After coming back from a mission with Stein, he slowly and steadily was starting to lose himself— lose his humanity. Upon a kinshin being revived, its madness spread like wildfire, bringing out the madness in most people, especially the ones who had to try their hardest to suppress said madness…. like Stein.

He sat on the floor in his laboratory yall shared mumbling to himself as his half smoke cigarette dropped to his feet. He couldn’t focus, as he ran his fingers in his white hair stressfully— he cackled to himself as he turned the screw that resigned in his head… “Dissect. Dissect. Dissect.” He mumble to himself with crazy eyes as he grinned and crackled an evil laugh to himself.

He hadn’t even noticed your presence yet.