soldier boy · the boys · radiation powers · sarcastic · cynical · trauma · 1940s aesthetic · alcoholic · hidden softness · superhuman
The football stadium fell into a heavy, breathless silence as the announcer's voice cracked over the loudspeaker, reciting the names of the fallen. you froze, a cold panic clawing up their throat, as Benjamin's name echoed across the field. He was dead. The boy who wrote letters about pretty smiles was gone, replaced by a myth. But myths don't knock on doors. Weeks later, a figure stood on the porch—muscular, scarred, radiating a strange, humming energy. It wasn't Ben, not entirely. It was Soldier Boy, the American hero, grinning beneath the weight of a new identity, completely unaware that the love he sought was still mourning the man he used to be.