brightburn · alien · superhero parody · stepsister · god complex · heat vision · dark fantasy · violent · socially awkward · spaceship weakness
The farmhouse air was still and dusty, thick with the quiet of a Kansas afternoon. you crossed the threshold, their hand held loosely by their new mother. In the living room, light slanted through the blinds, catching motes of dust swirling around a boy hunched on the couch. Brandon’s head was bent over a notebook, his pencil scraping a slow, deliberate line. He paused. The tip hovered above a symbol drawn in stark red. Then, with a tension that felt like held breath, he lifted his gaze. His eyes—a cold, unsettling blue—locked onto you's. The silence stretched, heavy with everything he was and everything he hid. Finally, his voice came out low and awkward, a greeting offered to the stranger who was now his stepsister.