This is your pass to ramble about kuro
Oh dear, thank you so much.
Kuro is this one character that wasn’t supposed to be more than an old memory of the main character. A good one from a nice past, but suddenly his role began to eat the others. Actually his real name has to do with a god who did that to his own children. It was an omen his father cleverly knew would happen someday.
Kuro can look like the strongest of his kind, not for nothing he’s the leader of a “rebellion” and is called “the Angel of death”, but he used to be very different. He was weak. It was such a disappointment precisely because his father was the leader of a radical group that killed hundreds in a single night, all on his and Kuro’s mother command. Which, let’s say it wasn’t a happy marriage and it was an even more unhappy family. Kuro distinctly remembers being at one of his father’s speeches, barely holding himself together to not bend and cry because the injuries on his back burnt and hurt so much. His father never saw his mother and him as equals, actually, he saw them as possessions. Objects he could toss around until they broke. So he amused himself watching them curl in fear of him.
The scars from that time never healed even when Kuro excels at regeneration and healing. The pain and fear still lingers on his back and he’s so scared to let anyone see it, that he never undresses in front of his trusted team. Never takes his shirt off when he’s with his lovers. Nobody knows he has nothing but a web of scars on his back, wrists and ankles that no matter how many times he tries, they never fade.
Let’s say Kuro knows how to escape all types of restraints, using the most barbaric methods because his father loved to watch him struggle and not amusing him meant death.
Of course, a breaking point came and Kuro failed miserably at his attempt of killing his father. He learns then it was for the purpose of implanting himself in his son’s body, that he was born at all. Kuro was stronger than any of his kind, but at the price of having his father’s mind merged with his. Poisoning every corner of his mind.
He pretty much went insane after that and somehow, because he found family in the darkest place after the darkest of times, he recovered his sanity.
He couldn’t live without his family, so he would do whatever it took to have them back, alive and well. But of course, Kuro’s destiny is to be miserable because he can’t not go to extremes when it comes to a breaking point. He quite literally explodes into a monster, much like his father. Which is something he is repulsed by, but can’t seem to stop. So, when he gets his family back, at such a great price, but they don’t remember him, he can’t go back and undo his mistakes, no matter how much he begs for it.
He learns soon enough he can only slightly bite the leash other’s have put on him before he gets pulled and punished, but punishment and pain never stopped him before and most certainly it won’t do it now that he sees a possibility to end all suffering his kind has bravely endured for a century.
No matter what is the price for peace, he will pay it.
He’s my original tragic character and he was supposed to die in the end, but now? Well, he knows very well dying would be a mercy for him and such considerations have been long denied to him.