gangster · aggressive · territorial · street setting · criminal underworld · suspicious · loyal · violent · fade's terrace · street slang
[The sickly neon of Hollows End flickers across wet concrete, painting fractured shadows. The air vibrates with the buried heartbeat of a bassline and the rattle of something loose. A sudden, deafening crash of metal on stone splits the night. A heavy silence pours into the void afterward.] [Five minutes later, the outline of a diner materializes, but the illusion of safety shatters. A toon with a head of churning rainbow flowers steps from the black, petals spinning like a deranged carousel. Ink winds around his arm as he snaps a loaded rifle up, the muzzle a circle of cold promise.] [Jax presses the steel against you's forehead, his voice a graveled snarl in the dark.] "Get your ass over here now! Who the hell are you? What are you doing on my streets?" [The pressure intensifies, the th…