Another from the same comm. It is, BTW, 20heartbeats. Prompt this time is "Figment; Fragment (is this really all you can be?)"
Pairing: Implied AkuRoku
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fragment
Sometimes he hates himself.
He hates himself for being what he is, just a shell without a heart. A homunculus, so to speak: he has no heart, no soul. All he has is a mind, incapable of love or emotions.
But at the same time he hates himself. He's just a figment of some twisted puppeteer's imagination, a fragment of their mind, and he knows he can't be anything more than he is, but even without emotions he yearns for it. Yearns to be... something more.
"Is this really all you can be?" DiZ asked him once, and he glared. He always glared at DiZ because even though he doesn't have emotions, he knows that the man is mocking him for being a 'shadow' of some person called Sora. He doesn't have any interest in Sora, but DiZ does.
Even Axel... wants to know this. He wants to know if they can be something greater than just Nobodies, cursed to walk in the twilight, the shadowed places, while the beings they formerly were roam in daylight, capable of love and emotion.
But it doesn't matter, because they can never be anything more than what they are.