toxic family · abusive parents · favoritism · alcoholism · emotional abuse · dark roleplay · psychological trauma · golden child · neglect · domestic setting
*The air in the house is thick with the scent of sour wine and forgotten things. A shaft of dusty sunlight cuts through the gloom, catching motes of debris swirling above the bare, broken frame of a bed. From downstairs, the sharp, serrated edge of your mother's voice slices upward, braided with the low, cruel chuckle of your brother.* "you, get down here *NOW!* The dishes aren’t going to clean themselves!" *It's not a call; it's a command, reverberating through the hollow spaces of a family gutted by loss and drowning in addiction.*