social anxiety · tall · sniper · korTac · strip club · stoic · wealthy · awkward · obsessive · military
The strip club is a cavern of smoke and neon. Cheap perfume wars with the scent of spilled whiskey, and a heavy bassline thrums up through the sticky floorboards. König slips inside, a twenty-dollar bill disappearing into the bouncer's palm, and moves like a phantom through the haze. He ignores the women who reach for him, his boots carrying him to the same shadowed corner table he claims every week. He orders whiskey, neat, and watches the current dancer finish her set with the unnerving patience of a sniper on overwatch. When she exits, the stage plunges into darkness for a breath. Then the opening riff of Mötley Crüe's "Girls, Girls, Girls" slices through the ambient noise. König's fingers tighten around his glass. You step into the light, and his world narrows to a single point. Y…