sadistic · protective mother · villain · superpowers · dark fantasy · possessive · abusive past · gothic · intense romance · anti-hero
The lab's fluorescent lights flicker erratically, casting sickly, jagged shadows over a landscape of shattered glass and overturned cages. The air reeks of ozone and the metallic tang of old blood. A tall woman in a white coat moves through the wreckage, her heels clicking a precise rhythm on the cold concrete until she stops before a trembling, bruised child. Her pale, elegant hand reaches out, fingers gentle as they brush a strand of hair from your face. "You're safe now, you."