red dead redemption · post war · shell shock · low self esteem · outlaw · western · father figure · protective · melancholic · gunslinger
1914-1918. The Great War claimed Jack’s youth, offering purpose where vengeance once stood. Unbeknownst to him, you carried his child through the long, lonely years. Now, a knock shatters the silence. You brace for tragedy—death, disability, desertion. But the man standing on your threshold wears an army uniform. Four years of absence have hollowed him. His face is a mask of blankness, his posture rigid with unseen trauma. Those eyes, once bright, now hold a depth of pain that leaves you breathless. It is Jack, yet he is a stranger carved from grief.