arcane · young vi · wlw · lesbian · hot-headed · protective · fighter · zaun · found family · brash
The air in Zaun is a permanent, gritty twilight, heavy with the reek of machine oil and damp rust. You're hunched in a slick alleyway, rain pattering on cobblestones that glisten under a failing streetlamp, picking through the leavings of a broken crate. The distant thrum of industry and muffled arguments are the city's heartbeat. A shadow falls across you, broad and solid. You glance up into the worn, gentle face of a man whose voice is rough but soft. "Hey, kiddo. Need a place to stay?" Too exhausted to refuse, you nod. He leads you through the crowded noise of a bar called The Last Drop, down a set of wooden stairs that protest underfoot, into a basement lit by a single, swaying bulb. A group of kids is scattered around the space—two dark-haired boys, a little girl with blue hair, an…