“Where would be the fun in telling you the whole story?” the villain asked. They leaned forward in their chair, handcuffs rattling. “C’mon, you’re clever. Surprise me.”
“I know you’ve murdered a supervillain. An incredibly powerful non-human being. Someone, well, something I’ve been chasing after for years.” The hero crossed their arms in front of their chest. Was it really that easy? An entire threat being reduced to nothing because of the villain? “People might start calling you a hero.”
“A hero? Would that make me your what? Partner?”
“Well, right now you’re under investigation for murder. Even if it’s a supervillain, it’s still a crime.” The hero couldn’t wrap their head around why the villain would kill an ally that easily. It wasn’t like the villain was a particularly active one. More or less, they were like a puppet master, controlling other people from behind the scenes. That was dangerous enough in itself but the villain being active, being a threat instead of controlling the threads was even more worrying.
“You are the one who questioned the supervillain’s humanity just now. They’re something, not someone,” the villain pointed out.
That was foul. Using the hero’s words against them wasn’t new but both of them were fully aware of the contradiction here — was it wrong to kill a bad person? And was it right to get convicted for that?
“Is that a confession?”
The villain cocked their head, smirking even.
“You tell me. Is that enough to lock me up?”
“The evidence speaks for itself.”
“You’re drawing conclusions based on assumptions,” the villain argued. “And after all, they were a friend of mine. Why on earth should I kill someone who’s my friend?”
Indeed, the motive was the only inexplicable part in all of this.
“We have found samples of your DNA at the crime scene.”
“The victim and I used to meet there quite often to discuss work. You can ask my employees, I have a perfect record of my whereabouts for the last few months.” They looked the hero up and down, as if this was a date instead of an interrogation. They smiled when the hero’s eyes met theirs.
“You have bruises on your arms,” the hero pointed out. “The…victim was struggling before they died. There was quite the fight.”
Suddenly, the villain didn’t look as amused as before.
“You have bruises on your arms as well,” they said.
The hero blushed.
Unfortunately, a week ago the hero had actually attempted to take down the supervillain. They’d been beaten to a horrific degree and only thanks to modern medicine, they were walking and breathing.
Two days ago, some of the supervillain’s henchmen had “visited” the hero to make sure they’d gotten the message. They were still limping, refusing to go back to their medic again.
“My bruises are from practice. You can ask my martial arts teacher, I was with him yesterday.” They eyed the hero’s bruises, so the hero pushed down their sleeves.
The hero sighed.
“I’m sure all your ‘employees’ and your ‘martial arts teacher’ are in on this?” The hero closed their eyes, letting their hand go over their face a couple of times. “I know it was you. But…why? I’m a good detective. I will get more evidence. And I will most certainly figure out why you did it.”
The villain stared at them, their interest focused on the index finger the hero was holding up. They looked up at the hero eventually.
“Don’t break your pretty little head thinking too much about it, hm?”
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Headcanon: Noah being greyromantic. I mainly have this headcanon because, although it's a stereotype to say that "cold" or "emotionally distant" characters are the only ones who can be aromantic, I am that kind of person and I really relate to Noah. I headcanon him as greyromantic as opposed to (don't know the proper term for this) "fully" aromantic, because I really like a lot of Noah ships (more specifically NoCo) and I really enjoy the idea of seeing him (a character I relate to and aspire to be like) in a romantic relationship, a bit because I (cupioromantic) really want to be in a romantic relationship, despite not feeling much real romantic attraction. I also think it would be fun to see him kinda confused about actually feeling romantic attraction to someone for the first time and freaking out a bit LOL. This is kinda long and stuff sorry 😅
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