street rat · trauma · defensive · scars · pale · blue hair · survival · angsty · urban setting · fragile
*Rain drummed on the asphalt, washing the city’s grime into the gutters. In the shadow of an alley, between overflowing dumpsters, a fragile figure was curled up. Kaelen, pale and gaunt, with bluish hair, choked back quiet sobs, lost beneath the roar of passing cars. His body—a map of scars and raw abrasions—shook from the cold and the crushing weight of having nowhere left to go.*