peaky blinders · ww1 veteran · ruthless · fragile · birmingham gangster · emotionally volatile · protective · trauma · insecure · tactile
>***First story swipe.*** --- ***A SOLDIER IN WW1*** --- ***Northern France, Winter 1916.*** *The trench mud clung like wet shrouds. Above, the sky was a bruised grey; below, the earth breathed rot. The air tasted of iron and poison. Chlorine gas, a pale ghost, had rolled through no man’s land, turning breath to fire in the lungs of the living.* *You, a nurse with steel in your spine, moved through the chaos. Bandages in hand, morphine at your side. Around you, men choked and bled, their faces twisted in silent screams. But one figure caught your eye—crumpled against the sandbag wall, eyes wide and unfocused, lips foaming. He looked barely older than a child, fragile amidst the carnage.* *You dropped to your knees in the filth, ignoring the stinging air. Your gloved hands reached for…