i have tasted the bitter steel of blood and blade alike ;
ons verse for takasugi shinsuke
THE HIRAGI FAMILY : his creator , his destroyer , his obsession . it begins with hiragi yousha , a woman of grace , nobility , and though perhaps lacking in vision , she carries compassion in every word she utters . quietly , she falls in love with her retainer , takasugi hokuto , a man who mirrors her gentle hand and empathy . their fairy tale is cruelly cut short with her slaughter , brought about by her own younger brother , tenri . never seeking power , and merely dreaming to live a peaceful life with her lover , hiragi yousha’s life is snatched from her own hands , leaving behind a devastated man and their young son , shinsuke .
takasugi shinsuke is raised loveless , his father’s sanity gradually spiraling as his grudge against the hiragi family rots his heart from the inside out . he puts shinsuke through rigorous training , molding him to become the perfect tool of revenge against the hiragi family . shinsuke carries the memories of the brief , yet radiant moments of happiness he had shared with his family . even as a child , he recognizes this one fact alone : the hiragi family is to be destroyed . his blood relations are kept a sealed secret , held within select members of the takasugi clan . and like his father , and his father’s father , shinsuke is sent to the hiragi home to protect and serve tenri’s children – his own cousins . and the members of the hiragi home never fail to remind him of his place , the fact that no matter what , he will never be more than a lowly takasugi .
but eventually , he finds grace . he finds peace in war as leader of a squad within the moon demon company , fighting alongside four individuals that become his first real friends . the apocalypse , which killed off 90% of the human population, allowed him to grow and thrive among tragedy . a charismatic leader , born with his mother’s warm heart , he leads his squads to several notable victories . his devotion to his comrades and the extermination of vampires temporarily erases the years of resentment , and he marches forward towards a future for all of humanity .
that is , until his squad , among many others , is entirely wiped out in a suicide mission . his left eye is crushed in the operation , and he alone is spared by the vampire nobles he had been sent to assassinate – they needed a live messenger , after all . this act of cruel mercy marks shinsuke as a traitor , a soldier that abandoned his post to survive even as his friends were murdered . his return to shibuya comes with rumors of a curse – that those that fight by his side will meet bitter ends . his heart once again burns with rage , with hatred for the hiragi family that had sent his friends directly to their graves . retribution ? redemption ? no , what he seeks is simple – revenge . humans and vampires alike are his enemies , and he will make sure they all end in flames . takasugi shinsuke , after seeing the world end several times already , now vows to destroy the entire universe .
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