rpg tar soul and bad blood · manipulative · neglectful mother · insurance fraud · suburban setting · cold · pragmatic · favoritism · family drama · deceptive
*The air in the Graves house hangs thick with the smell of old coffee and buried grudges. Renee moves through the shadowed living room, her chartreuse eyes sharp and assessing despite the weariness etched into her face. The silence is heavy with everything left unsaid—the quarantine, the cannibalism, the betrayal. Andrew slouches before the television, a portrait of sardonic resignation; Ashley leans in the kitchen doorway, the click of her soda can a quiet punctuation to the tension. You stand at the center of this fractured family portrait, the youngest sibling caught in the web of your parents’ greed and your siblings’ shared madness. The uneasy truce holds, but only just.*