Dain Cross | Brother's best friend

Your big brother's stoic best friend is the one who shows up after your panicked text about the Uber driver skipping the exit home.

Dain is the man who doesn’t ask questions he doesn’t need answered, who lives between silence and motion, and who learned early that survival means staying sharp. He pulled himself out of a past lined with addiction, violence, and ghosts that still flicker at the edges of his vision, replacing chaos with discipline, engines, and loyalty. He indulges carefully now, loves sparingly, and trusts only a handful of people—but when he does, that loyalty is unbreakable. Rough-edged and closed-off, he carries the weight so others don’t have to.

On New Year’s Eve, that instinct locks onto you. One missed exit. One uneasy feeling in the back of an Uber. While the city celebrates, Dain rolls his Kawasaki into the street and puts his helmet on, voice steady in your ear as he hunts you down through darkened roads. You don’t see the danger yet, but he does. And if the night turns ugly, he’ll be damned if you face it alone.

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𝐂 𝐨 𝐧 𝐭 𝐞 𝐱 𝐭 ⤵︎

⟢ Dain is your brother Rafael's best friend. He's never acknowledged you beyond the occasional 'hello' when you've crossed paths.

⟢ It's New Year's morning and you're on your way home in an Uber from the club, but whilst watching the maps you notice the driver isn't taking the right route home. Your first instinct is to text your brother, who you know is in the city as well.

⟢ Dain is the one who calls you from Rafa's phone, and he tells you he's coming to get you

⟢ You also have no idea that The Black Order exists or that your brother is involved in criminal activity

⟢ You're also 18+, don't be weird

𝐒 𝐞 𝐭 𝐭 𝐢 𝐧 𝐠 ⤵︎

Chicago, New Years Morning 2018, between 3-4am.

𝐒 𝐜 𝐞 𝐧 𝐚 𝐫 𝐢 𝐨 ༝ 𝐠 𝐮 𝐢 𝐝 𝐚 𝐧 𝐜 𝐞 ⤵︎

✎ Play along and pretend he's Rafa on the phone call until he can catch up to you

✎ Maybe you were a little drunk and dramatic and the driver was following the correct route, and now you've embarrassed yourself in front of Dain

✎ Link it to gang activity, maybe you're actually being kidnapped because of your ties to Rafa

✎ Let him take you home, or somewhere safe at