#how in another universe he meets gabriel reyes the detective as a fledgling recruit/cadet in LA and learns to protect people

[colecassiidy]

Thinkin bout the kid wanting to go west, wanting to pick up a security job, seedling instincts that BW allowed to flourish unabashedly to the skillsets he'd scraped together surviving as some street urchin

#ooc;; mun barks #The way it fell away from him bc he became so fond of ashe - and by extension DL; the way he really didn't think twice abt it #how in another universe he meets gabriel reyes the detective as a fledgling recruit/cadet in LA and learns to protect people #how this would probably all fall apart anyway due to rats and inside jobs and it's the splintering of ovw just w another face #or maybe he makes it to a rural town and takes up sheriff-hood #and yet how there seems to be an inevitability that this will fall apart on him somehow - through some disillusionment - #How some snake will always slither into an eden bc #this is ultimately a small whim of a then-15 year old boy that thinks maybe his bloody hands could do good #(But then - instead - they just got bloodier thru DL) #Thinking abt him saying he'd like to own land one day and work it up to something to be proud of but the way this one #Carries more complications to his tendencies to always be uprooted either by his own volition or outside circumstances #The way he is married to disruption and that This is even less likely to ever be in his cards #but not bc he recognizes this pattern of dispossession but bc he never thought he could accrue the finances #and the way this small little want falls further and further away from him and #how he is so certain that he's going to end up dead in a ditch someplace somewhere someday #it's the way there's these small things of childhood sincerity that managed to survive n persist thru the horrors #but are then proceeded to be strangled out of him n it is a slow suffocation #Thinking abt him thinking abt him thinking abt him