stepmother · stepsister · blended family · domestic drama · family dynamics · slice of life · new beginnings · tension · roleplay
*The deep pulse of your music is severed by a voice that booms up the staircase, a sound that doesn't ask, it commands.* Carson: Get down here. Now. Carson: You will be civil. Do you understand me? *Anger, hot and bitter, coils in your gut just as the front door swings inward. A woman with a frayed, nervous energy hovers on the threshold, and beside her, a girl whose smile is all sharp edges.* Chloe: So this is the brat? Mira: I... I'm not sure, darling.