Cosplayer: KendelB.
Country: United States.
Cosplay: Red Raven from DC Comics.
Photo by: Arcane Shutter Photography.
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“You like getting in our heads?” Raven asked, standing over me as I writhed on the ground. “How are you enjoying mine?”
I thought the inside of Harley’s head before I helped her was bad, but compared to Raven’s? Harley’s mind was a hurricane; Raven’s was the dark side of the moon. Airless, empty, dark, freezing, alien. Or the bottom of the ocean, crushing darkness full of lurking horrors.
“What… are you?” I gasped.
Her eyes flared purple as darkness gathered around her clenched fist. “Let’s just say I’ve had to deal with some father issues.”
I gasped and panted on the ground, trying to rally myself, pull back from her mind. “Looks to me like you’re still–”
“Shut up,” she said, and pointed that fist at me. I screamed again as I plunged right back into the dark.
“Sorry!” I shouted as I emerged again. “But–but listen, I can help you! I can heal–” I trailed off into screams as she blasted me again with… well, not pain exactly, and angst doesn’t seem strong enough. It was despair, self-loathing, fear, rage, all wrapped up into a ball of agony like nothing I’d ever felt before. “I can! I healed Harley! I–”
She blasted me again. “Healed her right into being one of your little toys? I know all about it, creep.”
“Really!” I gasped. “I really can help you heal!” There! Curiosity. Not enough to stop her, but I grabbed it, hung onto to it for dear life, amplified and magnified it as much as I could. She hesitated before blasting me again.
I could still win this! I thought as I screamed.