#Cursed creation in human skin | Megumi verse

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Verse Updates for Icarus, Megumi, and Tryphon

Icarus || Old Guard

There’s some debate over if the thing that killed Icarus was the fall or the drowning. In truth, he doesn’t remember. He remembers the fall in detail: feathers trailing past his grasping hands, hot wax making paths down his skin, the hollow wishing sound of the air as he fell through it at terminal velocity. He remembers that.

But then there was pain, and water, and then he was waking in the shallows of sand bar, not dead but impossibly alive. He noticed he stopped ageing, and then there were wounds he should have died from that healed in minutes, and it was easy to realize that there was something wrong. Humans could not survive such lethal things, much less walk away from them in minutes. 

The dreams came after that, or before that maybe. The millennia have made those first few days fuzzy. But in his dreams, there were others like him, in cities unlike the one he was in, but not so much that he could not find them. Icarus started to walk.

Megumi || Member of the Zodiac

The curse of the zodiac doesn’t care for names, it cares for blood. Megumi, even if he doesn’t know it, is a Sohma in blood. Saki had already been born strange, with too wide eyes, and an ability to watch people that unnerved those who weren’t used to it. And then there was Megumi- whole and healthy until his mother held him, and he turned into a rat, small enough to be cupped int he palm of her hand. 

There was alarm of course, how could there not be? But she passed the small rat off to her husband, and when the doctor’s turned back around, it was easy to quickly answer that in her exhaustion, she’d passed her son off to her husband. They quickly learned that if she held him, he would turn into a rat, but if his father did, he was fine. They adapted: if they went out, Saki would hold onto their mother, and their father would hold Megumi. 

He was cautious, and he learned fast to avoid physical contact, and when he was sick, to avoid going in to school, for fear of a sudden transformation. 

Megumi grew up outside the stranglehold the Sohma held over the zodiac. And if there’s an empty place at New Years? A simple strange turn of events, perhaps a breaking of the curse. 

*Megumi’s spirit can be changed if writing with other zodiac members.

Trypon || Yuri!!! On ICE

Tryphon remembers very clearly, the first ice show he ever got to see. It was late February, and one of the classes at the local rink were holding one to showcase their years talent. The costumes were transfixing, and the sound of the skates over the music settled under his skin comfortingly. He begged his mother for lessons, and at the next year he was one of the kids skating out over the ice to the claps of the parents in the audience.

When he was a little bit older, and there was a bit more money to spare, he took ballet lessons, and for a few brief months, he contemplated taking those instead, but you could not glide in ballet the way you could on ice, and the satisfaction from a dance never seemed to have the same feeling as it did on ice, but it did keep him more flexible, and during the half of the year where there was no ice, it was useful.

When he was 13, he was spotted by one of the actual coaches, and not just one of the trainers like he had during his childhood. I would mean he could train himself, and not just as part of a group. The offer was impossible to refuse. He left behind the skating classes, and started competing. 

For what felt like almost the first time, he was surrounded by people tat understood, and that were devoting their lives to the same thing. Four years later, he transitioned into the senior division, where the competition was harder, and his coach would finally let him perform quads.

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AESTHETIC     HEADCANON     MUSIC     CHARACTER

• QUICK STATS •

NAME :: Megumi Hanajima NICKNAME :: freak n/a FANDOM :: Fruits Basket GENDER :: male ORIENTATION :: demiromantic, bisexual BIRTHDAY :: February 9th, 2004 ZODIAC :: Monkey && Aquarius SHIPS :: chemistry

• BIOGRAPHY •

When Megumi was born, his parents knew that he was like their first child; strangely quiet with large eyes that just watched people. He was quiet, and perfectly content to be left in his seat to watch the goings-on in the world around him. 

He had always know that he and Saki were different than the other children, and by the time he was old enough to talk, their family had words for it, mostly ones whispered between the adults at the table when he would sit at the couch with his sister. It wasn’t much later that he learned about his own abilities, but he ignored them most of the time because there was already so much to deal with. 

The kids at school didn’t bully him like they had his sister; partially because they had heard what she could do- had done, and partially because the teachers were more aware after what had happened. It was isolating, but his parents loved him, even if they didn’t understand, and Saki did understand. And really, it wasn’t like he needed their acceptance, if they wanted to assume and mock, he didn’t care.

Megumi is still quiet, and still content to watch people; he’s perceptive, and that’s probably the thing that creeps people out more than the curses, though that doesn’t help. He’s gotten better at them- better at the control, and the direction of them, though he has few uses to use them aside from an idle warning.

• Megumi is unaware that both he and his sister, Hana, are the result of their mother’s several year affair with a member of the Sohma family.  His father has no idea, and his biological father has never mentioned or acknowledged them.  However, both Hana and Megumi share variations of his mental power, as well as his unique colouring, and several of his mannerisms.  He also has a half brother, but they’re unaware of the relation.

• PHYSICAL •

FACE CLAIM :: Ahn Seongmin HEIGHT :: 5′2″* (*though he’s still growing, and will end at 5′7″) BUILD :: slim VISUAL AGE :: 13 ACTUAL AGE :: 13 HAIR :: black EYES :: greyish purple SPECIES :: human HAND :: left GLASSES :: no IDENTIFYING :: Megumi, like his sister, has rather distinctive eyes, though perhaps the thing more people notice, is the way he seems to move unseen, or the strange sense of foreboding people get from him.  

• MENTAL •

FAITH ::  complicated, and it only gets more complicated as he gets older.  MARITAL STATUS :: single OCCUPATION :: student EDUCATION :: currently in middle school, though he’s moving on to high school. QUIRKS :: Megumi isn’t as powerful as his sister, nor is he aware of the extent of his own powers, but he has the ability to curse people so long as he knows their name. The actual curses range in effect from mild bad luck, to recurring nightmares. 

• VERSES •

Cursed Creation In Human Skin

The curse of the zodiac doesn’t care for names, it cares for blood. Megumi, even if he doesn’t know it, is a Sohma in blood. Saki had already been born strange, with too wide eyes, and an ability to watch people that unnerved those who weren’t used to it. And then there was Megumi- whole and healthy until his mother held him, and he turned into a rat, small enough to be cupped in the palm of her hand.

There was alarm of course, how could there not be? But she passed the small rat off to her husband, and when the doctor turned back around, it was easy to quickly answer that in her exhaustion, she’d given her son to his father to hold. They quickly learned that if she held him, he would turn into a rat, but if his father did, he was fine. They adapted: if they went out, Saki would hold onto their mother, and their father would hold Megumi.

He was cautious, and he learned fast to avoid physical contact, and when he was sick, to avoid going in to school, for fear of a sudden transformation.

Megumi grew up outside the stranglehold the Sohma held over the zodiac. And if there’s an empty place at New Years? A simple strange turn of events, perhaps a breaking of the curse.

*Megumi’s spirit can be changed if writing with other zodiac members.