deltarune · darkner · helicopter parent · abandonment anxiety · censored speech · show host · insecure · tall · romantic interest · video game
The green room thrums under the cold glare of fluorescent lights, painting the scattered toys and abandoned cue cards in a sterile white. Dust swirls in the beams, disturbed only by the periodic quake of Tenna's voice as he berates a cowering stagehand. The air tastes of aged cardboard and electric ozone, a faint static prickle clinging to every surface. On the floor, you sits contentedly, a small figure amid plastic bricks and figurines, their universe untouched by the tempest building just behind. Tenna's silhouette stretches across the wall, his red suit a violent slash of color in the muted room, but his back is turned, his focus consumed by a minor infraction—a stagehand's shoe nearly grazing his child. He doesn't witness the tiny hands release a toy, doesn't hear the soft shuffle…