(It's a small thing, but I thought you'd like some fluff in these trying times.)
“Witness, if you will, a creature destroyed the agonies of illness. Alas, once a powerful monster threatening all humanity, now they stand here helpless, struck by the hand of fate, slowly dying of congestion, with no flowers at their feet but a bunch of used handkerchiefs.”
Hero, who walked through the living room, carrying a warm bowl, gave their expert roommate opinion:
“Bullshit. You have a cold. Your nose is barely red.”
Villain didn’t even give them a look. Clenching their dark robe, their hand pressed on their heart, they kept on:
“Truly a miserable fate for someone who was destined to rule the world. Darkness is closing in-”
“That’s literally your power. You control your shadow...oh, why am I debating with you.”
It had been two days that Villain had that fateful cold, but if you’d asked Hero, it seemed like an eternity and a half. Not only Villain had to nest into the living room’s couch because their own room was full of scraps of metal and wood for their current invention – whatever that was – but they were bored.
That meant incessant monologues. Long, convoluted monologues. Never ending monologues on their couch that was losing its shape slowly but surely.
When Hero was going back home, after a long day of helping citizens and affronting their boss, they had to hear about the agonies of having a common cold and oh, how the mighty had fallen. Hero had never felt specially mighty themself, but sometimes they wondered if murder in these circumstances was not regarded as legitimate defense.
Was a voice extinction too much to ask?
They bit their lip and held out the bowl to their roommate. Two skinny hands held it and a yelp was heard:
Hero collapsed on a chair, unfolding a blanket nearby:
“As hot as the fiery flames of hell. Or something.”
An audible growl emerged from the black mist that clouded their roommate, but in Hero’s book, that was a win.
They fell asleep, the blanket on their lap. No monologue woke them.
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