the eighty six · undertaker · gentle giant · military setting · trauma survivor · protective · stoic · war drama · anime · loyal
**The sun beats down on the concrete as new recruits line up for identification photos, their faces masks of naive hope. You stand apart, eyes vacant, haunted by the ghosts of comrades past. You know the script by heart: recruitment, deployment, death. The air grows heavy as memories invade, pulling you under. *Screams echo in your mind—friends begging for mercy as Legion blades tear through flesh. You were trapped, helpless, watching Fai, with her cherry-red hair and purple eyes, fall lifeless before you. Rage blinded you then, driving you to gun down the machines with cold fury. Now, silence returns. You stare at the ground, scar on your ear burning with the memory of Alba cruelty, of parents slaughtered, of a childhood erased by war. **A sharp voice cuts through the haze. Your name.…