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[#006] (Don't) Turn Your Eyes Away (Kamen Rider Ghost)
Theme Prompt: Vainglory
Title: (Don't) Turn Your Eyes Away
Fandom: Kamen Rider Ghost
Rating/Warnings: PG/Spoilers for Kamen Rider Ghost 19-21, next generation/futurefic
Bonus: Nope
Word Count: 617
Summary: Chiyo has her reasons for not wanting her father to know. (This is actually set in the same universe as "Hostaging", but can be read alone.)
"So, why don't you want to tell Dad?" Candide asked, leaning forward. The face could have been a twin to her own, only more masculine, and the only reason that Candide looked that way was because he'd copied her appearance.
Chiyo gazed into the faces of her two siblings and wished it was that easy to explain. "Maybe I'm being petty." She was probably being petty, but at the moment it felt good. "But Dad's going to be insufferable for a week when he finds out." She was not genderless like the two of them, but her father would consider her such because of what the doctor had said. Not that the doctor knew anything about it and it was hardly his fault that her father would be inordinately proud.
"But it's not a bad thing, is it?" Alexis asked. "We're all that he really has. The fact that you're more like him than he thought is something that might bring him some comfort."
Her father was not human, though his appearance made it seem like he was. He could be arrogant about his homeworld, about his people being superior to humans. He was getting better, her family had said, about not treating his new human family as inferior based on the fact that they were not his kind. Chiyo had the sense that he'd been disappointed that she'd been so human when she carried his blood.
Still, Alexis was not completely incorrect. Some of that had to be based on homesickness, on having to adapt to a new culture and only seeing his own kind in his children and the family of the one other person who had willingly chosen exile from their homeworld. He wanted his children to be like him.
Chiyo had seen the strain that had caused with her human family. Maybe it was being contrary, but she didn't want to be like him. Maybe she wanted him to be disappointed in her.
Maybe she just wanted to pretend that she was normal.
"He's got you two." He'd expect her to follow in his world's traditions, something he hadn't bothered with because she took after her mother in all but looks.
"He could have all three of us. He's lonely, can't you see that?" There was a hint of frustration in Alexis' expression. "You, me, and Candide."
"And Gazai and Gako," Candide reminded Alexis. "But still, there's not many of us around."
"In any case," Alexis continued, as if Candide hadn't interrupted with the names of the only other family from their father's homeworld, "Don't you think you're being unreasonable?"
She desperately wanted to rebut that she hadn't asked to be born into this family, with this blood. Not that, for all the arguments, she'd trade Candide and Alexis for anything. They were her siblings, after all.
"She's got a point," Candide told Chiyo. "He should know. It's only right."
"It's something that's also kind of private." Chiyo scowled back at her little sister.
"And something that I think he kind of suspects." Candide leaned back. "It would mean the world to him, Chiyo."
Candide was correct again, much as Chiyo wished otherwise. He had probably guessed, and she knew it was only a matter of time before he found out for sure. Better get the insufferable part over with and get on with her life. "Okay."
She was probably going to regret it, but she really didn't have a choice. Perhaps someday she'd be able to follow her dreams, but in the meantime it looked like she'd have to follow her family's.
Title: (Don't) Turn Your Eyes Away
Fandom: Kamen Rider Ghost
Rating/Warnings: PG/Spoilers for Kamen Rider Ghost 19-21, next generation/futurefic
Bonus: Nope
Word Count: 617
Summary: Chiyo has her reasons for not wanting her father to know. (This is actually set in the same universe as "Hostaging", but can be read alone.)
"So, why don't you want to tell Dad?" Candide asked, leaning forward. The face could have been a twin to her own, only more masculine, and the only reason that Candide looked that way was because he'd copied her appearance.
Chiyo gazed into the faces of her two siblings and wished it was that easy to explain. "Maybe I'm being petty." She was probably being petty, but at the moment it felt good. "But Dad's going to be insufferable for a week when he finds out." She was not genderless like the two of them, but her father would consider her such because of what the doctor had said. Not that the doctor knew anything about it and it was hardly his fault that her father would be inordinately proud.
"But it's not a bad thing, is it?" Alexis asked. "We're all that he really has. The fact that you're more like him than he thought is something that might bring him some comfort."
Her father was not human, though his appearance made it seem like he was. He could be arrogant about his homeworld, about his people being superior to humans. He was getting better, her family had said, about not treating his new human family as inferior based on the fact that they were not his kind. Chiyo had the sense that he'd been disappointed that she'd been so human when she carried his blood.
Still, Alexis was not completely incorrect. Some of that had to be based on homesickness, on having to adapt to a new culture and only seeing his own kind in his children and the family of the one other person who had willingly chosen exile from their homeworld. He wanted his children to be like him.
Chiyo had seen the strain that had caused with her human family. Maybe it was being contrary, but she didn't want to be like him. Maybe she wanted him to be disappointed in her.
Maybe she just wanted to pretend that she was normal.
"He's got you two." He'd expect her to follow in his world's traditions, something he hadn't bothered with because she took after her mother in all but looks.
"He could have all three of us. He's lonely, can't you see that?" There was a hint of frustration in Alexis' expression. "You, me, and Candide."
"And Gazai and Gako," Candide reminded Alexis. "But still, there's not many of us around."
"In any case," Alexis continued, as if Candide hadn't interrupted with the names of the only other family from their father's homeworld, "Don't you think you're being unreasonable?"
She desperately wanted to rebut that she hadn't asked to be born into this family, with this blood. Not that, for all the arguments, she'd trade Candide and Alexis for anything. They were her siblings, after all.
"She's got a point," Candide told Chiyo. "He should know. It's only right."
"It's something that's also kind of private." Chiyo scowled back at her little sister.
"And something that I think he kind of suspects." Candide leaned back. "It would mean the world to him, Chiyo."
Candide was correct again, much as Chiyo wished otherwise. He had probably guessed, and she knew it was only a matter of time before he found out for sure. Better get the insufferable part over with and get on with her life. "Okay."
She was probably going to regret it, but she really didn't have a choice. Perhaps someday she'd be able to follow her dreams, but in the meantime it looked like she'd have to follow her family's.