Post by Satsuki / Tsukiko on Sept 19, 2020 14:30:07 GMT -4
SATSUKI/TSUKIKO
BASIC INFORMATION
Full Name(s): Satsuki (Right) and Tsukiko (Left) Kuba
Hero/Vigilante/Villain alias: Moonbeam
Player Name: Keiran
Faceclaim/Series: Yaten Kou/Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Age: 17
Gender: Satsuki: Male; Tsukiko: Female
Affiliation: Vigilante
Height: 1.74m (5'7")
Weight: 68kg (150 lbs)
Hair/Style: Long and silver in color, though brighter on Tsukiko. Usually kept in a braid or low pony-tail with Satsuki preferring the former.
Skin/Scars: Peachy Beige, no scars.
Eyes: Very dark green, closer to hazel.
Notables: Has their ears pierced, but Satsuki wears his lobes and rook (inner cartilage) pierced while Tsukiko wears her lobes and helix pierced.
Hero/Vigilante/Villain alias: Moonbeam
Player Name: Keiran
Faceclaim/Series: Yaten Kou/Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Age: 17
Gender: Satsuki: Male; Tsukiko: Female
Affiliation: Vigilante
Height: 1.74m (5'7")
Weight: 68kg (150 lbs)
Hair/Style: Long and silver in color, though brighter on Tsukiko. Usually kept in a braid or low pony-tail with Satsuki preferring the former.
Skin/Scars: Peachy Beige, no scars.
Eyes: Very dark green, closer to hazel.
Notables: Has their ears pierced, but Satsuki wears his lobes and rook (inner cartilage) pierced while Tsukiko wears her lobes and helix pierced.
APPEARANCE AND PERSONALITY
Appearance:
Satsuki and Tsukiko share a body. Their hair is naturally silvery white and kept grown out to the middle of their back, their skin is a warm beige color, and they have deep green-hazel eyes. They keep their hair in either a ponytail or braid, depending on who's in control--Satsuki prefers a braid, Tsukiko a ponytail. Growing up, twins deliberately kept their appearance in a state of androgyny to help the other feel more comfortable.
They wear loose clothing, have their hair grown out very, very long, and wear earrings and necklaces to help blur the lines a little more. There are certain things each of them still prefers to wear when in control; Satsuki prefers to dress in a more together sense, and as the one who primarily attends school wears their uniform most days. Tsukiko dresses less formally and prefers lounging in ridiculously large shirts or sweaters depending on the weather.
In their "vigilante" disguise, Tsukiko is primarily in control. She wears a mask in the shape of a stag face, antlers included, to match that of her summon, as well as a silver hooded cloak that shrouds their body. Under the cloak they wear casual clothing--something that, if need be, they could hide their cloak and mask away and jump into a crowd to blend in with. In the rarer instance of Satsuki being in the Moonbeam persona, he prefers to draw the hood up.
POSITIVE
✔ Both: Empathetic, Loyal, Adaptable, Generous;
Satsuki: Proactive, Diplomatic;
Tsukiko: Imaginative, Just;
NEGATIVE
✖ Both: Insecure, Indecisive, Self(?)-Indulgent, Codependent;
Satsuki: Dishonest, Pessimistic;
Tsukiko: Obsessive, Tactless;
LIKES
✔ Writing Observation Journals, Computer Games (with multiple save slots), Cooler Colors, Nighttime, Pastries (muffins), The Idea of Heroes;
Satsuki: Buckwheat Soba;
Tsukiko: Yakogai (giant sea snail [food]);
DISLIKES
✖ Quiet, Quirk Restraint Laws, Overly Spicy Foods, Animal Hunters (in real life and fiction), Family Discussions, The Reality Surrounding Heroes;
Satsuki: Seafood, Being Lonely, His Distance from Tsukiko
Tsukiko: Noodles, Crowded Places, Her Distance from Satsuki
Personality:
Despite their differing appearances and genders, it is difficult to say whether or not Satsuki and Tsukiko are separate people in one body, or the same person with two different "forms". The nature of their Quirk implies the former, given their birth as twins, but the time spent as a single individual has long since overtaken that, and thus they've more or less become of one mind. Still, they do have some differences here and there, and they can only truly share their thoughts and feelings with the other when their Quirk is active, which complicates things...
