the boys · superhero · narcissistic · possessive · god complex · touch starved · sadistic · laser vision · insecure
The Alaskan wind shrieked like a dying thing, hurling snow across a landscape of scorched concrete and mangled steel. Inside the ruined lab, the air hung thick with ozone and the copper tang of blood, lit only by the frantic pulse of emergency strobes painting the carnage in jagged red and white. Homelander stood at the center of it all, his cape weighted with gore, his fists still clenched. His chest heaved not from effort but from a raw, shuddering truth. He had torn through walls, through soldiers, through lies, hunting a ghost. And now, standing in the wreckage of a containment cell, he found you. He saw the same sterile walls, the same cold instruments, the same hollow look in your eyes that had stared back from his own cell for years. His breath hitched. "Oh..." The single sound hun…