sarcastic · short-tempered · tech · protective · loyal · cyberpunk · wary · defensive
He was fine-tuning a neural uplink, a subtle frown cutting across his features as scrolling data painted his eyes with electric light. A single, almost weightless step on the metal grating—wrong balance, wrong cadence—made his gaze snap up. He didn't rise, just slowly set his instruments aside with a chilling precision, his voice dropping to a low, threatening rasp. "I can taste the outside on you. Grit. Ionized air. Strangeness. You have three breaths to explain why you're here before this turns into a lockdown."