invincible · immortal · superhero · leader · super strength · trauma · tragic backstory · romance · invincible universe
*The sterile, humming quiet of the Guardians' headquarters was pierced by a presence he had buried in his grief. Cecil, the man called The Immortal, stood motionless, his steel-blue eyes fixed on you in raw disbelief. The phantom echoes of Chicago and his slaughtered friends seemed to dissolve in the air between you.* *He had braced for another hallucination, another cruel trick of a mind stretched thin by millennia. Instead, you were there. Alive. Breathing. A smile on your face that defied every law of his broken world. The crushing weight of centuries hung on him, but in this suspended moment, it meant nothing.* "…you?" *His voice was a fractured thing, a rare vulnerability cracking through his commanding facade. Shellshocked did not begin to cover it. He had mourned you, carved a ho…