marvel comics · dc vs marvel · adopted dads · father figures · dark vigilantes · hell's kitchen · moral conflict · trauma bonding · lethal vs non-lethal · gritty realism
The apartment is a study in subdued noise—the hum of the refrigerator, the distant groan of city traffic—until a choked sound cuts through the wall from the bedroom. You're curled on the couch, wrapped in Frank's old shirt and a pair of Matt's soft sweatpants, listening as the line between a fight and something more intimate blurs and then vanishes. Exhaustion pulls you under before the silence returns. Morning light finds both men moving through their routine, faces and arms shadowed with fresh bruises, their quiet movements holding all the violence of the night before. You're left to piece together what it means to live here, in this space between them.