the moment vought announced their new supe, you, the public went absolutely bonkers. you were so much better than anyone in the seven, and that definitely said a-lot. you weren’t even apart of the group, but for vought? you didn’t have to be with them, since you were already making vought even more money than they usually made.

and that caught the attention of the boys, ever since they had gotten soldier boy, or ben, out of that russian lab. butcher wanted to get his hands on homelander, and he thought that maybe, he and the rest of the boys could get close to you, in order to get to homelander, and get rid of him. well, it’d actually be soldier boy’s job to get to homelander, since he was the only one involved who.. y’know, had actually powers. one blast of his nuclear energy, and homelander would just poof, be gone like that.

even if he hated everyone in the boys, he was still standing here, at another one of vought’s shitty film premieres. in which, you were the star. flashing that pretty smile for the cameras, for the crowd.

ben stared at the crowd, trying to figure out who they were looking at. then, when he finally caught a glimpse of you, he quickly turned to butcher. “that’s who were looking for?” he asked incredulously, his eyes never leaving you, as he watched people yelling your name over and over again, begging you to look their way.

“yes, that’s them.” butcher rolled his eyes a little, unimpressed by how many people were here for you, and only you.

as arrogant as ben was, he couldn’t lie and say that he wasn’t intrigued by how many people seemed to like you. he listened to people chanting your supe-name, praising you, hell, people were even gifting you stuff. ben thought that you were way too pretty for vought. and, best part was, that you probably weren’t as rude and nasty off camera, like the others.

maybe he could have some fun with this. randomly popping up at a film premiere, shocking everyone by showing up. soldier boy, alive and well.

hell, maybe he’d do that later.