Maybe the teachers shouldn’t have given him that chemistry textbook, because he was too smart for his own good, and a few hours with that book and an old biology book and suddenly he knew how people were put together.
People looked the most beautiful in his dreams, because he could see each and every part of them, the strands of coiling oxygen and hydrogen, iron and carbon, calcium and potassium that made up blood and bones, marrow and muscle. He learned about polypeptide chains and hydrocarbon chains, and when he looked at the boys who haunted him on the playground, he could see colors dancing through their skin. He knew that if he tugged just the right one - a shimmer of violet tinged fuschia at the edges - he could unravel every single carbohydrate in a given limb.
The rush of power through his body was exhilarating, and in his dream-world he felt as though he could fly.
When Naoya woke in the middle of the night to one of the orphanage mothers screaming, he realized that his talent could wake without him.
And that another door had opened when he was dreaming.
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2 comments:
WOW! This character is something else. I have never seen any type of character like this. He is intriguing to say the least. The images of what he sees are amazing, and how his power can manifest outside of conscious thought. I am excited to see where this character goes. Is he part of the wordsmith set?
No, Naoya's not from the Wordsmith Set. Honestly, Naoya's just a remix of Naoe Nagi from Schwarz. The way his power works between first and second season is hugely divergent, and in second season he's infinitely more powerful. And on the Drama CDs, you find out he was raised in an orphanage.
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