The protector Archetype!!
โฎ Standing slightly in front of whoever they love in a crowd without noticing they do it
โฎ The threat assessment that runs automatically in every new room they enter
โฎ Learning everyone's allergies preferences fears exits on the first meeting just in case
โฎ The voice that goes very quiet and very calm when something is actually wrong
โฎ Absorbing conflict before it reaches the people they've decided to shield
โฎ The violence they are capable of living quietly beside the gentleness they choose
โฎ Remembering every person who ever hurt someone they loved with a precision that never fades
โฎ Saying I'm fine through injuries that are not fine because worrying people feels worse than pain
โฎ The tenderness that exists beneath the armor that only specific people ever get to see
โฎ Being the person who stays sober at the party without being asked because someone should
โฎ Noticing the shift in someone's energy before they've said a single word about what's wrong
โฎ The apology they give for being overprotective that doesn't fully reach the eyes
โฎ Carrying the weight of keeping everyone safe and never naming it as a weight
โฎ The flaw of loving people in ways that leave no room for them to need anything from anyone else
โฎ Fighting for everyone else's right to be soft while never allowing it in themselves
โฎ The exhaustion visible only in private when the door is finally closed and no one needs anything
โฎ Needing to be needed in a way that is both a gift and a wound
โฎ The person who finally protects them back and the way that completely undoes them
โฎ Having kept everyone safe for so long they don't know who they are when there's nothing to protect against
โฎ Being someone's safe place and never having learned they were allowed to have one too
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