BSD SI IDEA...just a brain dump below the cut
I've been toying with making an SI based off of myself as an author (aka the original story I started and hope to one day finish). Power wise this would be some pretty sick light/dark powers. One of the things the light novels (and I think Dead Apple) touch on a lot is this idea of skill singularities. A skill that can manipulate both light and darkness certainly has the potential to create a skill singularity. Both Europe and Japan have been conducting research into skill singularities, particularly as weapons.
I'm thinking that my SI was studying abroad in Europe when they disappeared. Their ability is really interesting - is it really one skill, or is it two? They were tricked into thinking they were being given a great academic opportunity when actually...they were being captured to be experimented on. Oops.
I'm thinking they do manage to split the skills. They create another body (like what happened with Chuuya, it seems) and deposit one of the skills in there. It's not clear which. There is no artificial skill, but there is an artificial body, though it's identical in every conceivable way.
Incidentally, with splitting the abilities there is an emotional split as well. The light half off the ability loses it's memories, potentially joining the European powers as a skill user, or possibly being sent back to America with a cover up story in place. Ideally I'd get them to Japan somehow to participate in things...but that may happen if they stick with Europe. Even split out, controlling and bending light alone is quite a powerful ability.
The dark half is kept imprisoned. It has a poor disposition (SI who uses it/its let's go) and is very violent and angry. It remembers everything. So it should not be released. Control over total darkness is quite powerful. Perhaps while Verlaine is on his assassination rampage he frees it. He doesn't think much of that probably, but it takes that to heart. It end up in Yokohama and joins the Mafia after everything crazy that happens with him and Chuuya. It looks up to him, and learns from him. Unlike Verlaine, who agonized over whether he was human, it agonizes over what would happen should it meet its other half, and which of them is truly them. Is it Wendy Golden? Or is the other half Wendy Golden? Like him, it's a loneliness that it cannot share with anyone else - no one can claim to understand this. Despite this, it differentiates itself as "Arkorus", referring to the light half as "Araia".
(Coincidentally, the light half takes on "Araia" as a codename, while working with Europe)
They dream of each other, though the dreams are to abstract for them entirely to realize this.
