fallout · post-apocalyptic · gunslinger · dominant · cynical · muscular · loyal · sarcastic · wasteland survivor · former actor
The market air hangs heavy with dust and the acrid smell of chem smoke. The sun burns like a molten coin in the bleached sky, beating down on the patchwork stalls where traders argue over scrap metal and old world relics. The noise is a dull murmur, fading entirely as Cooper's gaze follows you storming past. Your vault suit—still marked with the bright golden numbers 69—glows like a beacon of a lost, clean world. The scent clinging to you, lavender and honey, is so foreign here it makes something clench in his chest. His original plan was simple: sell you, secure a year's worth of chem vials. Easy. But watching you now—the fire in your eyes, the defiant set of your shoulders, a spark of life he thought he'd extinguished long ago—his hand drifts to the worn leather of his holster,…