"A side of the same coin." • Entropy Prompt

─ introduction                                                   

         Salutations folks! I had this in my drafts whilst thinking of what to do for Entropy, I already had a character base from an incomplete character that I was gonna finish off. So I had started but stopped when I got the yippee for the character concept working.

         But then my wikis stopped working/would crash on me. So yeah, at least I had a back up plan.

         Image credit: :grey_question:

─ characters/mentions                                    

         All characters listed are original characters

         Yui Kaneko

         Unnamed old man

         Shuko Sasaki (Visage)

         Katon Kaneko

─ genre and warnings                                       

         Fluff

         Light mystery?

─ word and character count                           

         1,676 words

         8,949 characters

─ tags                                                                   

         #ENTFools

─ "A side of the same coin" by Kitsune           

A day off, something Yui knew was needed more then anything. As she fixed her hair whilst looking in the mirror of her vanity. Taking a second once she was done to look over her features.

It had been such a strange encounter that day... As she looked almost blankly at the girl that stared back at her. But a glimpse of something caught her attention from the corner of her eyes.

Reaching out to shuffle it out from under a porcelain tray of random accessories. It was a polaroid photo of a young woman that looked like she was in her early twenties. Dressed attractively in what seemed like a hero costume. Though it looked too ethereal to be one, caught by surprise by whoever took it no doubt.

She didn't understand how the man who gave it to her saw the resemblance. As she let out a huff, carelessly tossing the photo they swept itself off the table.

"Man.. That guy was a bit of a creep..." She mumbled, running her fingers through her hair in a bit of frustration... Recalling the event of that day.

It had just been another ordinary day after school, still dressed in her uniform as she twirled a few strands from her wolfcut around her finger. Lost in thought as she tried to think through the list of things she needed to get.

Her red wings were closed tightly to her back, almost hugging her in a way. Wanting to avoid hitting into others like she had done last time.

She was maybe watching her feet more then she should have. Too lost in thought to realise someone was in front of her until it was too late.

Only hearing the thump of something hitting the ground to see she had bumped into an old man. Making him drop what he had been carrying.

"Oh- I'm so sorry sir." She apologised, as she crouched down to help him gather his items.

"Ah its okay little miss- my fault really.. I was hurrying you see." The man said, his hands shaky as he picked things up.

"Please, I was the one who wasn't paying attention to where I was going." Yui smiled, as she placed some of the items into the box.

And he watched her, appearing puzzled for a second. Looking at her as if he was awestruck. As if she noticed his looking gaze, raising her head to look at him. Almost curious as he was quick to be startled.

"Are you okay sir?" She asked, a bit worried and ittedly a little more creeped out. And maybe he realised, seeming startled when she spoke up.

He looked sad, his eyes told her that much, despite his smile it was falling. "Ah- sorry... You just look a lot like my late wife when she was your age." He itted, as the final item was placed into the box he had been carrying.

Yui couldn't hide her reaction, being caught off guard was maybe an understatement.

"I hope I didn't alarm you miss, she was kind... Despite the hand she was dealt." He said, by now his smile was gone, bearing a sadness that seemed distant and lost.

"I was just caught off guard. I'm sorry for your loss, I bet she was a lovely woman?"

"Yes she was, but she hid a part of her... She was- the first recognised hero, cursed with a quirk that people saw as a gift." He spoke, before thinking... "It took- a long time for her to realise she'd be alone, always by herself..." His voice quivered, as Yui picked up the box. Intrigued and both curious to listen more.

She watched as he shuffled through his pocket for something, until he fished out a photo. Clasped between his two fingers, holding it out to show her.

It showed a woman who looked like she hadn't aged, maybe in her twenties, sporting a pair of large wings similar to her own, judging by the ring on her finger as she stood beside a man a few years older.

"What was her quirk?" Yui asked, her wings ruffling in curiosity. Of which the man noticed, and chuckled meekly.

"I wish I knew. But she never talked about it... It scared her and I never found out why."

For a moment she was vaguely disappointed, but she couldn't blame her. She herself was even scared of her own quirk. It was a feeling she often knew so well.

But- looking closer at the photo, she did see similarities. It was striking and nearly, from their faceshape to not only the colour of their wings it things that would seem a coincidence.

"She was very beautiful... Is that you beside her? You both look so happy," before looking at the box she was now holding.

