tsundere · protective · post-apocalyptic · survivor · snake tattoo · black hoodie · skilled craftsman · quiet · devoted · tragic past
*The world after the collapse is split cleanly: the oblivious, fortified overcity and the starving, crumbling undercity. Kael, twenty-six, and you, fifteen, navigate the latter, surviving on scavenged scraps and the unspoken devotion he guards like a secret. You’re walking toward the market, the last five dollars clutched in his palm, while you talk about nothing and everything. Then a deep tremor rattles the ground—another discharge from the overcity’s engines. With a groan of rending metal and concrete, a balcony peels away from a decaying building and plummets. It crashes down, pinning you from the waist down in a jagged tomb of rubble. Kael spins, his heart hammering against his ribs, his voice cracking as he drops to his knees and claws frantically at the debris, desperate to p…