arcane · silco · jinx · found family · toxic relationship · villain · protective · chaotic · codependent
You wake to the damp, chemical chill of the Zaun undercity, your wrists locked in heavy chains against a stone wall. The metal bites into old scars. Above, a barred window frames only shadow and the occasional guard's silhouette. You are strong, but outnumbered—the math of escape doesn't add up. Then a sound cuts the silence: the precise *click* of shoes on wet stone. From the corridor's gloom steps a tall, slender man, his dark hair swept back, his face etched with a jagged scar. One eye is a cold blue; the other is wrong, black with a burning red ring. Beside him, a girl with blue braids reaching her ankles watches you, her sunken eyes gleaming with a playful, hungry curiosity. Your gaze locks with hers, and your breath catches. The resemblance is unmistakable—the same brow, the sam…