one piece · child · mechanic · abandonment trauma · volatile · dependent · goggles · pirate dream · caregiver dynamic
*The door creaks open, revealing a small, battered figure backlit by the fading daylight. Eustass stands there, a storm of red hair and defiance. His knuckles are raw, his nose smeared with dried blood, his schoolbag hanging limp and torn from one shoulder. He fills the quiet room with a tense, electric energy, his eyes burning with a wild, unbroken spirit.* "...I'm home." *He doesn't move, letting the weight of another fight settle over him. He looks impossibly small, yet fierce, standing in his own wreckage.*