HOMELANDER.

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canon divergences.

my homelander will have some canon divergences from the show, and rely on some comic details in regards to both becca butcher, as well as stormfront. in regards to becca, i will follow the comics in that homelander did not actually rape her. this is only what grace mallory convinced butcher of to use him as a weapon to take down homelander. in reality, it was a supe with shapeshifting powers who did it, who had been secretly assigned by vought to take over as homelander if homelander ever stepped over the line. however, as homelander never did, the shapeshifter decided to frame him so that hopefully he'd be terminated and they could take his place. this also explains why becca believed it was homelander who sa'd her, when it was, in fact, not. they did still have consensual sex like homelander says in the show at some earlier point resulting in becca getting pregnant with his child (unbeknownst to homelander). for the sake of not stepping on other people's portrayals though, i'm down for plotting out something here to make us both happy.

when it comes to powers, my homelander will remain the strongest supe in the boys universe, as i go with the canon that homelander is the first naturally born supe. i do not acknowledge the scene where maeve was able to make him bleed. regardless of her strength, vought has already tried pretty much anything to injure him and it has not worked. that being said, even if he is physically practically invincible, does not make him invulnerable to psychic powers / powers that affect the mind.

as for stormfront, my homelander never had a relationship with her. he hated her from the start like in the show when they first met, but he didn't end up falling for her like he did in the show. instead, he continued to see her as someone trying to steal his spotlight and points and the animosity between the two continued until she got killed. as for firecracker, i do not acknowledge anything post season 4 episode 5 between her and homelander. my homelander is not interested in firecracker in any way, shape or form and only allows her to stay on the team because sage thinks it's a good idea.

biography.

homelander was born sometime in the early spring of 1981 from the semen of soldier boy, america's first and greatest superhero, and an unknown woman. raised in a lab, he was surrounded by doctors like jonah vogelbaum, who named him john. ( vogelbaum would later remark in his adult years that john had turned violent, aggressive, and downright hateful for not having a real family. ) throughout his childhood, john was put through painful physical experiments and surgeries to test the true limits of his abilities. these tests included having his hand forced into a furnace while he cried, being boiled alive, and being forced to fight against adult supes. he was also under strict mental brainwashing, and was forced to spend hours sitting in front of a projector, seeing images and videos that were chosen to mould his personality, like the american flag, jesus christ, baseball, etc. he had a mother-like figure (a female tutor), but he accidentally killed her when he hugged her too tight, crushing her. prior to her death, he had already caused similar incidents to several other tutors, a behavior that was usually motivated by love, but this time by isolation-induced depression. 

he was a huge fan of soldier boy as a kid and watched all of his movies hundreds of times. he also respected soldier boy for being the only other supe in existence who was nearly as strong as him and idolized the latter as his hero, not knowing at the time that they were blood-related.

years later, stan edgar and madelyn stillwell presented john to the public as "the homelander", the newest superhero and face of vought who would get his own superhero team, the first one to join it being black noir, who was already well-known. following homelander's introduction, noir came onto the stage and immediately stole john's spotlight, much to stillwell's anger. following this, stillwell convinced john not to let black noir upstage him and become jealous of him. she also suggested that from now on, he should simply go by "homelander", minus the "the".

homelander was soon teamed up with noir on his first mission; stopping a group of terrorists who had taken hostages at a chemical plant. refusing to wait for black noir, homelander immediately went inside and subdued two of the terrorists, breaking one of their noses in the process. he then confronted the rest. when they refused to back down, homelander twisted their guns. however, one of the terrorists still held a hostage at gunpoint, despite the gun not working anymore. homelander, horribly underestimating his abilities, used his heat vision to heat up the gun, causing the gunpowder within to explode, killing the hostage and destroying the man's hands. when the man's associate started screaming at him, he lost his cool and clamped his hand over her mouth to shut her up, accidentally ripping out her jaw in the process. this lead the hostages to scream at him and calling him a maniac, resulting in him killing everybody in a fit of rage, leaving only one hostage still alive. black noir then appeared in the doorway. thinking that noir would rat him out to vought, homelander attempted to kill black noir with his heat vision, accidentally bringing down the entire plant in the process.

after pulling himself out of the rubble, homelander saw the hostage crawl out of the wreckage and towards a still-alive black noir. to homelander's surprise, however, noir coldly snapped the woman's neck while comforting her. noir then helped homelander come up with an excuse to cover up the failure of the mission. this event led to a mutual respect and eventual genuine friendship between the two, to the point of considering each other family. however, homelander's lack of control deeply hardened him and added to his already unstable mind.

years later, homelander met becca butcher in a vought private christmas party in 2011. she was the new senior director from the department of digital marketing of vought, and homelander commented that he loved the work she did with his official twitter profile. before ending the conversation to see maeve, homelander said that he would like to talk to her about her taking over the rest of his social media accounts. a while later, footage was dug up of becca being inside an office room with what appeared to be homelander for three hours, before exiting, crying. when grace mallory arrived at butcher's door, she showed a cctv footage of "homelander" and becca entering the room, and convinced butcher that homelander had raped her. however, this was not actually the case, as it had been someone with shapeshifting powers, not homelander. however, this event would spark the course of the entire series of events that would follow, as it fuelled billy butcher's hatred for all supes and lead to him forming the boys, a group specialized in taking down corrupt supes.

since then, homelander has continued to be the captain and leader of the superhero group, the seven, led by vought international. he's charismatic and knows how to present to the public, as the hero that is there to save the day and keep people safe. however he is highly unstable, unpredictable, volatile, and has no trouble killing innocents as well as guilty as long as ( he believes ) there's no cameras around and he feels its necessary for whatever reason.

abilities.

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