Resemblance
A Matantei Loki Ragnarok fanfic by Rabid Lola
A/N: First Matantei fic. n.n Short and pointless, but it's something I DID notice. Still hafta watch the last two episodes… ToT Wish exams were over. Wish I had access to the manga, too. :D
Yamino point of view. Hope you like it.
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You have 'Tosan's eyes.
That's the first thing I notice when I see your face; the first thing that tells me it's you, Hel-neesan, even before niisan scents you and turns sorrowfully, confirming our guess that our sister is on the side against us.
You have 'Tosan's eyes. How can we mistake them for anyone else's? They're the same vibrant, luminescent green, also set in a pale, delicately-boned face. But behind your eyes is not the dancing redness of the Trickster god, but a sort of dull emptiness, a darkness as befits the goddess of the Dead. Even through the glasses that adorn your face, I can see this.
The darkness behind your eyes is emptier than it should be, even for you.
Hel-neesan, I can hear myself thinking unhappily, as you look down and speak to us, your words not really registering in my mind. What happened to you?
The pain and the bitterness and potent anger surrounding you can all too clearly be felt. Niisan feels it, 'Tosan feels it, I feel it.
What happened to you?
The cold goddess-girl that holds a limp mortal in her arms is a far cry from the sister I can remember in my eons-ago childhood; the bright, affectionate, willing neesan of a serpent-stripling and a wolf cub, bright even if she knew she was destined to be the goddess of Death. Hel…
'Tosan cries out as you disappear with Mayura-san, falls back, shoulders slumping, as Heimdall disappears, too. And now his green eyes are filled with despair and hurt and pain…now his eyes are the one that look like yours. Hel's.
You have him in a fix now, neesan. He needs to save Mayura-san, but he can never hurt you.
A father would do anything for his daughter… Odd. That was my thought, but I caught an echo, floating in the remnants of the pain you left behind, and for some reason I remember again, the lost, lonely look in your eyes.
Loki's eyes.
Neesan…What happened?
…--EnD--…
Am aware that Yamino calls Loki "Loki-sama"…but anyway.