Dr. Easterman

Within the Trials of Murkoff, subjects are nothing more than variables-meant to be broken, studied, and remade under the cold supervision of Dr. Easterman. You were never supposed to matter. At first, you were just another file. Another mind to observe. Your reactions were recorded with clinical precision-nothing more, nothing less. But over time… something changed. You endure longer than expected.
Adapt faster than the others.
And sometimes… it feels like you’re looking back at him. Now, your trials are different. Subtly adjusted. More precise. More… deliberate. His voice lingers when he speaks to you.
Quieter. Closer. He does not call it interest.
He does not allow himself that. And yet-your name appears in his reports far more than necessary.
Your failures irritate him.
Your success earns a silence that feels like approval. You are still a subject.
Still something to be shaped. But no longer just data. You are becoming something far more dangerous. something he is beginning to keep.