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For as long as Miu can remember, her parents have told her about soulmates. The concept was always strange to the inventor, considering a little-known fact was they weren’t always romantic. Just most people had romantic soulmates, doesn’t mean they always were. Miu never cared for the tale though, considering no one would stick around her long enough to become friends with her; let alone be her soulmate. So, she didn’t concern herself with it. Well, that was until she started waking up with bruises that she knew wasn’t possible for her to have, and that’s when she remembered the soulmates her parents told her about. Then she began to wonder, who the hell this soulmate even was; and what the hell were they doing in the first place? She’d often cover the bruises with foundation, at least until she met this so-called soulmate of her’s and could figure out a solution to whatever problem they had.
She had to ponder this for years to come though, simply having to let her curiosity fester. Through those years is when she coined her talent and started attending Hope’s Peak Academy. She was surprised to discover some of her peers had already met their soulmates (once again, the majority of them romantic.) She didn’t find herself envious though, her and love had a bad track record. If anything, she found herself wishing it wasn’t the case for her. Either way, she shrugged it off and focused on her classes for the most part. Whoever her soulmate was taking the backseat in her mind, she had better things to wonder about. So, when she actually gained a friend in Souda, she was all too happy to voice her frustrations about it.
“I just don’t get all the excitement around it, ya know? I already am busy enough as it is! If I’ve gotta have a soulmate, I’d rather someone like a sibling to me; hell, my parents weren’t even soulmates! So, what’s even the point of them anyway?”
🔧 - Kazuichi had always been a dreamer. His elaborate fantasies of his first meeting with his soulmate had been about as realistic as his visions of one day building a rocket ship into space. When the first unexplained, painless scrapes on his knees or paper cuts on his fingers started to appear as s a little kid, he began to imagine that he’d been paired with a princess, or some other damsel in distress he’d grow up to save one day. That eventually, he’d receive a wound that would tell him his time had come to save the love of his life. Something to shake him out of his cowardice and the hero he was supposed to be-!
“Well...I kinda get it. I used to be that way.” he sighed, currently messing around with an old NES system Chiaki had asked him to fix up, but only half paying attention to the task at hand. Didn’t help that it was late into the hours of the night when the both of them should have probably been asleep in their respective dorms.
It seemed laughable now, though. Selfish, even, to have that kind of fantasy. Because there was nothing glorious or romantic about reaching to scratch his head, only to one day find it covered in blood, arms and legs cut to shit from some traumatic event that he couldn’t even begin to pin down. It didn’t hurt, but that didn’t stop the panic - eyes watering and body shaking as he feared for both their lives. Not being able to help. Not being able to breathe. All he could do was scream.
“It’s also like, kinda nice to think someone out there is waiting for you, though....used to make feel pretty important that I’d eventually mean that much to someone...I still feel like it’s important, but I...don’t have any romantic fantasies the way I used to about it .” he gives a shuddering sigh, too tired to care about how much he was rambling.
“I’m...actually really worried about them; whoever they are. I dunno...Iruma-san, have you had anything like...really concerning happen to you because of the whole sharing wounds thing?Something happened a few years back that really fucked me up.... ”