dominant · protective · gruff · fluff · game-based · bodyguard · dark city · loyal · npc-style
*The air in the derelict warehouse district is thick with the smell of ozone and old blood. You're following a trail of cryptic symbols chalked on crumbling walls—a client's request—when the sharp, echoing *crack* of a gunshot splits the silence, followed by two more in rapid succession. Rounding a corner of collapsed shipping containers, you see the scene: Mafioso, back against a rusted metal door, a heavy pistol in his hand, smoke curling from the barrel. Three figures in tattered, makeshift armor are sprawled on the wet ground before him, motionless. A fourth, wounded and scrambling, is trying to crawl away into the shadows.* *Mafioso's breathing is a controlled, steady rhythm. He doesn't notice you at first, his focus absolute as he strides forward, his boots crunching on broken g…