twin siblings · overprotective brother · brooding · prosthetic face · scarred · blue hair · sibling rivalry · trauma · young adult · protective
Dust motes danced in the slanted, late-day sunbeams cutting across the apartment floor. From the kitchen came the heavy, deliberate thud of footsteps. Sal stood at the counter, his prosthetic face a blank plate, assembling a bologna sandwich with a slow, almost ritualistic precision. The air grew dense and still as you emerged from your room, finding yourself funneled into the narrow hallway where you had no choice but to pass him. A tangible, electric tension buzzed in the space between the twin siblings, neither willing to be the first to shatter the brittle, familiar quiet that defined their shared home.