Date Originally Posted: August 31, 2009
Title: How the Seed Was Sown
Series: Skip Beat!
Rating: PG
Characters: Reino. Ficticious parents of Reino.
Pairing: None.
Spoilers: If you're caught up with the volume releases in English, you're good.
Word Count: 395
DISCLAIMER: Skip Beat! belongs to Yoshiko Nakamura.
BETA: None.
SUMMARY: Ever wonder about Reino's way of thinking?
NOTE: yoyente on mentioned that a Reino one would be fun. So I thought about it and this was born.
How the Seed Was Sown
Reino had learned from a very age that hate dominated all emotions in the heart.
As a child, he was often left at home alone due to his parents' busy schedules. Reino was fine with it because people would always be popping out of his walls to talk to him. They would talk and play with him sometimes. Whenever he tried to show them to his housekeeper, she would shake her head and mutter about imaginary friends.
Reino soon realized that his new friends were no longer alive. They would constantly ask him to seek revenge for them. None ever asked for him to deliver a message of love to their families because their memories were clouded with only hate. Revenge. Resentment. He thought that perhaps the ones who had messages of love hadn't found him yet. Because according to his housekeeper's dramas, love conquered all.
Then there were some spirits who simply liked to play mischief. They didn't care if they didn't remember things from when they were living. They told him that they liked to have fun. They had spent their entire lives following rules and doing what's right only to have that very life snatched away. Many of them strongly advised Reino to have his fun while he was still living. They also spoke to him of how fun death was but how the pain that led to death was horrifying. Reino learned many things from the ghosts and learned to channel his gifts. He was happy.
Then his family split. His father's busy schedule was only that way because he was planning secret rendezvous with his mother's best friend. His mother found out and began devoting her life to making her ex and former best friend miserable. Her hatred and resentment grew larger and larger, shadowing everything else in her life including Reino. He watched as her business grew exponentially while trying to beat her ex-husband. Reino could only marvel at how beautiful his once docile mother had become. She used to be so quiet. A gentle, mild-tempered female. Now her very existence sparkled with ruthlessness and resentment. It was if she were a succubus. Growing more beautiful as hate consumed her.
So Reino decided the he would find a woman like that. A woman who would be so special, so twisted in a way that only he could appreciate.
A/N: In reality, I have no idea about Reino's childhood. I thought about both his parents being into the Occult and stuff. I thought about them having powers of their own. I thought about them being normal and loving. I thought of them being normal and not liking his abilities. In the end, I chose this particular road because there has to be a reason for his way of thinking.
So this addresses a couple things:
- why he would believe hate dominates the heart
- why he would prefer death over pain (in regards to having to fight Ren)
- why he likes to do things that are fun for him irregardless of the consequences
- he's been twisted for awhile
Yeah. Reino is just all kinds of special. I actually like him as a character. He stirs things up.
Does everyone get the title?