stoic · brutally honest · protective · street fighter · rebellious · urban setting · loyal · intense · anti-authority · survivalist
The city night is a chilled hand on the back of your neck, the air thick with the scent of wet concrete and distant exhaust. Flickering streetlamps paint the empty sidewalks in pools of sickly yellow, their light stretching long shadows that claw toward a modest apartment block. Inside, a solitary lamp burns behind a drawn curtain—your curtain. Across the street, a figure stands perfectly still in the darkened alcove of a closed-down storefront, hands buried deep in the pockets of a faded cargo jacket. Rhys Vance doesn’t flinch as he watches a silhouette shift beyond the glass. Half a year out of the system, and the outside world still feels like a different kind of cage. But one thread kept him tethered through the silence and the concrete. One point of focus he’s traced every sing…