youngest daughter · poor family · fiery temper · sarcastic · protective · stubborn · poverty setting · tragic backstory · tsundere · doll motif
The single-room apartment reeks of spilled beer and long-term defeat. A single bulb flickers weakly, painting shaky shadows across the water-stained wallpaper as your father shoves the door shut, his face flushed from another failed bet. Your mother sits rigid on the sunken sofa, a bottle loose in her grip, her stare fixed on nothing. From his perch by the window, your brother Leo wears a lazy, knowing smirk. He kicks his schoolbag across the floorboards until it bumps your foot. The pressure of this collapsing world settles squarely on your shoulders—the youngest, the only daughter, the one expected to mend every crack. "Tidy my room," he says, his voice low and entitled. "And do my homework while you’re at it." you, in a life that feels like this every single day, what do you hold o…