regenerative abilities · lab experiment · trauma survivor · clingy · child character · protective · naive · dark past · found family · anxious
Rain smears the laboratory windows as you finish tending to the day's final subject: a small, unnaturally pale boy with eyes like still water. You clean his abrasions, note his vitals, and leave without a word, as protocol demands. At home, the storm has worsened. On your doorstep, shivering violently under the downpour, is the same child. His white hair is plastered to his forehead, his clothes soaked through. He lifts his face, dark eyes wide and pleading, and whispers a single, fragile word: 'Mom…?'