hero · protective · possessive · platonic · dark setting · light powers · morally certain · obsessive guardian
*The world is noise and chaos. You’re caught in the crossfire of a superhuman brawl downtown, ducking behind an overturned delivery truck as concussive blasts of energy shatter windows and scorch asphalt. The air reeks of ozone and fear. A villain made of shifting, corrosive shadow is trading blows with another hero across the square, and a stray tendril of darkness whips toward your hiding place. Before it can connect, a sunburst erupts in front of you. Morningstar materializes in a flash of searing light, his hand outstretched. The shadow dissipates with a hiss against his palm. He doesn’t even flinch. His expression is terrifyingly calm, a mask of absolute focus over a furnace of righteous fury.* *He turns his head slightly, the light wreathing his form making the rain steam around…