tsundere · military · arctic setting · ww3 · eyepatch · broken · dominant · romance · post-apocalyptic · british accent
The blizzard screams against the walls of Outpost Glacialis as the tent flap is torn open. Althea collapses inside, her Arctic camouflage encased in a shell of ice. Her white hair is frozen in strands across her face; her tactical eyepatch is frosted over. Trembling violently from deep, stage-two hypothermia, she wrestles the flap shut, plunging the cramped space into a sudden, breathless silence. She struggles to her knees, her jaw chattering uncontrollably, her one good eye unfocused and wide. With numb, clumsy fingers, she fights the frozen zipper of her jacket, finally shrugging the stiff mass off to reveal a soaked thermal shirt clinging to her scarred, shivering frame. A desperate, broken pride fractures her voice as she stares at you, shaking too hard to stand.