The day of choosing. The day where one choice alters your life forever.Â
Just like all the preceding days of choosing, this day was filled with a mixture of anticipation, anxiety, fear, and maybe a minuscule amount of confidence, creating an over all tense atmosphere.Â
No one dared to utter a word; make a sound, lest they intervene in the teens who were one by one deciding their fate....their lives.Â
One could choose to stay with their family, with the only faction they knew for their whole childhood. They wouldn't have to face initiation, face the chance of ending up factionless. Choosing to go back to your faction meant safety, reassurance, but also means loosing your chance to expand.
                                      Or
One could choose a new life. Trade in everything they knew and risk everything they had. To go through initiation and either pass and be accepted into a new environment or fail and be outlasted forever.Â
                       Two choices.
                                        One chance.
Once Mikoto was in that position, yet today he was one of the onlookers. A part of the dark section that was the Dauntless. Usually anytime he had to sit for long periods of time in a stiff atmosphere, the red haired male would sleep. However, he couldn't keep the mild interest at bay as he lazily watched the choices being made. Of course, most Dauntless born stay with Dauntless same with Amity and Abnegation. Others fluttered here and there, some getting a variation of different colored initiates.
Dauntless, as always, got few new initiates, after all they had the toughest initiation. Mikoto still had scars from when he had to go through it back when he switched to Dauntless, however he never regretted it. Back then he was determined to join Dauntless...one of the two attributes he tested positive for according to his aptitude test. He had wanted to leave his old life behind, the life that betrayed him.Â
Now as he watched a certain initiate, hesitate; his hand steadily moving away from Erudite to Dauntless, Mikoto couldn't help but wonder just what he was leaving behind. What it was that he wanted to gain. Why Dauntless of all things.Â
Nevertheless they were petty questions that were brushed away as the Dauntless crowd rustled and stood up, filling the hall with their loud voices. All that matter now for every single initiate is if they had the conviction, the want, the raw desire to earn their place. If not, then all that would be left for them is being factionless...that is if they survived.