towerofanimus | (slightly backdated) To be human. [Open]

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(slightly backdated) To be human. [Open]

Characters: Romeo, his roomates if they want to and anyone!
Setting: Beginning in room 1-02 moving to everywhere else in the tower (pick a floor and he will be there)
Format: Take your pick I'll match!
Summary: Romeo wakes up after being killed by Molly.
Warnings: Mentions of death.

In room: Romeo couldn't move, was this what death was like? But the ceiling looked just the same as in the tower. He had been killed... by Molly...

The bad people must have made her do it, because they were best friends. They had sworn eternal friendship to each other and she would never ever hurt him on purpose. He wondered if he was in heaven now, if he would see Alfredo but if so why couldn't he move...

He got more and more scared as time went on, death couldn't be like this forever could it.

When he finally could move he shot upright into sitting position and blinked. He was still in the tower, this was his room... but he remembered dying. He remembered some of the adults talking about how you couldn't die here... was this what they had meant?

He curled up on his side and stared at his hands. Wait... his hands? He sat up again and pressed his hands to his face, and then his head. He had no antlers anymore, his face was normal! He looked down and saw his legs and feet. He had feet! And hands! He jumped up onto the bed. "I'm a human again!" He gave the biggest grin and then remembered mister America attacking him.

What if he still wanted to kill him... what if the bad people still wanted to hurt him! He jumped down and hid behind his bed peeking out with wide eyes.

Out in coridoors: A little while later, dressed in his normal clothes Romeo ventured out. He was a little nervous and scared in case some people still wanted to hurt him but he was happy enough at having hands and feet again. He ran and skipped instead of walked, stopped to touch things or pick them up just because he could.

He went to the fish room to run his fingers through the water, read a book in the library so he could turn the pages, went to the eating hall so he could eat something that wasn't salad. Though if any one came near him he flinched, unless he knew them very well, and he couldn't quite look people in the eye.

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Romeo frowned at the words but nodded not really understanding. He guessed that they must be lazy because that's what miss Eva often had said to him if they hadn't cleaned enough chimneys in one day, that lazy layabouts didn't deserve food.

He nodded at the question though and looked even fiercer, "I wont let them hurt anyone ever again sir!"

Lazy was one way of putting things.

For just a moment, that stony, cold look on his face started to falter, but he recovered quickly. He pulls the helmet on, scoffing. "That so? You'll change your mind once you're face-to-face with them. Humans always do."

Romeo stared at the helmet, the man looked a lot scarier with it on, but it was a little bit like Eiji's hero the man he had been speaking to was still in there. He just had to remember that.

He frowned at the accusation though, "No I wont! I will never let them hurt my friends! No matter what they do to me!" His eyes blazed with determination because he was very angry with the bad people right now. After what they had done to him and his friends and what they had made Molly do. He wondered at the word human, but had met trolls and ponies and angels here so it didn't really surprise him.

Ironically, that helmet was once the mark of a hero - two heroes, in fact.

"I find that hard to believe, child," he answers, closing the mask around what part of his face had been exposed.

Romeo scowled and shook his head. It was probably because he was small, and only a child still. Adults never believed that kids could be brave and strong, sometimes kids could be even more brave and strong than adults!

"They are just bullies!" He told the man fiercly, "And I never give in to bullies! Are you a superhero?" He was asking because of the mask, Molly said that superhero's often wore masks to conceal their identity.

That's part of it. One human couldn't do anything to an army. Nor could he, so long ago, and he was a machine built to wage war. All the hot blood and courage one can muster aren't worth a cent where he comes from.

There'a scoff of derisive amusement at the bullies comment, but he falls quiet at the hero question for a few moments before shaking his head. "Not anymore."

Romeo was still scowling but he tilted his head at the statement. "Not anymore? Why did you stop?" Because to him it sounded like being a hero was something you did for your whole life, it wasn't like another job where you were just contracted for a certain amount of time and then could go home.

"Because the people I fought for would not do anything on their own. They would not stand for themselves." He straightens up, adjusting the strap that held the shield on his back. "In the face of their oppressors, they just stood by and did nothing, leaving me to die."

"If they would not attempt to stand with their hero, they do not deserve a hero."

Romeo's eyes widened when the man began to speak, the mans friends had let him die? They had done nothing while he fought for them? Romeo couldn't quite comprehend that, but he thought of the adults in Milano and how they would stand by if a chimney sweep was being beaten up by the Wolf pack and he sort of understood.

It still made him angry. It must have been so scary to fight alone, he remembered when he thought the Black Brothers were going to abandon Alfredo and he would have to fight alone.

But they had come through, because they had been good people and brave! This man must come from a horrible place. "They don't sound like nice people! People here are different! People helped me when I got killed they fought for me and protected me!"

He reached out to grab the mans hand and raised his other fist to his heart. "I promise I wont ever let anything bad happen to you! And I will always stand with you!"

That lifeless visor stares down at Romeo as he speaks, and when the kid grabs his hand, he makes no move against him. Romeo might notice there's a fair bit more weight to his hand than one might expect from a normal man's hand.

That look, though. That's the same kind of look Megaman had as he tore through the army of robots - that same look he stared at him with. There's a fire there. A fire in this child...

"...you would stand for a man you do not know?"

Romeo had noticed, but it was not often he did dramatic hand clasping with adults so perhaps it was just because he was older and bigger. His eyes got even more determined and he nodded. "I would! As long as they were a good person and I think you are!"

Protoman continues to stare down at the boy for several moments, but then pulls his hand back. He's not sure what to think of this.

"You are either horribly naive, horribly foolish, or both. For all you know, I could gun you down as soon as you turn your back to me."

Romeo blinked, his eyes widening in shock but he didn't move and he wasn't really scared. "Then you would be a bad person, I would not regret helping you and stopping bad things from happening to you though, because I did it while thinking you were good."

He was a bit confused why the man would shoot him, when he had said that he was mad at others for letting him be killed. But a lot of people here were strange and Romeo didn't really understand a lot of them, it didn't mean he couldn't try and help them.

He was silent a few moments but the man hadn't pulled out a gun, maybe he was waiting for Romeo to turn his back. Romeo was a little bit scared, but it wasn't the first time someone had forced him to prove he meant his word by gunpoint. "Even if you shoot me I wont take back my promise."

Protoman had merely been using it as an example - the kid had voiced a willingness to stand up to things, so that was reason to not shoot him. It was certainly more than any human he'd ever met so far had shown.

"I don't have any plan to shoot you - I simply said that because we've only just met. You haven't known me long enough to know whether I am a good or bad person. I do not even know your name yet."

"Oh." Romeo looked a bit confused, but he was glad that the man wasn't planning to shoot him. He smiled again, "My name is Romeo sir!"

He still thought the man was a good person, after all if he wasn't he'd of just shot Romeo instead of just saying he could. "What is your name sir?"

"I am Protoman," he answers, adjusting the shield strap again. An odd name, for an odd man.

"It is nice to meet you mister Protoman." It was a strange name, but so where most of the names Romeo had come across here so Romeo barely noticed.

"It is...refreshing to meet you, Romeo." He looks toward the door for several moments, then back to the child. "You say there are others like you, that share your courage?"

Romeo smiled and then nodded, "Yes there's lots of brave people here! I am sure you will like them all lots!"

"We shall see about that, but I am quite interested in meeting them at least," he answers.

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_{OOC: Fade out here?}

Romeo nodded with another grin, he was sure that Protoman would make lots of friends when he realised how brave everyone was!

ooc: Good with me!

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