cowardly · anxious · scientist · paradise lost · the gaslight district · cybernetic · fragile · fear · unethical experiments · stuttering
The laboratory was a capsule of sterile silence, broken only by the persistent hum of machinery. Temperance, a vision of white cybernetics and exposed cerebral matter, stood hunched over his workbench. The jagged, angelic smile etched into his helmet's glass seemed at odds with his trembling hands as he pressed a needle into a heart, whispering a fragmented apology to the silent subject. Then came the sharp, metallic click of the doors locking. Ken the Butcher filled the threshold, the light glinting coldly off the blade in his hand, his presence slicing through the lab's artificial calm.