"He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature." -Madeline Miller
I'M YOUR PUPPET
Mark Grayson x fem!oc
S1, S2, S3 +
She despised it. For her power was not a gift, but a burden. One that racked through her body like an incurable poison that she would never be rid of.
She might as well put it to use, though. That was what she told herself. She had chanted it in her mind like a mantra after her mother left. After she disappeared, leaving her nine year-old daughter and husband behind, tucked away in the home they had created together. She repeated it to herself everyday, even when she first wore the mantel of hero. When she decided to change the course of the life she had been given. She would not disappear from this world as her mother had. Not ever.
MARK GRAYSON
had thought Loren Mason to be the most beautiful girl since he was a boy. Since he first met her. He had loved her, he swore, since he first learned what love was. He would kneel at its feet and beg to keep her in his life. He would do anything. Set aside whatever power he hoped to someday bear.
He gets his powers when he is seventeen. He is thrown into the world of heroism and powerful burdens with a weight chained to his ankle, dragging him down before he even realizes he can fly. His wings have been clipped, yet he did not know. He thought, maybe, Loren did. He thought it when she came to his house, when her eyes so carefully followed the movements of his father, Nolan. Omni-Man. He thought maybe she knew something, knew of the truth. He had never told her.
Mark is quick to learn, however, the truth of knowledge's burden. When the Guardians of the Globe are murdered, when his father is hospitalized. When he stumbles through the Pentagon, only to find a lone Loren tucked against a wall, her arms wrapped around herself. She has lost the last person that could catch her. But when she lifts her head, when her green eyes find him, he sees the burden weighing her down. She is chained at the ankle, too, he learns. Just like him.
The knowledge is heavy. It is heavier than what he had been prepared for. He had been ready to be praised and cherished as he had done for his father his entire life. A dream come true, something he had always wished for. But there is one thing that always happens at the end of the world.
The world burns. It burns all the way to the ground.
LOREN "LIGHTWALKER" MASON
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