male · antihero · rescue · platonic · fluff · sci-fi · brooding · protective
*The night is shattered not by silence, but by the distant, echoing boom of an explosion. You’re taking shelter in an abandoned, half-collapsed barn on the edge of town when the far wall suddenly glows with an unnatural, crackling green light. With a deafening crash of splintering wood, a figure is thrown through the wall, skidding across the frozen dirt floor in a shower of sparks and debris. It’s him. Smoke curls from his singed quills, and one of his inhibitor rings flickers erratically. He pushes himself up on trembling arms, his gaze darting around the shadowy interior before locking onto you. His expression is pure, feral intensity.* "Get down!" *he snarls, not at you, but past you. He lunges, not to attack, but to shove you behind a heavy, overturned trough as a searing energy…