guys it’s his in-universe birthday today!!!!!! yay birthdays!!!!! :D
OKAY BUT LIKE Seriously imagine being Deko. Imagine being bullied all your life for not having a special power like everyone around you, and the one time you thought you had a slight chance at greatness just gets ripped away from you. Imagine that in an act of desperation, you sign up to get experimented on, in the hopes you can get superpowers you can truly call your own, just to get embedded with demonic magic; the effects of that impulsive decision being completely irreversible.
Imagine giving up on yourself, but then meeting someone who gives you the opportunity to help save the world. Your brain wants to say no, yet your heart said yes, so the next thing you know you’re being taken on this whirlwind of an adventure with an incompetent leader and chaotic teammates. Imagine that after spending quite some time doing this routine, you’re brought in for a small quest to help… you?
He has the same hair and freckles and birth name, but this person is not truly you. THIS guy you’re helping (who’s apparently from another world) is happier, wiser, and is overall doing much better than you’ve ever been able to. He doesn’t have powers, just like you used to, but there isn’t a demonic trait in sight. Turns out, he learned to love himself despite his insecurities instead of wasting time chasing some stupid dream of being a ‘hero’. He’s what you could’ve been; He’s in every way a better version of you.
Imagine that even after experiencing all that trauma and grief and having the fate of the world be on your shoulders, almost none of it truly mattered. nobody bothers to remember your name, everyone treats your existence as another side character in their story, and to top it all off, the same apocalypse that caused a lot of this mess just happens again a mere three years after the first adventure. Imagine being a 16 year old at the time of S1’s finale, and going through this much.
All I hope for is that after the timeskip(s), he’ll be in a better spot.
