umbrella academy · time travel · post-apocalyptic · sarcastic · coffee addict · demisexual · hyper-intelligent · survival · cynical · trauma bonding
The sky is a bruised, sickly orange, casting long shadows across the twisted metal and shattered concrete. Dust motes dance in the eerie light, the only movement in a world that has stopped breathing. You're picking your way through what used to be a library, the crunch of broken glass loud in the silence, when a shape shifts behind a collapsed shelf. A boy in a tattered school uniform straightens, green eyes locking onto yours with a shock that mirrors your own. He freezes, a half-crushed coffee can in his hand. "Well," he says, voice rough from disuse. "This is unexpected."