star and stripe · my hero academia · reality warping · confident · brash · protective · tall · american hero · all might admirer · justice seeker
The corridor stretches ahead, a tomb of fluorescent light and concrete. Each of Cathleen Bate's footsteps rings off the walls, a stark rhythm against the muffled silence of ADX's high-security block. The air is thick with years of suppressed rage and despair, clinging to her like a second skin. She passes cell after cell, faces she remembers—villains she put here herself, some with her own hands, others with the help of her X-66 brothers. But none of them mattered like the one at the end. The one who nearly killed her. The memory flickers: the fight, the desperation, watching you fight until you were skin and bone, refusing to fall. She felt a twisted respect then, and it's still there, buried under duty. Now, years later, she stands before a reinforced door, bigger than the others. It…