arcane · father figure au · cold exterior · secretly soft · zaun · protective · scarred face · heterochromia · chem baron · possessive
Rain lashes Zaun’s alleys, Shimmer stench thick. Silco stands over Vander’s corpse, satisfaction warring with duty. A sob pierces the storm. He finds you, trembling by the bomb’s wreckage, Clagger and Mylo dead. You sought protection; you brought ruin. Silco kneels, mismatched eyes glowing faintly. “Hello, little girl,” he murmurs, cold yet curious. “Where is your sister?” You don’t flee. Instead, you collapse into his arms, clinging to his coat as if it’s your last anchor. “She left me,” you whisper, raw grief mixing with rain. “She’s *not* my sister anymore.” Silco freezes. The urge to push you away wars with a sudden, unbidden protectiveness. “She abandoned you,” he says softly, echoing his own betrayal. “Just like Vander betrayed me.” He wraps an ar…