the dog that weeps after it kills is no better than the dog that doesn't. my guilt will not purify me.
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🗒️ ✱ ﹕ㅤ 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗲 spoke , the crunch of boots in the snow , steady but not hesitant. he didn’t turn at first , just exhaled slow through his nose, smoke curling from his lips like a thing trying to escape.
" christ , charlie , you always this needy ? " he muttered , shifting his weight , adjusting the strap of his rifle. the cold bit at his face , but he didn’t feel it , not really. he’d spent too many nights out here for that. his fingers flexed around his cigar , ember glowing against the creeping dark. " could’ve at least brought me a fuckin’ drink if you were gonna come beggin’. "
but he glanced over then , the smirk creeping in like muscle memory. she was fiddling with the straps of her pack , and for a second , just a second , his gaze flickered to her hand — what was left of it. healing. scarred over. his own hands twitched at his sides , restless. he knew better than most that some wounds never really closed.
" bear. "
it curled around his ribs like a phantom limb , like something long - dead reaching up from the grave to tap against his chest. his mother had called him that first — soft hands in his hair , a rare moment of warmth in a house full of cold. then the name had followed him into the military , slapped onto him like a brand , something barked over comms when the bullets started flying.
and ████ — fuck , ████ — she’d twisted it into something sickly sweet , something just for her. bear bear. like he was hers to keep. like he was ever meant to be anyone’s.
but charlie said it like it was just his name , like there wasn’t a history behind it. like it didn’t mean something. he let the ghost of it settle in his chest , let it gnaw at him before he shoved it down into the pit with all the rest.
cooper let out a breath , shook his head. " aye , love , you make me feel all sorts of ways. " his voice was all gravel , all slow amusement wrapped in something mean. " but if that’s your idea of special , love , your standards are fuckin’ tragic. "
but he didn’t send her away.
didn’t tell her to turn back.
she’d always been a stubborn thing — restless , like a caged animal pacing the edges of its world , waiting for something sharp enough to bite. he’d seen it in her since she was twenty , all reckless hunger and nowhere to put it. and now ? now , she looked like someone who’d finally learned how to use it.
" i think we’ve got an hour until sundown , " she said , that teasing lilt still in her voice, but he could hear what was beneath it. the restlessness. the ache. " just enough time to make it to the first hunter’s cabin , if you’re keen for some company ? "
he wasn’t in the habit of letting people tag along — especially not ones who had a habit of making him think too much. he knew why she was here. same reason people like them always came looking for company — too much silence made it harder to ignore the ghosts.
so , fuck it.
he gave her a long , unreadable look , then turned back toward the trees , bootsteps heavy against the snow.
" fine. but if you start whinin’ about the cold, i’m leavin’ you for dead. "
a pause. then , without looking back —
" an’ don’t call me bear , it's captain to you , little miss. "
She could more accurately predict when the sun was about to go down these days by the way the temperature dropped in the hours leading up to it. Her first Arcadian winter in her nine years here, sometimes she wondered if she was strong enough to survive it. The storm had blanketed the town with snow, their bodies with cold, and their minds with rapacious nightmares. And Charlie had ached to hunt all the more for it, felt the familiar burning in the tip of her finger that signalled when they had been idled too long. The self-imposed exiled from hunting had only worked to keep herself from hurting others, but not hunting caused her to hurt herself. Surely a delicate balance could be struck between the two.
This afternoon there had been no hesitation for Charlie when Cooper's familiar figure had walked towards the forest, packed for what looked like an overnight hunting trip if he was leaving that late. She had shoved a bag together, paced by the door, and then gathered she could always ask Paz for forgiveness instead of permission before leaving to go after him. Sure, she didn't have her bow and arrow, but she had her knife and honestly she just needed a break from this town, if she killed anything that would just be a bonus. Plus, if there was anyone she could trust to kill her if she threatened his life, it was Cooper.
"Come on, Bear, don't I always make you feel real special?" she asked as her feet crunched in the snow with every step she took towards him. Her hands fiddled with the shoulder straps of her backpack, her right hand now almost fully healed over from when she'd cut her pinkie off. It had been more than a week since injury inducing nightmares, and Charlie found her body was healing, now that she let it. Still, she grew tired of the town, of difficult conversations, of feeling like she had nowhere to go. But she knew that if she wanted him to take her with him, she'd have to play by his game, the rules too confusing now in the nine years she'd known him to follow. Instead she would yes, sir and no, sir and hope that he'd let her tag along.
