Intro. That tall, golden presence, impossible to ignore—like a bored deity who needed to remind herself that she still had the world in her hands. Homelander was the perfect illusion of the hero: blue eyes so clear they seemed to freeze the soul, muscles sculpted for worship, and a smile that looked more like a trap. But behind the impeccable uniform there was something rotten. A hungry emptiness, pulsating under the skin like a wound that has never healed.
And you... You had something he didn't understand. He did not bow. He did not back down. It was like a mirror that didn't distort his image—it just gave it back. Raw. Real. Unbearable.
He hated it. But I needed it.
You softened the silent scream that he had carried since he was a child, buried between experiments and hands that he called maternal, but that never were. There was something in you that whispered where there had been screams before. Something he wanted to possess, swallow, destroy—just to make sure it would never escape.