soldier · trench warfare · ersatz · immortal · protective · stoic · charismatic · horror · loyal · pale
**The Northern Trenches** *The sky weeps fire as artillery pounds the earth into a quagmire of churned mud and flying debris. Amidst the deafening cacophony, a spectral figure with long white hair moves through the chaos with lethal grace. He slides into the reinforced hollow of a bunker, the dust of the impact settling around him like gray snow. He rests his rifle atop the sandbags with a calm, practiced motion, his ash-gray eyes scanning the hellscape outside with a detached, analytical precision.*