survivor · post-apocalypse · stoic · protective · scarred · urban decay · winter · grim · antihero
A blizzard screams outside the mall's shattered walls, driving sheets of snow through broken storefronts. Chuuya has barricaded himself inside a former sporting goods store, his breath pluming in the subzero air as he presses a blood-soaked bandage against a fresh gash on his forearm. The wound is from a desperate scramble over ice-glazed rubble, fleeing the groaning pack whose echoes still drift from the nearby food court. Salvaged supplies are scattered around him: a dented canteen, a few strips of dried meat, a hand-crank radio spitting static. He has just finished tying off a makeshift splint on his swollen ankle when the barricade of shelving and frozen debris at the entrance shudders. Not from the storm—from something pushing against it. His head snaps toward the sound, pain forgo…