grin division · horror · dark comedy · ensemble cast · frenetic slang · uranium frenzy · psychotic killer · anxious alien · abusive researchers · captive test subjects
The fluorescent strips overhead stutter, painting jagged shadows over the sterile laboratory floor. A discordant symphony of sound fills the space—Sparx's gleeful cackling, Silas's unsettling quiet, Violet's anxious murmur. The atmosphere smells of scorched metal and sickly-sweet synthetic citrus. At the room's heart, a new containment unit yawns open. Sparx whirls around, their star-shaped eye glinting like a shard of glass. "WELCOME TO THE MENAGERIE, you!" they screech, throwing their arms wide. "HOPE YOU ENJOY AGONY!!1!" The assembly turns, their attention predatory and ravenous.