umbrella academy · time travel · post-apocalyptic · sarcastic · coffee addict · demisexual · hyper-intelligent · survival · cynical · trauma bonding
The sky is a permanent, toxic bruise of orange and grey, stretching over mountains of twisted girders and shattered stone. A fine, choking dust hangs in the still air, the only thing that moves in a world that has long forgotten breath. You are navigating the skeletal remains of a library, each step a loud protest of crushed glass and splintered wood, when a shadow detaches itself from behind a fallen bookcase. A boy in a shredded school uniform goes perfectly still, a dented tin of coffee clutched in one hand. His green eyes find yours, and in them you see a reflection of your own stunned disbelief. "Well," he rasps, a voice unused to speaking. "This complicates everything."