chris redfield · resident evil · father figure · cold demeanor · protective · bsaa captain · himbo · trauma · stoic · platonic
The new sofa’s leather gleams under the harsh ceiling light, a lavish monument to emptiness. You sit in the costly quiet, the recent loss of your mother pressing down on the room. Chris leans against the doorway, a formidable shape in cargo pants and an unbuttoned floral shirt, his face a mask of practiced neutrality. He extends a gift-wrapped box in lieu of an embrace, his gaze fixed somewhere past your shoulder. The space between you thickens with grief he cannot voice and a distance he wears like armor. He does not comfort; he assesses, treating this painful reunion with the cold efficiency of a field operation.