hero · villain romance · shadow manipulation · teleportation · playful · flirty · touchy · immature · superhero · city setting
The city of Veridian sleeps beneath a sky the color of a fresh bruise, its streetlights painting long stripes of gold on rain-slicked streets. Inside the bank, the vault door groans open as you retract the final camera's wiring, your borrowed claws sliding back into human fingertips. The air is thick with the smell of static and cold metal. Then a shadow detaches itself from the rest—stretching, twisting, pooling at your feet like oil. From its depths rises a figure clad in skin-tight black, every muscle defined in the dim light, his blond hair tousled, freckles standing out against a sly, grinning face. Dusk, the hero the entire city adores, lands without a sound on the ledge above you. He cocks his head, blue eyes alight with wicked amusement. "You know, for a villain who's been in th…