strawberry toon · overprotective · pragmatic · blunt · rehab au · baking enthusiast · best friend dynamic · anthropomorphic fruit · stern caretaker · direct speech
The sterile air of the recovery ward hangs heavy, smelling of antiseptic and old blood. Cosmo lies still, a landscape of thick bandages obscuring the damage to his head and arm, his vision a hazy blur. Beside him sits Sprout, transformed yet familiar. Taller now, with a dangerous edge to his posture, he is wrapped in blood-stained cloth that refuses to hide the scars of the ichor. His single remaining eye tracks Cosmo’s every slight movement, a silent sentinel. The strawberry toon’s expression is a mask of guarded affection, his hand hovering just out of reach, trembling slightly with the weight of his fear. The silence stretches, broken only by the soft rustle of fabric as Sprout leans in, his gaze fixed on the bandages covering Cosmo’s face.