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The introduction to a new OC is in this chapter. Hope you like the OC.
'She lived a life outside of the one I knew,' The quill danced across the page that was lit by a single candle, 'That life was no better than the one I gave her.' He'd pause to look up then back down as he caught the sight of a single photo, 'She saved me I owed her that much, but I never showed her it. Never showed a life that could have happened because, instead I chose one that was challenging.' With a face that carried no emotions except a single tired stare he'd look out to the night, 'I never want to go back, it's sickeningly damned.'
"Lu?"
"Yes sweetheart?" A man with white-blond hair responded clearing the table in front of him with a quick swipe of his hand, carrying the reminisces of a past lunch away.
Alais who was seated across the room with her chin atop her knees glanced towards the man with half mooned silver eyes. The crackling fireplace warmed the room yet she couldn't feel warm, that heated air wasn't reaching her as fast as she would have liked. Lu smiled down at her and patted her head softly as he sat down next to her, his familiar pine cone smell invading her senses.
"Have I done wrong?" The question was the whisper of a lost child, misguided as it stumbled across an eerie forest.
"You never can and never could Ala," He pulled her into his warm embrace and patted her head like a child, his comforting arms something she couldn't forget, "Do you want me to tell you a story, мои Ala?"
The half Russian man at her side ushered her to turn and face him a more serious look on his face than she had ever seen. With a nod, a childishly curious one he smiled brightly, hands dropping to his side.
"It's a story about two boys, both friends since a young age, both different in their own special way. The two boys both lived in an old village, one that held respect above all, if you were a child you were kind to those older and if you were older you taught the young, that was the rule. The older of the two was a boy with dull blond hair almost white if you blinked who had eyes a cool blue, just as the ice that fell in the winter. He was a boy no different from the rest, he followed everything they said like a puppy, an ignorantly happy puppy never a frown on his face," Lu smiled a beaming smile as he finished the lonely sentence yet his eyes were sad and filled with regret.
"What about the other boy, Lu?" Alais couldn't help but want to know more, she didn't like not knowing things.
"Ah, him," A blissful smile coated the older mans features as he leaned against the wall behind him eyes shimmering in silent joy, "His name was Amar but everyone called him wandering Ama because his mind could never stay on one topic-"
"-They called it ADHD," Alais interrupted with a distant gaze as she shuffled her legs closer to herself.
Lu didn't seem to mind when he closed his eyes softly and blissfully, "I would have never thought, you do know so much more than I, мастер," He chuckled heartily and shook his head as if to stay on topic, "He was such a wonderful boy. Mind open to all possibilities but because of that he noticed more things than others. He noticed a wall that was not safety but instead a jail. He detested that wall and every night he would tell his friend over and over, 'Lubah, I'm going to leave just you wait and I'll take you with me, that's a promise' such a headstrong boy he was."
"Do you know what happens next, мастер Ala?" Master. She hated it when he called her master, it didn't fit her.
"Tell me what the village did," She whispered in between lidded eyelids. She didn't want to know what happened next, a strange feeling never left her and her heart refused to stop pumping furiously.
"They took him," Lu looked down to the girl at his side and laughed softly, just as the person he was, his smile never left his face, "All people are mistreated at one point, мои Ala and sometimes one cannot do anything to stop it."
Alais buried her head behind her scarf and closed her eyes breathing in and out. Lu stopped speaking for a moment, cold blue eyes a shimmering black hole, bottomless and dark. He'd never stop watching though, this woman by his side was a child by all means, new and unexposed.
"Do you know the purpose of this мастер, why I have told you this?" Lu questioned slicking back his white-blond hair with ease. The simmering of the fireplace reduced to a nothingness of ashes and black smoke.
"No matter how gifted you are...you, alone, cannot change the world," She answered back eyes focused upwards at this point, staring blankly at the ceiling with her never-ending eyes.
"I could never fool you, мастер," Lu smiled and stood up to leave when a hand grasped his sleeve and pulled him back, forcing him to turn around and stare at tired, long-lived years of torment.
"Annie," She spoke clearly her bored voice picking up in pitch as she tried to speak louder, "I fear that she will do something reckless, something that will endanger everything that we've worked for."
Lu smiled gently at the girl in front of him, crouching down to reach her height and grasped the tops of her knees in his hands, "мои Ala you never fear," He laughed in delight at the strange look she gave him no matter how small it was, "Do not lie мои Ala you only live, not fear," His faced morphed into a mask that she had never seen before, a face had taken his place, disguising themselves as her Lu, "Then you would not be Ala мастер but an imposture."
