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1. After The Applause (Nothing Left to Wear) by KLoveyz

   Fandoms: The Boys (TV 2019)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M, Gen
   • Work in Progress

   11 Sep 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Ryan Butcher | The Homelander's Son & The Homelander | John
   • Hughie Campbell/Starlight | Annie January
   • Black Noir & The Homelander | John
   • The Homelander | John
   • Ryan Butcher | The Homelander's Son
   • Billy Butcher
   • Terror | Billy Butcher's Dog
   • The Boys Ensemble (The Boys)
   • The Seven Ensemble (The Boys)
   • Victoria Neuman
   • Stan Edgar
   • Black Noir (The Boys)
   • Starlight | Annie January
   • Hughie Campbell
   • Queen Maeve (The Boys)
   • A-Train (The Boys)
   • The Deep | Kevin
   • Translucent (The Boys)
   • Jonah Vogelbaum
   • Ashley Barrett
   • Madelyn Stillwell
   • The Frenchman | Frenchie (The Boys)
   • The Female | Kimiko Miyashiro
   • Stormfront (The Boys)
   • Zoe Neuman
   • Mother's Milk | M. M. (The Boys)
   • The Lamplighter (The Boys)
   • Soldier Boy (The Boys)
   • Payback Members (The Boys)
   • Robin Ward
   • Becca Butcher
   • Grace Mallory
   • Susan Raynor
   • The Homelander | John Has Issues
   • The Homelander | John Needs a Hug
   • The Homelander | John Being The Homelander | John
   • The Homelander | John Being an Asshole
   • POV The Homelander | John
   • Explicit Language
   • Superheroes
   • Mild Hurt/Comfort
   • Childhood Trauma
   • Past Trauma
   • Past Child Abuse
   • Psychological Trauma
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Blood and Injury
   • Blood and Violence
   • Vought International (The Boys)
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Billy Butcher Being an Asshole
   • Time Travel Fix-It
   • Time Travel
   • Alternate Universe - Time Travel
   • Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Compound V (The Boys)
   • Compound V24 | Temp V
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Non-Sexual Intimacy
   • POV Alternating

   Summary

   Homelander is given a second chance when he is killed by Butcher in the Oval room, and ends up getting sent back to the past in 2019, with all his memories still intact. Knowing how everything ends with his death, Homelander has no motivation to continue being Vought's mascot, and instead ends up taking a different direction in his life by discovering himself beyond the fabricated Homelander persona as John.

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   English

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