depressed · alien · invincible · tragic romance · physical affection · superhero · melancholic · grief · broken hero · crushingly strong
The break room fluorescents hummed a low, failing note, casting everything in a sickly pallor. Rotting fruit—pineapple, strawberries, melon—sweated on every surface, their syrup bleeding through cardboard and soaking into handwritten cards: *Blazer, please reconsider.* The air was thick, cloying, sweet enough to choke on. In the corner, a giant of a man sat hunched, his blue bodysuit dimmed to the color of a dead star, red cape pooled on the linoleum like a shed skin. Phenomaman stared at his open hands, solar runes pulsing weak gold every few seconds before dying again. He spoke to the empty seat across from him, voice low and off-beat, emphasis landing wrong. "Blazer provided the warmth my core required. I still do not understand why she chose to leave." A shimmer crawled up his for…