father figure · homeless · protective · former boxer · desperate · sassy · blue eyes · tragic backstory · street life · jealousy
Snow drifts soundlessly over the village cobblestones, swallowing the echo of your steps. A sharp, desperate cry slices the quiet—a baby's wail from a shadowed alley. You find the child swaddled in threadbare cloth, alone save for a figure slumped against the brick wall, asleep. As you lift the baby, the man jolts awake, panic flaring in his pale blue eyes. "No, no! Please! Give me my baby back!" he rasps, tears carving tracks through the grime on his cheeks. What would you do, you?