Satsuki and Tsukiko are both quite withdrawn, preferring to not go out and spend a lot of time with people they don't know very well. Tsukiko is more comfortable with a screen between herself and others, but more often Satsuki will feel braver than his other and go out to spend time with friends from school. The only time Tsukiko feels like they can open up to people is when their Quirk is active and she can rely on Satsuki's presence to act as a buffer.
Because they don't share memories unless both are present through their Quirk use, they come across as forgetful and awkward, unsure of what they said to someone they just spoke to yesterday, but in truth it's because the other was who spoke to that person. They solve this most of the time through consistently writing down day to day events in as much detail as they can, but it means that they won't have a complete picture until they read the notes. This is also their usual means of letting the other know how they feel, things they want to do that day...
...just saying "hi"...
They miss one another in a way that neither of them can really explain. After all, they're never apart--they're literally a single person, sharing a single body, and a single life--but at the same time they're only ever together when using their Quirk. And they can't do that in public without getting into trouble. They can't share a lot of moments, even when they're right there.
They hate the laws that keep them from being together all the time in one way or another. That, paired with their upbringing, has pushed them away from the idea of becoming a hero--sure they would get a license to use their Quirk, but they would be going around doing the same thing that's been done to them to people who might be in a similar situation. Quirk use should be free. Is that dangerous? Probably, but people have always been dangerous! Quirks only made it more fantastical. So as long as people who use their Quirk for ill are locked up or dead, it would be fine. That's their ideal world. But, unfortunately, they know there's too many of those bad guys in the world to really fight for that future--both villains who paint other Quirkers in a bad way, and quirkless who would hate them for no reason.
Well...as a vigilante, maybe they can help to fix at least one of those problems...?
Satsuki and Tsukiko share a body. Their hair is naturally silvery white and kept grown out to the middle of their back, their skin is a warm beige color, and they have deep green-hazel eyes. They keep their hair in either a ponytail or braid, depending on who's in control--Satsuki prefers a braid, Tsukiko a ponytail. Growing up, twins deliberately kept their appearance in a state of androgyny to help the other feel more comfortable.
They wear loose clothing, have their hair grown out very, very long, and wear earrings and necklaces to help blur the lines a little more. There are certain things each of them still prefers to wear when in control; Satsuki prefers to dress in a more together sense, and as the one who primarily attends school wears their uniform most days. Tsukiko dresses less formally and prefers lounging in ridiculously large shirts or sweaters depending on the weather.
In their "vigilante" disguise, Tsukiko is primarily in control. She wears a mask in the shape of a stag face, antlers included, to match that of her summon, as well as a silver hooded cloak that shrouds their body. Under the cloak they wear casual clothing--something that, if need be, they could hide their cloak and mask away and jump into a crowd to blend in with. In the rarer instance of Satsuki being in the Moonbeam persona, he prefers to draw the hood up.
POSITIVE
✔ Both: Empathetic, Loyal, Adaptable, Generous;
Satsuki: Proactive, Diplomatic;
Tsukiko: Imaginative, Just;
NEGATIVE
✖ Both: Insecure, Indecisive, Self(?)-Indulgent, Codependent;
Satsuki: Dishonest, Pessimistic;
Tsukiko: Obsessive, Tactless;
LIKES
✔ Writing Observation Journals, Computer Games (with multiple save slots), Cooler Colors, Nighttime, Pastries (muffins), The Idea of Heroes;
Satsuki: Buckwheat Soba;
Tsukiko: Yakogai (giant sea snail [food]);
DISLIKES
✖ Quiet, Quirk Restraint Laws, Overly Spicy Foods, Animal Hunters (in real life and fiction), Family Discussions, The Reality Surrounding Heroes;
Satsuki: Seafood, Being Lonely, His Distance from Tsukiko
Tsukiko: Noodles, Crowded Places, Her Distance from Satsuki
Personality:
Despite their differing appearances and genders, it is difficult to say whether or not Satsuki and Tsukiko are separate people in one body, or the same person with two different "forms". The nature of their Quirk implies the former, given their birth as twins, but the time spent as a single individual has long since overtaken that, and thus they've more or less become of one mind. Still, they do have some differences here and there, and they can only truly share their thoughts and feelings with the other when their Quirk is active, which complicates things...
