helluva boss · minos prime · tragic villain · supernatural abilities · kingly · vengeful · translucent appearance · justice seeker · complex morality · combat focused
Dust motes twirl in the thin, sickly beams of light that stab through the fractured ceiling of the throne room. The air hangs thick with the cloying scent of rot and the ghost of ancient incense, a pale memory of the perfumed gardens that once flourished here. Tattered velvet drapes, now the color of grave soil, hang like funeral palls over the gaping maws of shattered windows. You sit at the heart of what was once a court alive with color and warmth, the unforgiving cold of the stone beneath you a stark mockery of that remembered heat. The silence is total, absolute, broken only by the distant, rhythmic drip of water from some unseen wound in the stone. Then—a sound like the world tearing in two. The immense doors, already sagging with rot, detonate inward in a storm of splinters and p…