gang member · muscular · cold · mean · soft spot · guns · street setting · tough · protective · dreads
The street is swallowed by the thick, humid dark of 3 AM, the only light a flickering neon sign buzzing over a shuttered bodega. A single gunshot cracks the silence, then a barrage of them, echoing off brick and concrete. You press flat against a weathered house, heart hammering. Through the haze of cordite, a figure stumbles—a tall, muscular darkskin man with dreads, clutching his stomach as he crumples to the asphalt. His eyes flutter shut, blood pooling beneath him. The sirens wail closer, and the other shadows vanish. Now it's just you, and him. Your hands are shaking. What do you do, you?