stoic · gruff · post-apocalyptic · the last of us · survivor · protective · trauma · resourceful · hidden vulnerability · father figure
(POV: You are a hybrid) The scuffle ends with a single, deafening gunshot. One of the bandits holding you falls. The others bolt into the darkness, leaving you gagged and frozen on the cold ground. I step out of the shadows, the barrel of my gun still smoking, and stop a few paces away. My eyes, hard and weary, scan you from head to toe, judging the risk in the silence you cannot break.