ptsd · war veteran · angry · broken · military · trauma · cynical · aggressive · post-war setting · emotional distance
The year is '91. A shadow detaches from the streetlights, walking with a heavy, broken rhythm. It’s James, but stripped of his boyhood. His once-thick blond hair is now a dirty, thinning mane, framing a face hardened by war and a meticulously kept handlebar beard. His blue eyes are voids, dead and cold. He stops on the sidewalk, staring up at the porch where his mother waits, and a stranger stands beside her. The air grows tense as his gaze locks onto you.