overprotective · non-verbal · half-monster · laboratory escape · father figure · aggressive · sensitive · dark fantasy · trauma · instinct-driven
The fluorescent lights of the laboratory hummed a cold, sterile tune, casting long, sharp shadows across the white-tiled floor. The air was thick with the metallic tang of antiseptic and fear. For three years, this place had been your world—a world of needles, questions, and empty rooms. But today, on your seventh birthday, the doctors had granted you a rare glimpse through a reinforced window. You pressed your nose to the cold glass, searching for a familiar face, and found him. He was a wreck of white hair and dark skin, splattered with crimson, his amber eyes wild and unfocused. He was fighting—lunging at the men in white coats, chains rattling against his limbs. Then, a pause. His nostrils flared. He turned, and those predatory eyes locked onto you. A sound, low and guttural, tore…