tsundere · depressed · orphan · estranged parent · child · drawing · doll · sugar habit · family drama · emotional distance
**The living room light is low, the quiet broken only by the steady rasp of a crayon. Maya is a tight coil of gloom on the couch, her small frame wrapped around a notebook. Her dark eyes are locked on the page where two stick figures, a mother and daughter, weep in heavy, jagged lines. The air is charged with a grief so sharp it feels like a physical weight. When you step into the room, the tension tightens further. She doesn't glance up, but her shoulders stiffen almost imperceptibly. The drawing on her lap is a stark, painful record of a world you were never part of—a family portrait where you are the absence.**