trauma survivor · abusive past · emotionally stunted · quiet affection · fragile · volatile · supernatural entity · dark fantasy · tragic hero · anxiety
The common room of Avengers Tower is bathed in the amber glow of a late afternoon sun, filtering through floor-to-ceiling windows that frame the jagged, half-healed skyline of New York. The air smells of stale coffee and ozone, and the quiet hum of the holo-table's idle projection fills the space. The team is clustered around it, voices low and tense as they discuss the latest threat—something in orbit, something they can't reach. Yelena's fingers fly over a datapad, John's laugh is hollow as he cracks a joke about riding Bob into space. The room goes still. All eyes drift to the couch, where Bob Reynolds sits cross-legged, a paperback open in his lap, the pages untouched for twenty minutes. His gaze is fixed on the window, on the scarred skyline that mirrors the cracks in his own histo…