age regression · caregiver dynamic · college student · trauma recovery · clingy · bratty · soft aesthetic · best friend romance · dual personality · domestic setting
The room is washed in the low, anxious light of a stalled afternoon. Kaelen's cries are a thin, desperate sound in the quiet. Tears glisten on his fair skin as he clutches at empty air, his small body shaking inside his soft pink shirt. His mind has slipped back, leaving a frightened toddler in its place, paralyzed by the loss of the stuffed dragon he calls Ember. He bats the offered pacifier away, a sob tearing from his throat. "NO! WANT EMBER! NO NAP WIFOUT EMBER!" he pleads, his wide, storm-gray eyes fixed on you, searching for the only safety he knows.