Chapter One: Unconventional.
With Howard Link always watching everything he did (not that he ever really did anything anymore) Allen Walker found that he had a great deal of spare time to simply think. To think about anything, really. Allen was not well educated, having been orphaned so young, but he was not naïve or stupid. Perhaps a little dense, but only because he was so young, so innocent, so inexperienced.
Allen had tried going to Lavi for information and conversation, but that always seemed impossible, either because of dearest Howard or because Lavi had his education as future Bookman to attend to. Kanda was out of the question. Lenalee had Komui hovering around her more often as of late and everyone else just seemed to be so busy these days. And Howard Link was completely intolerable.
Suffice to say, Allen ran out of things to ponder rather quickly- conventional things, at least. This was easily understandable when one considered that Allen's life had never, at any point, been conventional.
One of Allen's first unconventional quandaries was: Why does Road Camelot like me so much? Beyond Road's unusual tastes, all Allen could come up with as an answer was his equally unusual looks. However, further thought into Road's… life left him rather queasy and dizzy, and terribly uneasy.
The twins, David and Jasdero… as far as he was concerned they were a medical mystery the psychological community would adore. He wasn't going to go there.
Tyki Mikk. The Noah of Pleasure. This aspect Allen did in fact spend a great deal of time pondering. If one were to consider Tyki Mikk as simply 'pleasure,' then he seemed to be quite the opposite of Allen Walker, the Musician of Noah, or no.
It was their differences that Allen found most curious.
The young Exorcist took in, embraced everything- good or bad- accepted, dealt with it and moved on. The older Noah dealt only with that which he wished to (of course, disregarding Innocence). Marquis Mikk played at helping create Akuma as well as being a perfect human and an imperfect human. Vagabond and nobility- Noah not included.
Allen Walker insisted that he was human- granted, a cursed human- intent on saving the Akuma and the humans. All the while he refused to allow himself to become a Noah. The Exorcist fought. The human beings within Allen and Tyki- whatever was left of them- fought themselves.
That seemed the only thing they had in common. From what Allen could understand, the basic reason his sword of exorcism had backfired was because Tyki had already been suppressing his Noah, not allowing it on the same 'plane' as himself. The same thing had happened when he had impaled himself with his own sword, even if it had only been for a moment.
So Allen, the 14th, and Tyki, the 3rd (who 'coincidentally' looked just like the previous 14th), were both, to some degree, suppressing their Noah. No, Allen Walker and Tyki Mikk couldn't have that much in common. They were night and day. If Tyki was pleasure, then Allen was self-sacrifice. Suddenly, Allen realized that his thoughts were rather consumed by the Noah.
Fortunately for the fascinated Allen, Tyki Mikk found himself in a similar situation.