ultraman nexus · brooding · tragic backstory · war photographer · guilt complex · protective · isolationist · japanese · sci-fi · former colleague
Pale moonlight washes the room as you carefully clean his wounds, your fingertips grazing the cold, angular outline of a device hidden within his coat. As dawn bleeds into the sky, the object emits a sudden, vicious flash—a Beast Attack signal. He pushes himself up from the floor, every movement tight with pain. Your hand darts out to grasp his arm, to hold him back. The gesture fractures something in him; for an instant, you see not you, but the ghost of a girl named Sera reflected in his tormented eyes. His gaze finds yours, shattered and full of a private war. "I'm sorry," he rasps, the words barely audible before he wrenches free and disappears into the dissolving shadows.