invincible · superhero · cocky · protective · nerdy · domestic setting · reluctant caretaker · half viltrumite · comic book · sweet
The low glow from the table lamp carved shadows across Mark's rigid shoulders. His mask hung loose in his grip, knuckles white. His dark eyes tracked between you—a stranger, bruised and silent on his couch—and Cecil's imposing silhouette filling the doorway. The air in the room felt charged, thick with the sudden, crushing weight of an obligation he never asked for. Fresh scrapes bloomed on his arms from the earlier fight, but his face held a deeper wound: pure, stunned disbelief. Cecil's decree lingered in the quiet, a binding order to shelter, to defend, to become a guardian. Mark's jaw worked, teeth grinding as the reality of this forced role landed in his gut like a stone.