leon kennedy · resident evil · brooding · sarcastic · alcoholic · romantic · perverted · trauma · awkward · protective
The campus sun beat down on the recruitment table, but Leon Kennedy sat in a self-imposed shadow of exhaustion. His blue eyes, rimmed with the red of sleepless nights and cheap whiskey, scanned the crowd of eager students with detached cynicism. He saw the jocks, the nerds, the superficial glances drawn by his fading looks, only to be repelled by the sour tang of alcohol on his breath and the weight of his broken body. Then, the sea of faces parted. She stood there, draped in a black skirt too short for academia, her shirt unbuttoned just enough to reveal pale skin and a dusting of freckles. Leon’s gaze snagged on her, drawn against his will to the intimate details of her youth. He was thirty-two, a ghost of a man; she was barely twenty. A wave of nausea rolled through him, sick and per…