WK fic: The Seven Deadly Sins
Title: The Seven Deadly Sins
Word Count: 1,000+
Rating: PG
Author’s Notes: Eight Assassins. Seven deadly sins. It’s been awhile, but I wanted to get back into writing. I’m not happy with the last part - it doesn’t seem to flow with the rest - so I’ll eventually go back to revise this.
***
Luxuria
It’s no secret that Yohji Kudou is a ladies man. He’ll spend the day harmlessly flirting with the innocent girls that flock to the flower shop and the evenings at Tokyo’s hottest nightclubs with more lecherous activities in mind.
Yohji loves women: he smiles at them, buys them drinks, and listens intently to their conversation. He charms them all, seducing each with compliments and gentle touches that promise so much more.
Yohji loves women: he goes home with them, loses himself in heated kisses and warm, soft bodies, taking and giving pleasure in turn. That night, each one is the most beautiful, most desirable woman in the world.
They are, because for that short time, Yohji forgets that he wraps a wire around people’s throats and strangles them to death.
***
Gula
Schuldig says to Farfarello that he doesn’t like the thoughts of complete strangers that invade his mind, making it hard to distinguish those of his own. Funny then, how he seeks them out so often.
Schuldig devours other people’s lives: he likes to uncover every hope and aspiration, and drinks in the anguish and humiliation his victims experience when those dreams are forcefully crushed. His games grow more complicated with time, but the payoff is honey-sweet: he likes to see how much damage he can cause with the exposure of one carefully-hidden secret, gleefully watching
the destruction of whole families spread out like ripples across a pond.
***
Acedia
Hideka Ken, with his passion for soccer and motorcycling, seems to be the most active member of Weiss. Instead, he is the laziest.
Ken works at the flower shop. Ken coaches soccer to children in his spare time. Ken smiles at total strangers, befriends nuns, and slashes gaping holes in people’s torsos, moving on to the next target before the last one’s blood and entrails can hit the ground.
More flowers delivered. More soccer tips given. The same amount of smiles, less nuns, more body parts. Every day, more of the same.
Ken falls in love. Does he ride off into the Australian sunset with his girlfriend, make a new life for himself? No, he watches her leave, and numbly returns to flowers, soccer and blood-stained
claws.
***
Invidia
His teammates in Weiss - especially Yohji - consider Fujimiya Ran to be a disinterested person, only concerned with his sister’s well-being and revenge on Takatori Reiji. This is not true: Ran is a passionate, but intensely private, person. That’s why Schuldig likes to ‘play’ with him so much.
Ran often proclaims his annoyance with the giggling teenage girls that loiter in the flower shop. Secretly, he wishes he could regain some that starry-eyed innocence he lost so long ago. He despises Schwarz for their evil schemes and arrogance, but can’t help but begrudge their unnatural powers and confidence.
But the person Ran resents the most is the sister he dearly loves. Aya-chan is a sweet, virtuous girl, untouched by guilt, not twisted by pain and the desire for bloody vengeance. Ran will do anything to bring Aya back, but for himself Ran wants nothing more than her unnatural sleep.
***
Ira
Farfarello is calm and soft-spoken much of the time. This is of no comfort to the dozens of people he’s already killed in Japan, nor the hundreds from Europe before that. Crawford recognizes his teammate is a valuable, if sometimes uncontrollable weapon, and is careful to allow the Irishman the freedom to vent his rage.
Farfarello has a lot of rage to vent: anger towards the God that deceived and betrayed him, hatred for the leaders of Estet, who experimented on and abused the talents they uncovered. He feels the masses who faithfully serve - whether at Rosekreuz or in a church - are as culpable as the leaders, and they fall easily beneath his knives.
Not so easy to kill, to his dismay, is the one person above all who should suffer his fury. For all his skill with blades of every type, Jei recovers from every blow. The only victory Farfarello has achieved in this battle is the capture of a single golden eye.
***
Avaritia
Brad Crawford presents himself as a cool, unflappable professional, one who is prepared for every situation. He usually is prepared, thanks to his precognitive skills.
With each glimpse of the future, Crawford changes the present to Schwarz’s advantage. Knowledge is power, and Crawford want more power, the craving intensifying each day. He has his teammates handle most of the action in the field, preferring to spend his time quietly awaiting more visions.
Over time his eyesight weakens, his hair turns white and his blood vessels have weakened considerably, but Crawford’s too busy ‘seeing’ to actually see.
***
Superbia
Takatori Mamoru and Nagi Naoe were both traumatized by their loved ones at an early age. Each overcame adversity by using their intelligence, skills and ruthless natures. One lesson both learned was never to trust anyone completely - you could only rely upon yourself.
Takatori cast aside his Weiss teammates when they were of no further use to him. Nagi was more circumspect in his withdrawal from Schwarz - it never pays to disrespect a precognitive and a telepath - but also decided to leave his teammates to join Kritiker’s organization.
At first, their working relationship went well: Takatori issued the orders, but gave Nagi the freedom to decide how to accomplish the tasks. It’s ironic that their success is what eventually led to their downfall.
Nagi was feared by the other Kritiker employees, and they took every chance to imply to an already paranoid Takatori that Nagi was overly-ambitious; when Nagi saw signs of distrust from Takatori, the already-quiet telekinetic withdrew into himself even further. If the two men had been able to open up to one another, disaster could have been avoided. Sadly, neither was willing
to make the first move towards reconciliation, or to admit any fault of their own.
Kritiker is destroyed. Takatori is killed in a building explosion and Nagi - having overused his powers - dies from a heart attack three days later.
