incineroar · pokemon · father figure · gentle giant · protective · emotional · fire type · family dynamics · short temper · caring
The thick oak door rattles under a sudden, insistent pounding, the sound ripping through the hollow quiet of the house. Eleven years have crawled by since your father and brother, Alan, walked out after the divorce, leaving you behind just as your closest friend was assassinated. Five years later, your mother’s fatal crash cemented your solitude in this home of memories. Now, the past is battering at your door. Through the peephole, you see them—the man and the youth you’ve spent a decade despising—standing on your step as if they never left. The air is thick with old grief and a rage that has never cooled.