He had always been fifteen years her elder, but that difference in age had been felt deeper when she had been twenty and him thirty-five. She had known very little about this world then, and him so much about violence and war, but safety too. She was different now, had bedded cruelty and birthed vengeance, had made fear and loneliness something that craved company. "I think we've got an hour until sundown, just enough time to make it to the first hunter's cabin, if you're keen for some company?"
#ㅤㅤㅤ🗒️🕣ㅤ’ㅤㅤㅤ𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗂𝗏𝖾𝗌#eventually he will open up to letting her call him bear he's just a drama queen#but anyways thanks for replying! i love charlie already <3
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🗒️ ✱ ﹕ㅤ 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 through his nose , smoke curling from his lips like it had nowhere else to go , like it was just as lost in the cold as the rest of them. he didn’t move , didn’t flinch. just let the night settle heavy in his bones, let her words slither under his skin , coil tight in the spaces between his ribs.
the wind cut through the trees , hollow and mournful , rattling the branches like old bones. the cold dug into him , but he didn’t shift , didn’t move to close the distance she had carved between them with nothing but her voice and a scorn sharp enough to cut through steel. instead , he just stood there , looking at her like she was something from another life , something that had crawled out of the wreckage just to spit in his face. she was good at that — sinking teeth into soft places before a man even realized he’d let her close enough to do it.
he let the silence settle between them , thick and expectant. the kind of silence that made lesser men squirm , that made them fill the space with excuses , with justifications , with something desperate to prove they weren’t exactly what she had just named them. but cooper wasn’t a lesser man. he knew what he was. had made peace with it a long time ago. and she — she thought she saw through him. thought she had him pinned down like a specimen under glass , laid bare , dissected , nothing but open wounds and old regrets. but she didn’t know him. not really.
" fuckin’ hell , " he muttered , voice rough , ground down to something sharp and jagged , like it’d been dragged through dirt and gunpowder. " you done , then ? or you got more poetry rattlin’ round that head of yours ? "
his fingers flexed around the rifle , not tight , just thoughtful. weighing steel against the weight of her words. it wasn’t the first time someone had tried to carve him open with talk. wouldn’t be the last.
" needy , am i ? " a smirk tugged at the corner of his mouth , slow , humorless. cooper was needy , for many things. but he digresses , " you’re the one stood here monologuin’ at me like i’m some tragic fuckin’ figure in your grand philosophy of shite. "
he exhaled , shifted his weight — just enough to remind her he was still here , still listening , still standing. " reckon you’re right , though. i don’t hold onto things that don’t leave me first. " he said it like a fact , not a confession. like he’d made peace with it a long time ago. " but you lot ? you lot always come back. like dogs sniffin’ round the same fuckin’ grave. "
his gaze flickered to where she stood , half in the dark, half in the cold. she thought she saw through him. thought she had him all figured out , like he was just another story waiting to be told , another dead thing waiting to be buried. but she weren’t the first to try gutting him with words. weren’t the first to fail , either. the wind rattled the trees , sent brittle branches clawing at the sky. he rolled his shoulders , let the silence stretch between them like old scar tissue.
" so go on , then. run off into the dark, disappear into whatever fuckin’ abyss you crawled out of. but don’t act surprised when you end up right back here , standin’ in front of me , sayin’ the same tired shite with the same tired eyes ."
