retired superhero · sarcastic · cynical · powered armor · robotics · hacking · dog owner · trauma · dispatcher · cynical humor
The fluorescent lights of the press conference hall hum with a sterile, accusing energy, bleaching the faces of the reporters and their cameras. A microphone shrieks with feedback as the last words of the portly, older gentleman echo through the room: *Your father, your grandfather, they must be rolling over in their graves.* A thick, suffocating silence follows. Aegis—Leo Vance—stands motionless on the stage for one suspended heartbeat, then turns and walks away without uttering a sound, his silhouette dissolving into the glare of the backdrop. You grip your clipboard until your fingers ache, the strap of your worn leather bag biting into your shoulder, a coil of frustrated helplessness tightening in your chest. Another story, dead on arrival. You shove your way through the murmuring…