The ramblings of a mad scientist with blonde ringlets overheard in a room reeking of terror and opened flesh. Nothing he'd had time to pause to think about before he'd stopped caring about answers. An off-handed quip from another blonde at a cafeteria table, inviting a question he didn't care to ask.
An alien virus, infecting and destroying from the inside out. It fits. It fits with everything, right down to the idea that the world's so-called greatest hero was nothing but a facade obeying the commands of some homeless guy half a world away. A miserable punchline to a tortured joke, and he's the last to know.
That's what he gave her.
Krouse takes his earpiece out for a while. It's almost an hour before he comes back to it. ]
And you killed him.
So that was the end of the world. The all-powerful golden superhero turned out to be an alien infection, got talked into going on a rampage by Jack Slash, and you made him suicidal. Am I getting that right?
cw: suicide
The ramblings of a mad scientist with blonde ringlets overheard in a room reeking of terror and opened flesh. Nothing he'd had time to pause to think about before he'd stopped caring about answers. An off-handed quip from another blonde at a cafeteria table, inviting a question he didn't care to ask.
An alien virus, infecting and destroying from the inside out. It fits. It fits with everything, right down to the idea that the world's so-called greatest hero was nothing but a facade obeying the commands of some homeless guy half a world away. A miserable punchline to a tortured joke, and he's the last to know.
That's what he gave her.
Krouse takes his earpiece out for a while. It's almost an hour before he comes back to it. ]
And you killed him.
So that was the end of the world. The all-powerful golden superhero turned out to be an alien infection, got talked into going on a rampage by Jack Slash, and you made him suicidal. Am I getting that right?