"But Annie," She pressed trying to get his attention.
"Forget about Annie for a moment Ala мастер," He told her earnestly his gaze a soft plea, "Do not think of others, for once Ala мастер think about yourself and what you wish."
"I do Lu," She confessed, "I do so much."
"Then act on it Ala мастер, you never do. I know you do not know how to apply the knowledge you have about comfort and others onto people but do not let that stop you. Do not let hesitance rule your world Ala мастер," His words were a gentle push, a guidance in the right direction, "I know how you feel about him Ala мастер and seeing you like this does not settle well with me, if you truly love him then you will let him see you as something more, build what you already had."
"But what if it's gone," She stressed the words burning into her mind as she clenched his shoulders strongly, "It's no longer there."
"Ala мастер," He tisk'd her like a child and took her hands off his shoulder, "Do not delude yourself, if you spend half your life with someone, no matter what you've been through, you will never forget them-never forget what was already there." He spoke like a man with experience. Like a tortured soul who did not get to hide, Lubah, he'd gone through the same thing she had-this man who was with her through thick and thin. Was just like her.
"So sure of yourself," Alais murmured with a clipped tone, her thumb finding its way to her lips.
Lu looked back at her and caressed the top of her head like a father might his own child. The large village sprung to life making him turn his head slightly to face the wooden door.
"They're all up now, Ala мастер," Lu informed Alais with a polite smile as his white-blond hair found its way in front of his face.
"Let them," She waved it off easily, "If they are up or not does not concern me, there's not much left anyways."
The great massacre of Flâneur left the village in ruins, the population only a slim handful, it was bad enough that food was scarce. Those who lived in the village were getting sicker and could barely breathe a word without coughing up their lungs. The people of Flâneur were wonderful people who ranged in personalities, not one person was similar to the other, yet they were reduced to ashes just for being different. Those who were simply innocent were killed never having a chance to live their lives in peace and now those of a different breed no longer reigned over the village in all their unique glory.
"You must lead them now Ala мастер, the job has become yours. You are the strongest titan shifter, if you go down then we all will cease to exist," His voice reached a point of no return, a plea that held onto a thin string. It was not that Alais wasn't being the leader that she should be, it was simply because Lu was afraid of saying goodbye to the village that had given him a home.
"2%," Alais responded nodding her head.
"Ala мастер?" Lu questioned with confusion circling his gaze.
"We have a 2% chance of reclaiming our honour, our name," She said firmly, her face a tired-empty wall, "I will make it happen Lu and I will also think for myself. I'll talk to Annie and stop her, I know she'll do something careless." She jumped off her chair with a loud clank, moving her feet in a slow rhythm as they dragged against the ground.
"I fear Ala мастер, that even with your word Annie will not listen," Lu murmured when she closed the door behind her, only a flowing black object flashing, "But Ala мастер is never wrong," He smiled grimly and looked down to an image on the countertop, "You're daughter is very wonderful Élaine мастер you were right in trusting her with this honour, she will bring us to salvation."
Such faith a simple person could hold, but he was not wrong. She was born for the role of a leader, the one that could and would lead them all to Salvation. The transformation was stronger than most for her as it took over her body, longer than most because she would be the strongest, she would be the obstacle to beat. Yet she was not trusted by all who thought her infatuation with a human would be her downfall but it couldn't be her downfall if that human didn't know, right?
"I don't believe
the world can't be saved."
мои - My
мастер - Master
I wanted to give you a look at the life that Alais leads when Levi isn't there and what she had been doing since he was gone. If it makes it easier I will explain where this is going. Alais, after her mothers death, now takes over the village that her family originated from since her mother's death. All those times that Alais could not be around Levi was when she was at the village learning all that she'd need to to rule. Around the time that Alais got sick was when the village was attacked. Now, Alais being sick did come from the transformation to become a titan-shifter. She has the blood flowing through her yet it takes effect at a certain age. There is a little twist though, Alais is sick. She'll often start coughing uncontrollably and cough up blood but that's all about the curse that was placed on the village leaders of each generation which has been passed onto Alais. It has something to do with Élaine, Alais' mothers plan. I'm not going to reveal too much because it will start to get into the manga, and if you haven't read it, I don't want to spoil it for you.
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