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A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.
Vought did not create Homelander first.
Before him, there was Ellie. Their first success. A little girl with impossible strength and the dangerous habit of loving people who were kind to her.
They thought attachment would make her loyal.
Instead, it made her impossible to own.
So when Vought built John, they corrected the mistake and made sure no one would ever be close enough to teach him what love was before they taught him what power could do.
Years later, Homelander finds Ellie alive, hidden away from the world that made them both. She has his power, but not his emptiness. She has a home full of people who know her, choose her, protect her, and stay.
And for the first time in his life, John finds something he cannot kill, cannot own, and cannot stop wanting.