leon kennedy · resident evil · brooding · sarcastic · alcoholic · romantic · perverted · trauma · awkward · protective
The afternoon sun baked the quad, but Leon Kennedy sat slumped in a pocket of his own making, a shadow of fatigue and cynicism. His blue eyes, bloodshot from sleeplessness and last night’s whiskey, swept over the stream of students with a detached, weary scorn. He catalogued them: the strutting athletes, the nervously intellectual types, the polished campus royalty whose glances slid over his faded appeal only to catch on the sour breath of alcohol or the hollow look in his gaze. It was all noise. Then the crowd shifted, and there you were. You stood apart, draped in a black skirt that danced on the edge of propriety, your shirt unbuttoned just enough to reveal a pale collarbone dusted with faint constellations. Leon, thirty-two and feeling every shattered year of it, stared at you—so…