Apart from the Ocean, part 6
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estiriseHere's the next part of "Apart from the Ocean".
Title: Apart from the Ocean (part 6)
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estirose
Fandom: Kamen Rider Kiva
Words: ~700
Characters: Shinoda Aya (OC), Kuramae Noboru (OC)
Warnings/Rating: 13+/PG-13
Prompt: Table 2, prompt: Music
Summary: Aya has to live with the fact that monsters don't think like humans.
Author's Notes: I'm hoping to use as many of the 25 prompts as I can for one story, and am therefore designating parts as I go along. Any left over prompts will be used as snapshots on Aya's life. Since the characters are Japanese, I've used Japanese name order here. The universe itself belongs to Toei and TV-Asahi, as does the original version of Kuramae Noboru.
"Ow," Aya said, annoyed, as a technician finished taking a blood sample. Kuramae-san looked over at her and smiled. She was in a smaller room now, one across the hall from where she had awakened the first day, a reward for giving the Fangaire as much information as she could manage about her father. They weren't going to let her go, so she had to do what she could with what she had, and hope she'd talk them into her freedom one day.
The technician, a human, apologized, bowed, and went away.
"I take it you're going to give my father the room that I was put in, originally?" she asked. Her father would probably love it. There was an underwater passageway connecting that room with another one next to it that was very empty. She liked her new room better, because there was some room to put things and she didn't have to worry about them falling into the water like they had the first day.
Kuramae-san took a sip of water. "The room next to it, actually. I don't know if Dr. Hamagaki's mentioned it to you, but the scientists are pretty sure that you're going to need that room as things go on. They think your body's highly dependent on ocean chemicals, more than what you should, based on what we know of the Merman Clan. They're not sure *why*, but they think it's because you're part human. Something to do with the interaction between your biologies, especially when you hit puberty. From what we know of the Mermen, they were becoming more and more adapted to land. In some ways, you're a throwback to what the Mermen must have been, once."
Aya shivered and listened to the piped-in music. It was soothing, as if they wanted to keep their subjects calm. It was probably the idea, come to think of it.
"I'll bring in my research to show to you," Kuramae-san said. "I'm pretty sure that the original Mermen, at least in our world, came out of the water to hunt human prey. The ones that could spend more time out of the water fed better, so the Merman Clan became more land-based. We're hoping they might have been also less dependent on human life energy, too."
In some ways, Kuramae-san was so much like the man she had known in Hiroshima, the man she could talk to for hours about myths and dangers. And in some other ways, he was a researcher and she was his subject. She had a feeling that while she was still "Aya" in many ways to him, some part of him would always also regard her as a Merman, to be cherished yet held for her own safety and the continuance of her species. "I'd like that," she said. It would be nice to forget she was being held in there for the foreseeable future. It would be nice also to do something she'd grown to love, and not be a subject for somebody, at least for a while.
"Any luck in finding my father?" she asked. She had to admit, she'd rather deal with Kuramae-san than any of the doctors or other researchers. Maybe it was because she'd dealt with him longer, or maybe because he was able to treat her as a person instead of a research subject or a child all the time.
"I've heard that we've got some leads," Kuramae-san said. "My little sister could have told them, however, that Mermen are probably the slipperiest of the three species to catch, no pun intended. I feel lucky that I caught you."
"I've got human blood," Aya pointed out.
"And you were born into a tradition that leaves kids like you to the human parents," he said. "Which seems barbaric when you consider the Fangaire tradition to cherish them."
"The Fangaire have a reason to," Aya pointed out. "The Fangaire need their crossbreeds to survive."
"Touche," Kurimae-san said. "Maybe someday, the Mermen will, too."
Title: Apart from the Ocean (part 6)
Author:
estiroseFandom: Kamen Rider Kiva
Words: ~700
Characters: Shinoda Aya (OC), Kuramae Noboru (OC)
Warnings/Rating: 13+/PG-13
Prompt: Table 2, prompt: Music
Summary: Aya has to live with the fact that monsters don't think like humans.
Author's Notes: I'm hoping to use as many of the 25 prompts as I can for one story, and am therefore designating parts as I go along. Any left over prompts will be used as snapshots on Aya's life. Since the characters are Japanese, I've used Japanese name order here. The universe itself belongs to Toei and TV-Asahi, as does the original version of Kuramae Noboru.
"Ow," Aya said, annoyed, as a technician finished taking a blood sample. Kuramae-san looked over at her and smiled. She was in a smaller room now, one across the hall from where she had awakened the first day, a reward for giving the Fangaire as much information as she could manage about her father. They weren't going to let her go, so she had to do what she could with what she had, and hope she'd talk them into her freedom one day.
The technician, a human, apologized, bowed, and went away.
"I take it you're going to give my father the room that I was put in, originally?" she asked. Her father would probably love it. There was an underwater passageway connecting that room with another one next to it that was very empty. She liked her new room better, because there was some room to put things and she didn't have to worry about them falling into the water like they had the first day.
Kuramae-san took a sip of water. "The room next to it, actually. I don't know if Dr. Hamagaki's mentioned it to you, but the scientists are pretty sure that you're going to need that room as things go on. They think your body's highly dependent on ocean chemicals, more than what you should, based on what we know of the Merman Clan. They're not sure *why*, but they think it's because you're part human. Something to do with the interaction between your biologies, especially when you hit puberty. From what we know of the Mermen, they were becoming more and more adapted to land. In some ways, you're a throwback to what the Mermen must have been, once."
Aya shivered and listened to the piped-in music. It was soothing, as if they wanted to keep their subjects calm. It was probably the idea, come to think of it.
"I'll bring in my research to show to you," Kuramae-san said. "I'm pretty sure that the original Mermen, at least in our world, came out of the water to hunt human prey. The ones that could spend more time out of the water fed better, so the Merman Clan became more land-based. We're hoping they might have been also less dependent on human life energy, too."
In some ways, Kuramae-san was so much like the man she had known in Hiroshima, the man she could talk to for hours about myths and dangers. And in some other ways, he was a researcher and she was his subject. She had a feeling that while she was still "Aya" in many ways to him, some part of him would always also regard her as a Merman, to be cherished yet held for her own safety and the continuance of her species. "I'd like that," she said. It would be nice to forget she was being held in there for the foreseeable future. It would be nice also to do something she'd grown to love, and not be a subject for somebody, at least for a while.
"Any luck in finding my father?" she asked. She had to admit, she'd rather deal with Kuramae-san than any of the doctors or other researchers. Maybe it was because she'd dealt with him longer, or maybe because he was able to treat her as a person instead of a research subject or a child all the time.
"I've heard that we've got some leads," Kuramae-san said. "My little sister could have told them, however, that Mermen are probably the slipperiest of the three species to catch, no pun intended. I feel lucky that I caught you."
"I've got human blood," Aya pointed out.
"And you were born into a tradition that leaves kids like you to the human parents," he said. "Which seems barbaric when you consider the Fangaire tradition to cherish them."
"The Fangaire have a reason to," Aya pointed out. "The Fangaire need their crossbreeds to survive."
"Touche," Kurimae-san said. "Maybe someday, the Mermen will, too."
