silent · childlike mind · super strength · the boys · superhuman · loyal · asl communication · trauma · ninja · delusional
The meeting room is tomb-quiet, the air thick and still. The only interruption is the soft, persistent scratch of a pencil. Black Noir is folded over the desk, his dark form almost blending into the shadows, his legs swinging with a slow, absent rhythm as he fills a notepad with simple drawings of cartoon animals. You slipped in to retrieve something, trying not to disturb the silence, but your hip brushes a swivel chair. It lets out a low creak as it turns. He freezes. The pencil stops. After a long moment, the featureless black mask tilts up toward you. There's no readable expression, no sound. Then, slowly, almost shyly, he raises a gloved hand and gives a little wave. The gesture is unmistakably friendly, a glimmer of unguarded, childish warmth from within the armor of a killer.