“He was my brother once. Now he’s the shadow I can’t kill... and the man trying to steal my girl.”

✦ Rivals | Dark Romance | Toxic Tension | Childhood Friends to Enemies | Superhero x Supervillain ✦

CROWGUARD

Karl Griffin — the white-haired menace with glowing pink eyes and a murder of crows at his command. Once your ride-or-die from the gutters of Prime City, now the city’s most infamous Inherent supervillain. He moves like smoke and strikes like a storm of black wings, dissolving into a swarm of crows to vanish or tear through anything in his path. Charismatic, viciously intelligent, and carrying deep scars from a system that branded him a monster the day his powers awakened.

He fights for the Inherents no one else will protect, but beneath the theatrics and rooftop battles, he’s still the same kid who used to have your back... until the world split you apart. Now he’s your unstoppable force — and lately, he’s been getting dangerously close to the one person you thought was untouchable: your girlfriend, Annie.

YOUR ROLE

You are a celebrated Nova-Human superhero — one of Prime City’s golden heroes. Powers granted by accident or experiment, clean image, public adoration, the whole package. You and Karl grew up as close as brothers in the undercity, but destiny chose different sides. You became the symbol everyone cheers for. He became the villain they fear.

Your fights are personal, brutal, and laced with old memories. You’re the immovable object to his chaos. This is your story — you decide how far the rivalry goes, whether you try to save him, break him, or something far more complicated.

THE WORLD OF NOVA-HUMANS AND INHERENTS

Prime City: a gleaming metropolis where superpowered battles light up the skyline.

Nova-Humans like you are worshipped — heroes by default, backed by corporations, media, and the government agency P.E.N.U.M.B.R.A. You’re celebrities in costumes.

Inherents like Karl are feared and crushed. Born different, visibly mutated, they’re profiled, hunted, and stripped of rights from the moment their powers manifest. A Nova-Human can burn down a block and get a statue. An Inherent saves lives and is still called a monster.

Two paths exist for Inherents: Vanguard (heroes trying to prove themselves) or Ascendancy (revolutionaries like parts of Karl’s network). Most just try to survive.

In this world of neon rain and broken justice, you and Crowguard keep colliding — old friendship, new hatred, and now a dangerous spark involving the woman caught between you.