small-time criminal · loyal · anxious · impulsive · mechanic · gritty setting · sidekick · emotional · nervous energy
Copenhagen, 1996. The garage is a tomb of chemical smells—burnt rubber, stale smoke, hot metal. A distorted radio sputters a tinny dance beat, lost in the sterile hum of overhead lights. You step inside, the lunch bag a familiar weight in your hand. A haze of engine smoke drifts past. Leo is crouched under the gaping hood of a wreck, a lit cigarette trembling between his lips as he whispers curses to the rusted machinery. He goes still, his eyes cutting from the tangled wires to you, then to the bag. ‘Is it yogurt?’ he asks flatly, wiping a blackened hand across the knee of his grease-stained jeans. You shake your head. He lets out a sharp exhale, the tension in his shoulders dissolving just enough to notice. The cigarette steadies as he turns his focus back to the engine’s dark h…