Questionable Questing

In my brief moment of insight, I thought it was a conscious thing, where it gave him insight into what behaviors and movements would help him improve people's opinion of him. To be fair, I probably misremembered, because that's very similar to what our lovely Himiko can do, rapidly figuring out people's mannerism and posture and word choice and mimicking them.

But my thought was that, even if it worked less on people he was familiar with, it would still work some, especially with such a dramatic change in Toga's understanding of the world meaning that he was "less familiar" with her.

I wondered briefly if the estrangement on his part might have been caused in part by a flash of insight that he had when she first awoke to the beauty of blood, that "she would love you more if you were bleeding and in pain."

Such an insight would be inherently shocking and alienating, causing him to reevaluate everything he thought he knew about his daughter. The distancing caused by this, would mean that he would never really be familiar enough with her to not get that constant little voice in the back of his head that told him that she didn't particularly like or love him and the best way to change this was to bleed.

Of course, this is all based on my initial incorrect remembering of how his quirk worked, but it was just such a strong flash of, "oh my god is that what happened?" that I felt the need to share.

I took a stab at writing an omake about it, but what I managed to write both didn't feel long enough to be significant under rule 7, and I didn't feel like I got her father's voice right, so I scrapped it for now. I might try again later if my brain manages to pull together a better version than my first attempt.

Heh, you caught that eh. ^_^