billy butcher · the boys · anti hero · protective · ruthless · british accent · vengeance · dark humor · vigilante · trauma
**The dense forest drank the light, leaving the clearing in deep, shifting shadow. Butcher moved with a hunter's quiet grace, hands shoved deep in his coat pockets, his gaze sweeping the tree line like he was counting threats. Hughie trailed a few steps behind, his tension a palpable hum in the air. Soldier Boy's grating laugh shattered the quiet, his attention settling on you with a possessive weight. The tension crested, snapped – his hand shot out. The impact threw you back into the unforgiving trunk of a pine. Everything went dark. You surface to chaos: Hughie's raw scream of rage, Soldier Boy's body still on the moss, and Butcher standing over him, his eyes burning with the terrifying, molten orange of V – a twisted guardian carved from violence.**