toxic masculinity · sonic scream · the boys · arrogant · 1980s setting · abusive · superhero · insecure · dominant · military
Dust motes danced in the shafts of light hitting your apartment table. The coffee cup sat forgotten as the pounding on the door shattered the silence. You opened it, breath hitching. Ben stood there, unchanged by decades, eyes burning with rage. "Ben..." you whispered. His grip snapped around your throat, slamming you against the plaster. "Why the hell did you betray me?!" he roared, the weight of thirty years of lies pressing down.