TLDWC Ch 9: Wings and Roses
Jan. 31st, 2019 12:10 pmSummary: The Soulmate Wing-fic No One Asked For But Was Written Anyway
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Your wings are not your own. They are your Soulmate's wings. When you kiss your soulmate, you Wing each other, that is to say, you swap wings.
Izuku loved his wings once. They were beautiful and strong. Brilliant reds, yellows, oranges, and umber exploded in patterns across them. From a young age, Izuku knew whom the wings belonged to, but as he grew older, he grew to hate his wings. They represented a prison, a lifetime of pain. Because his wings were not his own, and the person to whom the wings truly belonged was the one who hurt him most. He wished he could have had another person's wings instead. Even being Stain's soulmate would have been preferable to Katsuki Bakugou.
Todoroki Shoto was one of the few people in the world who had his soulmate's wings, but his soulmate did not have his wings. He watched his soulmate get abused by his soulmate day after day and wished he could carry the burden instead. Izuku deserved much better than Bakugou.
Hitoshi Shinso had no wings. He did however, have the ability to forcibly Wing a person, breaking a soulmate bond in the process. He could also transfer the broken bond if that was what both parties wanted.
It had only been a matter of time. This was one bond Shinso was more than happy to sever. He asked no questions, only congratulated them, and at the end of the night, Todoroki Shoto and Midoriya Izuku walked away from him hand in hand. Izuku's wings were sleek, strong and built for speed. Shoto's wings had changed as the bond was transferred, and now they were wider, broader, built for strength and endurance.
In the Dormitories of Class 1-A, Katsuki Bakugou screamed as his wings crumbled and feathers flaked away. His wings, once broad, strong and powerful, were now featherless bony things with blackened skin stretched over bone. A sign of a severed bond for all the world to see. A sign to all the world that this was a person not to be trusted with hearts.