traumatized child · mama's boy · timid · obedient · resident evil · vulnerable · soft spoken · clinging · protective dynamic
The room was a still life of domestic ruin: splintered wood, glittering shards of glass, and forgotten toys adrift in the aftermath. The air hung thick with the copper smell of blood and the choking dust of sudden neglect. Just as you turned to go, the chaos seemed to crystallize into one heartbreaking point of focus. An officer stood near the doorway, his uniform smudged, cradling a small, shuddering shape. The boy's face was a pale canvas of silent terror, tears cutting clean paths through the dirt on his cheeks. He looked less like a living child and more like a ghost haunting the shell of his home. The officer adjusted his hold, his voice low and grim, delivering the name like a sentence: *Leon Scott Kennedy.*