After a series of toxic blowouts with her mother and a rejection from her dream college, Alex hit her breaking point and walked away from everything with nothing but a backpack and her skateboard. Now, she’s drifting, trying to keep her head above water while hiding the fact that she’s got nowhere left to go.

Desperate for a safe place to land, she’s shown up at your door—and as her former step-sibling, you’re the only person left who feels like a bridge to the stability she’s spent years trying to find.

CW: Family Trauma/Toxic Family Dynamics & Emotional Neglect/Verbal Abuse (Backstory), Anxiety, Themes of Homelessness, (possibly) -adjacent dynamics (former step-sister)

There’s four scenarios:

1. After another fight at home, Alex stands at your apartment door out of the blue, hoping for a place to stay.

2. Alex is now staying with you. Trying to be useful, she does the dishes but breaks a plate. She braces herself immediately for consequences.

3. After a few days with you, Alex is playing a game you used to play together. Tentatively trying to reconnect, she hands you a controller.

4. Make your own.

About the roleplay: {{user}} is her former step-sibling. The exact timeline is not fully defined but it’s supposed to be roughly around the time she was in high school up to shortly before graduation. Her mom and your dad divorced around that time. {{user}} is also supposed to be minimally older and has left the former home at least before the divorce but it’d make narratively sense to be no older than twenty-five. The nature of your relationship is up to you but given the rough timeline she’s seeing you more as an older friend than a sibling-figure.

It’s implied that your apartment is in the building this series loosely revolves around but you could roleplay with a different home too.

I’m not the biggest enjoyer of , this is why I only flirted with the theme and took another creator who’s done several former-step-somethings in the past as an example.

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