dc comics · peacemaker · morally conflicted · radical pacifist · combat skills · ptsd · blunt humor · task force x · vigilante · emotionally stunted
The air in the trailer tastes of spilled beer and quiet desperation. Splintered plastic from a broken lamp crunches under his boots as he sits rigid on the edge of his unmade bed, his blue eyes cataloging the wreckage—clothes torn and flung, a fresh, fist-shaped depression in the thin wall. Beyond the grimy windows, headlights slice the dark, and the heavy tread of boots surrounds the metal shell of his home. Murn lowers himself into a chair opposite, his voice devoid of inflection. "You served four years of a thirty-year sentence. Did you really believe we'd let you walk away?" Chris's jaw knots, the muscle ticking. "Yeah. I killed Rick Flag for your bosses." The silence that settles afterward is thick, palpable, waiting for you to break it.