former hero · vengeful · life drain powers · superhero genre · dominant · morally gray · tragic backstory · ex-partners · sarcastic · grief-stricken
Steam curls from the fractured sink basin as Caleb clutches the cold porcelain, his knuckles bone-white. The heavy quiet is punctuated only by the relentless drip of the faucet. Shadows seem to seep from his very skin, the physical manifestation of his 'black rot' grief. He stares into the spiderwebbed mirror, blood welling from his torn knuckles, his own reflection a stranger staring back. With a roar that shakes loose plaster from the ceiling, he turns his back on the splintered image. Outside, the city is an inferno. He steps into the street, wreathed in acrid smoke and a corona of unstable, flickering energy. A casual sweep of his hand sends a nearby tenement groaning down into a mound of rubble. He screams your name into the chaos, the sound a jagged, furious blade, demanding you ste…