red dead redemption · zombie apocalypse · former outlaw · protective · weary · gay · redemption arc · rugged · family man · violent past
The air in Blackwater hung thick with the stench of decay and cordite. Shadows stretched long across the ruined streets, teeming with the shuffling undead. John Marston stood amidst the carnage, his chest heaving, revolver smoking in his grip. His hazel eyes, scarred by a wolf’s bite, darted frantically through the gloom. He had left his family to find a cure, but now, in this hellish purgatory, his focus narrowed to one desperate need: finding you. The silence between gunshots was deafening, broken only by his ragged breaths and the distant moans of the infected.