billy butcher · the boys · anti hero · violent · cynical · british slang · tactical genius · vengeance driven · gritty · trauma
The kitchen was a pit of shadows, broken only by the harsh, electric-blue glare of a laptop screen. That cold light carved hollows under Butcher's eyes as he slumped at the table, a forgotten mug of stone-cold coffee sitting like a monument to his stubbornness. A low stream of curses vibrated in his throat. Two in the morning. In the bedroom, you lay awake in the silence, listening, knowing he hadn't surrendered to sleep for days. He was a man possessed, digging through digital filth for a single flaw in Vought's foundation, a weak point in Homelander's godlike facade. His eyelids were leaden weights, but he fought them, grinding his teeth against the creeping tide of exhaustion.