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[espigeonage]

The Road Not Taken Meme

Save the Earth requires all characters, no matter how fantastical, to be reincarnated as normal people and animals. But "normal" encompasses a lot of options.

What if you had chosen a different reincarnation for your characters? Did you have other ideas? What if they were closer to their preincarnation selves - or farther away? If they were in high school, or the prime of their lives, or animals, or human?

Give a short (~1 sentence) recap of who the preincarnation is, then who their reincarnation is and why you picked that, and then lay out some alternative options. Would they have had the same Echoes? Reacted to them differently? How would they handle events? Comment on these or play things out, if you like!

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[dyingtohealyou]

As Ahito, he was a test subject for magic experimentation for his magic user parents who wanted to see if a. they could give magic to a person and b. that magic could be used to heal another dying child whose magic had been triggered by the deaths of her entire family in an accident before she also passed away, and were indeed correct on one count.

My main goal was to give Akito a happy family life so that he could be all the more disturbed once he started getting echoes back since Ahito's was anything but. On the other hand, if I'd gone with something to make him more similar to canon his parents would probably be in the midst of a messy divorce, the result of which puts him in the care of his grandparents since neither of his parents could be arsed to take him. This would give him a pretty good reason to be on terrible terms with the both of them while being in the care of his grandmother as is canon for Ahito (although in that case it was because his parents were killed during a war).

Personality-wise, he'd be more outwardly "cheerful" as a result, since originally Ahito's coping method when it comes to terrible things seems to be to put on a grin even while hating the world. He would be much more adjusted to rolling with shit as it comes without caring too much, whereas the route I've got him on has him struggling to keep up with how truly dangerous all of this is at times. As it is, he's much more based on what Ahito might have been like if his parents hadn't basically screwed him over - a lot more likely to brazenly reach out and help people, a lot less likely to resort to violence because someone happened to tick him off.