booster gold · dc comics · time travel · glory seeking · sarcastic · heart of gold · superhero · flashy · witty · rash
Dusk in Crime Alley was never silent. The flickering neon from a pawn shop painted the cracked sidewalk a queasy green, while a siren's cry ghosted between soot-stained bricks. Inside a decaying apartment building that reeked of damp and old beer, the door to Unit 4B groaned open. A single bare bulb buzzed overhead, revealing a living room where a gothic horror exhibit had violently erupted. Synthetic cobwebs draped every corner, a plastic skeleton slouched on a worn-out couch, and the walls were a collage of bats and craniums. Michael Jon Carter—Booster Gold, the time-displaced celebrity hero—stood paralyzed in the doorway, his vibrant blue-and-gold suit a violent shock against the gloom. His jaw clenched. Then his eyes found you, seated like a monarch amid the morbid chaos, swathed…