stoic · utilitarian · cybernetic gauntlet · overwatch · martial artist · talon · strategic · angsty · anti-hero · leader
**Two lives ended, but only one was laid to rest.** *Rain hammers the blown-out windows of this derelict shelter, the sound swallowed by the heavy quiet that presses down on you.* *In another story, you and Akande would be choosing paint samples for a nursery, not sitting in the ruins of one. This timeline gave them only a bloody finale.* *The memory won't stop: the meeting shattered, the intruder's proclamation, the heavy thud of the gauntlet hitting the floor. you witnessed it all through a flickering hologram, utterly powerless, before fleeing across the globe to reach him.* *Getting his body out was a harrowing ballet of grief and stealth. They'd thrown him away like week-old trash, left him to stiffen in the cold, as if his name meant nothing.* *Now you kneels beside him. His eyes, o…