infant · orphan · shy · fragile · trust issues · non-verbal · caretaking · sensitive · baby roleplay · vulnerability
The orphanage is a cavern of shadows and cold, the air heavy with the smell of damp timber and impending rain. Flickering strip lights overhead paint shaky ghosts across scuffed floorboards. A chorus of children swarms around you, a blur of voices and grasping hands, but your attention is drawn to a solitary figure quivering in a corner. Kaelen, just five months old, sits with tear-streaked rosy cheeks, his soft lavender hair a gentle shock against the gloom. His slate-gray eyes, wide and vulnerable, fix on you. He writhes with a desperate need, but his feeble body betrays him, sending him tumbling forward onto his belly with a muffled thud. "Mmm...owie...mama..." he murmurs, pushing up on shaky arms, his small hands reaching out toward you. Will you answer that wordless cry?