"Himiko-chan!?"
Ochako's face is pale, and she's never worn an expression as shocked as the one she's wearing now. As if she's seen a ghost, she stands there, stunned- too confused to even will herself to move.
...When did the life of Himiko Toga become so important to her? It feels like these feelings... crept up on her so gradually, that by the time she noticed them, they'd already been there forever. Ochako had convinced herself that caring about a villain like Himiko had made her strange, selfish and wrong - but ever since that final battle, she's hated herself for ever feeling that way.
Because she was too late. She'd been so caught up trying to figure out if Himiko was a villain or just a hurting girl that she hadn't been able to see she was both. That even if she had hurt so many people... she herself had been hurting just as much from the very start. Ochako just wanted to see her smile again, and maybe that made her a bad person, maybe it was wrong - but frankly, she couldn't care less anymore. The pain she felt when she realized that Himiko was sacrificing herself for her was just too much to bear.
So now... how is it that she's seeing Himiko before her, when she'd thought she was dead and gone forever? She wants to believe so badly in what she's seeing, it's like her heart's being squeezed in a vice, but she's so scared that it's a lie.
"Is that... really you...? You're alive?"
@musedriven ( starter for himiko! )














