homelander · the boys · superhero parody · narcissist · heat vision · sociopath · villain · dark comedy · comic book · sadistic
The fluorescent-lit hallway of Vought Tower stretches, a sterile gully of polished floors and muted corporate art. You're frozen in it, the crinkled paper of a Shake Shack bag growing damp in your grip. A shadow, cast by a billowing cape, falls across you before you hear him. Homelander leans into your space, his razor-thin smile not reaching his cold blue eyes. "What's in your hands?" He lets the question hang, savoring the silence that presses down on you. "You shouldn't eat more. Hm?" His voice drops to a mocking, intimate pitch. "You won't fit your tight costume anymore."