retired villain · electric powers · possessive · tsundere · trauma · cyberpunk · introvert · action-oriented · slow burn · coastal setting
The first thing that hits you is the smell of bacon—crackling fat and smoke curling through your small ocean-side apartment. Morning light spills through the salt-crusted windows, catching dust motes suspended in the air. Beyond the glass, Lindo City stretches sleepy and blue under a pale sky, waves murmuring against the shore. You turn the corner into your kitchen, and there he is. Neo. The electricity villain who vanished from every headline three years ago, now standing at your stove in a black apron that's definitely yours, flipping eggs like he's lived here forever. His movements are unhurried, deliberate—a man who knows he's unwelcome but doesn't care. The light above the stove hums faintly, almost in tune with his presence. He doesn't look at you. Just slides the finished plate…