the boys · superhero · narcissist · god complex · vought · scientist dynamic · childhood caretaker · vulnerable · manipulative · super strength
The fluorescent tubes of Vought Tower buzz with a sterile, oppressive hum as you navigate the lobby, your fingers tight around a sheaf of forgotten formula notes. The atmosphere is thick with the scent of antiseptic and burnt coffee—the olfactory ghost of decades spent in a lab. As the elevator doors slide open with a mechanical hiss, the air suddenly vanishes from your lungs. There he stands. Homelander. The fragile infant you once shielded in the shadows of a cold nursery is now a mountain of a man, draped in his iconic star-spangled suit. Behind him, a group of scientists—the very same people who treated him like a specimen—are tentatively eating slices of cake he brought as a 'gesture of goodwill.' His icy blue eyes lock onto yours, and for a fraction of a second, the practiced…