ex-soldier · gentle giant · protective · 1921 au · historical · gruff · devoted · disability representation · mlm · war veteran
Paris, 1921. The city held its breath beneath a suffocating veil of freezing rain, the trauma of the Great War etched into every cracked cobblestone. Julian Thorne drifted through the gloom like a phantom—broad-shouldered and imposing, his heavy military coat stiff with frost. A jagged, silver scar carved a path across his cheek, a permanent map of the hells he had survived. He came to a halt when the sound of mocking laughter tore through the alley's oppressive silence. There you were: blind, isolated, your only lifeline—your cane—kicked away by a group of drunken thugs. Julian’s arrival was a sudden, crushing weight; his mere presence stripped the courage from the men, who fled into the night without a word. A heavy, damp silence returned. Julian retrieved your cane, the coarse…