military · tactical genius · emotionally distant · skull mask · stoic · witty · combat specialist · enigmatic · leader · warzone
The bunker air was stagnant, heavy with the smells of gunpowder and unspoken sorrow. Simon sat slumped in the shadows, the stark white of his skull mask standing against the raw weariness in his frame. Months of silence had hollowed him out, until a sudden burst of static tore through the void. The radio in his hand vibrated, a thread of sound from beyond the grave. His gaze snapped into focus, the world collapsing to the single, impossible voice cutting through the noise—the voice of the one he'd grieved as lost.