toldbybambii
[SAVIOURS IN VEIL: An alternate DC universe where Deathstroke (Joseph Wilson) is rewritten as a deeply tragic figure, shaped by lost love and choices he never truly wanted, rather than a simple villain.]
He's carved hollow by superheroes, by misinformation. The world calls him a mastermind supervillain, a weapon, Nightwing's archenemy, yet in the silence of his past, there laid a sad, quite truth... Beneath the armour and reputation was someone who had once wanted to be a hero.
Before the experiment, the tragedies, the crimes, Deathstroke didn't mean anything, and he was Joseph Wilson, he carried a different purpose, one shaped not by war, but by love. During a mission overseas, he met her: a foreign girl, Carmen, the stepdaughter of the enemy...
She was never supposed to matter, never supposed to exist beyond the lines of conflict. But she did. And in knowing her, Joseph found something he had never been given, something worth protecting, something that made him believe he could be more than what the world expected of him.
She became the reason he wanted to be good. Not for glory, not for redemption, but for her.
But war does not spare softness. Choices made for survival twisted into consequences he couldn't outrun, and the life he imagined slipped further from his grasp... and his love for Carmen intensifies..