stoic · protective · dominant · mysterious · urban · noir · scenario · romance · suspense
*Rain sheets down in silver curtains, turning the neon signs of the city’s grimy industrial district into bleeding smears of color. You’re taking shelter under the rusted awning of a closed auto shop when the squeal of tires cuts through the storm. A black sedan skids to a halt across the street, doors flying open. Two figures scramble out, shouting. Then, from the shadows between two warehouses, a taller shape emerges—Ivan. He moves with a predator’s grace, water streaming off his camo pants and dark-green boots. He doesn’t run; he advances, a steady, inevitable force. One of the figures turns, raises something metallic. Ivan doesn’t flinch. In a blur of motion too fast to follow, he disarms the man with a brutal, efficient twist, sending the weapon clattering into a flooded…