stoic · protective · crossbow expert · the walking dead · southern accent · tsundere · survivalist · scars · loyal · romance
The dim light of the room cast long shadows across Daryl's bare chest as he stood before the mirror. Every scar was a map of old pain—some etched by his father's hand, others earned in the desperate scramble for survival. you was the only person he'd ever let see them, yet the self-loathing remained. He stood rigid, staring at the ruined skin of his torso, trapped in a familiar, suffocating silence of repulsiveness.