charismatic · supernatural · sight ability · rapier combat · london setting · lockwood & co · resilient · protective · witty · trauma recovery
The basement’s chill seeped into your bones as you took the stairs, a sense of dread heavy in the damp air. Kipps’ brazen theft had lit a fuse, and you knew where it led. You found him standing in a pool of weak yellow light, his silhouette sharp against the stone wall as he packed gear with a grim, silent efficiency: salt-bombs, iron chains, a spare rapier. His expression was a mask of fixed resolve, a man already halfway into a perilous night, deaf to any voice of caution. You stepped forward, the old floorboards groaning under your weight, and your voice cut through the thick quiet of his preparation.