Satsuki and Tsukiko are both quite withdrawn, preferring to not go out and spend a lot of time with people they don't know very well. Tsukiko is more comfortable with a screen between herself and others, but more often Satsuki will feel braver than his other and go out to spend time with friends from school. The only time Tsukiko feels like they can open up to people is when their Quirk is active and she can rely on Satsuki's presence to act as a buffer.
Because they don't share memories unless both are present through their Quirk use, they come across as forgetful and awkward, unsure of what they said to someone they just spoke to yesterday, but in truth it's because the other was who spoke to that person. They solve this most of the time through consistently writing down day to day events in as much detail as they can, but it means that they won't have a complete picture until they read the notes. This is also their usual means of letting the other know how they feel, things they want to do that day...
...just saying "hi"...
They miss one another in a way that neither of them can really explain. After all, they're never apart--they're literally a single person, sharing a single body, and a single life--but at the same time they're only ever together when using their Quirk. And they can't do that in public without getting into trouble. They can't share a lot of moments, even when they're right there.
They hate the laws that keep them from being together all the time in one way or another. That, paired with their upbringing, has pushed them away from the idea of becoming a hero--sure they would get a license to use their Quirk, but they would be going around doing the same thing that's been done to them to people who might be in a similar situation. Quirk use should be free. Is that dangerous? Probably, but people have always been dangerous! Quirks only made it more fantastical. So as long as people who use their Quirk for ill are locked up or dead, it would be fine. That's their ideal world. But, unfortunately, they know there's too many of those bad guys in the world to really fight for that future--both villains who paint other Quirkers in a bad way, and quirkless who would hate them for no reason.
Well...as a vigilante, maybe they can help to fix at least one of those problems...?
HISTORY
One day seventeen years ago, a happy family of a mom, dad, and a child were getting ready to welcome a pair of twins into their life. They came into the world perfectly normal. No fur, no horns, no unusual traits at all. This was what their mom and dad had prayed for, and how their older sister was (to the best of their knowledge). After all, Quirks were frightening, horrible things that nobody would wish upon their child. For the first four years of their life, Satsuki and Tsukiko--both named after the full moon they were born on--were perfectly normal.
But if things stayed that way, they wouldn't be in this situation, now would they?
At about four years and two months old, on the night of another full moon, some sort of terrible accident occurred while the twins slept in their futons side-by-side. Neither they nor their family would know what really happened, but in the morning, Tsukiko was simply...gone. Vanished. Not a trace of her was in her bed, and Satsuki had suddenly changed. It was a small change--their once dark hair was now a silvery snow white--but one that hinted at something far more than that, and with Tsukiko's disappearance their parents assumed that this change had something to do with it. Technically, they weren't wrong.
But they assumed far, far worse than the truth.
Satsuki was taken to doctors to examine him, to see if they could find evidence of something horrible, while police searched the town to find if Tsukiko had gone missing for any other reason. The doctors couldn't find anything. No blood in his teeth or anything human in his stomach. No signs of a struggle or fight or blood in the home, either. Whatever had happened to Tsukiko, Satsuki hadn't harmed her.
His parents, however, did not believe this. Satsuki had a Quirk. They didn't know what the Quirk was, but it had to have been the reason for Tsukiko's disappearance! It just had to! No evidence of her being kidnapped or any other clues came up, and with every passing day, his mother and father and elder sister believed more and more than Satsuki had, somehow, removed his twin from the face of the world.
But...he couldn't have, could he? He loved Tsukiko. She was his sister. They'd been together literally since the first moment he could remember. And he didn't feel like he could do anything bad to anyone. He didn't feel different, he just looked funny. Was that any reason to hate him? He was missing Tsukiko, too! And he didn't even understand where she could have gone or why he couldn't see her anymore. He didn't understand death. He was too little. He just knew his parents blamed him.
