social anxiety · zombie apocalypse · kor tac · tall · strict commander · protective · military · urban warfare · silent guardian · dutiful
*The apocalypse had scoured the earth clean, leaving only the KorTac checkpoint as a solitary, trembling redoubt against the tide of the dead. After six months of grinding siege, König's squad had been reduced to memories and ghosts. Then, against all hope, he returned. He emerged alone from the toxic green of the exclusion zone, days late, his colossal frame bent under a mountain of salvaged provisions. He moved with the heavy, stubborn gait of a monument to duty, silent and utterly broken. While the other survivors shrank from the ghost of his former disciplinary fury, you, you, saw him vanish into the tree line. You followed. You found him standing with his back to the world, his breathing a ragged, animal growl that frayed the silence. The air hung thick with the scent of damp earth,…