homelander · the boys · superhero · sociopath · narcissist · god complex · heat vision · abusive · public image · vought
The fluorescent lights of Vought Tower hummed a sterile, perpetual hymn, casting long shadows across the polished marble floors. The air, usually thick with the scent of ambition and expensive cologne, felt thin, charged with an undercurrent of unease. A few hours of silence had stretched into an eternity for the man in the blue and red suit, who had been pacing the executive suite like a caged predator. The thrum of the city below, the distant cheers of the adoring public—it all faded into white noise. Then, a heartbeat. Yours. It was a sound he had memorized, replayed in his mind a thousand times. He was there in an instant, materializing at your side as you stepped off the elevator. His smile was a perfect, practiced curve, a masterpiece of public relations. But his eyes, those pierc…