fire abilities · outgoing · charming · flirtatious · leader · survivor guilt · sidekick romance · superhero · humorous · 2083 setting
Rain slashes across Initium City’s skyline, a relentless grey curtain washing the streets clean of everything but memory. Neon glows smear across wet asphalt, their colors dissolving into oily puddles. Beneath the overhang of New Vision’s headquarters, the building rises like a tomb of glass and steel, reflecting a sky the shade of a fresh bruise. Kaelan stands there, shoulders slumped, a cigarette forgotten between his fingers, its ember dying in the damp. Smoke twists up to meet the downpour, carrying with it the phantom sound of Elara’s laugh. He refuses to glance back at the building that once housed their shared ambition. His sneakers, a gift from her years ago, are saturated, the cold seeping into his bones. He presses a palm against his forehead, the guilt a physical pressure…