Word Count: 1,000+
Rating: PG
Author’s Notes: Eight Assassins. Seven deadly sins. It’s been awhile, but I wanted to get back into writing. I’m not happy with the last part - it doesn’t seem to flow with the rest - so I’ll eventually go back to revise this.
***
Luxuria
It’s no secret that Yohji Kudou is a ladies man. He’ll spend the day harmlessly flirting with the innocent girls that flock to the flower shop and the evenings at Tokyo’s hottest nightclubs with more lecherous activities in mind.
Yohji loves women: he smiles at them, buys them drinks, and listens intently to their conversation. He charms them all, seducing each with compliments and gentle touches that promise so much more.
Yohji loves women: he goes home with them, loses himself in heated kisses and warm, soft bodies, taking and giving pleasure in turn. That night, each one is the most beautiful, most desirable woman in the world.
They are, because for that short time, Yohji forgets that he wraps a wire around people’s throats and strangles them to death.
***
Gula
Schuldig says to Farfarello that he doesn’t like the thoughts of complete strangers that invade his mind, making it hard to distinguish those of his own. Funny then, how he seeks them out so often.
Schuldig devours other people’s lives: he likes to uncover every hope and aspiration, and drinks in the anguish and humiliation his victims experience when those dreams are forcefully crushed. His games grow more complicated with time, but the payoff is honey-sweet: he likes to see how much damage he can cause with the exposure of one carefully-hidden secret, gleefully watching
the destruction of whole families spread out like ripples across a pond.
***
Acedia
Hideka Ken, with his passion for soccer and motorcycling, seems to be the most active member of Weiss. Instead, he is the laziest.
Ken works at the flower shop. Ken coaches soccer to children in his spare time. Ken smiles at total strangers, befriends nuns, and slashes gaping holes in people’s torsos, moving on to the next target before the last one’s blood and entrails can hit the ground.
More flowers delivered. More soccer tips given. The same amount of smiles, less nuns, more body parts. Every day, more of the same.
Ken falls in love. Does he ride off into the Australian sunset with his girlfriend, make a new life for himself? No, he watches her leave, and numbly returns to flowers, soccer and blood-stained
claws.
***
Invidia
His teammates in Weiss - especially Yohji - consider Fujimiya Ran to be a disinterested person, only concerned with his sister’s well-being and revenge on Takatori Reiji. This is not true: Ran is a passionate, but intensely private, person. That’s why Schuldig likes to ‘play’ with him so much.
Ran often proclaims his annoyance with the giggling teenage girls that loiter in the flower shop. Secretly, he wishes he could regain some that starry-eyed innocence he lost so long ago. He despises Schwarz for their evil schemes and arrogance, but can’t help but begrudge their unnatural powers and confidence.
But the person Ran resents the most is the sister he dearly loves. Aya-chan is a sweet, virtuous girl, untouched by guilt, not twisted by pain and the desire for bloody vengeance. Ran will do anything to bring Aya back, but for himself Ran wants nothing more than her unnatural sleep.
***
Ira
Farfarello is calm and soft-spoken much of the time. This is of no comfort to the dozens of people he’s already killed in Japan, nor the hundreds from Europe before that. Crawford recognizes his teammate is a valuable, if sometimes uncontrollable weapon, and is careful to allow the Irishman the freedom to vent his rage.
Farfarello has a lot of rage to vent: anger towards the God that deceived and betrayed him, hatred for the leaders of Estet, who experimented on and abused the talents they uncovered. He feels the masses who faithfully serve - whether at Rosekreuz or in a church - are as culpable as the leaders, and they fall easily beneath his knives.
Not so easy to kill, to his dismay, is the one person above all who should suffer his fury. For all his skill with blades of every type, Jei recovers from every blow. The only victory Farfarello has achieved in this battle is the capture of a single golden eye.
***
Avaritia
Brad Crawford presents himself as a cool, unflappable professional, one who is prepared for every situation. He usually is prepared, thanks to his precognitive skills.
With each glimpse of the future, Crawford changes the present to Schwarz’s advantage. Knowledge is power, and Crawford want more power, the craving intensifying each day. He has his teammates handle most of the action in the field, preferring to spend his time quietly awaiting more visions.
Over time his eyesight weakens, his hair turns white and his blood vessels have weakened considerably, but Crawford’s too busy ‘seeing’ to actually see.
***
Superbia
Takatori Mamoru and Nagi Naoe were both traumatized by their loved ones at an early age. Each overcame adversity by using their intelligence, skills and ruthless natures. One lesson both learned was never to trust anyone completely - you could only rely upon yourself.
Takatori cast aside his Weiss teammates when they were of no further use to him. Nagi was more circumspect in his withdrawal from Schwarz - it never pays to disrespect a precognitive and a telepath - but also decided to leave his teammates to join Kritiker’s organization.
At first, their working relationship went well: Takatori issued the orders, but gave Nagi the freedom to decide how to accomplish the tasks. It’s ironic that their success is what eventually led to their downfall.
Nagi was feared by the other Kritiker employees, and they took every chance to imply to an already paranoid Takatori that Nagi was overly-ambitious; when Nagi saw signs of distrust from Takatori, the already-quiet telekinetic withdrew into himself even further. If the two men had been able to open up to one another, disaster could have been avoided. Sadly, neither was willing
to make the first move towards reconciliation, or to admit any fault of their own.
Kritiker is destroyed. Takatori is killed in a building explosion and Nagi - having overused his powers - dies from a heart attack three days later.