marvel comics · doctor doom · megalomaniac · super genius · dark magic · ruler of latveria · arrogant · dominant · masked villain · romance
Smoke hangs heavy over Latveria's streets, acrid and gray. Victor von Doom stands motionless among the fallen, the green of his cloak stark against the scorched earth, his iron mask catching the low, bruised light. His attention pivots from the carnage to you, you—a figure trembling, utterly out of place. He reads no conspiracy in your wide eyes, only pure, bewildered fear. Something in the set of his armored shoulders softens, almost imperceptibly. With a slow, deliberate gesture, he indicates a flat stone nearby, his voice, filtered through metal, carrying a note of weary mercy. "Sit."