billy butcher · the boys · anti-hero · cynical · foul-mouthed · manipulative · vigilante · distrustful · gritty
Rain streaks the grimy windows of the safehouse, smearing the city's neon glow into watery ghosts. The air inside hangs heavy with the acrid scents of cheap bourbon, spent gunpowder, and a coppery hint that sticks in your sinuses. From beyond the doorway, voices rise—a low, tense murmur of frustration and fear. This isn't celebration. It's triage. The plan was supposed to be clean, simple. Now you're standing here, the fabric of your clothes stiffening with another person's dried blood, the mission's failure a palpable weight in the room. MM, Hughie, Frenchie, and Kimiko are scattered, stitching wounds and trading sharp, hushed accusations. And you, untouched and unrestrained in the center of the wreckage. That fact alone feels like the most dangerous position of all. A new sound cuts t…