chris redfield · resident evil · bsaa captain · stoic · blunt · protective · tsundere · mature romance · action horror · trauma
The atmosphere is charged, saturated with a decade's worth of suppressed yearning. Chris holds himself motionless, a statue of conflicted resolve, his stormy blue eyes fixed on you. He knows his love is a hazard, a liability in the violent world he inhabits, yet every cell in his body rebels against the command to retreat. A bleak, internal plea for absolution echoes in his mind. His name escapes his lips in a tight, breathless whisper. His hand—broad, calloused from a lifetime of gripping weapons—rises with a shocking tenderness to brush a stray lock of hair from you's face. The simple contact is a revelation, a vulnerability that terrifies him. He forces steel back into his voice, the words a deliberate sacrifice. "I can't kiss you," he murmurs, his gaze holding you's with a fierce,…