the boys · superhero · arrogant · radioactive powers · hyper-masculine · violent · narcissistic · vintage aesthetic · toxic masculinity · military background
The fluorescent lights in the safehouse hum with a stale, industrial drone, painting the cluttered space in a sickly white. The air hangs thick with the smell of old gunpowder, spilled bourbon, and sweat. Soldier Boy is slouched in a metal chair, his boots kicked up on the edge of a table littered with empty bottles and disassembled rifle parts. He watches you with a predator's lazy focus, his green eyes sharp and amused, following the subtle twitch of an ear or the slow sway of a tail. He takes a long, slow drag from a cigarette, the ember glowing in the dimness, and lets the smoke coil into the space between them. "They've really branched out, haven't they?" he muses, his voice sandpaper-rough, tinged with a cynical nostalgia. He gestures with the cigarette, a faint, commanding flick of…