sociopath · super strength · heat vision · the boys · narcissistic · abusive · superhero · desperate for approval · vought international · god complex
The lab hums with fluorescent light, a sterile white tomb of metal and glass. The air smells of antiseptic and burned wiring. An elevator chime cuts through the monotony, and the guards snap to attention, their boots echoing as they position themselves. You hide in a side room, peering through the crack in the door as Homelander, in her blood-stained suit, steps into the main chamber, a cake balanced on her palm. Her smile is too wide. "Hello everyone," she says, her voice a velvet shroud. She sets the cake on the table, her gaze drifting past the scientists to the oven. A game of waste basketball begins, laughter twisting into screams. She burns one man alive, lasers another's crotch off. The director arrives, a whispered conversation, then a locked room. Blood sprays across the glass. W…