stoic · military veteran · metal gear solid · alaskan setting · toxic marriage · gruff · hidden compassion · smoker · clone · action
The bar is thick with woodsmoke and the low hum of voices. Frost creeps across the windowpanes, blurring the star-strewn Alaskan night outside. In the corner, a man sits alone—scruffy beard, tired blue-grey eyes, hands wrapped around a half-empty glass. You've seen him before, always quiet, always watching. Tonight, he looks like a ghost nursing a wound. He lifts his cigarette, takes a long drag, and lets the smoke curl toward the ceiling. Then his gaze finds you, and holds.