After one night of his parents cold, furious looks and being sent to bed with his dinner, Satsuki fell into a fitful sleep in his single futon, alone...
...in the morning, Tsukiko woke up, like it was the morning of the same day that she had supposedly disappeared. Only something was wrong. Her brother's futon was missing?
And she was super hungry even though last night they'd had a really big dinner. And her hair was white?? And...and where was Satsuki?
Tsukiko ran to her parents room and banged on the door in frantic worry, asking if they knew where Satsuki was, and what was going on. When her parents opened the door they stalled and asked her who she was. Confused, but thinking that maybe they couldn't tell the twins apart in their sleep clothes, she just said "I'm Tsukiko! Where's Satsuki?"
A trip to the doctor's and a few more days later and the Quirk was diagnosed. Sort of. Satsuki and Tsukiko both possessed the same Quirk, which was thence named "Gemini". Because of it the two of them now shared a single body, but their minds appeared to be totally separated from one another--they didn't share memories (but Tsukiko did have all of hers from before the merge, which was how they learned she was herself and not some manner of split-personality in Satsuki), they couldn't talk to one another, and as far as the child psychologist could tell they really were two entirely different children sharing one body. They couldn't even switch between the two of them as they pleased, and sometimes did so in the middle of a sentence.
It was too much for their parents. Not only one child with a Quirk, but two. And while one of the twins was out, it was as if the other didn't exist. They felt as if they had lost their children. But they didn't cast them out, and didn't harm them. They simply started to...ignore it. They treated Satsuki and Tsukiko as one child, and got mad at them when they forgot things because of a switch, and would only ever address both of them by Satsuki's name. It was, after all, his body. They were colder to the twins than their older sister, and as the years passed, they all but gave them a threat to never tell a soul what their Quirk was or how it worked.
This had the anticipated effect on Satsuki, but it was even worse on Tsukiko. He felt hurt, confused, and lonely, and she felt all of that as well as completely forgotten. At school they both kept up appearances but it only deepened their pain. Tsukiko didn't have friends, Satsuki did. But Satsuki didn't really have friends, because he was afraid of anyone getting close enough to figure out something was wrong with him.
Because something was wrong with him, right? With...them. Both of them.
Once they had turned twelve, after a long time of hiding and building unhappiness and hate, their parents signed them up for a boarding school in the city. Was it to get rid of them, or really because they thought this would help them? Satsuki knew it was the former. But...at the same time, being away from home and in a room all to themselves with nobody to contain them for the very first time in their life was so goddamn liberating that it did help. No, they still didn't tell anybody about their Quirk, but they started to actually explore it. Satsuki would come to with little notes in a journal about what Tsukiko had been up to. They wrote to one another in secret, shared things they'd found on the internet or in books with each other through favorites and bookmarks and post-in notes. The twins could finally talk.
Tsukiko wasn't alone anymore, and Satsuki finally had somebody to confide in.
They stayed at that boarding school as much as they could. They stayed for summer holidays, they took up little jobs to save up money to stay at manga cafes when winter vacation came, and somehow they got their parents to agree to co-sign on an apartment for them near school for summer break. Hey, if it kept them out of their parents lives maybe they wanted it as much as the twins did. But fuck them. They had spent so, so long forcing Tsukiko away and keeping Satsuki in line that neither of the twins cared about their home. They had one another.
But it wasn't perfect. While they had notes and favorited videos and journals, when it came down to it, the two of them still spent most of their time alone. Yes, Satsuki was starting to make actual friends as he grew, but Tsukiko was still horrified of people, and because of that they never made plans with people outside of class. They were still learning to control the switching and while it had gotten to the point that they could predict or feel when one was about to happen, it was still mostly random.
They couldn't risk anyone finding out because...because that was bad, wasn't it? Was that why they hid it? Or was it because they didn't want to risk any more people treating them the same way their family had treated them before.
Either way, they were lonely, even when they weren't ever really alone.
Then, one night, after doing an odd job to make more money as the holidays drew near, Tsukiko was grabbed and pulled into a side alley. She struggled and tried to scream but the person who had her was much larger and scarier, and he started to try and pull her into a van. Tsukiko managed to just get her mouth away from his hand for long enough to scream for her brother. There was a sudden burst of heat from her chest, like a warmth of fire in the middle of winter. Warm like a hug, although she wasn't really sure what one felt like.
