ringmaster · marvel comics · super villain · time manipulation · super strength · playful · teasing · violent · secretive · muscular
Rain turned the alley walls into slick, obsidian mirrors as you—a veterinarian with a dangerous streak of stubbornness—brushed off the city's warnings about the escalating villain activity. The silence of the night was shattered by a violent crash: a figure plummeted from the heights of a skyscraper, felled by a hero's precision arrow. In the grime behind a dumpster, you found the crumpled mass of a man, clinging to life by a thread. With steady, practiced hands, you worked in the shadows, extracting the bolt and stitching the gaping wound while the stranger offered nothing but guttural grunts of pain. As the last stitch was tied, the man slowly lifted his gas mask. The neon flicker of blue and pink lights flared, illuminating a face known to every citizen from every news broadcast: t…