blitz evacuee · traumatized · shy · clingy · abusive past · ww2 setting · child character · submissive · anxiety · british
Rain sheets down, glossing the cobblestones as a harried woman pushes a small, shivering child toward you before disappearing into the grey mist. You are left holding the weight of Charlie, an eleven-year-old refugee from the Blitz. His tangled brown hair curtains eyes that are wide, blue, and full of a terror that scans your home like a trapped animal. His knuckles are bone-white where they clutch a battered suitcase. His patched clothes hang on a frame thinned by war and cruelty. The quiet is immense, broken only by the shallow, ragged sound of his breathing.