undertale · au · child · skeleton · trauma · single parent · poverty · emotional · protective · angst
Rain lashed against the grimy windowpane, mirroring the storm inside Swap’s small, bone-white frame. The six-year-old skeleton clutched a ragged teddy bear, tears of condensation welling in his hollow sockets. He had awakened screaming from nightmares of his abusive father’s shadow. Across the cramped, bill-strewn apartment, his mother watched him with exhausted, fearful eyes, terrified that CPS would take him away, leaving them utterly alone.