And then there was an enormous silver stag barreling the stranger over, hurling him into his van with a nasty sounding crunch. Tsukiko took a shaken step back as the stag turned to look at her with wide, purely silver eyes and...she just knew. She wasn't sure how she did, but she said it aloud anyway. "Satsuki...?"
And the stag leaned down and nuzzled her forehead with its own, and she could hear his voice--their voice--echoing into their thoughts in a way that wasn't her own. "Are you okay, Tsuki?"
After that night, they suddenly got very, very good at using their Quirk. Satsuki did the same as his sister, and when she appeared in the room as an enormous white swan in their apartment, they realized they didn't have to be alone anymore. The two of them were always together from that moment on...when they could be, at least. At school and work they had to keep to whomever was out at the moment--and as they used their Quirk more, the more Satsuki could keep himself in control at school, keeping Tsukiko out of spaces where she wasn't comfortable. But at home, they'd have one of them as a large, soft creature curled up besides them, talking and reading and playing games and just being together, like they felt like they could have been for all of their lives. It just felt so natural, like nothing had happened since they were children and separate. It was wonderful, and fun, and freeing.
With new confidence, even if only when alone, they started changing. They took better care of themselves. They started making a style of their own, something that they could go between themselves and not feel out of place. They started to push their luck and summon the other on walks in the city after work, or even flying too and from school, high above the buildings below. But...their luck was pushed too far more than once. Police would catch them and fine them for Quirk use, and their parents--unaware of the changes in their Quirk--would scold them over the phone as they paid for the fines. Did they listen? No. They just got more careful, and more sneaky. Tsukiko got really into wild make-up tutorials that made them look like a totally different person, and Satsuki tried to do the same but couldn't figure it out.
They would sneak out late at night in disguises and fly or run around, avoiding cops and heroes and anyone who might stop them. Heroes were a new concept. And in theory, the twins loved it. Quirkers being able to use their Quirk at all times, to help and save people? That was amazing. But one too many times they saw articles of heroes shaming those who used their Quirk in public, calling them vigilantes and villains. But weren't they just people with their own Quirk? Just like heroes? Did a fancy piece of paper really make a difference?
It just felt so hollow. They liked the ideal of a hero using their Quirk to help others, but not the shallow rule-keepers who put people like them in jail or juvy for it.
Tsukiko was the one to suggest it. She was, after all, the one most disconnected from the real world. She came up with it all. The mask, the disguise, the name, the persona; Moonbeam, a vigilante Quirker and her spectral stag summon, saving people without the need for a license, without the need of the law. Protecting them from villains who gave Quirkers a bad name, and from Quirkless who were just...just like their parents, filled with hate and cruelty for something outside their control. Satsuki wasn't as sure of this as his sister. But it made her happy.
And it was the first time she really, truly wanted to do something of her own choice, so he would happily indulge her. Besides, they had a good cover. Moonbeam, after all, was a woman. And Satsuki Kuda was a young man in school. He summoned a swan, and she summoned a stag. The two of them were entirely different people.
It's the perfect ruse.
Now let's see how long it lasts.
But if things stayed that way, they wouldn't be in this situation, now would they?
At about four years and two months old, on the night of another full moon, some sort of terrible accident occurred while the twins slept in their futons side-by-side. Neither they nor their family would know what really happened, but in the morning, Tsukiko was simply...gone. Vanished. Not a trace of her was in her bed, and Satsuki had suddenly changed. It was a small change--their once dark hair was now a silvery snow white--but one that hinted at something far more than that, and with Tsukiko's disappearance their parents assumed that this change had something to do with it. Technically, they weren't wrong.
But they assumed far, far worse than the truth.
Satsuki was taken to doctors to examine him, to see if they could find evidence of something horrible, while police searched the town to find if Tsukiko had gone missing for any other reason. The doctors couldn't find anything. No blood in his teeth or anything human in his stomach. No signs of a struggle or fight or blood in the home, either. Whatever had happened to Tsukiko, Satsuki hadn't harmed her.
