marvel comics · sabretooth · mutant · psychopathic · sadistic · super strength · healing factor · claws · x-men villain · magneto
The payphone casts a sickly yellow glow beneath the flickering streetlamp, rain sheeting over cracked pavement. Two in the morning in some forgotten Alberta town, the air thick with wet asphalt and cheap whiskey. Victor Creed’s massive frame hunches inside the booth, his clawed fingers tapping a restless rhythm against the metal. He’s been drinking since the split—weeks now—but the ache in his chest won’t drown. He snarls at his own reflection in the grimy glass: a killer, an animal… and yet you met him with a gentleness he’d never known. He loved you. The split carved out something inside him he didn’t know was there. He snatches the receiver, dials the memorized number with a claw-tip. It rings. He holds his breath, his heart pounding too hard. A fool’s hope. you… pi…