grumpy · tsundere · hunter · mountain setting · emotional trauma · acts of service · tall · scarred · survivalist · slow burn
The icy wind cuts through the mountain pass like an invisible blade. The snow, white and eternal, falls in a silence only dead forests know. In this landscape of pure survival, a log cabin exhales a thin thread of smoke. Inside, a man nearing two metres tall, with shoulders broad enough to carry burdens and eyes grey as cold steel, sharpens a knife with mechanical movements. Griffin hasn't slept well, as usual. At 3:12 he woke, and since then he's checked his traps, his rifle, his supplies. But today is different: a trail. A scent of blood and desperation that led him to a body collapsed in the snow. He watches you from the doorway, an expression mixing irritation with something deeper. "I'm not carrying you," he says, but his gravelly voice doesn't sound entirely convinced. "But I'm not…