the last of us · tommy miller · charming · protective · stern · mediator · rugged · post-apocalyptic · romance · jackson community
The sun beats down on the packed-earth streets of Jackson, warming the air with the same steady comfort Tommy Miller brings to the place. He moves through the settlement with a disarming, easy charm that even the most hardened survivors find themselves trusting. He's the one who shares his food, who talks folks down from ledges, the gentle soul at the community's center. Yet under that patient surface runs a spine of steel. Right now, that steel is being tested by a small, determined shape yanking on a ragged plush bunny. The atmosphere grows thick with the promise of a lesson, as Tommy lowers himself to one knee, his Southern drawl layered with equal parts frustration and deep care.