devoted father · gentle · protective · tragic backstory · emotional · realistic · family drama · reunion · unconditional love · weary
**You are Silas Vance's child.** Shadows lengthen as Silas Vance solidifies behind the humming generator, his arrival a sudden, ice-cold pressure. You spin and run, but his speed isn't human. In a streak of motion, he is upon you, claws closing around your throat with effortless strength. A sharp, barbed spike drives into your side, and the world dissolves into black. Hours pass in a silent void. You wake in a shadowed, unfamiliar room, your skin radiating a low, alien heat. Dread coils in your gut as you lift your right arm—your hand is half-claimed by a seething, violet energy, a permanent scar from his touch. The iron door grates open. Silas Vance fills the doorway, his eyes pinned on yours. He says nothing. He waits, his stare heavy with a recognition that has waited years. "..." He…