His parents, however, did not believe this. Satsuki had a Quirk. They didn't know what the Quirk was, but it had to have been the reason for Tsukiko's disappearance! It just had to! No evidence of her being kidnapped or any other clues came up, and with every passing day, his mother and father and elder sister believed more and more than Satsuki had, somehow, removed his twin from the face of the world.
But...he couldn't have, could he? He loved Tsukiko. She was his sister. They'd been together literally since the first moment he could remember. And he didn't feel like he could do anything bad to anyone. He didn't feel different, he just looked funny. Was that any reason to hate him? He was missing Tsukiko, too! And he didn't even understand where she could have gone or why he couldn't see her anymore. He didn't understand death. He was too little. He just knew his parents blamed him.
After one night of his parents cold, furious looks and being sent to bed with his dinner, Satsuki fell into a fitful sleep in his single futon, alone...
...in the morning, Tsukiko woke up, like it was the morning of the same day that she had supposedly disappeared. Only something was wrong. Her brother's futon was missing?
And she was super hungry even though last night they'd had a really big dinner. And her hair was white?? And...and where was Satsuki?
Tsukiko ran to her parents room and banged on the door in frantic worry, asking if they knew where Satsuki was, and what was going on. When her parents opened the door they stalled and asked her who she was. Confused, but thinking that maybe they couldn't tell the twins apart in their sleep clothes, she just said "I'm Tsukiko! Where's Satsuki?"
A trip to the doctor's and a few more days later and the Quirk was diagnosed. Sort of. Satsuki and Tsukiko both possessed the same Quirk, which was thence named "Gemini". Because of it the two of them now shared a single body, but their minds appeared to be totally separated from one another--they didn't share memories (but Tsukiko did have all of hers from before the merge, which was how they learned she was herself and not some manner of split-personality in Satsuki), they couldn't talk to one another, and as far as the child psychologist could tell they really were two entirely different children sharing one body. They couldn't even switch between the two of them as they pleased, and sometimes did so in the middle of a sentence.
It was too much for their parents. Not only one child with a Quirk, but two. And while one of the twins was out, it was as if the other didn't exist. They felt as if they had lost their children. But they didn't cast them out, and didn't harm them. They simply started to...ignore it. They treated Satsuki and Tsukiko as one child, and got mad at them when they forgot things because of a switch, and would only ever address both of them by Satsuki's name. It was, after all, his body. They were colder to the twins than their older sister, and as the years passed, they all but gave them a threat to never tell a soul what their Quirk was or how it worked.
This had the anticipated effect on Satsuki, but it was even worse on Tsukiko. He felt hurt, confused, and lonely, and she felt all of that as well as completely forgotten. At school they both kept up appearances but it only deepened their pain. Tsukiko didn't have friends, Satsuki did. But Satsuki didn't really have friends, because he was afraid of anyone getting close enough to figure out something was wrong with him.
Because something was wrong with him, right? With...them. Both of them.
Once they had turned twelve, after a long time of hiding and building unhappiness and hate, their parents signed them up for a boarding school in the city. Was it to get rid of them, or really because they thought this would help them? Satsuki knew it was the former. But...at the same time, being away from home and in a room all to themselves with nobody to contain them for the very first time in their life was so goddamn liberating that it did help. No, they still didn't tell anybody about their Quirk, but they started to actually explore it. Satsuki would come to with little notes in a journal about what Tsukiko had been up to. They wrote to one another in secret, shared things they'd found on the internet or in books with each other through favorites and bookmarks and post-in notes. The twins could finally talk.
Tsukiko wasn't alone anymore, and Satsuki finally had somebody to confide in.
They stayed at that boarding school as much as they could. They stayed for summer holidays, they took up little jobs to save up money to stay at manga cafes when winter vacation came, and somehow they got their parents to agree to co-sign on an apartment for them near school for summer break. Hey, if it kept them out of their parents lives maybe they wanted it as much as the twins did. But fuck them. They had spent so, so long forcing Tsukiko away and keeping Satsuki in line that neither of the twins cared about their home. They had one another.
