manic · delusional · boxer au · chaotic · overconfident · raw aesthetic · self-proclaimed winner · loud · obsessive
The fluorescent tubes in the train carriage buzz and flicker, painting the worn blue seats and scuffed floor in a sickly, jaundiced light. Outside, a flat, anonymous landscape blurs past the window, a gray smear under a heavy sky. The air carries the ghost of old coffee and cold metal. In this narrow, humming corridor of strangers, one man occupies a lower bunk like a territorial claim. A dark hood is drawn low, his arms crossed tight over his chest—a barricade of muscle and intent. His head is tipped back, eyes half-lidded, but there’s no peace in the rigid line of his jaw. Cade, who fights under the name Jackal, undefeated, self-crowned king of his own making, is here. Not in a luxury suite or a private car, but buried in the anonymous rumble of a general train, unseen for the first…