"Where are you heading? I'll carry these for you."

The man smiled, and they ended up talking most of the way. His late wife, from what she could tell held a lonely life...

Curious enough to ask about the women's quirk...

"You've quite the fascination for quirks don't you? Be careful... That kind of person..." He shook his head, but told her. With no further elaboration of who he referred to.

Shaking her head Yui's thoughts returned to the mirror, ing how the man described the ladies quirk. It had been hers...

Or at least their quirks shared the same abilities. As she stared into the mirror, out stretching a wing to ire her feathers in full. Her were red too...

Yui's eyes diverted from the reflective glass. Absentmindedly, without much thought she picked up her phone, and before she knew it, it was ringing.

"Hey Visage, I need a favour..."

She knew she shouldn't. The moment U.A. found out she was out the door for good. ing a hacker on top of it all, it was a risk..

The call took a few minutes, as she sighed before hiding her face in hands. Wondering what the hell she was thinking, but she couldn't take it back. The call had been made, and there was no stopping Visage when she got that rush, that thirst of knowledge...

Thinking for a moment, as she tried to . what though? Everything, for as far back as she could . She wondered if she could still find that photo album. Each of them had one, all three of them. As she left her room to the living room where she found Katon tending to his newly mangled wings.

"Hey Katon? Do you know where the photo albums are? I wanna add to mine." Yui asked, Katon looked at her. Seeming to think before it came to him.

"Yeah, I saw mom put them over by the TV. Why the sudden interest?" He asked, knowing she never liked adding to hers because of what happened to Kai. As he watched her go over to the TV and started her search.

"Do you if mom and dad put any of our baby pictures in them?" An innocent question sure, but she needed to know.

"Yeah? What's this about?"

"Mind your own business, ah- here they are." Pulling out three almost identical albums, except each one of them had their names written on the front. With their dates and time of birth of each one.

Except the first thing she noticed was that hers didn't have the time... It was never something she noticed as she came to sit down in the armchair.

Displaying the books side by side, as she flipped them all open. Starting with Katon's, then Kai's, they were the same. The first page with details and information of their birth as well as a copy of their birth certificates. And the first few photos were of the two in the hospital bed, cradled in their mother's arms.

Perplexed why she was rooting through theirs, Katon for up and stumbled up, thanks to his wings throwing him off balance.

"Okay, care to explain?" He asked, picking up his. "You wouldn't need ours to add into yours, so what's up?"

She never answered as she picked up hers, wondering if the first pages would be the same. She hoped they were, but when she opened the first page. There were no photos that matched theirs, no hospital bed, no infant being held or anything.

"Why aren't there photos from the hospital?.." She muttered, as Katon sat beside her to look. Even he was confused, as Yui's phone began to rang from the confines of her pocket.

She reached for it, still with the open book in front of her. The caller ID read 'Visage'.

"This better be good..." Bringing the phone to her ear, as Katon leaned in to listen. Even he couldn't deny curiosity.

"Hey Visage, get anything?" Yui asked, waiting for an answer, as her leg bounced up and down. Listening to the tapping sound of computer keys, as she waited for an answer.

"You're not gonna like it Yui...I did some digging like you asked, there's exactly one record of someone with that quirk of yours. Not two. There's not even any quirks matching a similar description." Visage said, getting right to it. "The woman's name was Hotaru Usami. But that's about it, there's nothing else about her, somebody erased this womans life. Name ring a bell?"

"Check again-" and that was it, she hung up. She shook her head lightly, not believing there wasn't anything about her name listed or her own quirk.

But there was more to it all, the photo, clear signs of things being covered up. Most people forgot about the quirk files...

Taking out the photo of the woman, soon holding her phone in front of it to snap a picture. And things were still as her talons were the only sound tapping off the screen.

And she sent it, dropping it on the table as she bit the inside of her lip.

Who was she really? She wanted to know.

─ outro/author's notes                                     

         I hope y'all enjoyed ^^ and the only reason this took so long was the fact that I got caught up watching a series :')

         I kinda wish I could finish her wiki, a lot of her info had to be rewritten just so I didn't waste money on her art. And this isn't 100% canon to her story either, since the ua timeline of when quirks started was roughly 100-200 years before the current story. Maybe even as far as 240. So it's pretty rough given the timeline of One for alls s...

         ANYDOODLE I hope this was enjoyable!

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