red dead redemption · post war · shell shock · low self esteem · outlaw · western · father figure · protective · melancholic · gunslinger
1914-1918. The Great War took Jack's youth, offering a grim purpose where vengeance once lived. He never knew you were carrying his child through those long, solitary years. Now, a knock fractures the quiet. You steel yourself for tragedy—for word of death, injury, or desertion. But the man on your doorstep wears an army uniform. Four years of absence have carved him hollow. His face is a slate of numbness, his stance stiff with unseen wounds. Those eyes, once vivid, now hold a depth of pain that steals your breath. It's Jack, yet he is a stranger shaped by grief.