✵ ・ 。 ՙ @𝐒𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐊𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐈 ֥ 。 ・ ʃ 〈 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 ⋆ 〉 ͓
▬▬ι═══════ﺤ 🔥 || He is a beautiful piece of broken pottery, put back together by many hands; most prominent ones being Lord Raiden and Huan Hei. A critical world may judge Satoshi Hasashi’s kintsugi lines of golden joinery, while missing the beauty of how he made himself whole again. Satoshi’s nightmarish visions plaguing his nights manifest themselves as a curse of vestigial truth, revealing his own entombment within Sub-Zero’s chilling deathly menace. His mother remained brutally impaled by the unforgiving chill of eternal winter’s stillness, while his barely beating heartbeats remained a white noise murmur as his inevitable death drew near. Cold pangs embedded upon his heart and lungs, despite a fevered quandary with kicks and bursts defiantly resisted as the defiant and resilient Hasashi trait exuded upon young Satoshi’s innocent, yet resolute eyes.
Ever since he was lost in the throes of viciousness of the world, Satoshi had never been afraid of being lost. For his subconscious was meant to wander off from time to time, for the long-instilled fear of never quite finding himself often kept him all night, even amidst his strenuous trainings to continue Hanzo Hasashi’s abruptly severed legacy. HeiHei had been a healer amidst countless destroyers around him; dealing with any and everything life had thrown the young Hasashi. He had been the warm touch that comforts, despite often reminding him of the very gelid touch that rendered him immobile, exacerbating the pain deep within him. There still may be vulnerability lingering at the tip of his lips, and within the unfathomable chestnut eyes that exude melancholia.
Satoshi feels an unsettling bout of despair and jarringly out of sync this evening, all while the resplendent sun shines and clouds pour rain outside his window simultaneously. Perhaps that was why your father had to meet his brutal, humiliating death. A whispered voice, taunting and nearly persuasive in its timbre, sneers in his heart and soul, as forced feelings build up inside him, threatening to spill through his lips. “I am done counting exit wounds; icicle holes that still serve as reminders of the Shirai Ryu massacre and extinction, and everyone leaves eventually. It is what I learned lesson after lesson (evolve or repeat), but as you know, I still haven’t quite made my peace with anguish.”
The thing is, after trauma, the kind where Satoshi goes through is more than flight and fight; there is freeze, because the first would have meant suicide, and the second might very well have left copious blood and his slaughtered corpse. He subconsciously chose the third, where those moments of his life would become a stretched eternity, as sanity tucks itself deep inside of him. Words about forever and staying and keeping parts of another and remember me’s, not forgetting will never hit him the same way again; he never wants to be remembered anymore. “The world would have been better if it gave me closure, saved me years of my trials and tribulations.” ▬▬ι═══════ﺤ 🔥 ||
Though seemingly UNFAZED, those features delicately desperately attempt to conceal all the worry that had piled up within his being for all the years he'd had to stay away from that one mortal whose existence was held in a special place in his ROTTEN HEART. Impossible to point whether it was to pass the vain impression of SELF-RELIANCE so that the youngest could rely on as had been done long ago, or simply to nourish this Dragon's own PRIDE as the monster that this hell of Earth had long convinced itself to be for the sake of their own SURVIVAL ━━━━━━━━━━━ perhaps a sick combination of both. Fortunately, the weight of such a provenance shouldn't need to fall on the shoulders of that young soul with so much potential to become something GREATER, to reach further ━━━━━━━━━━━ a brighter place this creature bound to DARKNESS could never reach.
What became more and more difficult to hide, however, was the COMPLICATED expression contained in that gaze with no reflection now being forced to peek at the other from a LOWER angle while still trying to focus on the task at hand, giving to that pale face even more captivating traces, even if accidentally. Oh, how wickedly CRUEL time could be. . . Slipping through the fingers burning like the desert sand, but with the swiftness and sharpness of the coldest winter winds: Running, moving, changing, TAKING AWAY. . . How many more of springs would this trickster time carry away without him being able to enjoy the other's company now? Thus, every word uttered seems to pierce the Black Dragon with the force of dozens of sharp daggers, knowing he that so MUCH MORE could have been to bring some comfort to the youngest’ torments, watching silently in inaction as his insides trembled and turned in ANGER and SORROW.
❛❛ You DON'T need to. . . ❜❜ Despite the undeniable ache, his heart seems to find the strength to squeeze out, between a brief sigh, a few words in the mildest possible tone. ❛❛ You don't have to keep counting your wounds, make peace with the past. . . ANY OF THAT. ❜❜ Deep obsidians finally rise as the light hands seem to resign for a moment of UNCOMFORTABLE SILENCE, this light pause giving him some time to think about the words to be spoken with a rather ATTENTIVE intent. An audacious impulse propelled a free hand to reach for the other's chin, as if gently forcing him to face him directly. ❛❛ Take this grief and use it to FUEL your heart, focus on what's ahead ━━━━━━━━━━━ bare your teeth and keep on FIGHTING, no matter what. ❜❜ A vehement nod reassures his words, those jewels seeming to glister under the dim light from that inconvenient angle. The mere image, the mere thought of that young man falling victim to his own sadness and becoming yet another EMPTY SHELL would be too much for this demon to bear. Something he would never dare to allow ( nor admit out loud ), even if it cost whatever bit of HUMANITY was still left in his cursed body.
Let your flame BURN within.
❛❛ You have made THIS FAR. . . 'Should serve as enough proof of your ever growing STRENGTH. ❜❜ Eyes drop again, perhaps a little conscious of the tender FAMILIARITY that still seem to remain in those bright mahogany pupils even after all those years. ❛❛ Whether things change or not, I will be WATCHING OVER you. ❜❜ Interesting choice of words for a creature who knows that his mere presence will bring more inconvenience to the other than could possibly be EXPOSED. Yet, there still lingers in him is this strange instinct of PROTECTION towards what was once a FRAGILE little being on the verge of death in his arms, now bloomed into a grown man.