Disclaimer: Okay, here we go again…. *Takes a deep breath* IdonotownRoninWarriorsorthecharacterstherein. Phew. How was that?
Oh, and on another note, Happy 25th Anniversary, Ronin Warriors! Still a beloved anime with fans spanning the globe!
Taking Over
I can't stand it…
Day in and day out, it's all I can think about. Every night is filled with nightmares of battles past and every day I stare into the mirror at the numerous scars that those battles have left me with. Some of them still hurt… they ache every day without relief… Skin that was once soft and lovely now seems so coarse and alien to me. Dark circles hang below my eyes and a heavy weight is bearing down on my chest… this weight made up of guilt, pain, sorrow and uncertainty are just impossible to shake off. Who… who is this stranger staring back at me from beyond this glassy portal? Who is it…?
Honestly, I can hardly remember my life before I took up arms as the bearer of Torrent… and that frightens me. Whatever life I had of my own is gone now… and so is the person I once was. Now, I'm just Torrent…. Only a puppet to ward off evil… A sacrificial lamb, of sorts.
There is a shift in the room behind me and as I look back I see Kento, my roommate, my teammate, shift onto his side in bed. He often shifts positions throughout the night unless he's got something to hold onto. …Don't ask me how I know that. It's still very early, about five in the morning and I know he's very exhausted… sleeping off his recovery from the last battle we were in no more than three days ago. Even in the darkness I can see the band aid on his cheek and the bandage wrapped tightly around his bicep. He really took a thrashing out there again… but he is just so brash sometimes. He rushes right into battle without much thought to why we're doing this or who he's fighting. He jumps right into the thick of it head first without hesitation, even when his life is in danger…
There is something courageous and admirable about how he is. Strong, fearless, but also kind and gentle like a teddy bear… But dumb… Maybe we're all dumb for how we blindly do as we're told and take up arms against an enemy so much stronger than us… It's all just dumb… We are always in danger, forced to put our lives on the line again and again to save the world. Sometimes, I just wish it would fall on someone else's shoulders for once. Sometimes I wish they would just leave us alone.
I… I don't want to do this anymore….