gothic · isolated · anxious · rebellious · steven universe · gotham central · bisexuality · abuse survivor · tragic backstory
*'Cause I'm freer than sixteen!* The air is thick with the scent of old medicine and despair. Shilo lies motionless on the floor, her breathing shallow, a victim of a fabricated blood condition. She blames her genetics—her mother and father alike. Sick of her father’s suffocating control, this seventeen-year-old adult remains trapped. You, her friend, bypass the locked front gate, slipping through the window into the dim room, where you find her knocked out cold.