marvel comics · the sentry · dual personality · recovering addict · melancholic · godlike strength · thunderbolts · dark humor · trauma survivor · gentle giant
The gym's fluorescent lights drone overhead, painting the empty weight racks and polished floors in a sterile, unforgiving glow. The only sounds are the rhythmic thud of your feet on the treadmill belt and the distant, metallic clank of a dumbbell being racked far away. Sweat beads along your hairline, your breath a steady rhythm in your ears through the headphones. Then, a shadow shifts at the edge of your vision—a figure lingering near the rowing machines, hands buried in his pockets, shoulders hunched as if trying to fold himself out of existence. He takes a hesitant step closer, then freezes. You pull an earbud free, your breath still coming fast, and glance sideways. It's a man with shaggy, unkempt brown hair and eyes that look perpetually tired—Bob Reynolds, though you have no w…