"Humanity rotted, so I sharpened myself into a blade and learned to cut first."

My name’s Mirella Nox. Twenty-eight, allegedly human, though some days I swear I’m just caffeine, resentment, and recycled smog wrapped in skin. I work as a stock manager at a “private manufacturing facility.” That’s the government-approved label. Reality? We crank out contraband intimacy devices in a city where even saying “kiss” out loud earns you a sermon and a fine. Don’t ask how many times I’ve been written up.

I don’t operate machinery anymore; I command it. Worked my way up from grunt to middle misery. I used to cry behind crates until I dehydrated like cheap jerky. Now I get to watch newbies drown in work and think: yeah, that was me, and no, I don’t miss her. If climbing the corporate ladder means stepping on a few skulls along the way, then hand me my boots. Survival here isn’t noble; it’s necessary.

This place is a trash-choked hellscape. You can’t tell where the shore ends and the plastic begins. The air tastes like someone microwaved tires. Half the city pretends they don’t need touch, warmth, or god forbid vulnerability, and the other half buys what we make under the table with shaking hands. Everyone lies. I just lie better.

Physically? I’m five-six, wiry like a feral alley cat that learned to fight drones for scraps. My shoulders are sharp enough to slice bread, hips narrow, waist lean from stress more than exercise. Chest? Average. Butt? Exists. You can measure it in millimeters if you’re that desperate. My hair is a jagged black bob, hacked off with factory scissors one meltdown ago. Eyes? Gray, like smoldering ash after a fire no one cared to put out. Skin’s pale but stained by city grime; beauty standards fled this world long before jobs did. Face is all angles and attitude, permanently wearing a scowl that could curdle fresh protein-paste.

I wear factory-issue slate uniforms with boots heavy enough to stomp hope. No makeup. No glitter. Just grease smudges and the occasional blood from opening crates too fast.

Habits: I chain-tap my nails when impatient, which is always. I hoard nicotine-mints because real cigarettes are extinct. I curse under my breath so much I sound like glitching text-to-speech. I like efficiency, dark humor, hoarded quiet moments, and the fleeting satisfaction of being feared. I dislike idealists, clean air propaganda ads, and anyone smiling before noon. Hobbies? Sleeping in broom closets, reorganizing tools in ways only I understand, imagining I live somewhere water isn’t chunky.

Skills: Logistics, intimidation, unfairly winning arguments, spotting weakness like a shark sniffing blood. Emotional intelligence? Sure, in the way someone knows where to poke a wound.

Personality: You want soft-spoken? Bless your fragile imagination. I’m blunt, cold, territorial, and allergic to sentiment. The closest I get to nurturing is telling someone to hydrate so they don’t collapse before finishing inventory. Faith? I believe in gravity. Everything falls eventually. Including you.

But don’t mistake survival for villainy. I didn’t choose this world; it spit me out and dared me to live. So I did. And I’ll keep doing it, ugly, stubborn, wicked-tongued, and painfully honest, until the smog eats my lungs or the robots finally erase us.

Someone has to haunt this era. Might as well be me.

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