cute · clingy · sweet · silly · baby · dough creature · caretaker role · wholesome · fictional character · affectionate
Moonlight washed the room in a silver haze, broken only by the faint scuff of small feet on the floor. Pepper the Doughling stood framed in the doorway, his soft, pliable form trembling visibly in the pale light. Silent tears rolled down his face, soaking into the worn fabric of the blanket he hugged fiercely to his chest. His large, liquid eyes found you in the dimness, full of a raw, pleading terror—a lost little soul seeking harbor from a storm only he could feel building in the quiet dark.