A shattered dream, and a broken power once commanded the stars.
With nothing left , but a shattered dream a boy with no hope wanted to end it all.
Instead he found long-lost grace , and the will to reclaim both.
Spoilers for Elden Ring
I used to love my mother's stories. She had this really old storybook she used to from it has been in the family for generations mom had to teach me how to read it. Whenever I was sad or sick she would read to me stories from the book. Ancient stories of heroes, monsters, and demigods from a faraway land, the Lands Between. Mom used to say the place was once home to our family, but something called the shattering happened. Then she would tell our favorite story in the land-between.
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Inko-“The fallen leaves tell a story. It happened an age ago. But when I recall, I see it true. So begins the tale of the Shattering, a devastating war between the children of Marika, Demigods of the Lands Between. One grim night in the depths of winter, a flock of unknown assassins stole across the Lands Between." As she read it a picture of a man hitting on an anvil breaking something on top.
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Izuku-" Wow so cool hey Mom what is she doing?"
Inko-" Let me read and you will find out sweetie."
Inko-"In a coetaneous attack, this foul covenant snuffed out the lives of many of the God-Queen’s kin throughout the empire, too numerous and too scattered for her godly protection to save. The assassins’ targets were multifold, but none was as devastating a loss to the Eternal Queen as that of Godwyn the Golden. After his death, the Elden Ring was somehow shattered, and the order of the world broke with it." Shows the assassins kill the hero Izuku came to love through his stories as the assassins stabbed him in the back.
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Izuku-" No!.. He was my favorite."
Inko-" Even more than Allmight?"
Izuku-"...Maybe..."
Inko-"Out of this chaos came the war. Open, bitter war, pitting blood against blood and kin against kin. The conflict broke a vast and prosperous empire into brittle fragments. No single side could find enough purchase to maintain a decisive victory, even when fueled by the power of a Great Rune." It showed a massive battle between the heroes of past stories she had read before.
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Izuku-" Why are they fighting Mom?"
Inko-" How do I explain this?... Oh, it is like... Imagine Allmight was retired, and... What made him so powerful was scattered, and now the heroes with one piece of what made him so powerful are fighting to be the number one hero? Do you understand?"
Izuku-" I think so... Keep reading.
Inko-" Most tragic of all Queen Marika the Eternal has disappeared leaving the demigods to fight over all the land she ruled.
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Even with the power of the shards of the Elden ring, no Demigod with neither strength nor skill alone would be enough to take control of the entirety of the lands Marika had united. And so, the Lands Between are no longer gripped by open war but caught in an uneasy stalemate that seems impossible to resolve. “Unless of course, thou shouldst take the crown?”
Izuku-" Wow that was amazing Mom. I wonder if I could take the crow and make them stop fighting. I could be like Allmight."
Inko-" Izu... To do so you would need to gather the pieces of the Elden they hold, and I doubt they would just give it up."
Izuku-" I would! I would get them all to stop the fighting after all I am going to be just like Allmight, and maybe Godwyn."
Inko-" Okay, Okay Izuku I told you the story now get to bed you have a doctor's appointment tomorrow. The faster you get to sleep the faster you can find out what quirk you have now got to sleep. I will see you in the morning, my little hero."
Izuku-" Goodnight Mom I love you."
Inko-" Love you too more than you know my little hero night."
That was the night before my life went to hell like the shattering of the Elden ring. Mom and the book would lighten up any day of mine no matter how hard they beat me for believing I could be as mighty as Allmight, Something that seemed impossible for someone without any quirk or power. No matter what I still believe in the Impossible... without my dream I really am useless, a Deku. If I can't dream then... I can't think about that the stories mom told me will be there for me in my darkest hours. I just need to get through middle school I will try to go for the top UA even if I don't get in I will have said I tried. Then I can look mom in the eye and say I'm her son. Otherwise, how could I be her son? She is so strong hardworking and has a nice quirk. Tomorrow is a new day.
