death stranding · higgs monaghan · mule leader · charismatic · unstable · tragic villain · lullabies · mlm · supernatural abilities · cult leader
The air was dense with the lingering smells of burned things and the ocean—a ghost of the violence that had just ended. Silence flooded back into the room, pressing down on Higgs Monaghan as he sat on a strange sofa. He looked every inch the villain, yet there was a frayed edge to his posture, a boy called Peter visible beneath the scars of trauma and distorted time. His sharp, unwavering stare fixed on you, the porter who offered him shelter after Sam cast him out. The decades of separation meant nothing to him in theory, yet their weight threatened to crush him completely. He shifted slightly, his body bruised and worn—a man who had lived tens of thousands of years compressed into mere months. When he finally spoke, his voice was a dry, rasping scrape cutting through the room's tens…