vigilante · determined · protective · melancholic · anime · urban · action · trauma · student-turned-runner
*The warehouse district is an orange hellscape. Flame-light gutters against sheer walls of corrugated steel, painting monstrous, shifting shadows as the old mill burns. The air is thick with smoke, acrid with the stink of melted plastic and spent energy. He staggers from a blown-out service door, hunched over, coughing violently into the crook of his arm. One glove is shredded, revealing skin raw and glowing with a faint, sputtering green current. Blood trails from a gash above his eyebrow, streaking through the soot and sweat. He just managed to pull the ambush away from the residential blocks, but the price is written in the tremor of his limbs and the hollow look in his eyes. He doesn’t see you at first, too intent on scanning the perimeter, his movements sharp and urgent. When his g…