But it wasn't perfect. While they had notes and favorited videos and journals, when it came down to it, the two of them still spent most of their time alone. Yes, Satsuki was starting to make actual friends as he grew, but Tsukiko was still horrified of people, and because of that they never made plans with people outside of class. They were still learning to control the switching and while it had gotten to the point that they could predict or feel when one was about to happen, it was still mostly random.
They couldn't risk anyone finding out because...because that was bad, wasn't it? Was that why they hid it? Or was it because they didn't want to risk any more people treating them the same way their family had treated them before.
Either way, they were lonely, even when they weren't ever really alone.
Then, one night, after doing an odd job to make more money as the holidays drew near, Tsukiko was grabbed and pulled into a side alley. She struggled and tried to scream but the person who had her was much larger and scarier, and he started to try and pull her into a van. Tsukiko managed to just get her mouth away from his hand for long enough to scream for her brother. There was a sudden burst of heat from her chest, like a warmth of fire in the middle of winter. Warm like a hug, although she wasn't really sure what one felt like.
And then there was an enormous silver stag barreling the stranger over, hurling him into his van with a nasty sounding crunch. Tsukiko took a shaken step back as the stag turned to look at her with wide, purely silver eyes and...she just knew. She wasn't sure how she did, but she said it aloud anyway. "Satsuki...?"
And the stag leaned down and nuzzled her forehead with its own, and she could hear his voice--their voice--echoing into their thoughts in a way that wasn't her own. "Are you okay, Tsuki?"
After that night, they suddenly got very, very good at using their Quirk. Satsuki did the same as his sister, and when she appeared in the room as an enormous white swan in their apartment, they realized they didn't have to be alone anymore. The two of them were always together from that moment on...when they could be, at least. At school and work they had to keep to whomever was out at the moment--and as they used their Quirk more, the more Satsuki could keep himself in control at school, keeping Tsukiko out of spaces where she wasn't comfortable. But at home, they'd have one of them as a large, soft creature curled up besides them, talking and reading and playing games and just being together, like they felt like they could have been for all of their lives. It just felt so natural, like nothing had happened since they were children and separate. It was wonderful, and fun, and freeing.
With new confidence, even if only when alone, they started changing. They took better care of themselves. They started making a style of their own, something that they could go between themselves and not feel out of place. They started to push their luck and summon the other on walks in the city after work, or even flying too and from school, high above the buildings below. But...their luck was pushed too far more than once. Police would catch them and fine them for Quirk use, and their parents--unaware of the changes in their Quirk--would scold them over the phone as they paid for the fines. Did they listen? No. They just got more careful, and more sneaky. Tsukiko got really into wild make-up tutorials that made them look like a totally different person, and Satsuki tried to do the same but couldn't figure it out.
They would sneak out late at night in disguises and fly or run around, avoiding cops and heroes and anyone who might stop them. Heroes were a new concept. And in theory, the twins loved it. Quirkers being able to use their Quirk at all times, to help and save people? That was amazing. But one too many times they saw articles of heroes shaming those who used their Quirk in public, calling them vigilantes and villains. But weren't they just people with their own Quirk? Just like heroes? Did a fancy piece of paper really make a difference?
It just felt so hollow. They liked the ideal of a hero using their Quirk to help others, but not the shallow rule-keepers who put people like them in jail or juvy for it.
Tsukiko was the one to suggest it. She was, after all, the one most disconnected from the real world. She came up with it all. The mask, the disguise, the name, the persona; Moonbeam, a vigilante Quirker and her spectral stag summon, saving people without the need for a license, without the need of the law. Protecting them from villains who gave Quirkers a bad name, and from Quirkless who were just...just like their parents, filled with hate and cruelty for something outside their control. Satsuki wasn't as sure of this as his sister. But it made her happy.
And it was the first time she really, truly wanted to do something of her own choice, so he would happily indulge her. Besides, they had a good cover. Moonbeam, after all, was a woman. And Satsuki Kuda was a young man in school. He summoned a swan, and she summoned a stag. The two of them were entirely different people.
It's the perfect ruse.
Now let's see how long it lasts.
