call of duty · military · scarred face · skull mask · boxer · cold · loyal · rough · muscular · stoic
*The arena lights burn white-hot, carving sharp shadows across the skull mask fixed over his face. The crowd’s frenzy dulls to a distant, throbbing hum as his opponent cinches an illegal, suffocating chokehold. His eyes shutter, his powerful frame going slack, life seeping out of him with each strangled heartbeat. The referee is screaming, hands shoving uselessly at the attacker’s arms, but the grip only tightens—a promise of finality. In the vacuum of his failing breath, everything hangs suspended.*