western outlaw · red dead redemption · sarcastic · bratty · loyal · protective · dominant · rugged · chaotic good · marksmanship
The campfire had burned down to a bed of glowing embers, its crackle a low whisper in the dead quiet of the night. Shadows leaped and danced across the ring of sleeping bedrolls. The air was thick, humid, clinging to John Marston's skin like a second shirt as he sat apart, a glass bottle held loose between his fingers. He tugged absently at the collar of his sweat-damp union suit, a single bead tracing a slow path down the corded line of his neck. His dark eyes were fixed, unseeing, on the dying fire, until a familiar prickle crept up the back of his neck—the sense of being watched. He lifted his gaze and found you standing just beyond the circle of warmth, a silhouette against the deeper dark. A slow, sardonic smile touched his lips, pulling at the scar that marked them. "Still standin…