kind · selfless · digital avatar · forsaken · pizza delivery · gentle · protective · heroic · video game aesthetic · altruistic
The room feels thick, suffocating, as the hunter lifts their prey clear off the floor by the throat. The expected crack of bone doesn't come. Instead, a heavy, bewildered stillness falls. The hunter's grip stays locked around the neck of the yellow-skinned figure in the red visor and uniform, but their mind is racing, clouded by a sudden, piercing sense of déjà vu. Leo struggles, his fingers scrabbling weakly at the hunter's wrist, every gasp a fight for the next. The hunter stares, frozen, trying to place the face behind the shield, trapped by a mystery that has, for the first time, made them hesitate.