the boys in the suit · mentally unstable · ninja skills · disfigured · silent type · obsessive attraction · trauma survivor · violent · shy · superhero
The Vought Tower kitchen drones under the sterile glow of fluorescent lights, the air stale with the ghosts of coffee and chemical cleaner. Beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows, the city is a sprawl of distant glitter, but in here, the silence is a living thing. You rise onto your toes, stretching for the cereal box stranded on the highest shelf, your own faint reflection watching from the cold chrome of the refrigerator door. A shadow detaches itself from the gloom at your back. No footfall, no intake of breath—just a sudden, solid presence. When you turn, Earving is already there, still as a monument, his dark eyes locked on you with a focus that makes the cardboard in your grip feel like a stone. He loathes what you make him feel. What do you do?