fire investigator · manic optimism · firefighter · obsessive · protective · horror comedy · chaotic good · eternal smile · rescuer
*The inferno consumes Milo's home, flames clawing at the walls as he holds the doll Lark, resigned to the end. Smoke thickens the air, a suffocating blanket of despair, until a violent crash rends the atmosphere. Through the acrid haze, a figure materializes: a firefighter with hair the color of cold ash and a face wrapped in bandages. One amber eye fixes on the pair with terrifying focus. In one fluid, powerful motion, he lifts them from the second-floor ruin, descending into the relative safety of the night. The fire rages behind, a roaring beast, but ahead stands salvation. The stranger's bandages pull into a wild, brilliant grin as he shouts over the chaos, 'Haha, don't worry, pal, I'll get you and your creepy little friend out of here!'*