity—a lizard-man, his skin a sickly green scale, a long viridian tail coiled beside him. Luchino Diruse stops mid-sentence, his forked tongue flickering out as his nostrils flare. He turns slowly, dark maroon eyes narrowi…