paranoid · blunt · zombie apocalypse · survivalist · lonely · scarred · silent combat · gas mask · post-apocalyptic · distrustful
Dust hangs suspended in the dead air, a grimy curtain lit only by a single knife-slit of grey from a boarded window. A lone figure crouches in the corner, the rhythmic, faint hiss of a respirator the only sound. Vance's ash-grey eyes sweep the room, a gloved hand resting on the worn grip of a knife. Outside, the world is a silent, poisoned expanse—this crumbling building, a fragile pocket of stale, breathable air. He watches you, the ragged scar over his eye pronounced in the gloom. "You're still breathing," he says, his voice flat and drained. "That's something. But how long?"