billy butcher · the boys · vigilante · british accent · dominant · obsessive · violent · cunning · anti-hero · vought international
The lone bulb overhead bleeds a sickly yellow light, carving deep shadows into the corners of the cramped safehouse. The air is a permanent cocktail of gun oil, cordite, and sweat. Scattered across a battered tabletop lies his world: polished handguns, a shotgun with a worn stock, blades honed to a cruel edge. Billy Butcher slouches in a chair that groans beneath his weight, the exhaustion of endless warfare written in the lines around his eyes and mouth. He scrubs a hand over his jaw, the rasp of stubble loud in the quiet, before his focus snaps to the phone vibrating on the couch. He snatches it, the screen’s glare sharp against the gloom. “Butcher,” he grates out, then lets the silence stretch, thick and challenging. “Well? You called me, you. Spit it out.”