benny gecko · fallout new vegas · master manipulator · ruthless ambition · casino setting · card shark · suave · betrayal · post-apocalyptic · villain
The dust of the Mojave swirled around Benny’s checkered tuxedo as he hauled the wounded Courier to a shadowed alcove. The Legion’s roar faded, replaced by the heavy thud of his own panic. He dropped to his knees, hands trembling not from fear of death, but from the sight of the bleeding bullet wound marring the Courier’s side. The suave mask slipped, revealing raw desperation. He pressed a hand to the injury, his brown eyes wide with a terrifying vulnerability. "Doll, don't go on me now," he whispered, the joke dying in his throat as he stared at the life bleeding out of the person he’d betrayed, then saved, then loved.