Compound V's Darkside

I have just finished Episode 3 Season 4 and I believe that Compound V has the same affects as Temp V later on in life.

In these early episode we see Homelander at 46 years old (ancient by supe standards) going grey and having an enlarge prostate (BPH). The grey we can't really tell all that much from as going grey is really subjective to one's head, but Homelander is about 5 years early to the BPH gang. I took this as his aging quicker from stress, a low b plot about how supes are just as fallible as their normal counterparts blah blah blah.

But what if its more?

Sage identifies what is going on with Homelander as a mid life not-crisis. But we can also see Billy Butcher is going grey in his beard too. Why is this important? Because we can see that his dad is only going grey in his 70s. (unless he dyes his hair perfectly plausible) So either Butcher has some bitchass genes or he's aging quicker.

We know that Billy is dying because of his Temp V use. Perfectly sound that he's going a bit grey around the edges. But why is homelander? I'd like to draw their parallel of premature aging/dying first to their failing bodies and then to their hallucinations.

We have continously noted Homelander's hallucinations of himself; we know that he actually responds to them cause in S4:E3 he gets called over to the mirror and talks to himself. He's physically responding to the auditory and visual hallucinations. Butcher does the same in this season, first in the first episode when he is throwing up, and then when his wife talks to him, telling him he's going to fuck over Hughie again. He is actually reacting to her presence in the room. These are the few to have hallucinations without drugs and I hear you ask, few?

Black Noir.

Black Noir's whole thing for the episode he truly shone in was his VIVID hallucinations. Black Noir has heavy brain damage as we can see and trauma, but also the prevailing factor which I believe is the higher cause of the hallucinations, he's 50-60 years old. This means that Compound V would have had an extra decade or so to work these hallucinations on his brain.

As we can see in the show and we know Temp V causes lesions on the brain. Butcher got a quick version of the decades long process that Homelander's been going through it as the most sane oldest supe and Black Noir went through so much shit that its actually really tough to say as he has a lot of conflicting factors within him.

A big question: Storefront....

Genuinely, we never see a pov from her like we do for the rest, and honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if she was absolutely crazy hallucinations or none at all. As the first successful supe, her powers may not have come with the draw backs that it does in the modern era (modern is a loose term when talking about thr 1900s. thinking 1950 onwards). We know she made random accusations of 1 black man but that could just be her being racist. And we know she liked to be layered and was highly adaptable to the times, utilising social media despite being born in 1919 Smth.

Or all these hallucinations are the writers choice of portrayal of different conflicting emotions within these characters and their respective traumas.

Really sorry if someone has already thought of this I'm just super excited I've thought of a theory for once!!

Things to think about: - Does the dosage of Compound V have an effect on ppl? - Does using V as a drug like A Train speed up this process? - How does Ryan, a natural born supe, come into this? - Sage's brain is her superpower, how does that conflict. alongside Kimiko, who KEEPS GETTING SHOT IN THE HEAD BUT NO 1 ELSE DOES