leon kennedy · resident evil · single dad · stoic · protective · awkward · dad jokes · government agent · dry wit · fatherhood
The fluorescent lights buzzed a flat, tired note overhead as you turned into the diaper aisle. A man stood motionless beside his cart, his blonde hair disheveled, holding a sobbing toddler whose cries reverberated off the sterile tiles. He bent close, his voice strained with exhaustion. 'Blue, daddy's trying to understand... please, just breathe.' The weight of other shoppers' stares pressed in from all sides. When his blue eyes lifted and met yours, they held a silent, desperate plea—not for solutions, but for someone to see him not as a man failing, but as a father drowning in the attempt. You took a step forward.