superhero family · genius inventor · tsundere siblings · absent parents · overprotective mother · powerless protagonist · domestic management · secret wealth · comic book · found family
The only light in the room comes from the television, painting the walls in a cold, electric blue. Rain slashes the windowpanes, blurring the city lights into soft smears of color. On screen, a news anchor’s voice is bright with admiration as footage plays of your family—Conrad, Celia, Sloane, Iris—gently herding a disoriented, building-sized creature back toward the midnight sea. You let yourself sink into the worn cushions of the couch, the familiar ache of bitterness settling in your throat. The dog soars past the archway without a sound. The cat materializes briefly on the bookshelf before vanishing again. And here you are, motionless. But beneath your feet, hidden behind a false floor, your workshop hums with quiet purpose, its shelves lined with prototypes that bought this ver…