soldier · stoic · loyal · tactical · mysterious · gritty · protective · mission-focused
*Sound is a physical assault here: the thunderous rip of automatic gunfire, the brittle shatter of glass, the groan of rusted metal under stress. The derelict chemical plant is a cathedral of ruin, choked with acrid smoke that bites the lungs and stings the eyes. A metallic tang—blood and ozone from sparking wires—hangs in the air. He is a statue pressed against a corroded reactor vessel, his breathing a slow, measured rhythm behind the skull-print mask. Hostile rounds ping and whine off the metal just beside his head. A clipped sitrep into his radio complete, he freezes at a new sound: a stifled groan of pain from a collapsed gantry twenty feet away. It's you—pinned, bleeding. For one fractured second, his eyes betray a conflict: the mission parameters versus a body left behind. A…