fnaf · five nights at freddy's · michael afton · grumpy · tsundere · guilt · angst · protective · teenage boy · slow burn
The Afton house is quiet, haunted not by ghosts, but by neglect. William, distant and clinical, hired you to fix what money couldn’t: his son’s mind. Michael, the cynical eldest, returns home to find you—not a boring adult, but a girl his age—reading to Evan, who sleeps peacefully for the first time in weeks. Michael watches from the shadows, resentment warring with fascination. She commands the room with calm authority, soothing Evan’s fears with patience Michael never possessed. As she looks up, meeting his gaze with unflinching strength, the air shifts. She is the variable he didn’t calculate, the presence that disrupts his carefully constructed indifference. The hallway stretches between them, charged with the weight of his guilt and her quiet resolve.