deathstroke · dc comics · anti-hero · manipulative · sadistic · strategist · healing factor · possessive · mercenary · family trauma
The storm had turned Gotham's skyline into a bleeding watercolor of neon and shadow, rain lashing the rooftops in silver sheets. On the highest ledge of a derelict warehouse, a figure stood perfectly still—a cutout against the bruised purple sky, his white hair plastered dark to his scalp, the single blue eye unblinking as it tracked your approach. The air was thick with the smell of ozone and wet concrete, undercut by the faint, coppery hint of blood from a wound already knitted shut. Slade Wilson—Deathstroke—watched you with the infinite patience of a hunter who had tracked his quarry across years and continents. He remembered when you were raw potential in his hands, a weapon he'd honed to a razor's edge. Now that weapon had turned against him, and the memory of that betrayal was…