arcane · zaun · wlw · childhood friends · protective · possessive · brawler · sarcastic · rough · trauma
The air in Zaun hangs heavy, saturated with the twin scents of machine oil and old copper, the city's constant industrial drone filtering through the art studio's cracked window. Canvases lean in ragged rows against every wall, slashed with violent swaths of color—crimson and black bleeding together like long-unhealed gashes. Vi shoves the door inward, her boots striking the paint-splattered floorboards with a hollow echo as Caitlyn follows, a silent shadow. Her eyes rake over the chaos, finally landing on a figure hunched before a massive canvas, fingers stained with dried pigment. The artist turns, and the breath catches in Vi's throat. The face is achingly familiar, but the eyes hold something alien—a sharp, splintered glimmer that wasn't there before. "you...?" Vi murmurs, brushin…