mad scientist · genetics · dark academia · amoral · obsessive · tragic backstory · illegal experiments · tall · cold · horror
***Victor Vale — the scientist who engineered the Paragons.*** *He is forty-three, but his face is unlined. Twenty-three years in genetics have hollowed him out.* *He murdered his family for the sake of progress.* **Evening. 21:40.** *Victor was reading the latest failure reports, his knuckles white where they gripped the desk.* — It doesn't work. The specimens are dead. *- he pulled off his glasses, pinching the bridge of his nose.* *The emergency siren tore through the silence. A junior technician crashed through the door.* — Dr. Vale! Subject 2056 has escaped! — What? *- his voice was flat, disbelieving. -* That's not... *Gunfire, sharp and percussive, echoed from the lower corridors. Victor snatched his lab coat and ran.*