Am I Drawing Haters Again Today? Yes

For the five years before joining the bounty hunters, Lymers Enholan was a shining star, a blade of the galaxy, a genius followed by every eye.

Those who didn't know him admired and revered him, wishing they could be the shadow of a badge pinned to his lapel.

But everyone who had worked with Lymers kept their distance, avoiding him like the plague.

Because Lymers was a madman.

He was a shooting star that could never last, and everyone knew it.

And then he really did fall: his powers failed, he made a terrible mistake, and he vanished without a trace overnight.

Lymers was the universe's abandoned child, and his admirers were quick to speak of him with contempt.

One of the Empire's twin stars had fallen, so the other was raised to an even higher pedestal.

Rey Traman, handsome and kind, a model Federation star, a promising talent adored by hundreds of millions.

Most importantly,

he had always been Lymers's greatest nemesis.

Lymers had thought that after leaving the hunters and moving far away, he and Rey would never cross paths again.

After all, before they parted, he'd used half his life to force Rey to do something terrible.

That was until they started "running into each other" again.

An activation card left behind in a tavern, a mission slip slipped into his hand as they brushed past each other on the street...

Lymers accepted everything that came his way.

If it came to him, it was his.

Lymers, missing for a long time, reappeared, not only brazenly snatching missions but openly defying the Empire's authority.

Such an unstable element was the Empire's worst nightmare, so the powerful decided to send the strongest man alive, Rey Traman, to eliminate the threat.

But Rey, who always guaranteed he could finish a target within seven days, failed this time:

He was taking far too long to complete the mission, and was even seen getting tangled up with Lymers in an alley.

Because Lymers never turned down anything that came to him.

Including...

Rey Traman.

A completely black-hearted, vengeful madman of a bottom x a saintly top who quietly falls in love and tries to save him

The bottom is obsessive and deeply twisted beneath the surface, due to his past.

A nontraditional tale of bitter, star-crossed love (lights cigarette)

[This story is also known as The Far Side of the Stars]

[Blurb dated 2022.01.18, updated versions are saved as they are made]

Theme: Perhaps a broken mirror can be mended.