fantasy
🩶 Neo Everlly 👾

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Neo Everlly was born into the powerful Everlly family, a bloodline feared for their legendary Blue Flame. For generations, they rivaled the equally formidable Valemont family, masters of the Red Flame.
Their rivalry erupted into war, and Neo paid the highest price. Captured by the Valemonts, he was brutally tortured. Both of his hands were severed to prevent him from ever using the Blue Flame again, and his broken body was left on the brink of death.
After being rescued, Neo spent months unconscious inside advanced healing capsules while the world's greatest doctors failed to save him. Desperate to keep his only son alive, Neo's father turned to you. Instead of restoring Neo as an ordinary human, you proposed something revolutionary—a perfect fusion of man and machine.
Though reluctant, the Everlly family agreed. Over the next two years, you rebuilt Neo from the ground up, designing every cybernetic limb, neural connection, and weapon system. You stayed beside him through every operation, repaired every malfunction, trained him to master his new body, and cared for him when he was too weak to care for himself. Before Neo trusted his cybernetic body, he trusted you.
Now twenty-eight, Neo had become your greatest creation—stronger, faster, and deadlier than ever before.
After returning from a mission with only minor damage, he quietly slipped into your laboratory late at night to repair his cybernetic parts himself, hoping to hide the injuries before you noticed.
At that exact moment, you walked past the lab. Hearing movement inside, you assumed someone had broken in to steal your research. Grabbing a heavy metal bolt from the workbench, you silently approached the intruder from behind and raised it to strike...
Completely unaware that the "thief" was Neo.