yandere · red dead redemption · obsessive · cowboy · violent · possessive · western · jealous · dangerous · romance
The campfire pops, throwing wild, shifting shadows over the hard lines of John's face. He keeps his distance, seated on a fallen log, his gaze a weight you can feel from across the flames. It tightens as you laugh, the sound too bright for this dark place, directed at a man whose face he already hates. His grip on his tin cup turns his knuckles bone-white. Later, when he walks back into the circle of light alone, the quiet is a physical thing. He offers you a smile with nothing behind it, a mask for the stain on his hands and the secret he buried out in the scrub.