A/N: I've always loved Ronin Warriors, and I've always wanted to write a fic on them. I'd been thinking lately about how much power and stress would be placed on the human body when you constantly had the power of something as fickle as the elements racing through your body. Thus... phobia drabbles! That's right! 100 words bits for each of the guys and their respective phobias.
1. Rowen
Attention Deficit Disorder
There's nothing more terrifying than to know that everything falling to shit and you're left grasping at sand. And that's every day for him. He wanders through the day as a stranger in his own life, unable to just finish or buckle down and just do it or to pull himself away from what he likes.
Because of this, everything in his life is fucked. Spent the grocery money on a console. Lost his scholarship because his grades went up in smoke. He's hopeless and utterly unable. He wants to stand on solid ground for once and make everything right.
2. Ryo
Pyromania
It feels good to have fire back on your tongue. The carcinogens are sinking into his brain and the heat of the smoke is happily cooking his lungs and the tar is getting everywhere but he can taste the fire again and everything else is shoved to the side as not important.
He just loves the way fire cleans and transforms. Besides, the house was just going to be abolished anyway. He saved the owners money. Rather satisfied with himself, he taps the end of his cig, watching the ash fall to the ground and the thick smoke rise skyward.
3. Sage
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Entered the room. Make sure the door is closed. Check it again. Check it again, maybe it didn't latch the first time. Wait, check it again…. Okay. Time to check the windows now. Alright, the pane was locked. Try it again. Again. One more time. All right, now check the seal. Okay, check again. Alright, that window was safe.
No one understood why he did the patterns. He just had to do the patterns, he had to make sure everything was all right or else his friends or his parents or someone could get hurt. He had to protect them.
4. Kento
Agoraphobia - Fear of open, high places
He wasn't scared of open spaces. He wasn't. He just liked to keep things close. At night he couldn't sleep without covers, but that's normal. He just kept the blankets tight around him. The heat was soothing. The close proximity was soothing. He wasn't scared, he didn't like being exposed.
That was the problem with his lover. He kicked the covers off at any opportunity. He was utterly fearless, perfectly willing to jump off a cliff without a glance back. That was terrifying and horrific and heart wrenching, but that was worth it. See, he held back just as tightly.
5. Cye
Toxiphobia - Fear of poisons
Now, he was perfectly well aware that there wasn't a conspiracy out in the food market about altered genetics and deadly additives. He was a perfectly skeptical human being. However, those poisons were out there and he'd be damned if anyone he knew was exposed to that kind of toxicity.
He drinks water like a man dying of thirst. Water filters out the body, it washes the toxins from him and that is his biggest defense from the filth in his flesh. He's constantly reminding his roommates about their water intake as well. If they fall prey, he falls too.