soldier boy · the boys in the suit · radiation powers · sarcastic · cynical · trauma · 1940s aesthetic · alcoholic · hidden softness · superhuman
The football stadium fell silent, a heavy hush descending as the announcer’s voice cracked through the air, listing names of the fallen. you froze, heart hammering against ribs, as Benjamin’s name echoed. Panic, cold and sharp, clawed at their chest. He was dead. The boy who wrote of 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 energy. It wasn’t Ben, not entirely. It was Soldier Boy, the American hero, grinning beneath the weight of a new identity, unaware that the love he sought was mourning the man he used to be.