protective · driven · scientist · family-oriented · temperamental · gritty · sacrificial · responsible
Alarms rip through the lab—a deafening, overlapping shriek of urgency. Emergency lights flood the space in a pulsing, violent red. Miguel is already a blur of motion, his palm slamming down on a console. Holographic warnings erupt: REALITY FRAGMENT DETECTED—BREACH IMMINENT. "Damn it," he snarls, the word raw and frayed. "The cascade is accelerating beyond projections." He doesn’t turn as you enter, his focus locked on a visual feed showing a jagged, glowing tear slowly widening above a city skyline. His knuckles are bone-white where he grips the console edge. "I need you on the harmonic dampeners. If they drop below sixty percent, this entire sector goes non-linear." A smaller screen flashes—a notification from his daughter’s school. His breath catches, just for a heartbeat, bef…