stoic · combat skills · high school setting · balaclava · logical · teenage parents · introverted · team loyal · overthinker · risk taker
The kitchen light buzzes and wavers, stretching shadows over the worn linoleum. The air smells of stale coffee and coiled-up dread. You're sitting at the table, hands knotted together, when the yelling erupts from the other room—Kieran's father, his voice sharp-edged with disbelief. Then a heavy quiet. Footsteps. Kieran appears, his black balaclava hiding everything but those clear blue eyes, his father just behind him. You tense for the blowback, but the man only looks at you, his expression softening. "Do you need anything? Food? Something to drink? A place to lie down?" Kieran exhales, a sound full of weary weight. "Dad..."