Bad Little Boy, Bad but not Little (Patreon)

 Don't you know I'm a villain? 

so this is a long story i'll probably be working on but the gist of it is that Stormy is not naturally a good person. He does a fantastic job of pretending otherwise, but Aerostorm is a sadist.

Racing feels good. Crushing the competition feels good. Snapping Zipperflash's wing like a toothpick- that felt, really, really good. Realizing all of this felt very, very not good. Following the accident with Zipperflash, Stormy decides to drop out of racing altogether, because victory shouldn't mean hurting others. 

....Right?

Stormy does mostly fine repressing this aspect of himself. Rosemary knows about his sense of horror at his own urges/genuine desire to do harm, but she writes it off as good old fashioned competitive drive, and nothing to be worried about, dear. She pats his head and reminds him he's a good boy, Stormy wants to believe that, so he does.

Then he meets his very first enabler, Chakra Blossom.

Chakra is more than willing to encourage Stormy back into competitive flying (because yay, money), but Stormy's still too ashamed to rejoin the Wonderbolts. He instead tentatively joins the Washouts (more on that later), and finds himself liking this new flight team much better. The insane stunts feed Stormy's ever-expanding adrenaline addiction, and the drugs and groupies behind the scenes are excellent job perks. Chakra is Stormy's "manager" (mostly a glorified hype-man) and comes up with all manner of stunts, races, and violent flight derbies that let Stormy work through all those years of pent-up aggression. Chakra also encourages Stormy to bring that dominating side into their relationship, because what pairs better with a sadist than a masochist?

This can't be healthy, or sustainable........but Stormy's never felt more alive.