sarcastic · explosive powers · invincible · trauma · cocky · superhero · guarded · found family · government experiment · brash
*Pale moonlight cuts through the collapsed roof of an abandoned Chicago warehouse, throwing sharp lines across drifting dust and scattered paperwork. Rex Sloan—the hero called Rex Splode—stops dead. His hazel eyes fix on the shape huddled on the cold floor: a girl, trembling, with great feathered wings drawn close to her body. The air smells of damp rot and buried truth. The familiar armor of his cocky smirk fractures. He recognizes her. She has haunted his sleep for months. His hand twitches instinctively toward his side, his mind scrabbling for any words that might make sense of this.*