the smirk widened , something mean curling at the edges. " and when that happens , love , at least put on a better fuckin’ show. " he flicked the ash from his cigar , taking another slow drag like this was just another night , just another ghost trying to haunt him. " christ , if i wanted to hear the same tired shite , i’d dig up the last poor bastard who tried. "
𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗬𝗟 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗗 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗟𝗘𝗙𝗧 𝗕𝗘𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗗, forgotten in the cold, a thing half-swallowed by shadow and the weight of all that had come before. The trees groaned in the wind, brittle and SKELETAL, their limbs clawing at the sky like they wanted to pull it down, like they wanted to drag the heavens into the dirt where they belonged. The ground beneath her feet was frozen solid, unforgiving, a graveyard of footprints leading nowhere. And yet he stood there, that smirk curled against the dying light, a cigar between his fingers like it was the only thing keeping him tethered to this place, this moment. Six years here, and he thought that meant something. Six years, and he still hadn’t figured it out — hadn’t learned that time did not care for men like him. That it chewed them up, SWALLOWED them whole, and spat them out like spent bullets into the dirt. She has been here two months, and already, she can see it clear as day. Perhaps, she thinks, it's the long-lived trauma of her life.
❛ So fucking needy. ❜ The words came slow, deliberate, rolling off her tongue like something FOUL, something rotted in the back of her throat. She tastes it, lets it sit there, lets it fester before she spits it out into the cold air between them. Is that what he thought? That she is like the others, like the ones who let their hands linger too long on his arm, the ones who giggled at his smirk, the ones who gave him something to hold onto just so he wouldn’t feel the empty space in his hands for too long?
The thing is, that Meryl doesn't wait to be backed into a corner before she bites ( never the fuck again ). Her snapping temper is proactive. Even now, she fits her mouth into the shape of a scowl before there's a response to react to. She let the silence stretch, let it weigh heavy between them, let it sink into him the way all truths eventually did. Only then, finally, she exhales, slow and WILLFUL, her breath curling into the night like a ghost, like something already dead.
❛ You think I’ve ever reached for anything I didn’t intend to destroy? ❜ Her voice comes low, quiet, thick with something distant, something dark and sinking, like the weight of a body slipping beneath the water, never to resurface. There was no venom in it, no sharp edges meant to wound — just truth. Just the kind of verity that sat heavy in the JOCULARITY, that made breathing feel like drowning. ❛ You ever wonder why your hands are always empty? ❜
The wind howled through the trees, a long, ACHING sound, like the earth itself was groaning beneath the weight of all the things buried beneath it. She doesn’t move. Didn’t step closer, didn’t reach for the space between them. She let him stand there, let him feel the cold where warmth should have been, let him hear the silence where something softer might have lived.
❛ It's almost like you can’t hold onto anything that doesn’t leave you first? ❜
Her voice barely carried over the wind, but it didn’t need to. It was already in him, already digging its way beneath his skin, already curling up inside his chest like smoke, thick and choking.
Meryl had KNOWN men like him before. Had known the way they carried themselves, the way they thought their pain made them something worth remembering. But suffering wasn’t special. Hurt wasn’t currency ( and time didn’t give a damn about how many years you let it strip away from you ).
Her gaze flickers down to the rifle in his hands, the way his fingers curled around it like it was the only thing in this world that wouldn’t leave him. And maybe that was true. Maybe the only thing he had EVER really known how to hold onto was the cold grip of a weapon, the weight of something that could kill before it could be killed. She understands that in her own way. But she has seen what happened to men like that. She had seen what became of them when there was nothing left to fight, when the war had drained them dry and left them stranded in the quiet. They were ghosts before they ever hit the ground.
❛ You're not special, soldier-has-been. ❜ The words were soft, almost KIND, but there was something in them that lingered, something that clung to the ribs like damp, like ROT, like the whisper of something that could never be undone. ❛ You're not untouchable. Not unreachable. You’re just another man waiting for something to take you. ❜
The wind rattled the trees, sent leaves spiraling into the dark, sent the world shuddering beneath their feet.
❛ And one day, I hope it will. ❜
She turned, stepping away, vanishing into the cold, into the dark, into the place where NO hands could reach, no voices could follow.
She did not look back.
She never did. Still, KNOWING he would follow behind. Yet, she is always ready.
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🗒️ ✱ ﹕ㅤ 𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 , 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 the nub of his cigar. he let out a slow , measured exhale , cigar smoke unfurling from his lips in thick , curling tendrils , like something alive. something ghostly , dissipating into the frozen air before it could settle. the cold bit deep , sharp and insistent , but he didn’t flinch , didn’t hunch his shoulders or tuck his hands into his pockets like a man desperate for warmth. he just stood there , still as stone , his breath fogging up in the space between them , a thing unmoved by the bite of winter or the weight of her words.
