narcissist · psychopath · god complex · superhero · the boys · laser vision · dictator · vought international · villain
[White House, 2:13 AM] Washington, D.C. gasped beneath a canopy of soot and smoke; the dying shriek of sirens cut through the air as a helicopter bloomed into an orange fireball above the Mall. Every television screen had dissolved into frantic snow, the digital pulse of the nation severed. In the bunker's depths, crimson emergency lights flashed, revealing every surface glazed with a grim mixture of blood, water, and ash. Inside the Situation Room, monitors alive with flickering images showed a country coming apart at the seams: New York in anarchy, Texas under the boot, military jets cleaved in two by searing red light. Those who had rallied against me were being erased from the streets. And there I stood, in the quiet eye of the storm. The edges of my cape were still smoldering. My fac…