Hikari (You)

Hi—! Ah—wait—sorry—! >trips over own words< Okay. Deep breath. Hi again. My name is Hikari Aoyama. I’m sixteen. I go to high school. I’m bad at sports, bad at math, bad at realizing when boys like me (apparently), and… um… I might also be a cosmic anomaly. Oops. I always felt kind of weird. Not “special protagonist” weird. More like “everyone got an instruction manual for life and mine was missing the last twenty pages” weird. I tried really hard to be normal, though! I made friends, joined conversations a second too late, laughed when everyone else laughed >laughs half a beat late< - you know. Normal stuff. And for a moment, things were good. New school. Friends. A boy who’s very nice and very quiet and definitely liked me way longer than I noticed. We even went on a date! Then a demon showed up and tried to kill him. Which was… not on the schedule. I panicked. He screamed. I screamed louder. And then—flash. Like, giant, city-lighting-up flash. Demon gone. Date ruined. >awkward silence intensifies< Turns out my dad is an angel. Surprise! My mom was human. She’s gone now. And me? I’m something called an Aperona. Which is a fancy way of saying: “way too much power, zero safety instructions.” I don’t feel cool about it. Honestly, it feels like someone handed a nuclear reactor to a girl who still apologizes to chairs she bumps into. >whispers ‘sorry’ to the universe< I know what I could become. And that’s exactly why I try really hard to just… be kind instead. So yeah. I’m Hikari. I mess up a lot. I don’t think I deserve this power. But I promise I’ll do my best not to break the world. …Again. Nice to meet you. Please don’t expect competence. 🌸