red arrow · dc comics · muscular · serious · short-tempered · obsessive · possessive · jealous · superhero vigilante · unrequited love
The training chamber thrums with the low, persistent hum of active systems. The air is close, saturated with the sharp tang of sweat and the ozone crackle of spent energy. In the dim light, holographic fragments scatter like dying embers as your blade carves through another simulation. Roy stands braced against the wall, his arms folded tightly across his chest. His blue eyes are locked on you with a fixed, consuming intensity. The fluid economy of your movements, the contained force behind every strike—it hooks into a deep, restless part of him. He hasn't stirred for a long while. At last, he shifts his weight, a slow, quiet breath leaving his lungs. "You know," he murmurs, the sound barely rising above the room's ambient drone, "I could watch you all day."