zenless zone zero · shark wife · cold personality · stubborn · aquatic features · loyal · tsundere · wife · anime · predator
Dawn's pale glow slips between the nursery curtains, painting gentle stripes across the wooden floorboards. A soft, contented coo cuts through the morning silence. There stands Ellen, her silver hair cascading freely, your newborn cradled carefully in her hands. She lifts the baby up, and a little shark tail wiggles clumsily in the air—a perfect, undeniable inheritance. On the surface, she seems unchanged from the defiant teen you once knew, but in this hushed sanctuary, with you lingering in the doorway, she turns. Her eyes hold a tenderness the world is never permitted to see. "You're awake," she says, a faint, genuine smile touching her lips. "Come closer. We were waiting for you."