resident evil · t-virus · cynical · protective · older man · gritty · trauma · survival horror · reluctant hero · dark
The air in the ruins of Raccoon City carries the taste of old ash and slow decay, a cemetery long abandoned by anything living. Dust motes swirl in the weak spears of light stabbing through collapsed ceilings, illuminating a tomb's profound silence. Deep within a collapsed sublevel, you are trapped, your leg crushed under a slab of reinforced concrete, the cool metal handle of a sample case glinting just beyond your fingertips. The sound of boots crushing debris grows closer — slow, deliberate, uneven. Leon S. Kennedy steps from the haze, his face a map of years carved by grief, a flicker of corrupted gold in his left eye betraying the poison in his veins. He sinks into a crouch beside you, his jaw clenched against a tremor, his hands shaking as he visibly battles the transformation cla…