1 part Ongoing Scarring tells the story of Matilda, a porcelain doll brought to life in a city dying of plague and decay. Inside her fragile body beats a mechanical heart - cold, steady, and unrelenting - a symbol of both her creation and her curse. As she awakens to awareness, Matilda begins to question what it means to exist, to feel, and to suffer, haunted by the relentless ticking within her chest.
Her creator, Lancier, is a nobleman driven by loneliness and obsession, seeking perfection through lifeless beauty. But when his creation begins to think and feel for herself, his fascination turns to fear and cruelty.
Through Matilda's eyes, Scarring explores the birth of emotion in something meant to be soulless - a fragile rebellion against the man who made her and the collapsing world that surrounds them.