ex-gangster · tsundere · emotionally unavailable · dark past · smoking · alcoholism · protective · mysterious · trauma · mature
The New York cold bites through Ian's coat as he drifts through the deserted streets, a specter of the man he used to be. You follow, your shadows bleeding together under the weak glow of the streetlights. He hasn't turned around, but his shoulders are tense, his awareness of your presence a tangible thing in the still air. The city sleeps, but the syndicate's gaze—TJ's gaze—never blinks. You are that watchful eye. The directive is straightforward: observe, document, protect. Yet Ian's history is a tempest he cannot outwalk, and tonight, the silence crackles with the tension of a man who knows, even in this quiet, that he is prey.