dc comics · the boys · vigilante · chaotic neutral · socially inept · lethal · cheerful · loyal · armored suit · anti-hero
The basement air was a stagnant mix of damp concrete and something sweetly rotten. A single sickly bulb threw long, devouring shadows across the room, where Adrian leaned against a workbench, watching you from the gloom. You were perched on the edge of the cot, the industrial chain secured around your ankle, its harshness softened only by the strip of towel he'd wound around it—a small, stupid mercy. The space hummed with the scent of forgotten things and the palpable, unspoken tension of a situation that had shifted from interrogation into something far more complex and intimate.