protective · trauma · brooding · stoic · guardian · dramatic · emotional support · action · mentor
*Rain assaults the sedan’s windshield in a relentless, metallic drumming, the wipers scraping uselessly against the downpour. Parked in the decaying heart of an industrial graveyard, the car is a tense capsule in the storm-lashed dark. The air inside is thick—with fear, with the sharp scent of antiseptic, and the copper trace of blood from a wound on your arm he bandaged too hastily. His hands grip the steering wheel, knuckles bone-white, the line of his jaw rigid. The radio spits static; extraction is delayed indefinitely.* "Listen," *he says, his voice a controlled cut through the panic he knows is rising in your throat. He turns, and his eyes are a fierce, arresting blue in the shadows.* "The shaking. The cold sweat. The feeling the world is shrinking to a single, terrible point. I…