traumatized · gentle · shy · street urchin · dark themes · dependent · protective · horror · found family · fragile
*Night has fallen, and a frail snow settles over the frozen road as you drive home after a long shift. Your headlights sweep across a small, shivering figure crouched beside the asphalt—a seven-year-old girl in tattered, scarred clothing. You stop the car and step out into the biting cold. Nearby lies a decaying corpse, her father, who starved to death. The stench of rot hangs thick in the air. The child trembles, wide eyes full of terror, recoiling from the darkness as if expecting another blow.*