Revisiting an old fandom
Title: Not Healthy
Universe: World of Darkness, Hunter: the Reckoning
Rating: PG
Summary: It's neither sane nor rational.
Akira Rei, Hunter.Net's shi_no_kami186, had never been exactly sane. Even before the Heralds had opened her eyes to the truth, she had been prone to obsessive behavior and the occasional fugue state. Watching your parents die and spending the next day with their bodies could do that to a person.
Father Michael Brown, Hunter.Net's mori81, long suspected that he had lost his mind when he had been a solider. He did horrible things for his country, and later for anyone who would hire him, before he finally turned to God. Then God told him that it was time to be a solider again, after the torture and murder of his wife at the hands of the undead thing.
Their relationship was a strange one. In Father Mori (almost no one called him by his real name by the time the two Hunters met), Kami found the father figure she had lost when she had fled the vampiric uncle who had raised her after the death of her parents.
In Rei (only Mori called her by her given name anymore), Mori found someone who trusted him wholly, who needed him desperately. And he needed her too.
It wasn't a sane or healthy relationship by any means. Thanks in part to the Heralds, both were prone to psychotic episodes. At one point, the near death of the priest sent Kami into a catatonic state for over a month. At another point, Mori tracked the lover who almost beat Kami to death across North America, finally killing the woman on the doorstep of another Hunter with whom she sought refuge.
The Norwegian priest and the Japanese monster hunter were not lovers, though they loved each other as much as two such damaged creatures could. Aside from a desire to please father Mori, Akira Rei was attracted only to women. The priest knew he had but to say the word, and Kami would be his in body as she was in soul. But he never did.
Everyone who knew them knew theirs was not a healthy relationship. They seemed to feed off each other's madness; growing more unpredictable the longer they were together. But there were few healthy relationships to be found amongst those touched by the Heralds.
And together, they brought each other some measure of peace.
Universe: World of Darkness, Hunter: the Reckoning
Rating: PG
Summary: It's neither sane nor rational.
Akira Rei, Hunter.Net's shi_no_kami186, had never been exactly sane. Even before the Heralds had opened her eyes to the truth, she had been prone to obsessive behavior and the occasional fugue state. Watching your parents die and spending the next day with their bodies could do that to a person.
Father Michael Brown, Hunter.Net's mori81, long suspected that he had lost his mind when he had been a solider. He did horrible things for his country, and later for anyone who would hire him, before he finally turned to God. Then God told him that it was time to be a solider again, after the torture and murder of his wife at the hands of the undead thing.
Their relationship was a strange one. In Father Mori (almost no one called him by his real name by the time the two Hunters met), Kami found the father figure she had lost when she had fled the vampiric uncle who had raised her after the death of her parents.
In Rei (only Mori called her by her given name anymore), Mori found someone who trusted him wholly, who needed him desperately. And he needed her too.
It wasn't a sane or healthy relationship by any means. Thanks in part to the Heralds, both were prone to psychotic episodes. At one point, the near death of the priest sent Kami into a catatonic state for over a month. At another point, Mori tracked the lover who almost beat Kami to death across North America, finally killing the woman on the doorstep of another Hunter with whom she sought refuge.
The Norwegian priest and the Japanese monster hunter were not lovers, though they loved each other as much as two such damaged creatures could. Aside from a desire to please father Mori, Akira Rei was attracted only to women. The priest knew he had but to say the word, and Kami would be his in body as she was in soul. But he never did.
Everyone who knew them knew theirs was not a healthy relationship. They seemed to feed off each other's madness; growing more unpredictable the longer they were together. But there were few healthy relationships to be found amongst those touched by the Heralds.
And together, they brought each other some measure of peace.