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Seonghwa wakes to someone peeling his eyelids open. He waits for a light to overtake his vision. The scientists always liked waking him up with light strong enough to rival the sun. Seonghwa hates them. It burns him from the inside out. He braces himself to find arteries and veins again, to make them burst, but as his vision clears he finds two wide, youthful eyes staring back down at him instead.
“Do you like Mincraft?”
Seonghwa screams, sits up, and immediately regrets it. His head feels like it’s made of pudding, and it’s all gonna fall off his neck.
or Seonghwa accidentally meets a kid called Soul in the middle of a plague ridden dystopia.
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Seonghwa raises himself to a sitting position, slowly this time, and squints down at the crude sketch. It's a little stick figure of a person labeled with the word “you.” There's another stick figure, this one with long hair matching the boy’s, labeled “me.” There's a strange oblong circle above Seonghwa’s stick figure labeled “your soul.” Then the little stick figure of Seonghwa lays down on the ground with x’s over his eyes, and the little stick figure of the boy has its hand raised with the “soul” in his hand. The boy’s stick figure looks shocked with wide, cartoonishly large eyes. The little stick figure of the boy tosses the “soul” back into Seonghwa’s stick figure.
Seonghwa just sits there and swaps glances between the drawing and the boy, waiting for it to click in his brain. The boy’s looking at him expectantly, eyes peeking above knees drawn close to his chest. His hair is a dark and wild mess of a bob that frames his face. Seonghwa can’t help but see something familiar in it all. Something oddly familiar about this boy and the strange oblong soul and the x’s over his stick figure’s eyes and…
The realization then smacks into Seonghwa like a runaway train.
“You stole my soul?” He squawks pathetically, “You killed me?”
The boy nods, “Not for long. I…um…put your soul back in.”He considers for a minute, introducing himself as Mars, but finds that there’s no use to that. Clearly, Soul doesn’t know who Mars is. He isn’t afraid of him. Mars is meant to invoke fear, and if anything, Seonghwa doesn’t want Soul to fear him.
Soul looks at Steph with the stars in his eyes, and by the way Steph sags in relief at the sight of him, Seonghwa can tell that Soul is loved.
“Soul, oh my god! Where have you been? You worried the shit out of me oh my god!” Steph runs up to Soul and engulfs him in a hug hard enough to nearly send the boy toppling off his feet. Steph pulls back and cups Soul’s cheeks, eyeing him up and down, “Are you okay? You’re not hurt are you? We’re running out of medical supplies but I think Jongseob can-”
“I’m fine, Steph,” Soul smiles up at him and Steph yanks him back into another hug, burying his face into Soul’s shoulder.
Steph then looks up, and his eyes go wide when he finally catches sight of Seonghwa. Seonghwa braces himself for it. For the hatred and fear that people have always given him upon first glance. Steph spins around with Soul in his grasp so that he can talk to Seonghwa directly.
“And who are you?” Steph pokes a finger in Seonghwa’s direction, brow raised in question.
Seonghwa finds himself frozen in place, lips sealed shut. Steph doesn’t know who Mars is either. He isn’t scared of him in the way people are afraid of Mars. He’s just concerned for Soul’s well being.
“Uh hello?” Steph urges.Looking at Soul isn't like looking in a mirror. Looking at Soul is like looking at a completely different version of himself. A version of himself that had never been stuck in the Alnitak labs. A version of himself that found people that love him. A version of himself that is protected and cared for. Soul is still apprehensive, and he is still deadly, but he has people that don't see him as a monster.
Some time long ago, people used to wish on stars. The only star Seonghwa sees is the sun right now. But as the closest one to the Earth, does that make the sun the most powerful star there is?
Seonghwa wishes on the vermillion dawn bleeding across the horizon. He wishes for Soul and Steph’s safety. He wishes to find a family for himself. He wishes to love and be loved. -
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