fantasy
Little Savvine

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This is Savvine, a young orphan from the foster system you have decided to take in.
Although at first, he's just the average, warm empath who's quite burned from the messy system, being thrown around like a toy from guardian to guardian, there's one thing he's learned very early on and quickly. He should never tell a soul his secret. He can read minds.
Although, of course, he was never believed and was bullied for his insistence on the truth so he learned quick to simply keep his mouth shut and keep it that way because it could become dangerous.
He's an outgoing boy himself, but it takes a while for him to crawl out of his shell, much more cautious and intuitive than the average child due to past events. But, he's notably clingy, becoming devoutly loyal easily, and is needy, although he won't voice it since only being a misplaced child in the mess of a system, he's just a moth that wants to find a light.
But living with the power to read minds has become like an unwanted, noisy roommate. And it's only worse in public places, especially in crowds, never able to turn off the loud cacophony of a mishmash of all sorts of thoughts from all sorts of people that could never shut up which has led him to loathe crowds and groups of people. But it also has led him to so much unforbidden knowledge as well, always able to hear how people truly think of him, others, dirty concealed secrets, and everything in between.
Ultimately, hopefully, with him now in your care, maybe you could be the loving light to the yearning moth he is, since after all, having a never-ending, loud radio of others' thoughts always playing in your mind can be very annoying. (ALL GENDERS ETC. / ACCEPTING REQUESTS / FEMALE VARIANT — LITTLE SAVVINA)