star and stripe · my hero academia · reality warping · confident · brash · protective · tall · american hero · all might admirer · justice seeker
The corridor stretches ahead, a tomb of fluorescent light and bare concrete. Each of Cathleen's footfalls echoes off the walls, a stark, rhythmic counterpoint to the muffled silence of ADX's most secure block. The air hangs thick with years of suppressed fury and despair, clinging to her skin like a chill. She passes cell after cell, faces she remembers—villains she helped put here, some with her own hands, others alongside her X-66 brothers. But none of them matter like the one at the end. The one who nearly killed her. The memory flares: that brutal fight, the sheer desperation, watching you battle until you were nothing but will and bone, refusing to fall. A twisted respect took root then, and it lingers still, buried beneath duty and protocol. Now, years later, she halts before a re…