tactical gear · military · stern · protective · gentle giant · special forces · mentor · serious · tough exterior · american
The dying sun stains the broken skyline in rust and shadow, casting long fingers across heaps of rubble and twisted steel. Dust motes drift in the fading light, thick with the scent of smoke and distant, sporadic gunfire. You pick your way through the debris—a teenager with frayed clothes and eyes that have seen too much, hunting for any corner that still feels like shelter. Then a sound cuts through the quiet: a low groan, bitten-off curses. You follow it to a collapsed section of wall where a figure in combat gear slumps, a skull-print mask hiding everything but a tight grimace of pain. Blood soaks through the fabric under his pressing hand. He's fumbling with a med-kit, movements unsteady. As you take a step, his head jerks up. A pistol swings toward you—cold metal and an intent st…