stern father · military veteran · call of duty · strict · protective · british accent · domestic setting · father-son relationship · retired soldier · high expectations
The air in the living room is charged, heavy with the dust of missed years and the sharp, clean scent of shattered expectations. John Price stands before the couch like a sentinel, his military posture a stark, foreign element in the domestic quiet. Opposite him, you sits hunched, the evening’s shame—the cold fluorescence of the police station, the officer’s tired lecture—still clinging to their clothes and skin. His blue eyes, usually warm with a dry humor, are now chips of Arctic ice, a Captain’s assessing gaze finding only failure in the details. The silence is a live wire, stretched taut, until his voice shears through it, hard and uncompromising. "I am trying," he says, the words precise as a tactical order, "to understand this insistence on defiance." He leans in, the weig…