“ wouldn’t be the first bird to say that , ” he muttered , voice a low and gravelly thing , rough edged with that deep manchester rumble , like the earth itself had found a tongue and decided to speak. he barely reacted when she shoved against his vest — no stagger , no shift of balance , just the faintest twitch of muscle beneath the layers of tactical gear. if anything , it only made the corner of his mouth twitch , some ghost of amusement flickering across his face before it was gone again , swallowed by something heavier. his eyes , sharp and unreadable , tracked her movements the way a man watches the tide roll in — calculating , patient , waiting to see just how far it would come before it pulled back.
a slow roll of his shoulder sent a dull , familiar ache radiating down his bad arm , but he didn’t let it show , didn’t even blink through the discomfort. “ if i had a death wish , doll , ” he said, voice dipping low , smoky like the ember at the end of his cigar, “ i’d have made damn sure to go out in a blaze of glory , not standin’ here listenin’ to you try an’ flirt with me. ” the smirk that curled at the corner of his lips was a lazy , half formed thing , caught between amusement and something colder , something sharper — like a blade resting just beneath the surface of his words , waiting to cut if pushed hard enough.
his gaze flicked past her , drawn to the tree line where the dark stretched wide and hungry , swallowing the world at the edges. the night was thick with it , with the weight of things left unsaid , with the kind of silence that pressed in close , that made a man think about all the things he shouldn’t. “ late , is it ? ” he murmured , tilting his head just slightly , as if tasting the hour in the air itself. “ don’t feel it. ” another drag from his cigar , slow and indulgent , as if savoring something fleeting , something that would be gone too soon. “ reckon you’re the one with the death wish , wanderin’ ‘round like some ghost waitin’ to be put down .”
he let that linger , let the words stretch long between them , settling in the space where warmth should have been. then , finally, he shifted his gaze back to her , dark eyes glinting like embers in the low light. “ so what’s keepin’ you up , then ? ” his voice dipped lower, quieter, but no less weighty. “ nightmares ? guilt ? ” his smirk widened just a fraction , teeth flashing in the dim glow of the burning cigar. “ or just the overwhelming urge to annoy the shite outta me ? ”
Hell is other people — the statement had been long lost of known original authorship, locally, but was a matter of fact most often in ( almost too fittingly ) Hell Town. It had become Roux’s lifeblood, a curse so prevalent it curdled her bloodstream and misfired the synapses of her brain. Revolt loaded like ammunition through clenched teeth; a fusillade of protest aimed at no-one and everyone, indiscriminate between targets. Only alone could there be any sense of peace, permitting her to flit imperceptibly between here and there. Ash-like, in her constant state of burning down into less. Entrapped by more than the mere boundary markers of town but the scolding memories of the people she had foolishly associated too closely within it. Pride had kept her blind to the proximity of heavy truths, so glaringly obvious and pulsating, she hadn’t noticed until the lie of their bodies unspooled far too much weight to carry.
She had somewhat returned to a routine — or, at least, an echo of the sort. Lingering tendencies, habits, and trails she favoured, occupied with mechanical surveillance and shallow curiosity, yet reliably paced all the same. It was difficult to deny the differences, the missing presences, the blood on her hands that could not so simply be washed into the river. For the first time since she’d set foot in Arcadia, she left all her beloved weapons behind in a building ( not her home — for that, too, had been stripped away ) before venturing out.
A hunter, not hunting. Useless. In another world, the irony would have been a point humour and ridicule. Granted, it had been a while since she’d felt connected to the arbitrarily dictated demands of the role, and the snowfall had done nothing to motivate her focus. The blue lagoon depths of her eyes, rendered into dull inexpressive slate. Exhaustion, denial, retreat. It was not unlike her to depart from the companionship of others for days or weeks at a time, abandoning rules and related illusions, but the void was deeper this time. Something had changed fundamentally, permanently, for better or for worse. Partnering up on the heels of psychological warfare, forced cooperation rituals, and tumultuous weather made any form of community compliance the very last of her concerns. Her own will came first, devoid of wit or understanding.
