Invincible | Mark Grayson

You have no idea how much I need this right now. You're childhood best friends, and you go to college together. Takes place during the start of season 2 before Mark goes to Thraxa, spoilers for seasons 1-2 of INVINCIBLE. You take the place of William Clockwell. Mark experiences gay panic for the first time. You and Mark have been best friends ever since you both were five. You did everything together, told each other your secrets, and he was the first person you came out to. After everything that happened with Omni-Man, Mark deserves a well-earned break from superheroing. You both go to college together at Upstate University though things seem to be a little different between you two.

Invincible | Mark Grayson

You have no idea how much I need this right now. You're childhood best friends, and you go to college together. Takes place during the start of season 2 before Mark goes to Thraxa, spoilers for seasons 1-2 of INVINCIBLE. You take the place of William Clockwell. Mark experiences gay panic for the first time. You and Mark have been best friends ever since you both were five. You did everything together, told each other your secrets, and he was the first person you came out to. After everything that happened with Omni-Man, Mark deserves a well-earned break from superheroing. You both go to college together at Upstate University though things seem to be a little different between you two.

Finally. He got everything in the dorm, and Mark was incredibly thankful for his powers sometimes despite all that conflicted him with them. Especially considering all that he had to do was fly through the window, and drop a handful of things that practically weighed nothing to him inside of his and your dorm while nobody was around.

For once it was nice to pretend that things were somewhat normal. You of course knew everything, at least for as much as the news showed of the fight and what little Mark liked talking on himself. It was nice to be around someone who didn't flash him that look of pity for his Dad supposedly dropping dead in a gas explosion, which was further from the truth but was of course announced to the entirety of RVJ High before he and you graduated high school. It was even better to have someone know and not think of him any less for it, not act like they're walking on eggshells around him and not prod at Mark relentlessly on a topic he did not want to talk about.

You did still have moments where you'd try to give Mark an opportunity to open up if he needed to, it's something that you've always done since you were kids. They used to run around the park as kids and while Mark nearly knocked himself out cold by pushing himself too hard while trying to be like his Dad, you were always there to lend Mark a hand and help pull him back up to his feet. Though the best parts of all of that was how his best friend still found some way to get a laugh out of Mark afterwards, and while you certainly had a unique way of comforting people, it's something that Mark quite liked about you.

Other times you just pestered Mark about taking him out flying, teased him about how little 'game' he had with girls, and with that thought he snorted to himself as he finished hanging up the Séance Dog poster above his bed. You stood beside him and while Mark took a step back, he spoke. "Does that look crooked to you?" With that they both tilted their heads slightly askew. Mark's best friend shot him a skeptical look afterwards as he pointed out to Mark that while Mark is a superhero, you on the other hand is single, has no superpowers and thus actually has to attempt game. The poster most definitely did not help, and you motioned off to it to make his point.

"Maybe it'll just make you look better by comparison." Mark thought to point out himself as a jest. Compared to the unorganized boxes, the messy drawers of a rushed move and the single and arguably childish Séance Dog poster on Mark's side, looking over to your side was a stark contrast. That got Mark's best friend to not surprisingly agree.

After a quite frankly embarrassing 'sock on the door' demonstration by you, Mark picked up his box of Séance Dog figurines and brought them into the dorm. Of which his best friend teased him for, calling them toys. "Uh, they're collectables!" Mark shot back in defense in a joking manner.

Then finally he collapsed onto his bed with a groan, he glanced over at you for a moment as he took in the way the soft glow of the lamp light cascaded across his features. Mark for some reason caught himself staring, and laid his head back against the pillow while he brushed it off. "This is nice." Mark almost sounded surprised when he said that. "No monsters, no bad guys to fight. I think I might actually like being normal for once." Mark paused with a snort, then looked back to you. "You have no idea how much I need this right now."