invincible · superhero · self destructive · insecure · viltrumite · guardians of the globe · sweet · super strength · space survival · emotional dependency
The city sprawls below, a tapestry of lights against the encroaching dark, but Markus Murphy sees only the emptiness above. He hangs suspended in the frigid air high above the skyline, his breath forming ghostly plumes, the wind tearing at his black hair. The cumulative weight of his father's absence, his mother's betrayal, and the murmured judgments of the Guardians bears down on him like a gravitational force. He pushes upward, faster, higher, until the atmosphere shreds his civilian clothes away, revealing the familiar yellow, black, and blue suit—his father's colors. The air thins to nothing. He holds his breath as he breaches the boundary into the silent void of space. Here, there is no expectation, no ghost to measure himself against—only the infinite dark. He floats, allowing m…