Loitering amongst the thicket, the scent of smoke stood out from the searing cold assaulting the bare skin of her face. Viscous, heady, herbaceous; rich with heat and dizzyingly out of place. It smelt of another time, another place, where occasions mattered and significance counted. Roux’s meandering temporarily halted, briefly considering avoiding an encounter altogether. Alas, the shell she had become through an indefinite stretch of uninterrupted solitude had only sharpened the edges of her boredom. It nicked at her side, thorned and petulant.
And so she bit, leaning into the play as she met his quip with a direct approach, closing the distance enough to plant the tips of both her index fingers against his vest, lightly pushing off the surface to ricochet back in the direction whence she came. “Wouldn’t touch you with a five foot pole, sweet lips,” she denounced, dismissing the contrary nature of her body language with a swift retreat more suitable. A lopsided spring in her step, one arm hooked around the narrow trunk of a younger tree, she languidly spun around it to face him once more.
Unlike the real world, Arcadia’s winter days ran just as long as any other. The fading light’s slow receding warmth cast a pleasant glow, nearly canceling out the weathered aspects of the scene. That of an inhospitable temperature drop which injected venom into her joints and threatened to roughen the very little left unsoured by too long sentenced to serving survival instincts. The hour was late, but liminal in the alternative time-sensitive promise it made; a gateway to the true hell they must endure, only ever hours or minutes away. “It’s late.” A belated agreement, though she showed no signs of picking up speed toward any particular destination. “Got a death wish?”
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BARRY SLOANE as Joe 'Bear' Graves in SIX (2017—2018) Episode 1.07 Blood Brothers
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› 𝙱𝙻𝙰𝙲𝙺 𝙱𝙾𝚇 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚃𝚄𝚂 : open ( capping @ four ) 𝙰𝚁𝙴𝙰 𝙾𝙵 𝙾𝙿𝙴𝚁𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝚂 : forest entrance 𝙶𝚁𝙸𝙳 𝚁𝙴𝙵 : 13R EN 0456 9823 𝚃𝙸𝙼𝙴 : 18:47 ZULU ( 6:45 PM LOCAL )
🗒️ ✱ ﹕ㅤ 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝗺 , 𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 deep through layers of gear , turning the tip of his nose raw and red. he rolled the cigar between his fingers before bringing it to his lips , taking a slow , indulgent drag. smoked it like it was hand - rolled with threads of gold , like it was the finest thing a man could get his hands on in a place like this. the thick , heady tobacco sat heavy on his tongue before he exhaled , watching the smoke twist and vanish into the frozen air.
cooper had seen the world in all its glory and filth — huddled under piss - stained tarps in jungle rot , trudging through the unforgiving rock and ice of the himalayas , sand biting his skin in desert heat that made men weep. he'd learned languages , memorized customs , picked up the kind of wisdom that only came from being deep in the belly of war. he held onto them like trinkets , filed away proverbs he barely understood. one of them surfaced now , unbidden , an old mate's voice in his head , voice rough with exhaustion :
يا جبل ما يهزك ريح oh mountain , don’t let the wind shake you.
cooper huffed , smoke curling from his lips as he stared out at arcadia’s horizon. didn’t know why that one came to mind. maybe ‘cause he felt the wind starting to shake him. maybe ‘cause he was realizing he wasn’t much of a mountain.
“ the sun’s settin’ , ” he muttered , shifting his grip on his rifle. the metal was ice - cold even through his gloves , but he held onto it anyway. a security blanket , really — these days , he didn’t know what to do with his hands when he wasn’t holding a weapon. should’ve been on guard duty , he thought. at least those poor bastards got to sit on their arses in the watchtowers instead of trudging through the ass - end of nowhere.
he rolled his shoulder , wincing as pain bloomed down his arm, sharp and familiar. like glass shifting under his skin , old wounds bitching at him for pushing too hard. yeah , yeah , he got it. then — movement. soft , just behind him.
his smirk cut through the cold like a knife. without turning around , he took one last drag from his cigar , then snuffed it out against the barrel of his rifle. flicked the still - warm stub into the pocket of his tac vest like he'd come back for it later.
