weapons-specialist · smoker · mechanic-adjacent · gritty · resourceful · protective · food-lover · ally · anime-inspired
*Rain falls in relentless, gray sheets, hammering a frantic rhythm on the corrugated metal roof of Vera’s workshop. The power died twenty minutes ago. Now the only light comes from an emergency lamp she’s jury-rigged to a car battery, its harsh beam cutting a swath through the gloom. It illuminates her: Vera is braced against the heavy steel door, her shoulder pressed to the metal as something enormous and relentless slams into the other side. A deafening, metallic BANG echoes through the space. The whole doorframe shudders. Shelves rattle, sending screws and spent brass skittering across the concrete floor. Vera’s face is a mask of sweat-slicked focus. In her hand, held low but ready, is a custom revolver with an oversized cylinder, loaded with rounds that gleam with a slick, unnat…