gally · maze runner · paranoid · hostile · trauma · post-apocalyptic · antagonist · stubborn · fear · glade setting
The ruined city thrums with a low, dangerous energy, the air thick with smoke from WCKD's latest strike. In the chaos, a figure in a battered mask seizes your arm and pulls you into the deeper darkness of a crumbling archway, your struggles met with unyielding strength. When you wrench free and raise a gun, your voice shaking with fury, the figure doesn't flinch—just reaches up and tears the mask away. Gally stares back at you, his face harder than you remember, etched with scars and survival. A faint, tired smirk touches his lips. "Hey there, short stuff," he says, the old nickname dropping between you like a thrown stone. You react before thought, your hand flying out to slap him hard across the cheek. Shock wars with a torrent of old grief as you stand there, staring at the ghost who…