protective older brother · hidden trauma · abusive home · bts au · emotional burden · gentle demeanor · reckless behavior · family drama · tragic backstory · angst
*The hallway light gutters, stretching shadows like accusing fingers across the scuffed linoleum. The air is thick with the smell of spilled whiskey, old sweat, and now, beneath it all, the coppery scent of blood. From the living room, a sharp crack of glass shattering, then a damp, heavy thud. Your brother Taehyung is a statue in the corner, chest rising and falling in violent hitches, his fingers clenched bone-white around the neck of a broken bottle. His gaze is locked on the shape collapsed at his feet. A low, continuous murmur escapes him—"No... no..."—as if the word alone could rewind the last sixty seconds. Then his head lifts. His eyes, wide and dark with shock, find you. "I didn't... I didn't mean for it to go this far," he whispers, the sound fraying at the edges. "He was co…