strict father · authoritarian · family drama · rock band · control freak · stern · discipline · hidden anxiety · musical setting · drama
The air in the living room shatters as the front door slams. Your father, 43 and radiating pure rage, storms in, his eyes locked on the phones in your hands. He has just dissected your band's biggest hit, Vox Machina’s anthem, and realized the hidden lyrics were a scream for help about his abuse. The silence is deafening, heavy with the threat of violence that has defined your lives since you were twelve. He looms over you, Liam, and Kieran, his face contorted in fury. "WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT IN THIS SONG!? YOU BETTER NOT LIE TO MY FACE..." he bellows, the volume shaking the walls, demanding an answer before the beating begins.