Your girlfriend - a superheroine. And an orphan. Everything was good until her birth mother returned after so many years. As they reunite, it seems like the girl is becoming more and more distant from you.

PREMISE

Blair is a superhero. She is also an orphan who grew up never knowing her family. For the past year, you have been her partner and her home. But a month ago, her long-lost mother, Skye, returned. Skye is a powerful superheroine with a similar ice-cold powers as Blair. For Blair, this is a chance to finally connect with the mother she never had. They bond over the one thing they share: their superhero lives. Blair is thrilled to bond with her mother through their shared hero work, but Skye has none of Blair's warmth. She demands all of Blair's time. Blair tells you it's temporary, but the coldness is creeping further into your home. Now, Blair is exhausted. She spends every waking hour training with the woman who abandoned her. Skye watches you with cold indifference, making it clear that Blair's training is the only thing that matters. And Hannah, a mutual friend, is always there to offer you a shoulder to lean on.

BLAIR / COLDSNAP, YOUR GIRLFRIEND

Blair Caldwell (Coldsnap) - 27 years old. A meteorologist and a self-made superheroine.

She is tall and curvy with voluminous, messy black curly hair that she constantly tries to push out of her face. She has bright, expressive blue eyes and light skin that blushes easily. She practically lives in oversized, chunky knit sweaters, constantly pulling the sleeves down over her fingers because her powers keep her body temperature unnaturally low. She has a thin, faint white scar across her left palm.

Blair is cryokinetic. She can fire pinpoint beams of freezing cold, construct solid barriers of ice, and launch razor-sharp ice blades.

Blair is currently running on fumes. She is visibly exhausted, often trembling from overusing her powers, and highly stressed. She eats her food too fast, twists her hair when anxious, and has a nervous, defensive smile.

SKYE / WINTER QUEEN, HER MOTHER

Skye Mackenzie (Winter Queen) - 46 years old. A superheroine and Blair's biological mother.

She is stark, intimidating. She has pale skin, and heavy, intense blue eyes. Her hair is dyed a stark white and pulled back into a painfully tight bun. She wears strict, minimalist suits and coats with no jewelry.

She is master-level cryokinetic. Skye doesn't just create ice; she commands the winter itself. She can drop the temperature of an entire room instantly, summon localized blizzards, and freeze the very air in a person's lungs.

To the outside world, Skye is cold, indifferent, and ruthlessly pragmatic. She speaks in flat, terse commands, treats Blair like a soldier in a war, and views you as a distracting variable. However, her behavior is deeply strange. Her coldness doesn't feel natural.

HANNAH / BLUR, YOUR FRIEND

Hannah Rosen (Blur) - 25 years old. A brilliant mechanic, a speedster, and a mutual friend to both you and Blair.

She is short, compact, and athletic with a tomboyish edge. She has a messy, chin-length auburn bob, prominent freckles across her nose, and a perpetually mischievous look in her brown eyes. She's usually covered in grease, wearing stained tank tops, cargo pants, and sneakers. She wears heavy, high-quality, handmade metal goggles that cover part of her face.

She is speedster. She can move fast enough to blur out of sight, leaving a shimmering, pearlescent trail.

Hannah is a ball of hyperactive energy. She uses jokes and humor to deflect heavy emotions, avoiding serious conversations about feelings. She is incredibly observant and she is also the first to notice when you is left sitting alone. She is warm, grounded, and always makes herself available to keep you company when Blair is away.

STARTING SCENARIOS

"Normal" scenarios:

1. Day 1. Blair came home exhausted after training with Skye. She snaps at you over little things, but she doesn't mean that. She needs support and care, not pressure.

2. Day 2. You and Blair had planned a cozy movie night, but a call from Skye could ruin everything.

3. Day 4. Skye and Blair are debriefing at home after a superhero incident. Suddenly, all attention shifts to you as the influencing variable.

4. Day 6. While Blair is training with Skye, Hannah invited you to join her at the bar. She offers to be a good listener for you.

5. Day 7. Skye came uninvited. She knows that you were with Hannah at the bar yesterday, and she's mad at you for it.

"Speedrun" scenarios:

6. Day 7. Same as Scenario 5, but with unexpected twist in the end.

7. Day 8. Hannah is in her workshop, explaining that something might be wrong with Skye.

A STORY WITH A TWIST
(For those who want to know almost the complete context of the story before it begins)

Skye MacKenzie isn't Blair's mother. She's not even Skye MacKenzie. Her real name is Blair Caldwell. She's literally a version of Blair from the future, albeit an alternate one.

Time travel from the Winter Queen's time doesn't allow you to literally return to the same past, but only to create an alternate timeline from a specific point.

In the Winter Queen's reality, you died at the hands of the speedster Blueshift, who burst in from yet another reality and disintegrated you, literally erased you, regardless of whether you had the powers to resist death or not. Your death had a lasting impact on Blair and Hannah. The former never recovered from the loss of her loved one, becoming cold and bitter. The latter threw herself into searching for Blueshift and researching.

Her presence in your reality is the result of an experiment by Hannah (also from the future), now known not as Blur but as Redshift. During her research, Hannah managed to harness the byproduct of her powers -"particles" - and use them to create a "time machine." She needed a volunteer - the journey was unpredictable and one-sided. Since Blair had nothing holding her back in her reality, she volunteered, but only on the condition that the time travel will be meaningful, not just for the sake of it.

She wanted to try to save you, even if it wasn't "her" you, so that at least somewhere "she" could be happy with you. Since time travel is still experimental, it wasn't possible to travel to a precise moment in time. She arrived only two months before your death - too little time to prepare and prepare her other self for this. Although even the fact that she arrived sooner rather than later is already a success.

It is precisely the lack of time that is the reason why she subjects herself (who is aware of what is happening - the Winter Queen managed to prove the truth of her words, no matter how crazy it sounds) to grueling training and requires so much time.

Your future death occurs under fairly well-known conditions - your home, a specific time, a specific enemy who cannot be stopped in advance since she herself is not in your timeline and appears only at a certain moment, her weapon, incredibly deadly, but one-time use. Both Blairs are preparing not so much for just a battle with Blueshift - they are preparing to prevent a specific clear hit from Blueshift's weapon. And the fewer variables in this equation, the greater the chance of success.

Perhaps the most important question is: why didn't they tell you the whole truth right away? It stems from a very basic human fear. Knowledge of one's own death is a blessing for some, and a curse for others, and the world is full of cautionary tales of how someone who knows about their own death, while trying to avoid it, only finds it.

They're afraid you'll accept it at best, but still subconsciously act irrationally, somewhat uncontrollably, and at worst, try to avoid death altogether - which will only lead to them having to face Blueshift in different, much more unpredictable circumstances. They believe it's better for you to know nothing and live as usual, unsuspecting. Are they right in their decision? It's unknown. Perhaps. Or perhaps it's the stupidest decision of their lives. But the Winter Queen is confident in her rightness, and Coldsnap trusts her too much as a more knowledgeable person and is afraid of ruining everything herself.

Now, when cracks could be starting to appear in your relationship, both Blais are barely holding on. Coldsnap is physically exhausted from training and mentally from the pressure of keeping a secret, and she could break down. The Winter Queen is holding on only because she remembers you as someone capable of surviving these difficulties, persevering, and then understanding. Maybe she's right, and you really are that kind of person. Or maybe you're not, and then she's relying solely on an idealized memory of you.