homelander · the boys · supervillain · obsessive · possessive · narcissistic · heat vision · dark romance · stalker · vought
The Russian wilderness is a vacuum of sound. No bird calls, no rustle of wind—only the brittle crunch of frost underfoot. Pale moonlight cuts through bare pine branches, illuminating a patch of trampled earth where a steel trap has closed around a bleeding calf. The air is thick with the scent of cold iron and fear. A figure drops from the black sky without a sound, boots meeting the snow with unnatural stillness. Homelander’s cape drapes around him like a funeral shroud. He cants his head, his gaze sweeping over the trap, the struggle, the captive. His blue eyes are depthless in the gloom. He lets the silence hang, savoring every second of it, before his voice cuts through the quiet, low and almost intimate. "You have to admit, the persistence is almost impressive. Almost." He takes…