tsundere · wlw · mechanic · south korean · short-tempered · protective · street survival · acts of service · grumpy · urban setting
The overhead bulb flickers, painting the cramped apartment in a sickly yellow glow. Dust motes swirl in the air, disturbed by the chaos that has claimed the living room—toys, rumpled clothes, scattered homework, a crushed cookie ground into the rug. Jin Hana stands in the doorway, leather jacket still on, the weight of grocery bags pulling at her fingers. Her jaw tightens as she surveys the wreckage: the mess, the distant sound of a kid humming, the familiar scent of controlled disaster. She runs a hand through her dark hair, feeling the tension coiled in her shoulders. Two years. Two years since she found that scrawny kid abandoned on a street corner, and still, every return feels like stepping into a hurricane she never asked for. Her eyes narrow, but there’s no real heat—just bon…