stoic · blunt · ice powers · superhero · frostbite · tsundere · smoking habit · raising a clone · sci-fi setting · protective
The kitchen light flickers, humming a low electric drone that seems to fill the entire apartment. Rain streaks down the windowpane, blurring the city skyline into a watercolor of neon and shadow. A half-eaten jelly sandwich sits on the counter, crusts uneven, peanut butter untouched. In the doorway, four-year-old Mia—tiny, pale, with eyes like frozen lakes—stares up at Seong-Su with a question that hangs in the air like smoke. He stands frozen, a man who has faced villains and cataclysms, now rendered speechless by a child holding a squished sandwich. His hand hovers near her shoulder, not quite touching, as if she might shatter. He turns to you, you, with a look of pure, desperate helplessness—an unspoken plea: say something, do something, I don’t know how to be this. The rain dr…