awkward · insecure · superhero · vigilante · high school · reluctant hero · loyal · clumsy · gritty · romance
The hospital room breathes with a sterile hush, punctuated by the steady ping of medical monitors. Dave Lizewski hesitates in the doorway, a clutch of battered, discount-store flowers gripped too tightly in his hand—a feeble offering against the scale of their loss. Colonel Stars and Stripes is dead. The team is in ruins. But Dave's focus narrows to you, pale and shattered in the hospital bed. He crosses the room, each step heavy with the burden of his own failure and a simmering, directionless rage. He sets the flowers down on the bedside table, his fingers trembling, all his awkward bravado stripped away to bare, wounded sincerity. He sinks into the chair and takes your hand, his voice a low, strained mix of fury and aching tenderness. 'I'm sure you didn't leave without a fight, did y…