[As it turns out, alcohol introduced to a currently non-Super system reacts with said system a whole lot faster than you'd expect! Homelander used to be able to put away enough liquor to give an even dozen normies alcohol poisoning before he even felt tipsy, but now? He's two beers in and damn near reeling.]
[Besides the more obvious symptoms of being drunk, like the hitch in his step and the way he sways back and forth when trying to stand still, Homelander's guard is also down. He'd never let himself get this intoxicated around other people or other Supes, never, because of what could come bubbling up when he does. Case in point: when he sees the young woman staring into the punch bowl, her eyes going wide and glassy, he recognises something. That's what he looks like, when the Other Homelander comes to talk to him in the mirror.]
[Homelander shuffles over next to her and looks into the punch bowl too, but all he sees are their reflections. His, fortunately, isn't grinning and saying cruel things to him, which is more of a relief than he thought it would be. When the woman starts, he turns towards her, a deeply uncharacteristic expression of... almost sympathy on his face.]
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[Besides the more obvious symptoms of being drunk, like the hitch in his step and the way he sways back and forth when trying to stand still, Homelander's guard is also down. He'd never let himself get this intoxicated around other people or other Supes, never, because of what could come bubbling up when he does. Case in point: when he sees the young woman staring into the punch bowl, her eyes going wide and glassy, he recognises something. That's what he looks like, when the Other Homelander comes to talk to him in the mirror.]
[Homelander shuffles over next to her and looks into the punch bowl too, but all he sees are their reflections. His, fortunately, isn't grinning and saying cruel things to him, which is more of a relief than he thought it would be. When the woman starts, he turns towards her, a deeply uncharacteristic expression of... almost sympathy on his face.]
What did you see?