idolpro | Izanagi's Heart Game

He will, thanks to you. You really helped me out here.

If you don't want to hear me explain him - is there anything about yourself that you would like him to understand better?

Is there anything specific he doesn't understand?

Your past - why he would remind you of yourself. Things like that.

[He holds out his hands, and the books appear in them: his own, and Duality's.]

The library contains all of his knowledge and beliefs. So, these books are what he knows and believes - about himself, and about you and his relationship to you.

Knowing that, if there's anything you wanted to add, I can help you do that.

Mm... I never really keep my past a secret, but if no one asks, I don't talk about it either. It's not like I think it's exactly the same, but it feels similar.

[he moves to sit on the floor and sighs]

My father married my mother for the sole purpose of creating a quirk that was stronger than what he had, so he could climb a ladder and become "the strongest", using someone else as a tool to achieve his dream. He didn't care about anything else. She suffered for it. My siblings that came before me weren't "successes" because they didn't have the quirk he wanted. I did. And it's not like I was meant to be more than an extension of him, not my own person.

[he rubs at his neck, and looks up]

I wasn't allowed to see them, all I was made to do was train to become his successor and nothing else. He drove my mother to a breaking point and she ended up in the hospital after she tried to burn my left side off of me with boiling water because she could see too much of my father there.

Sorry, it's kind of a lot, I suppose, but...

[He listens, and Duality's book glows a faint red as he speaks.]

The pressure of being someone - or something - you're not, I suppose. Even if it's for different purposes in the end.

Mm, I was only focusing on revenge the entire time until I turned fifteen and I enrolled in UA.

But you were able to change.

...because of my friends, yes.

Here, or in your world?

Mm... in my world, but it counts for here too, because Izuku was here as well.

[even if he isn't now]

Izuku...? What name does he go by here?

Ah, sorry. I mean Mori, who was on Heart Soldier.

I see. So he encouraged you both here and there?

Well... more at home.

[he lets out a huff]

I suppose he was a catalyst, almost. For me to realize myself. It's a very specific memory for me. And he was my first real friend.

Edited 2021-01-30 22:49 (UTC)

That's a little similar, then.

Oh?

My first friend was one of my most important ones, too.

Mm... I feel like it might be like that for a lot of people.

We met him later in life - not until we were sixteen. But maybe because of that, he had a big impact on us. Before that... well, it wasn't the same as you, but "he" was kept pretty isolated.

[he nods slowly]

I met Izuku when I was around that age too, in high school. I grew up without friends because I wasn't allowed them at first, and then I figured I didn't need them because I was too busy thinking about getting back at my father.

I guess... I did isolate myself too to a degree, though I can't say what my possibilities would have been before I went to high school.

The difficulty with emotional connections, and the need to stay hidden according to Kiyotaka's will... well, in the end, maybe that was part of his plan, too.

It was easier for him to use us if we didn't have any option but to follow his plan.

... that makes sense, but it's all the better reason to go against it. I went against what my father wanted for me.

Going against Kiyotaka is a difficult path, though. Kiyotaka himself - well, it's almost as though his knowledge encompasses everything. Sometimes, "he" thinks it must.

He knows how to move people, even if they are suspicious of them. He can still maneuver a person who is determined to go against him; he just needs to make them believe that they are going against his wishes, even if they're falling in line with them perfectly.

It's my hope we never encounter him again.

Who is Kiyotaka...?

[he sounds like a grade-A villain]

One "God" of my world. He was the counterpart to my original, and he's the one who killed my original, as well.

He has a plan he's been working on for... years, I think. Since all of us were children. He's moved us through our lives to make sure his plan could come to fruition.

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