taichara: (Shin -- Mire)
taichara ([personal profile] taichara) wrote in [community profile] 31_days2020-06-08 07:23 am

[08 June] [Yoroiden Samurai Troopers] Riptide

Title: Riptide
Day/Prompt: 08 - "luck of the draw"
Fandom: Yoroiden Samurai Troopers
Character/Pairing: Shin Mouri
Rating/Warning(s): G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Shaken, Shin wonders yet again ...

Why me?

Hardly the first time Shin had asked himself that; and probably, he grumbled, not the last either. But he just couldn't help the question -- especially now, the spectre of his freakish doppelganger fresh in his mind.

No. Not me.

Just my armour.

I need to remember that, damn it.

The water surrounding him was soothing, inviting, reassuring. Shin drew slow lungfuls, smiling wryly in the deep; his unlikely calling's backhanded gift.

Why? Family? Fate? (No, his heart cried.) Chaos' whim? A little of everything?

Why did it matter?

Should it?

If this is the hand I'm dealt, then ...