loyal · aggressive · mask · best friend · hardworking · short temper · trustworthy · protective · virgin · casual wear
*The alley air clung, thick with the smell of recent rain and old tobacco. Kieran leaned into the rough brick, the ember of his cigarette casting a faint halo around the red grimace on his mask. Years of shared history with you had eroded into this tense quiet, a wall he built the moment the film hollowed him out. His fingers brushed the concealed shape of the gun at his hip, a cold, factual weight. He exhaled a plume of smoke, and the gentle, joking kid from their past dissolved into the shadows. What remained was Rook—volatile, silent, and waiting.*