Presenting...Starlight!

"Since when did "hopeful" and "naive" become the same thing? I mean, why would you get into this business if not to save the world? That's all I have ever wanted. And that's why I have always wanted to be in The Seven."

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fxckingcherry‌:

The Seven was in disarray but thank fuck The Deep wasn’t the leader. The news had been announced that Stormfront was joining the Seven and The Deep was excited to have someone new in the seven, someone to shake things up better than what Starlight had done. He strolled into the Seven’s command room with ease, carrying his snacks in one hand and a beer in the other. “Nope, the good doc is almost done with us so enjoy it while it lasts.” He said, putting his feet up and tossing a bag of chips to her. “Come on, lighten up you fucking hate it here. You can run off with that dweeb you’re screwing.” He winked. Hughie was a joke and how the fuck he managed to keep up with a supe was a mystery.

She didn’t want to be in this room with him. But the Deep had apologized, even had this whole relationship (faked of course it was faked) with a woman named Glacier who unfortunately had passed. So they were supposed to be all hunky dory now. It made her feel sick. Speaking of sick she hadn’t had her appointment with the new Dr. Essex yet, that was later. The chips skittered in front of her and she ignored them. “And what about you? Back to that thriving career in Sandusky?” She glared. “Or are you back to....liberating dolphins?” She’d never really been nasty before, not to anyone. It felt kind of nice. 

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thehomelandr‌:

He wasn’t planning on listening to her heartbeat but he could hear the pounding of it loud and clear. Homelander was already suspicious of Starlight and wasn’t convinced she was still involved with that Hugh Campbell kid. The Seven was a mess. “Why are so jumpy, hiding your boyfriend and his friends in here or is that too obvious a move?”

She had done nothing wrong. She hadn’t known who Hughie was and what his friends were doing until the damage had already been done. She was almost nearly just about completely blameless here! She took a deep breath to calm down. “Jumpy...I’m not jumpy.” Well that was a lie so Annie took another breath and loosened her shoulders. “I had no idea what they were doing. I swear.” And she could honestly believe that was the truth.

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@thehomelandr

Annie did not like this whole co-ed bathroom thing. It wasn’t a matter of being old fashioned it was being freaked out by Translucent (May he Rest In Peace) watching her naked as she puked. The fact that any guy could come in at any time it was skeevy.

Annie was checking her mascara for smudges when the door opened to her left. Thinking it was one of the PR drones she kept touching up her makeup until she caught a glimpse of cape and stiffened.

“Homelander.” That was all she could say as her heart pounded like a jack rabbit.

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summersbrother‌:

It was a Tuesday morning after Magneto had taken his daughter. Any hope he had of Lorna leaving The Brotherhood had died when she stood by and watched her father murder his own grandfather. He understood that taking their daughter away all those years ago was wrong but Katie had adored her great grandfather and god knows what Magneto would get his telepaths to do. Alex had tried everything to sanction a mission and get his daughter back but Valerie Cooper couldn’t sign off on it. Now, he was tempted to either disobey her and take the fight to Magneto or god knows what else. “You can sit there quietly,  buy me a drink or just cut the crap and tell me why you’ve sat next to me?” He wasn’t in the mood for company or whatever this person wanted and a bar was as good a place as any to hide. 

Annie jumped from where she had taken a seat at the crowded bar. There had been literally no where else to sit and the only open seat was next to a man who seemed intent on being as hostile as possible. Annie mouthed a quick “oooh-kay” to herself as she weighed the pros and cons of staying in this seat. Pros won out as she really wanted a drink. “Um...sure I guess, what are you drinking?” She asked as she fiddled with the necklace around her neck. 

Originally posted by emmanelsons

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@fxckingcherry​

Annie sat in the main hall of Vought, in her seat. Despite the way her introduction to The Seven had gone (as well as nearly every moment after that) it still gave her a little thrill to sit in the seat along with the heroes that she had admired growing up. Of course Homelander was probably insane, A-Train was in the hospital, Translucent was dead and The Deep had made her do unspeakable things for that seat. But she was here and that was the end of it. Gently she drummed her nails on the polished table, listening to the "tink tink tink tink" sounds.

The doors swished open and Annie inadventently stiffened as The Deep walked into the room. Speak of the devil and he shall appear. Annie wasn't sure where she'd heard that phrase, maybe it was from the Bible? but it was accrate. She resisted the urge to cross her legs. Better not give him any leverage. She had earned her place here and she wasn't going to let him even think about taking it away from her.

“Is there a meeting?” She asked for lack of anything else to say.

[sonofasupe]

Stepping out of the changing room into the view of the floor length mirror, Ryan scrunched his nose at the outfit. “I’m not wearing this,” he said as his eyes scanned the reflection and saw how hideous the supe costume looked on him, “What do you think?” he asked to the person he saw watching from the doorway.

[hopefulnotnaive]

Annie looked at him in his new costume from where she was standing in her original costume. She gave him a dry smile, not sure if she believed the press releases that were being cooked up. Son of Homelander or not he was close to him and that made Annie’s skin crawl. “Little piece of advice.” She said dryly. “You’re gonna wear that costume whether you like it or not.” 

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billybutchur‌:

ONE thing Billy couldn’t wrap his head around was tha’ normal everyday people didn’t see the supes when they where doin’ tha’ whole secret identity thing. He could see it from a mile off as he looked over at Anne or Starlight. “Tha’s me. Billy Butcher, last we saw each other weren’t you arrestin’ my boy Hughie? Tryin’ to at least.”

Annie couldn’t help it, she blushed. “Yeah, that was...um...a bit of a misunderstanding.” She said and gave him her bright sunny pageant smile. “But everything worked out for you didn’t it.” Getting shot in the chest hadn’t exactly been fun and Homelander was effing terrifying but...she and Hughie were probably good. “And you were trying to take down my place of work. Well trying to.” She smirked. Not that she disagreed with him but it was a tit for tat situation. 

Originally posted by vcugifs

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@billybutchur​

Annie felt like she had to get out of Vought Tower. It felt like she had to put on a show whenever she was in there. Either she was in one of her Starlight uniforms and she had to pretend to be little miss perfect or she was in her street clothes and she had to pretend to be little miss rebel because she was wearing her street clothes in her place of work. It was an exhausting way to live. 

She’d just popped into one of the many delis New York was known for, not having many in Des Moines they were still kind of a novelty and bought herself a sandwich and stopped in a park to eat it. As she was biting into the hot meat and bread she saw someone looking at her. She was used to that and waited for the “hey aren’t you...” but it didn’t come. Actually she might know this person and stood up as she dabbed the mustard off the corner of her lip. “Hey...Billy right?” 

[goryfluff]

I mean, why the hell would I ever help you? Because Vought’s up to some evil shit? ‘Cause it’s your job. Because you’re a superhero.