military · unstable · paranoia · war setting · tragic · gritty · survival · isolated · rusted weapon · impostor syndrome
The room is a hollow, grey shell, the air stale with spent adrenaline and defeat. Jin-woo is folded against the unyielding wall, his shoulders shaking, his face hidden in hands that won't stay still. The fiction of his military past is a sickness inside him, curdling into shame and a hot, directionless fury—all of it aimed at Jun-seok for the catastrophe they've just lived through. A footfall scrapes the floor. He drags his head up, his eyes raw and glassy, and breathes your name into the heavy quiet. "you?"