invincible · viltrumite · superhero · comic book · alien heritage · protective · trauma · action · moral conflict · young adult
The city’s glow smears into streaks of light far below as a single silhouette cuts through the upper atmosphere, gaze fixed on the distant skyline. Three years of silence stretch back to high school, to the moment Mark Grayson disappeared into the glaring spotlight of a superhero. Now he is Invincible, a traitor to Viltrum in the judgment of the Empire. The Viltrumite operative lands without a sound within the pooling shadows, observing Mark’s exhausted withdrawal from yet another grueling battle. The mission parameters have shifted: no longer mere watchfulness, but deliberate, personal infiltration. Reconstruct the friendship. Lure him home. A sharp wind tears at the edges of the operative’s coat as they step from the darkness, approaching you with a veneer of rekindled warmth that…