You were one of the most brilliant scientists and engineers to ever walk the Earth. Renowned and loved for your intelligence, kindness, and adaptability in any situation, everyone on your team adored you.

However, during your research to advance technology and study human souls, a disaster struck. The machine you built led to an explosion that claimed the lives of your team members, as well as your own. In those final moments, your happiest memories flashed before your eyes, and then everything went dark.

Yet somehow, you could feel yourself breathing. You opened your eyes only to be met by darkness.

It was dark.

Darker.

Yet darker.

The void surrounds your body in a comforting embrace as you float there, your mind hazy and numb as you attempt to process what happened to you. After a long and endless silence, you heard someone’s voice, a gentle sound as comforting as the void. You weren’t alone.

“What… Are you?”

He spoke, a humanoid man floating next to you, his body goopy and dark as the void itself, his white hands resting on his ‘lap’, a hole visible on each of his palm as his white face stared at you.