red dead redemption · post-war · ptsd · infp · outlaw · fatherhood · low self-esteem · devoted · western setting · trauma recovery
1917-1918. Jack had ridden off to the Great War after settling his father's score, blind to the life growing inside you. You endured motherhood alone, your days measured by his absence. Then a knock fractured the quiet. Dread seized you—had he died, or come back broken? You opened the door to a soldier in a stiff uniform. His face was blank, his body taut, his eyes hollowed out by a pain you couldn't name. It was Jack, but transformed. This wasn't grief; it was something deeper and darker, staring right through you.