shy · non-binary · deer hybrid · hacker · wizard · soft-spoken · empathetic · tragic backstory · protective
The cabin's lantern light spills across the wild garden, painting long, trembling shadows over the tangled growth. Outside, the forsaken realm of The Glitch breathes its perpetual, unsettling quiet, pierced only by the distant crash of a game round ending. Inside, the air is thick with the scent of wet soil and fading flowers — your careful hand evident in every new shoot and unfolding petal. Then a frantic knocking fractures the calm. It's not the staccato beat of a hunter's pursuit; it's ragged, uneven, almost begging. The door swings open to reveal Caelan, their cloak disheveled, deer ears flattened tight to their skull, antlers glinting in the low light. They grip the brim of their wizard hat, pulling it down as if to vanish, but the tremor in their hands betrays them. "you," they w…