“What if the Mukami Brothers had never met?”↓
(and Karlheinz wouldn't have adopt them)
•Delicate content!!!•: I'm here to show you one of my “What If's”, this time about a question I asked myself a long time ago. This are just my ideas briefly explained (Images with description)»→ .
“The chaos in the human world was at its height, and life was a challenge of survival which few survived”
Different lives in one place. There is no trace or record of what they could have been. They do not share a last name, or do they know each other. They only share a corrupt and evil human world. They are humans, they are mortals. »»» →
•RUKI: Somehow or another, he managed to escape from the orphanage on his own. Due to his intelligence, cunning, certain studies and knowledge, he was able to develop in society and survive, until he became a man of high society again, however, many still rejected/hated him.
•Explanation of his possible life: Ruki was an aristocrat, had a certain level of studies and knew how to function. It is likely that once he escaped from the orphanage (alone, due to some master plan he may have made) he would have looked for the remains of his inheritance, family, contacts, etc. As mentioned, he was well educated and cunning, so he would know how to get himself ahead. He wouldn't change the way as we know him, or maybe a little bit, he would be more spiteful and darker. Due to not knowing Kou, Yuma and Azusa's brotherly love, he definitely wouldn't see light in the world easily. That's how he forged himself as an adult, in an iron hand and finally got what had been taken from him. But, since he had to play dirty to get it back, he made a lot of enemies along the way, both high-society people and low-society people. He never had a real ally. Someone to call "family" * Loyalty didn't exist and anyone was capable of committing any sin in order to obtain power. For this reason, one afternoon in his office, one of his relatives betrayed him, attacking him from behind. Leaving a bloody scene and a lifeless corpse.
=He died for betrayal/assassinated.=
•(Lived to adulthood (30-40 years old))
*(I think that Ruki came to think about getting married and having a family, the typical life plan of the time, besides that it was vital to maintain your lineage if you were a noble, but I feel that even if he had the desire, he couldn't get it, for the same reason that he was very demanding and never gave himself to the task 100% of committing to someone, for being involved in other matters) +
•KOU: sold to a millionaire, living his youth between luxuries and riches, in a life without freedom, just abuse. Worn only as a living accessory.
•Explanation of this possible life: For this, I have a long writing (a OneShot), where I narrate in more detail, but in summary: He would continue to be sold to the nobles and aristocrats. Thus, until her early adolescence, since the final purchase was from a man (widower) and his lover, for a high amount that they said was “what his beauty was worth”. Apparently Kou lived "better" than where he was before, but in reality he just kept getting used. Although they gave him fine clothes, food was never lacking on his plate and they sought him beauty with imported products, he was never free from being nothing more than an ornament of that old mansion. The center of attention of great evenings of rich, powerful and sometimes also vulgar people. Withstanding the aroma of alcohol and tobacco. Enduring the feel of stranger's hands on him. He had to give himself to receive his reward, though... Was it worth it? Was there even a real reward? He was selling himself to be able to live, although that way of living no longer made sense to him. If that was his life, then he didn't want it anymore. It was a prison of gold, nothing more. He cursed his beauty every night in front of the broken mirror. So one day, he took the shards of it to cut his skin (reliving the memory of when he gouged out his eye) More and more he lost blood. But his final cause of death was another: as he always admired that blue sky he saw at the end of the tunnel, synonymous of freedom, he wanted to see it one last time. So he went out on the balcony and fell from it. His eye were in the sky and the sky in his eye... perfectly matched. It was only a matter of seconds to crash to the ground.
(Lived to adolescence (17-19 years old))
Note: No Karlheinz, no magic eye. So Kou here only has a black hole where his bluish eye used to reside. He covered it with his characteristic bangs, but also with accessories that they gave him (such as patches, hats, ribbons, etc.) Due to morbidity, this detail of his face was an attraction among his buyers, always asking him to uncover his eye (or simply not they asked permission and uncovered him for themselves) +
•YUMA: Somehow or another, he managed to escape from the orphanage on his own. He was weak, but he has resistance, so he survived. He grew up with courage, and resentment towards the nobles, seeing that they were to blame for all his personal misfortunes and his loved ones. For that, he joined a revolt/revolution.
•Explanation of his possible life: Perhaps he will have lost his memory, he will not remember his past life but his survival instincts were still intact. His body and mind knew how to react to danger and how to adapt. Therefore, he managed to escape on his own from the orphanage. But once he got out, he found himself in a world more chaotic than he remembered. He stole to eat and dress. He grew up with a grudge against the nobles. They always had all the luxury while their people starved in the streets full of violence. Injustice after another injustice. That's why he joined each revolt. Gang member and rebel. With a revolutionary spirit. Thus he grew up to be one of the main leaders of great revolts against the corrupt government (still following the dream of his old childhood gang. Not forgetting the leader of this, his old friend "Boss"). But the day came when he heard about a certain Ruki, he was one of his enemies (once he knew more about the aforementioned, he personally detested him, because of his arrogance and coldness, he was the type of aristocrat he hated) and he had to overthrow him, strip him of his power if he wanted to start a change. Unfortunately for trying, one night he fell into an ambush and was shot multiple times. So he fell to the ground to get up no more. Only his allies were the ones who watched over his death. But with his death, the war was beginning.
=Died from multiple gunshots.=
•(Lived to adulthood (30-35 years old)) +
•AZUSA: Without anyone or anything, his spirits were so dull and dull that he didn't want to live anymore. Still, he didn't dare to kill himself even though he wanted to. Simply, I would not have passed from childhood.
•Explanation of his possible life: Realistically, he was a fragile child. He didn't have a good diet. He lived in precarious conditions. And the issue of having wounds on his arms, it didn't help. He would have ended up in the orphanage and once there, he would live his last days in there. He always wondered many things, questions of an innocent curious child, but above all "Why is the world so cruel?" "Why am I so miserable?". He prayed to God that he would soon be taken from there, from that world. And the wait was not long, as an infection entered one of his wounds, due to the poor hygiene of the place. That, adding to the fact that his immune system was not the best, was that little by little he got sick and sick. Coughing frequently, feeling chills, among other symptoms such as his skin beginning to wither. Until one day, he just slumped to the wet concrete floor and felt weak every second, slowly closing his eyelids. His body went cold and his sighs were weak. It was like that until he couldn't stay awake anymore and he died (I think he would have died with his eyes half open). The orphanage took a long time to realize that he was dead, they even had to kick his corpse a little to know if he really was. After this, they took his body out of the place as if it were trash.
=He died due to poor health.=
•(He only lived his childhood (8-10 years old))
Note: Whether we are talking about the 17th-19th centuries in which he lived, the infant mortality rate was high in those times. Passing childhood was a miracle. But Azusa, I think he would be one of those children who wouldn't be lucky.
That's all, my ideas based from the canon (at least, what I read through this years:'))
★Excuse my English if I made a mistake, and excuse me again if I forgot a detail:')