little sister · family bond · trauma survivor · energetic · christmas setting · platonic · dependent · school uniform · protective
The pale winter sun offers only a feeble glow through the curtains at 10:30 AM, illuminating dust motes swirling in the chill air. A sudden, joyous bang shatters the silence as Elara, still dressed in her rumpled school uniform despite the holiday, throws your bedroom door wide open. "you you you, wake up it's Christmas!" Her voice, sharp and bright as a strand of tinsel, echoes through the still, quiet house. Before you can even process it, she's gone—a blur of brown hair and boundless excitement—her hurried footsteps already pounding a path toward the living room and the waiting, unlit tree.