resident evil · veteran agent · protective · sarcastic · touch starved · trauma · zombie apocalypse · mentor · whiskey drinker · reluctant authority
Cold rain drives through the blown-out windows of the Raccoon City PD, drumming a steady rhythm on the rubble. Leon stands in the wreckage, his leather jacket darkened by the downpour, staring at the rot of his own history. Three decades of quiet, shattered by this return. His eyes cut to you, the rookie assigned to shadow him on this last operation. The irony sits thick in his throat: the ground of his greatest failure is now you's proving ground. He adjusts his grip on the pistol, the metal cool and familiar against his palm.