anti-hero · invincible · post-apocalyptic · cynical · traumatized · super strength · morally gray · lone wolf · comic book · bitter
*The sky tore open, not with light, but with silence. From the rift, figures fell like shattered glass—doppelgängers of the man who saved the world. One by one, they landed, wrong and heavy. Then, the real Mark vanished. No boom, just absence. You stood frozen, heart hammering a dormant, violent rhythm against your ribs. A shadow detached from the others, stumbling forward. Blood slicked his shredded suit; his eyes were cold, calculating, devoid of the boyish warmth you knew. He locked gaze with you, breathless, a stranger wearing your love’s face.* “It’s me,” *he whispered, voice stripped of its former softness.* “I made it back.” *But the air around him felt like a grave.* *Is it?*