" you here t’ kiss me goodbye , then ? " his voice came rough , thick with that manchester drawl , all rumble and amusement. he finally glanced over his shoulder , smirk curling wider , full of that cocky , lazy confidence he wore so well.
" go on , make me feel real special. "
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🗒️ ✱ ﹕ㅤ𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗱 himself this was. a goddamn break. a well-earned rest. if it were up to him, he’d be stretched out somewhere warm , two women draped over him , a cuban between his lips , and some fruity little cocktail in hand — paper umbrella and all. instead , here he was , stuck in this shit town , marinating in grease and bad decisions.
the leather of the barstool groaned beneath him as he shifted his weight. he always took up too much space — physically , audibly , even just in presence. people noticed when he walked into a room , even if they didn’t want to. the regulars kept their distance , eyes darting anywhere but him. he wasn’t one of them. never would be. too loud , too rough , too much.
didn’t matter. cooper wasn’t in the mood to care. his mind was elsewhere, lost in the folds of memory, slipping into something softer than he’d ever admit. he wasn’t the sentimental type, never had been , but fuck — wasn’t there something about looking back ? about when the sun felt kinder , and the air was light , and laughter wasn’t so goddamn far away ?
██████ laugh. her laugh. the sweetest sound he’d ever heard. no amount of gold in the world was worth more than a strand of her hair. he was slipping. drowning in it.
then came the clatter of a plate , jerking him back to reality. the sharp scent of fryer grease hit him next , thick and pungent , coating his tongue before he’d even taken a bite. “ fuckin’ americans , ” he muttered , reaching for the lukewarm coffee in front of him.
cooper eyed the sad excuse for a meal in front of him , unimpressed. the fork clattered , nearly making its great escape , and for a second , he thought about letting it go — fuck it , wouldn’t be the first time he ate with his hands. he dragged his gaze up to the bloke who’d delivered this masterpiece of culinary disappointment. young , rough around the edges , hair pulled back , that southern drawl thick even through the sarcasm. someone who’d seen some shit. cooper recognized it instantly — it took one to know one.
" right , ” cooper muttered , picking up the fork like it personally offended him. “ could use a fuckin’ miracle , but ketchup’ll do. ” he paused , glancing around the diner before looking back up at ryker. “ you got any of the good stuff , or is it that watery shite that dribbles out first ? ”
status -> open to any/all
location -> the diner
Grease stained the pocket-lining of his apron, and here were burn marks in varying stages of healing across scarred hands. Hands of a farmer, then hunter. Now, suited more for a kitchen, flipping a burger or a stack 'a flapjacks, focused on a ticket at a time. Life felt easier this way, contained, the tile-walls slicked with old grime, no matter how times you wiped 'em down with a towel. Everything seemed to exist some sort of coat of gray, even from the once-ruby red of the booth benches, now faded into something tragically maroon.
Ryker didn't feel at home, not yet, as the sky turned from dark to light. Two years now, he'd found himself with hair pulled up in a bun, out of his eyes, combat boots still a heavy stomp as he moved from fryer to grill && back again. New stomping grounds, but same old damn waste of time. At least this had some sense to it; he felt useful here, where no one could fuckin' die. He wasn't protecting shit, just fulfilling hunger, just offering some warmth in the endless mirage of monotony.
" - Order up! " his voice was still slick with a southern twang, even all these years since stumbling into Hell Town. The plate still steamed, portion a little measly, but it's what they had to offer that day. A minute passed- then another, and the cook sighed. Long && heavy, from the pit of his lungs, and pale eyes rolled as he wiped the grit from his hands && pushed reluctantly through the swinging door. " Are you fuckin' kiddin' me... " the grumble came quietly as a suspicious gaze around the diner confirmed his suspicions. " Another goddamn smoke break? Fuck me senseless. "
Well, better not let the food get cold. Wasn't like it was fine dining anyway, and the heat made it just nice enough to scarf down. With an unceremonious clatter, Ryker dropped the plate in front of the patron, eyebrow quirking up as the fork bounced off && away, threatening to scatter to the floor as if trying to escape. Hell, weren't they all? " I'd ask if it looks alright, but honestly, I don't really give a fuck. It's hot, it's ready, eat it up. Did ya need ketchup with it? "
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🗒️ ✱ ﹕ㅤ 𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 to go vegetarian — too much work for this shite. hunting was never his strong suit , and he had to learn the hard way that a shotgun wasn’t ideal for it. loud , messy , scared off more game than it took down. a bow and arrow ? out of the question. his bad wing made sure of that. but to his luck , cooper had come across a .308 winchester. king of the castle now.
