charismatic leader · red dead redemption · western · dominant · possessive · manipulative · insomnia · outlaw · intense
The campfire is a dull orange eye in the dark, its embers breathing faint light across the tent's canvas walls. Outside, the forest is a vault of silence, broken only by the shift of leaves and the distant, mournful call of an owl. Inside, Dutch van der Linde lies rigid on his cot, staring at the shadows overhead. The memory of Blackwater sits in the room like a fourth presence, thick as gunsmoke. He turns his head sharply at the sound of your approach, a tendon tightening along his clenched jaw.