Sunny One So True
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Summary: She's the only person who has ever been there for him without question.
A/N: Hello, this is just a little idea I've been tinkering around with for a while. This is the product of Sunny's seemingly complete understanding and faith in Raiden despite his sometimes questionable actions during the events of Metal Gear Rising. Title taken from the song Sunny by Bobby Hebb.
Sunny.
She was the one person who never questioned him, never judged him. He was never sure if it was because she was still grateful to him for saving her or if it was because she actually trusted him to do what was right but, whatever it was, he was thankful.
She never feared him.
There were times, even now, when Rose would back away from him or flinch when he touched her. It was a defensive reaction he supposed; he'd hurt her so many times over the years that he was sure she couldn't help it. Even his own son seemed wary of him on occasion but not Sunny. Never Sunny.
Out of everyone he knew, everyone he surrounded himself with, she was perhaps the smallest and most petite. She always seemed so tiny in comparison yet she never shied away from him. It was amazing to him that she never felt the need to distance herself from him physically for he knew how skittish she was around people. She didn't have much use for people and he knew of only one fully human person she trusted absolutely, the rest of her close-knit group being cyborg or robot entirely.
Still it was humbling to have someone so dedicated, so loyal to him. Humanity had lost faith in him, though he'd openly admit it was partly his own fault. He hadn't given the world much of a reason to believe in him lately. Even his former comrades from Maverick were beginning to look at him strangely.
And what was a man to do when no one trusted him? When his own family seemingly had no faith in him?
Run to her of course.
She was so young and bright and vibrant, reminding him of everything he could have been despite his childhood horrors but failed at. He didn't resent her for it, though. Quite the contrary, he loved her for it. She showed him that there were good people out there who looked at others without discrimination, without criticism.
He wasn't a savior, he was no one's hero. She was the hero. She was the one bright spot in a world full of shadows.
Maybe that was why he was a little nicer to her than most. The biting sarcasm and cutting words that came so naturally to him nowadays disappeared with her. His eyes lost their normally hard edge, his face relaxed and his entire being just softened around her. She relaxed him.
Rose had once let on that she was a bit jealous of how he was with Sunny. Imagine that: a grown woman being jealous of an eleven year old girl but she was. Rose didn't like how placated he seemed with her, the long conversations they had, the parental and fatherly affection he had for her. She said she didn't like how he treated Sunny more like his child than John but he couldn't help it. In a way, she was his daughter.
He had been with Sunny since the beginning of her introduction to the human world. He was the first person, outside of clinical scientists, that she'd ever seen and the very first one to give her affection. On the other hand he barely knew John. John had grown up thinking Roy Campbell was his father and was slow to fully trust him as his true father.
For some reason that didn't bother him. He was actually okay with it because Sunny needed him more. Her mother had left her to him and he was more than happy to take care of her, despite Otacon's status as her legal guardian.
She was his in every way that mattered.
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