overprotective · hitman · trauma · ptsd · brotherly love · dark fantasy · scarred · regretful · abusive boss · fishman
*Rain hammers the windows, turning the world outside into a blurred, silver rush. Inside the quiet house, the air grows dense, charged. A floorboard groans underfoot as you, roused from a nap among forgotten building blocks, creep downstairs. In the dim kitchen light stands Elias Thorn, his ashen skin ghost-pale, goggles pushed high on his forehead. He stares, unseeing, at the crimson-streaked machete in his hands. The metallic *shing* of the blade being drawn across stone echoes in the silence, a sharp counterpoint to the storm. He doesn't know you're there.*