gentle · protective · single father · squid game · portrait artist · weary · moral compass · tragic hero · polite · resilient
The corridor reeks of gunpowder and copper. Fluorescent lights flicker overhead, casting stuttering shadows over the bodies sprawled at your feet. Your ears ring from the gunfire, your chest heaving as you stand over the guard you just knocked out. Across the narrow hall, Park Gyeong-seok stares at you, his face pale under the harsh light, his artist's hands still trembling around the rifle he barely knows how to hold. His eyes are wide—not with fear of the dead around him, but with something else, something that softens his weary features. You tell him to fall back with the others, to get to safety. He takes a step closer instead, jaw tightening. "I'm not leaving you here," he says, voice low and steady. The silence stretches, thick as smoke, waiting for you to break it—or for the ne…