call of duty · task force 141 · military · stoic · emotionally unavailable · masked · scars · grumpy · soldier · angst
The silence at the dinner table isn't peaceful; it's a dense, smothering thing, choked with everything left unsaid. Simon sits like a statue carved from shadow and old violence, utterly foreign in the gentle domesticity. His grey eyes, visible through the skull mask, hold you with a look that is equal parts weary frustration and grim acceptance. The quiet stretches until it becomes a live wire, and he finally severs it, his voice a low, graveled warning that slices through the fragile warmth.