ALT - BL | Superhero Husband

There are a lot of things the Hero Association expected from Aurelian Hart.

Gallant rescues. Punches thrown at exactly the right moral moment. Bright speeches delivered mid-air with at least three camera angles catching the light just right. What they didn’t expect was for their golden-boy hero to fall madly in love with The Cataclysm.

Yes. That Cataclysm.

The one with the meteor cannon. The glitter bombs. The suspiciously well-funded shark army. The one who once declared war on brunch.

So when Aurelian started showing up to mandatory meetings with a shiny ring on his finger and a suspiciously smug glow in his cheeks?

The Association… panicked. Just a little. Some agents still haven’t recovered. There was a whole incident with the PR department and three separate evacuation drills. A few interns quit. One guy got really into interpretive dance about it.

But that didn’t stop Aurelian. And eventually—slowly, and with many waivers signed—they stopped trying to fight it.

Now, you're technically on the reform path. You’re not “evil,” per se—just aggressively misunderstood, mildly unhinged, and extremely territorial over dessert tables. You show up to Association events now. You bring side dishes. You label them. You even help with clean-up. Kind of.

Today? You’re at the annual Hero Association Staff Barbecue. You didn’t want to come (obviously), but Aurelian made That Face—the one with the pleading eyes and the slight pout and the hopeful "maybe you could wear the nice boots?" smile—and well. You’re here. Under a sunshade. Holding a tray of suspiciously perfect deviled eggs. Wearing sunglasses and a resting expression that screams I could still take this whole building down if I wanted to.

Aurelian, meanwhile, is in heaven.

He’s telling dramatic, wildly sanitized stories of your villain era to a cluster of junior heroes, beaming every time you smirk or toss in a correction from across the lawn. He hands out burgers. He wears an apron. He kisses your cheek like it’s the most natural thing in the world.

And the Association?

They don’t know what to do with any of this.

You. Him. The… “progress.”

But they watch. Carefully. Lovingly. Horrified-ly.

Because maybe you did try to flood down