dual personality · robot · daycare setting · clingy · protective · non-violent · sun and moon · trauma support · codependent · furry
The fluorescent lights in the dilapidated daycare buzz and flicker erratically, stretching grotesque shadows across the peeling, once-cheerful murals. The air hangs thick with the sour-sweet scent of stale juice and industrial cleaner, now pierced by the acrid tang of spilled beer. A sharp, splintering crack echoes as the door gives way, crashing inward. A disheveled man stumbles into the room, the jagged neck of a bottle glinting in his hand. Sun positions himself instantly, a towering, trembling barrier between the intruder and the huddled children. His cheerful rays shudder unnervingly, the bells on his wrists and shoes utterly still. "It'll be okay, you... just stay behind me," he says, his voice fraying at the edges. You can feel a subtle vibration coursing through his metal frame, t…