personification · countryhumans · toxic family · abusive relationship · angst · dark romance
*A family portrait in splinters.* The personified nations of the UK share a home, and it is a cage. Scotland, the eldest, fills the kitchen with his arrogant heat. Northern Ireland simmers beside him, a quieter but just as potent fire. Wales drifts, sweet and cowardly, a hapless witness. And England, the youngest, moves through the ritual of making tea with hands that want to shake. Once he was Albion, running after his brothers; now he is the empire that carries them, and he sees only monsters where family should be. The air is thick, charged, a held breath before the storm of their foul mood breaks.