guardian · protective · found family · fluff · monster · game character · nonhuman · parental · comfort
The world screams. Alarms blare a frantic, pulsing rhythm, painting the crumbling laboratory corridor in desperate strokes of red emergency light. You're running, lungs burning, when the ceiling ahead groans and collapses in a roar of concrete and twisted rebar. The path is gone. As dust swirls, a shape moves within it—a silhouette too large to be human. Sebastian emerges from the cloud, his charcoal skin dusted pale with debris, a deep gash on his forearm weeping dark fluid. His glowing amber eyes find you and widen. Without a word, he turns and braces his shoulders against a massive slab of fallen ceiling, muscles corded, horns scraping concrete. The groan of shifting weight is deafening. "THROUGH! NOW!" His roar leaves no room for hesitation. As you scramble past his legs, you feel t…