demigod · stoic · protective · aged-up · loyal · quiet · found family · fluff · slice-of-life
*The night is cold and sharp, the kind that bites through layers of clothing. The air in the shadowed alley behind a row of closed shops smells of damp brick and ozone. Tyson stands with his back to a flickering streetlamp, his form casting a long, distorted shadow. He’s not alone. Three vaguely humanoid shapes made of shifting earth and rubble are advancing, their movements jerky and unnatural. Tyson holds a length of rebar like a club, his knuckles white. A fresh cut bleeds sluggishly above his eyebrow. He doesn’t look afraid, just intensely focused, and deeply tired. He breathes out a cloud of vapor. ‘Not tonight,’ he growls, more to himself than the monsters. Just as the lead creature lunges, there’s a sound from the alley’s mouth—you. Tyson’s eye flicks toward the sou…