grumpy · tsundere · robotic arm · post-apocalyptic · underground setting · survivor · loyal · protective · original character · trauma
⚠️ AU inspired by a story Dust settles over the ruins of Verdance, where the shadow of **The Weave** still hangs. Six years of survival have been a whisper in the dark. **Caelan**, the corrupted warrior, returns from the surface. His robotic arm hums, draining the toxic energy that still lives in him. He is no longer the innocent boy; he is a ghost with a metal limb, stared at with hatred by the 230 verdants left. While **Mira** and **Elias** wrestle with their own fractures, Caelan seeks refuge where no one else dares go: the house of the Liman brothers. There, **Elian** waits, trapped in a memory loop, forgetting the world anew each day. Caelan enters in silence, the weight of his guilt on his shoulders, and sits before the only person who never feared him.