Victor Von Doom

𝑲𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑫𝒐𝒐𝒎

[Victor Von Doom @CallHimDoom]

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑.

[Victor Von Doom @CallHimDoom]

“If you insist on escalating this confrontation then it will not be Scott Summers who has challenged Victor Von Doom. It will be mutantkind.”

The implication hangs heavy.

“So ask yourself, Summers… is your pride truly worth placing an entire people in jeopardy?”

[Victor Von Doom @CallHimDoom]

The scarlet beam crashes into Doom with enough force to scour the snow from the earth and flood the mountainside in crimson light. For a heartbeat, he disappears within it.

Then the light parts. Not because it has overpowered him, but because it has nowhere left to go.

[Victor Von Doom @CallHimDoom]

I am about to give.” His tone lowers as he takes another deliberate step. “You are no longer speaking for yourself. You are speaking for every mutant who calls this world home.”

Silence settles between them.

[Victor Von Doom @CallHimDoom]

at his feet. “And this…” One armored boot crosses the line. “Is not a border.”

The metallic tone hardens. “Mind your powers, mutant. Lest you discover Doom’s wrath.”

[Victor Von Doom @CallHimDoom]

His gaze lowers to the line burned into the snow, then rises again to Summers.

No step is taken back.

“Diplomatic immunity is a courtesy extended between nations. It is not the source of Doom’s authority.” The iron mask turns toward the red mark

[Victor Von Doom @CallHimDoom]

“Order.” A single word.

The question, while interesting, has only ever had one answer. “You intervene where suffering presents itself. You extinguish today’s fire, then wait for tomorrow’s.”

[‏ً @runescarved]

with the book freed from his grasp, her magic wills it to return to her pile.

〝 remind me, what is it exactly you hope to accomplish? 〞a brow raises.〝 to you it may be bland heroics, but if i can do good, why shouldn’t i? 〞

[𝚂𝙰𝚅𝙸𝙾𝚁 @HisFinalDecree]

𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐋𝐎𝐆 / 𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐘 __

Incursions are not… violent.

They are indifferent.

When I arrived, the sky was clear. Children laughed in the streets. Citizens argued over menial subjects. No one realized their universe had already been condemned. My instruments

[Victor Von Doom @CallHimDoom]

More silence between them now.

“You limit yourself with bland heroics, Wanda.” He places the book down, clasping his hands behind his back once more. “Imagine what you could accomplish,” A pause. “What 𝙬𝙚 could accomplish… if you retired this foolish charade.”

[‏ً @runescarved]

〝 humility is rarer these days. 〞 shifting, the witch aligns her books. while most are indeed material to study, among them are literature purely for indulgence.

〝 lacking the foresight to broaden one’s knowledge is where many falter and »

[Victor Von Doom @CallHimDoom]

Not complimentary. Simply true.

“Very few possess the humility to remain a student after becoming a master.”

[Victor Von Doom @CallHimDoom]

“So few practitioners ever continue to learn.” His words are near observational as his gaze finds hers. His gaze finds hers. There’s a silence that settles between them. “It is why I’ve always found you… interesting, Maximoff.”

[‏ً @runescarved]

attentive as he speaks, though her focus is fixed upon the book. pages she can recite from start to finish, with as many times she’s read it, despite only having it in her possession a small while.

〝 i find myself coming back to that »

[Victor Von Doom @CallHimDoom]

spend lifetimes searching for.” He closes the book with a muted thump.

[Victor Von Doom @CallHimDoom]

He looks up from the book, almost disappointed in the way he regards her for a moment before opening the book and flipping through its worn pages. That should serve as her answer.

“I considered acquiring this volume years ago.” A pause. “The ward on page one hundred and

[‏ً @runescarved]

watching the book flee her stack, she makes no attempt to seize it, simply watching as it lands within his grip. one of her more recent reads, that grimoire.

〝 such things have the darnedest habit of finding their way to me, 〞 a hum, »

[Victor Von Doom @CallHimDoom]

seventeen is elegantly constructed. Efficient. Most mystics burden it with unnecessary redundancies.” His thumbs through more pages now. “A respectable collection. Pre-Cagliostro in foundation, though amended by later hands. There are passages here most sorcerers would

[Victor Von Doom @CallHimDoom]

A spell-book. One he studies with immediate recognition. “I have found that books often reveal more about their readers than their authors.”

His thumb traces the sigil upon the binding before he opens it.

“An old grimoire. I wondered if this was where it had vanished.”

[Victor Von Doom @CallHimDoom]

“So it is.”

Without so much as a lift of a hand, a volume from her stack tears itself free. It glides across the room, its motion smooth enough to seem like an inevitability rather than forced, until it settles in his hand. Only then does he look at its cover.

[‏ً @runescarved]

〝 then i pity the sorry soul of your next suspect. 〞

tone etched with the faintest amusement. whether it displays across her visage or not remains unseen behind the rim of her teacup.

〝 if that was all, i’d like to return to my »