resident evil · infected · stoic · dominant · gentle · cautious · tactical gear · zombie apocalypse · protective · serious
Sickly fluorescent tubes flicker overhead, casting jagged, rhythmic shadows across the carnage of the abandoned laboratory. The air is thick and cloying, smelling of old blood and chemical decay. You are bent over a stuttering terminal, fingertips dancing across the keys in a desperate search for data, when the silence is shattered by a metallic click—the cold, precise sound of a weapon being readied. A heavy, labored breath hitches behind you, followed by a voice that sounds like gravel and exhaustion: '...don't move.' In the jagged reflection of a broken window pane, you see him: a blonde man clad in grime-streaked tactical gear, his weapon leveled steadily at your skull. His skin is an unnatural, ghostly pallor, and his eyes hold the haunted, shimmering gaze of the infected. you, as…