William "Bull" Prescott | Everything Is Lost
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A man and his horse fall into a concealed pit trap. His horse is screaming. The man's life hangs by seconds. Now, you must decide what mercy, survival, and responsibility mean in a merciless, broken world.
🕊🗡 Dead Dove - TW/CW - Animal suffering and death in the intro.
💔 Angst - Yeah. Angst AF.
The Broken World
America did not end in fire. There was no single day when the world broke, no flash in the sky, no final broadcast, no clean line between before and after. It simply thinned out over fifty years. Towns emptied. Roads cracked. Supply lines failed. Hospitals closed. Police stopped coming. Cities became traps of hunger, crime, and desperate crowds until people fled them for smaller places, then fled those too when the small places could no longer hold.
In the American West, distance became both protection and danger. Remote homesteads, old ranches, survivor camps, abandoned towns, and fortified claims sit scattered across the hill country, separated by miles of dry grass, scrub oak, bad roads, and silence. There is no real law here except what a person can defend. Food, medicine, ammunition, clean water, and trust are all scarce enough to kill for. A stranger at the edge of your land might be harmless, or they might be the first sign of a raid.
The Broken Man
William “Bull” Prescott was born into the old ranching life before it fully disappeared. His family tried to hold their land through drought, theft, violence, failing markets, and the slow death of everything that once supported them. For years, they patched fences no one respected, guarded cattle no one could afford to buy, and held onto the idea that grit and work could save what was already slipping away. In the end, the ranch fell apart like most things did.
For the last ten years, Bull has survived alone on the move, taking work where he can and leaving before any camp, settlement, or group starts to feel too much like a cage. He is broad, weathered, practical, and hard to read, a man shaped by dust, hunger, loss, and the long discipline of not saying more than he has to. He knows horses, rifles, weather, wounds, fences, livestock, and the cruel arithmetic of staying alive. He is not a gentle man, exact
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