Akemi looks out the window of her room.
It's dark.
You know, after you look at something bright, there'll be spots left in your vision?
She hates them. Akemi though as she stared at the ceiling, as spots twisted into shapes and into snakes and chilling fangs and dripping blood. Being uncontrollably imaginative has it's perks, this isn't one of them.
She hates the dark.
But there's a reason, why she hates the dark.
There's a reason. Why her father is so harsh to her.
Akemi curls in on herself and shuts her eyes. To block out the monsters she sees, and to shut out the real monsters she knows.
Kimura Geikyō is a strict, harsh man. He strives to be the best, in many terms he is actually a good person. Charismatic, responsible, sensible and rational, intelligent and creative, a bit of a perfectionist with high self-expectations and self-discipline.
These are all good traits, it makes him a likable person, a charming person and as a interior designer he is wanted by many companies for his efficiency and charm. But... he has no empathy at all.
And that makes him just as harsh as you can imagine.
He place his expectations for himself on her. He expects her to be as strict with herself as he is, as good at everything as he is, he expects her to beat herself up over the tiniest mistake and be perfect at everything. And with her being herself? Ha. No way.
Akemi is a moody and stubborn person. She admits it. She is a bit of a rebel. She'd gladly do anything to help people as long as they are reasonable and within her power. Sometimes for people who've helped her, even if the thing is outside what she could help, she'd try. But what she cannot stand, is demands.
Demands and threats. She hates them. If a person comes up to her and demands something, threaten her for something, or generally uses a bad attitude, she rebels. She does the exact opposite even if it means hurtng herself. It's stupid. Really, but it makes her feel like she's in control.
And that makes her and her father's relationship a radioactive bomb.
In elementary school, her father demanded her to master things, to hand in her homework in time, demanded her to get good grades and threatened her with the basement. So Akemi rebeled. She lashed out, she didn't hand in a single piece of homework for an entire semester and failed her Japanese, science and mathematics on purpose. She got one hell of a beating later but at least she got to snark the hell out of him.
Her mother Suzumi tells her to try to hand in her homework, so she did. Mother asked if she can help out in the garden, so after five minutes of rest, she did. Akemi likes to feel like she has a choice. Give her a choice and she listens. Demand her for things, and she lashes out, she rebels and she would do everything in her power to give you the exact opposite. Demand her to help you with your project? Well she'll sabotage it for you. Threaten her to give you money? She would do whatever in her power to leave you broke and believe me. She can. After all Akemi is well versed in psychology. How else would she write good plots and novels? How else can she create and mold perfect characters?
Akemi's the kind of person who can do basically anything of she puts her heart to it. She has just about as many talents as her father does. But she is a rebel. She is lazy. She wants to be a writer and nothing else. She wants to be free and choose what to do, choose what to say. She is carefree and her own person and her father has no power over her. Her father have no say in her life. He doesn't gets to tell her what to become. Her quirk and it's power doesn't determine her future.
She would do anything in her ability to become the exact opposite of what her father desires from her, she will not bring him fame nor fortune, nor will she thank him for his teaching and up-bringing. She will make him ashamed of himself, she will make him pay for kicking her off that chair when she was two, for strangling her against the wall everytime he got mad. For the time she got hit be a car because he tripped her. For all those drafts of her novels which she place her blood sweat and tears in, that he had burned and torn.
Akemi doesn't care. She will become famous, she will be everything he wished he could be but better, she will be famous, successful and loved, she will do anything in her power to do so.
And when she does, she will rip her father apart, and leave him broken and alone.
Like he did back then.
Five years old, Akemi doesn't know what's happening.
Her head hurts. And she can taste something metallic on her tongue.
Is that blood?
Huh... blood. they say blood is thicker than water. Matsuda-san from school always told them their parents loves them. And they love them unconditionally.
Is this Otou-san's love?
...It hurts.
It hurts and Akemi... Akemi doesn't want it.
Her ribs still feels weird... What's wrong with her?
Is something so wrong with her that Otou-san has to do this to her?
Ah... Okaa-san is yelling at Otou-san again.
Okaa-san... help me. I can't see.
It's so dark.
What's that in the corner? I'm scared. Kiki-onee-san always say there are monsters in the dark, in the basement. Is that a monster?
Akemi whimpered.
Dark... too dark, too cold...
It hurts.
Please RnR for Geikyō's arrest.
