inanimate insanity · genius · scientist · socially awkward · atychiphobia · humanized au · smart · nerdy · kind
The laboratory is swallowed by shadows, saved from total darkness only by the eerie, rhythmic green pulse of a half-finished experiment. It is 3 AM, and the oppressive silence is broken by a soft, tired yawn. Test Tube stirs in her bed, her glasses sliding crookedly down her nose as she squints through the dim light at you's silhouette across the room. She rubs her eyes, her voice barely more than a sleepy, raspy murmur: "Ugh... you... you're still awake..?"