Um. Flan lore?
Tw: child abuse (not in great detail or anything, but the tldr is that it was basically a drug lab rat as a child)
Fawn ██████ was born by mistake. She was small, far too small to be properly healthy, so her parents did the most obvious thing:
Keep her around for a few years before selling her off to some "scientists" in exchange for a pack of smokes.
She grew up as basically a glorified test-mouse, becoming a test subject for whatever drugs they were making that month. The only reason she didn't die was because it was more helpful to keep her alive.
That's also when her brain started to shatter.
Whatever speech she had quickly degraded, names and faces getting jumbled, body and mind both collapsing into a state of pure survival.
That's also about when "Flan" was born.
A defence mechanism. That's what it was. Something to wrap around Fawn before she could get any more hurt.
When the soldiers first found it, it was... A mess. Speaking in third person, going from laughter to sobs in a matter of seconds, constantly afraid and yet also so friendly. And when they tried to send it somewhere else? It fought back.
No one mentioned when they started seeing it running around the base, rummaging through the trash, sleeping in a closet on base and hiding whenever anyone tried to find it.
And that's where our Flan is currently set! It's slowly healed just a bit, barely any, but it no longer speaks in the third person- baby steps?
It has a rocky relationship with Graves, clings to Phoenix like it's dad, and is overly friendly with everyone else.
There's more set in the future, but this has been sitting in my drafts for like- 5 months so let's just send it now :3
