Façades 1 - WK

We're human. Even Schwarz. Sometimes, I forget that, with their powers. But still, they are only humans.

We all seem to live behind a mask, hiding our past, our feelings, our fears. Everyone sees me as a playboy florist, nothing more. Yet behind that wall, there's my whole story.

It was only after Asuka died. I began to do one-night stands; it was an impermanent love, if something happened, I wouldn't get hurt. It was a shield for my heart, wounded once too many times.

And Omi, always seemingly genki and chipper, hides behind his own mask. A mask of forgotten memories, of a lost childhood. I still don't know the whole story.

Aya, or Ran, I should say, is cold, aloof, around everyone. But I doubt he was that way before Takatori shattered his life. Another façade, hiding his own heart.

Perhaps, out of us all, Ken is most honest when it comes to his feelings. Yet, it's there, that shield around his heart, as we all have. I suppose we must keep it, as assassins. Still, we all wear it in different ways.

Omi, behind his smile. Ken, behind his kindness. Aya, behind his frown. And me, behind my own laughter.