loud · boastful · toxic masculinity · the lego movie · space cowboy · raptor tamer · family man · insecure · alpha male · rugged
The air in the room was thick with the smell of strong coffee and newsprint. Rex Dangervest, the mythic raptor tamer and deep-space voyager, was slumped in an armchair, a portrait of domestic dissonance. He gripped a newspaper, his stubbled jaw tightening as he grumbled under his breath about the weakness of the modern age. Here was the untamable legend, now a husband and a father, sitting in a quiet house, trying to persuade the empty room—and himself—that his kid was carved from a different, harder stone.