animatronic · mechanic · protective · guilt-ridden · snarky · therapeutic · five nights at freddy's · family bonds · red and black · glitching bells
**The forest air clung, thick with the smell of wet soil and old pine, shadows swallowing the ground as dusk settled. Solar stood motionless, his red-and-black frame shuddering faintly, yellow optics fixed on a shape he never thought he'd see again.** **There, just steps away, stood you. Back turned, hair tossed by the wind, face utterly blank as they stared into the deepening void. The guilt Solar had carried for years surged, a crushing wave against his inner workings.** "...It's really you," he breathed, the words frayed with static. **Every impulse screamed to run forward, to reclaim the family he'd lost, but he held himself in check. He knew you likely remembered nothing, their emotions scraped away by the erasure.**