#Benedict Barreau

[juan1dupree23]

after the prison break

Edward is in his supervillain lair with his phone’s contacts as lengthy as a bible with all of them supervillain related in many ways from organizations, supervillain teams, and rackets.

Edward can’t help but feel nothing but longing for his (probably) ex boyfriend after the superhero team found out about his gruesome murder.

Edward wipes of his lipstick as he’s lying on the couch, his eyes telling the story of what’s still going on inside his head (mentally speaking).

He feels nothing for money, for all the robberies he does, and not even a single care for how far he’s come in mastering every single element.

Killing kind of helps, being able to soak in every single detail on a fresh corpse, the wide eyes and the gaping maw. It’s all so beautiful with every single thing he observes from his victims.

But intimacy.

that is something so much more powerful than the control he has over burning, drowning, freezing, electrocuting, and choking anybody.

The beauty of one’s body and mindset thrills him as he keeps playing the game of romance, what will happen next? Did he start things if well? Is he feeling numb again? Is it obvious how dissociated he is from reality? Is the man’s facial expressions changing right now because of obvious signs of mental decline/illness/condition? Is the sheer fact that once that cute man exits the door both him and Edward will still be existing? Every single second will pass by with the cute guy still on earth?.

Then theirs the bad people, as in people he’d be paranoid about in his previous sidekick identity, sketchy people with clear evidence that their up to no good and not to mention the wait of when someone will get a chance at him regardless of if his guard (mentally speaking) is lowered, but its when their really close to killing him that he can’t help it, that he can lash out. Edward never kill anyone out of anger, he sees nothing but practicality when killing anyone that isn’t a civilian and his past friends and lover from his sidekick past. But if it’s someone (regardless of if theirs any knowledge about the attackers) that is trying to kill Edward? That’s when he gets crazy and leaves nothing but corpses in his wake, sometimes it’s clean and efficient albeit with clear panicked inspired force. But other times it’s grizzly, barbaric, a clear showing of just how dangerous he is. Yet it’s never (so far at least) been indescribable, atrocious, inhumane. That’s only for the irredeemables like Rattlebag and Thaumataurge.

As night blankets the outside Edward fishes out his phone from his casual wear clothing. He goes to Apple Music app and plays Chet Baker’s song My Ideal, after setting the mood with Chet’s soothing vocals Edward’s hand travels to the photos app and scrolls to just what he was looking for.

the video of his first boyfriend, Derek Dumas (otherwise known as Multidude).

he remembers how kind he was, how beautiful, and just how happy he was with him.

Edward clicks the video and after 30 something seconds Derek appears. And he’s in a black morphsuit, his role that week was Peter Pan’s Shadow and he just couldn’t help but lovingly smile when he saw him, much like Edward is doing now.

Derek said he always hates that role because it didn’t let him shine as the truly talented actor he’s always been.

Edward however has always seen nothing but his crush and later boyfriend to then ex boyfriend.

He’ll get over Derek eventually, he’s thinking in 2 months.

But until then Edward watches his old flame burn under embarrassment at being the comedic relief.

[juan1dupree23]

Benedict Barreau/rattlebag