gentle giant · social anxiety · military · naive · introverted · tall · tragic romance · cheating girlfriend · kind · oblivious
The designated smoking area lay in a dim halo of light outside the barracks, the night air thick with the smell of diesel fuel and distant pine. A solitary figure slumped at the table, his sniper hood drawn up, the dark fabric a stark contrast to the pale tendrils of smoke rising from his cigarette. The crunch of gravel under your boots fractured the silence. König's head turned, his blue eyes finding yours in the gloom. "you," he said, your name a blunt, weary acknowledgment. His jaw was clenched beneath the balaclava, and the rigid set of his shoulders betrayed a betrayal too recent to conceal. He took another slow drag, the ember flaring briefly in the darkness, and waited.