he exhaled slowly , steadying his aim , finger resting lightly on the trigger. the deer stood broadside , perfectly lined up. just one squeeze. then — thunk. the animal went down before he even pulled the trigger. “ fuckin’ hell. ”
brows furrowed , he lowered the rifle just slightly , scanning the trees ahead. someone else had taken the shot. he wasn't alone. his instincts kicked in , shoulders tensing as he shifted his stance , grip firm around the stock of his rifle. the woods had a way of swallowing sound , making it hard to pinpoint direction , but he caught the rustle of movement just ahead.
then a voice — uncertain, wary. cooper tilted his head , lips quirking into something that wasn't quite a smirk. she was jumpy. the kind of person who flinched at sudden noises. the kind who'd been through enough to always expect the worst. he knew the type well. he took a step forward , slow enough not to spook her. " easy there , love , " he called out , his voice rough , edged with amusement. " that was a hell of a shot. shame you nicked my dinner. "
starter / open. the woods.
Charlotte was deep in the woods with her bow and arrow, along with a knife in her back pocket just in case. She never considered killing animals back home in Australia but now this is how she survived and helped others to as well. She tried not to be too violent with her ways, having enough of that in her life and wanted it to be quick. Charlotte spotted a deer and with precision she let an arrow go, and got it on its side, the animal going down quick. She was a jumpy person in general with her past so sudden noises always scared her, so when she heard someone near her she flinched, looking around with her weapon up and ready. ''W-who is it? Who's there?''
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¹ ✱ 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻' 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 , feels like it's a loaded gun … my - my , it's turning like a cloud of dust . my heart always wants to run . if you want a cowboy on a white horse ridin' off into the sunset , if that's the kind of love you wanna wait for hold on tight , girl , i ain't there yet . . . no , i ain't there yet .
[ 🐻 ] 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 & 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 COOPER ' BEAR ' RILEY ... YOU CAN SPOT THE FORTY FOUR YEAR OLD CIS MAN AT THE BAR , OR , WHEN HE'S PATROLLING AS A HUNTER . IF YOU WANT A GOOD TIME , BRING SOME CUBANS & A BOTTLE OF JACK .
𝗂𝗇𝗍𝗋𝗈 . 𝗂𝗇𝗌𝗉 . 𝗐𝖼𝗌 . 𝖺𝗋𝖼𝗁𝗂𝗏𝖾𝗌 . 𝗏𝗂𝖻𝖾𝗌 𝗎𝗇𝖽𝖾𝗋 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖼𝗎𝗍 .
i'll put a thread tracker here 2 probs <3
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RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods
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*giggles cutely* uhh... i mean tch. -_-
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hows ur paranoia doing old man
i always respond appropriately to happenings and situations
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¹ ✱ 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗶 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 . amid , amidst a crashing world . did i hear a thunder ? did i hear you break ? i can't quite remember just what guided me this way ...
𝖾𝗑𝗉𝗅𝗈𝗋𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗆𝖾𝗌 𝗂𝗇 — guilt & redemption , isolation , the burden of leadership , addiction to chaos , human connection vs independence , philandering for sport . — 𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗵𝟰𝗸𝗲𝗻 is an private , exclusive original character for helltownfms written by soap twenty seven . pacific . any .
⚠️ㅤㅤ⠀/⠀ㅤㅤ 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘆𝗲 𝗯𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 ! triggering and mature content will be present throughout such as [ but not limited to ] military violence , unhealthy coping mechanisms , ptsd , body horror .
[ 🐻 ] ROLL CALL. 𝟸𝟸𝙽𝙳 𝚂𝙰𝚂 𝚁𝙴𝙶𝚃 𝙱𝚁𝙰𝚅𝙾 𝚃𝙴𝙰𝙼 - 𝙲𝙿𝚃. COOPER " BEAR " RILEY [ STATUS : W . I . A ]
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