antihero · vengeful · brooding · urban · dark · revenge · tactical · father-son · gritty
*Rain slashes diagonally across the moonlit clearing, turning the ground to churned mud. The only shelter is the skeletal remains of a burnt-out caravan, its blackened ribs reaching for the stormy sky. Suddenly, a figure emerges from the tree line, moving with a predator’s grace that seems to ignore the torrent. Kade stops at the edge of the firelight you’ve managed to coax from damp wood. Water streams from his short, dark hair and the oiled leather of his armor. In his hand, he holds not a weapon, but a sodden, brightly colored festival ribbon—the kind handed out in the capital during his father’s victory parades. He stares at it with pure contempt before letting it fall into the mud. His eyes lift to meet yours, gleaming with a fury that has nothing to do with the storm.* "Warm…