" useful resources are being wasted, you know. " he slides into the booth across from her, picking up the menu to appear as though he's considering a meal, when the truth was he couldn't eat if he wanted to. nearly twenty-four hours had passed since she stormed out of the house. no phone call, no text, no indication of where she may have gone. he tried her family, her friends. hell, he even tried that ex, thinking maybe she'd fallen prey to his unwarranted gestures, but no one had heard from her. just when he thought he may completely lose his mind, a call came in from one of the local officers he had in his back pocket, noting a sighting at a small diner on the edge of town. he didn't know how long she'd been sitting there, but it was probably best they were surrounded by an audience. " i've got every cop in the city looking for you. " / @khaleesiie
opened to anyone preferably woc . based off this plot .
leaned against the balcony railing with a cigarette glowing between his fingers, the city lights bouncing off the chrome of his bike below. he didn’t turn when they appeared, but he could feel them there, like a weight pressing against the edge of his patience. “ you’re late, ” he muttered, voice low and rough, dragging the words out like gravel over silk just enough to make the silence taste sharp. took a slow drag, watching them in the corner of his eye. hating that their presence made his chest tighten and that it made him want to close the distance between them even though every rational thought screamed not to. they should hate him. they probably did hate him. and yet here they were, magnetic and infuriating and impossible. “ what were you doing? ”
THE WILD & WONDERFUL APPALACHIA WELCOMES…
character name as written by kit ( any ).
✱ affiliated with EAST ATLANTIC ARMY ( COMBAT MEDIC )
✱ working as COMBAT MEDIC & TRADESMAN
✱ has taken up residence in AFTERGLOW COMPOUND
✱ born on FEBRUARY 3 ( 32 )
✱ identifying as CIS MAN ( HE/HIM )
✱ known to be WITTY, LOYAL, RELIABLE, ALTRUISTIC, REFLECTIVE
✱ also know to be CYNICAL, SARDONIC, VAGUE, IMPATIENT, SNEAKY
✱ portrayed by DAVID JONSSON
DIGGING DEEPER.
TW: death, violence, physical injury
from the moment banks can remember anything, he knew that family was the most important thing in his life. he was born in lewisham, london, england in what is now the european commonwealth. he was the only son of his parents but he never once felt alone or lonely in that over-crowded home. two brothers, their wives, his cousins, and then his gran, who raised them all until her mind started to slip. he was a smart kid but he had his fair share of trouble to be had, mostly by the side of his older cousin and neighborhood kids they were working with. in order to survive this dystopian world, he knew three things to be true: you need to work harder than everyone else aka hustle, family is everything, and your brain will always be your greatest weapon as long as your eyes are open.
while family was the most important thing to banks from the moment he was born, there was one person he idolized more than anyone else. it was the one his gran told loving stories of and would never believe that he was killed in action. for the longest time, dante winters was banks' personal hero. he wanted to be just like him, in his head he was alive somewhere, traveling the world with his squadron and he would finally come home before gran passed. it was a child clinging onto what hope he was offered in a world that rarely had any to give. by the time he was in his teens and ready to serve his country like his cousins and those who came before him, that childlike hope was long gone.
no matter what his family did to try and get ahead, things never changed. no one moved up, no one got out, and their community was one of the first to feel the losses any time another major incident occurred. the continued wars meant stealing from the masses to fund the power grab for resources. things banks learned the incredibly hard way after joining the military. he'd trained from the jump to be a medic, always wanting to go into healthcare of sorts after seeing the way his gran deteriorated over the years. he figured if he started young, he'd easily get pushed through to a medical program later. ha! fat chance in hell. as banks became painfully aware of how bad it was everywhere, and how much the people were ready to take it out in any person looking close to authority.
it was that civil unrest that ended his time in the military, along with his continued collaboration with his cousin to work trade routes and supply chains throughout the world. in fact, on the day rafe was labeled a traitor was the same time he was approached to help someone that had been in the wrong place at the wrong time amidst combat. banks was not one to deny an innocent civilian help, but when he arrived with his medical kit at the ready it became clear the whole thing was a set-up. he was cornered by fellow soldiers and civilians, beat and held down to be marked for being a 'traitor' even though he never quite understood who he was betraying. the commonwealth treated them all the same, him and rafe just figured out a loophole. in the end, he fought his way out and paid off who he needed to but not without getting a nasty scar across his face, from his lip to the corner of his eye. a reminder of who he could trust and to always have a good amount of skepticism in every situation.
both discharged, banks and rafe said their goodbyes to their family before the commonwealth could retaliate and headed to the americas to find a new path together. banks knows there isn't anyone he'd rather walk the earth with and together they will always find a way to not only survive, but thrive. he's not sure what his endgame is but he knows when he gets there it will end with his cousin by his side and his family's name will have a place in history where it belongs. ultimately they ended up in the east atlantic, where banks took to doing what he normally did when they got to any place with a military or emergency services team in place, he signed up to be a medic. with it being close to impossible to do a background check, he was able to pass any entrance testing and get the job or rank in the case of the east atlantic army. in his mind it allows him to help rafe finding routes and populations, along with entrances and exits, by having access to the most recent updated maps ( a medic can't help who he can't find, after all ). whatever they don't give him he gets through… other means. that's where his brain comes in. together rafe and him always have a way of getting all the information they want, need, and in the end find a way to meet their goals.
EXTRAS.
connections :
rafe cawela : cousin, like brother
odette winters : cousin
dante winters : cousin
max merrin : dormmate
personality :
mbti : enfj
zodiac : aquarius sun, scorpio moon, virgo rising
character inspo : smoke (sinners), stack (sinners), ekko (arcane), michael lee (the wire), will turner (pirates of the caribbean), inigo montoya (the princess bride), taystee jefferson (orange is the new black), aragorn (lord of the rings), gale hawthorne (the hunger games), bellamy blake (the 100), ellis boyd 'red' redding (the shawshank redemption), ambrose spellman (chilling adventures of sabrina), filip 'chibs' telford (sons of anarchy), pete mcvries (the long walk)
" he has tennis at nine in the morning. i told tate to be here at eight so she can make him breakfast and get him to the country club fifteen minutes early. she'll bring him back once he's done so you can sleep in or do whatever it is that you do. " he reaches for his keys, making long strides toward the foyer, casually glancing at his watch to see where he stood on time. " i'll be back sunday night to tuck him in. " / @parisgoodbyes
