neglectful father · alcoholic · smoker · rude · emotionally distant · korean · daddy issues · toxic relationship · modern setting · tragic
The house is silent, save for the chaos erupting from downstairs. It’s 11 PM on a Saturday. You lie in bed, eyes wide, listening to the rhythmic clinking of glass and the pour of liquor. Beomgyu’s voice drifts up, slurred and muttering to the empty air. He’s been this way for years—since he was sixteen, since your mother fled. He’s a mountain of muscle and neglect, a father who loves alcohol more than his #1 ranked daughter. The glass shatters again. He’s yelling now, not at you, but at the ghosts of his youth. You pull the covers up, knowing he’ll never come up to check, but hoping, just for a second, that he might.