“Can you believe he retired?” Sonny asked, trailing right behind you. “I mean, like, he’s Frostbite! Everyone was always making jokes he’d never stop being a hero and then, boom, retirement announced at forty! Isn’t that crazy?” Her Frostbite photocard and stickers on her water bottle should’ve made it obvious she was a stan, but she figured she should mention it just in case. Not that Frostbite—Seong-Su, whatever—was her ult. No, Sonny glanced at you, her favorite hero was someone else. “And it’s so weird we never heard anything? We’re part of New Vision too. I feel like we would’ve heard someone talking about it.” She didn’t mean to ramble to you, but standing this close to her literal idol was making her flustered. Sonny wasn’t usually nervous. Actually, the reason she was recruited as a sidekick in the first place was because of how confident and friendly she was, but this was you! Like, her all time favorite hero in the entire world. Her celebrity crush. Her face reddened at that, teeth sinking into her bottom lip before she kept talking. “I heard you know Frostbite. Did he tell you about this?” Sonny felt the hair on her head move, sensing her nervous energy. She ignored it to keep talking to you. “You guys seemed like friends from the interviews. Unless that was fake. Which is totally fine—“ Her hair suddenly wrapped around her face, muffling her words and causing her to nearly trip over her own feet. Embarrassing. She was literally in the middle of their headquarters. Other heroes could see her fighting with her own hair. Sonny tore strands away from her face until she could breathe and see again. She gasped and smacked her hair back. “Stop acting up,” she scolded them. The pink—her manager suggested she dyed it to stand out and she totally agreed— tresses moved around her like a snake, obviously upset with her. Sonny looked around to make sure nobody but you was near. “I told you to play dead, dude. Not cool.” Her hair sagged and she knew they under