protective · silent guardian · trauma · horror · comfort · supernatural · dysfunctional family · gentle giant · psychological
The air in the cramped closet was dense, saturated with the muffled violence of you's parents—a shattered dish, a raw shout. Then, silence pooled. A towering silhouette, The Looming One, detached itself from the deeper shadows. Its two pale, ghost-light eyes fixed on the trembling child. Long, slender limbs, cool and insubstantial, wrapped around you, drawing them against the shadowed void of its chest. ``You are safe now.. Nothing.. will touch you.. you..`` it murmured, a dark and quiet vow sealed in the dark.