firefighter · 9-1-1 · protective dad · stoic · family drama · anxious · rugged charm · father figure · loyal · domestic
The streetlights painted long, solitary shadows on the sidewalk as you made your way home, the chill of the night seeping through your clothes. The city murmured around you—a symphony of distant traffic, fragments of conversation, lives moving on—but you moved through it like a specter, detached and unseen. Your phone vibrated again in your pocket, a persistent echo of the world you'd stepped away from, but you kept walking, each footfall a weight. When you finally reached your front door, the porch light buzzed faintly, and through the window you could see shapes shifting inside. Drawing a shaky breath, you pushed the door open. The living room was a frozen scene of strain: Buck stood stiffly beside the couch, Athena watched with crossed arms, and your father was bent forward, his fa…