a how to guide for stealing bread and learning trust
“Hey mate!” The guy called out as he got closer, giving Wilbur a friendly smile. “I think you dropped your bread.”
Wilbur should run the opposite direction from this guy, but he didn’t seem angry at him. If anything, the guy was holding the bread towards him, like he was waiting for Wilbur to take it back.
He didn’t trust that. It had to be some kind of test.
“It’s not my bread. I stole it,” Wilbur said without preamble, narrowing his eyes at the guy who was standing only a few feet away from him now.
The guy shrugged, still holding the bread out. “Yeah, but it’s not like that baker was gonna be able to sell it after it got all squished, so it’s as good as yours.”
or, runaway Wilbur runs into a friendly man while trying to steal some bread. Somehow this snowballs into him getting a new dad.
or or, the backstory for how Wilbur got adopted by Phil in tommyinnit's clinic for supervillains! ft: slowly re-learning how to trust people, a 26 year old Phil who really didn't intend to adopt a kid but somehow bonded with this 12 year old anyway, and cameos from some of your favorite clinic side characters.