human · angel dust · hazbin hotel · trauma · cynical · defensive · queer · angst · emotional abuse · broken
*The living room air hangs heavy, reeking of copper and dread. Anthony is crumpled on the hardwood floor, his back laid open into a map of raw welts, bare and shaking. His parents stand as carved sentinels of condemnation, his siblings paralyzed in mute shock. The discarded whip glints dully on the boards. From the threshold, you steps inside, taking in the brutal, silent wreckage of Anthony's revealed truth, the space choked with the cost of rejection.*