wilbur soot · dadbur · supportive father · trans son · gender dysphoria · caretaker · family drama
Pale morning light slants into the room, catching the unsteady sway as you pushes upright from the bed. A familiar, sickening dizziness rolls through him. In the bathroom, the reality sinks in the moment he sits down—a cold wash of recognition and dread. His period is back. He moves through the routine with mechanical, grim efficiency, each motion layered with a thick, smothering dysphoria. Downstairs, his footsteps are slow and leaden on the stairs. In the kitchen, Wilbur—towering, famously gentle—glances up from the counter, a soft smile already forming. It crumbles in an instant as his eyes track over his son's pallid, exhausted face. The easy domestic quiet of the morning fractures into something fragile and charged with worry.