Screws. Gears and Pride
(A/N: This is loosely based off of Mothy/Akuno-p's song NEJI to Haraguma to PURAIDO [A screw, A gear and pride]. It is my first time doing a songfic and a first time writing for this series since seventh grade. This is an AU for that I guess, since I couldnt really find a way to incorporate the lyrics into the canon verse completely. Note that they're not exactly human, nor demigod, but maybe like an android or some other artificial being. Please give any honest reviews/criticism)
Will's POV
I awoke in a pile of rubbish, feeling a lot like rubbish myself. I stood up, holding my arms out for balance and carefully stepped out of the box I was in. All around me were boxes and scraps of metal inside a large but dimly lit room.
A junkyard
That's what had happened. A few brief memories played through my mind.
Imperfect
It won't work
Garbage
I was in a daze, trying to remember what happened, when I heard someone speak.
"They got rid of you too?" I turned to see someone, a boy around my age, staring at me, only a few feet away. I didn't know what really had happened, but judging by the tone of his voice, he had probably been in my place at one point. I nodded slowly and he only sighed.
"I guess so. Who are you?" I asked him. I took in his appearance, a battered down brown jacket that could have been from the forties, dark hair almost to his shoulders and eyes that could have held as much mystery in them as grief.
"My name is," he began, taking a breath, "Nico. Nico di Angelo, at least, that would've been my name if I wasn't flawed." I could tell that the poor kid never really had any social interactions at all. I was caught off guard when he asked me what my name was. How funny, I was never given an actual name. I looked down at my wrist, where there was tiny writing that looked like somebody had hacked at with a knife. I could make out one word on there.
Solace