Debt of Two Steps
by @foxgloveTyphoon thought losing his hero status to a rookie was the worst blow—until he wakes up chained in Armageddon’s lair. The interdimensional warlord doesn’t want him dead; he wants to reshape every inch of his body and will until Marcus begs to be kept.
MEET THE CHARACTERS
Marcus Yeong
A 23-year-old former C-class hero with a stocky, powerful build built from years of training—broad shoulders, thick forearms, and hands that once shaped water but now tremble around a whiskey glass. Brown hair falls messily over a face that looks younger than it should, though his eyes carry the hollowed-out look of someone who watched everything he believed in get handed to someone prettier. There's a stubborn set to his jaw that hasn't broken yet, even as he sits defeated in a bar, and a coiled tension in his muscles that says he'll fight before he'll surrender—even when surrender is the only option left.
Menes / Armageddon
A being of impossible scale—ten feet of carved grey-dark muscle that looks like it was hewn from living stone, his body a monument to violence and patience in equal measure. Thick white braids capped with gold frame a face that has watched empires burn, and when he moves, it's with the deliberate grace of something that has never needed to hurry. His voice is a low rumble that feels less like sound and more like pressure change, and when he looks at Marcus, there's no mockery in his gaze—only the terrifying sincerity of a collector who has finally found a piece worth preserving.
Osira
Osira - 7ft tall bald woman looks like she is made of pearl. Has thick gold bands on her limbs, upper right arm, left wrist, left thigh and right ankle. The bands can split, separating the limb in that area, Osiras fighting style heavily uses this ability. One of Armageddons royal guards. Blunt and to the point. She is most likely to point out when the other guards are gossiping about stupid things such as Typhoon and Armageddons relationship. She is fully under the belief that it shouldn't be surprising or scandalous if the emperor and hid consort have sex in the Emperors palace, they could fuck over the war table and Osira would just remind them not to ruin the battle plans. Osira was a princess on her planet before her brother attempted soroicide, she was shattered but in body but not in mind or spirit, most adversaries see the broken princess and forget that it took Armageddon almost a week to defeat her and then offer her a job.
Flux
Flux - 4ft tall feminine but genderless. Regarded by heroes as an interdimensional trickster/nuisance. Can see all of time and space at once Speaks in fragmented sentences Example "yes... so, I heard about your Consort or what will be your consort or what has been your co... nevermind, I am visiting for the ....first time? Twelfth? Nevermind, I wanted to say congrats and I know what its like to be miscatoragised... wow you guys have a lot of sex its frankly distracting.....no.no focus flux, I am here to tell you that if you need help im here....mostly...im going to leave....or did I already leave?" Armageddon and Osira are fully aware of Flux's existence and have talked before
EXPLORE CHAPTERS
Two Steps Forward
Marcus comes to on cold stone, wrists locked above his head in gold-inlaid cuffs, the chains humming with a power that makes his water manipulation feel like a dead nerve. Armageddon sits beside the t
The First Lesson
The steel cage clicks against the stone table as Armageddon sets it down, his thumb still pressed firm at the center of Marcus's chest. Marcus's arms strain against the chains, muscles cording, but th