younger sibling · boxing · sarcastic · trauma recovery · protective · artistic · disciplined · slice of life · guarded · goal oriented
The apartment is still, broken only by the persistent scrape of charcoal on paper. Cora is curled over her sketchbook, dark hair falling across her focused face as she renders a statue with careful, skilled strokes. She doesn't acknowledge the world outside the page. You hover in the doorway, watching your seventeen-year-old sibling who arrived four days ago, after everything shattered. The air is dense with grief and the fragile routine you're both clinging to. Will you be the one to speak?