Summer Awakening
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The Kamen Rider Of Depression
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As a Huntress Summer Rose had seen many strange things, she'd also seen many terrifying things. Right now she was seeing something that definitely topped both of those list.
She'd been on a mission trying to push back the border of the grimmlands a bit, a fairly standard job but not usually one you take solo, but she'd been sure she would be fine with her magic glowing eyes of doom.
She hadn't planned to see a little blonde boy coming out the bushes half dead from starvation and bleeding from a head wound.
Gods he looked like he was around yangs age.
So she quickly grabbed the kid and made a camp with the intention to terminate the mission and get him to a hospital. In the meantime she awakened his aura to hopefully keep him from getting worse.
Then the Grimm started. She knew there were more of them at border, but it's usually like a pack or three more beowolves. Not almost a hundred and fifty Grimm!
So summer plopped herself into a defensive stance in front of the tent and fought to protect the kid.
And fought.
And fought.
And fought.
Until she couldn't.
Out of aura, out of bullets, and out of luck Summer despaired she'd never see her girls again.
And as a tent flap opened and a small body stumbled out she despaired that she'd watch a child die.
He still looked rough. His blonde hair was caked to his head in clumps by sweat and blood and his blue eyes looked glassy and unfocused.
Not quite a knight in shining armor. But still it looked like he was going to try. Stumbling and jerky like a badly built puppet he moved towards the Grimm.
It should have been a slaughter, and it was. But not how she expected.
Unknown to summer the child had been awake for a little bit before he came out of the tent ,watching the fight. Taking it all in.
And as he stumbled and switched his way towards the Grimm something odd happened. He was getting better. His movements becoming less jerky by the second, his twitches stopped, he was moving like a normal person.
And then he was moving like a hunter. Defensive but quick. He met the Grimm and began to weave around it with familiar movements. Movements summer had spent weeks practicing were being copied by a child.
No more than that they were being Improved on! His movements were changing again. It still kept the traits of a hunter but summer also began seeing other traits in his fighting and she realized that just as he picked apart her at a glance he was doing the same to the Grimm.
In a beautiful and horrifying display this child who by all rights should be comatose right now began tearing through Grimm like a hot knife through butter. Wasteful blasts of aura gouging chunks out of Grimm and the land also began to refine in the middle of combat until he was bouncing around and shredding the surrounding Grimm with very stable and solid looking claws of aura.
Summer didn't even know that was possible!
Eventually somehow the tide of Grimm started to subside. Until it was just summer, the child, and a whole lot of questions. Chief among them being
"Kid are you ok?"
He started at her with those glassy eyes before speaking.
"Kid are you ok?"
Oh that's not good.
"What's your name?"
"What's your name?"
Definitely not good. How aware is he right now? Is he even awake or just in some kinda weird auto copy mode.
"My name is Summer Rose, what's yours?"
This time he paused and seemed to struggle for a bit.
"What's my name? Kid?"
Ok not just copying. Well he is but at least he's using what words he's copying in different ways, he's not fucked up beyond repair!
"I don't know your name, I just found you, but I'm a huntress! I'm here to help. Let's get you back to civilization and see if Ozpin can find your family."
Her words seemed to trigger something in him. His eyes got slightly less glassy. A spark of life seemingly flaring inside them.
"I'm here to help."
So we've got a amnesiac Jaune saving summer from her destined death.
His semblance here is similar to his normal one but different and is also tied to him getting his aura awakened while having amnesia.
Your semblance is born of you as a person, your sense of self in a single ability.
Jaune when he had his aura awakened didn't HAVE a sense of self. His aura and body are both taking everything around him in. Skills, movements, experience Jaune is pretty much a version of shirou emiya that copies people and semblances. The only reason he didn't use Summers is because he didn't see it.
But there's still traces of the old semblance he would have had. He's not amplifying anything but what he is doing is refining. All those skills and semblances will pretty much be blended together into the best versions he can make at the time.
He is not however invincible (despite how this chapter makes him out) he's doing this automatically so there's really no way for him to stop integrating things he sees, so a smart enough opponent would make him see something very different from his fighting style that he'd have to adjust to, he would adjust but it would throw him off.
For example if he's in the middle of a sword fight and you somehow position him to see a breakdance he's going to incorporate that breakdancing in the middle of the fight. No matter how much it throws him off.
He can also be overwhelmed and sorta shut down. It didn't happen here because this was mostly the same stuff he was copying. Claw slashes, lunges, bites. Mostly standard across the board.
She'd been on a mission trying to push back the border of the grimmlands a bit, a fairly standard job but not usually one you take solo, but she'd been sure she would be fine with her magic glowing eyes of doom.
She hadn't planned to see a little blonde boy coming out the bushes half dead from starvation and bleeding from a head wound.
Gods he looked like he was around yangs age.
So she quickly grabbed the kid and made a camp with the intention to terminate the mission and get him to a hospital. In the meantime she awakened his aura to hopefully keep him from getting worse.
Then the Grimm started. She knew there were more of them at border, but it's usually like a pack or three more beowolves. Not almost a hundred and fifty Grimm!
So summer plopped herself into a defensive stance in front of the tent and fought to protect the kid.
And fought.
And fought.
And fought.
Until she couldn't.
Out of aura, out of bullets, and out of luck Summer despaired she'd never see her girls again.
And as a tent flap opened and a small body stumbled out she despaired that she'd watch a child die.
He still looked rough. His blonde hair was caked to his head in clumps by sweat and blood and his blue eyes looked glassy and unfocused.
Not quite a knight in shining armor. But still it looked like he was going to try. Stumbling and jerky like a badly built puppet he moved towards the Grimm.
It should have been a slaughter, and it was. But not how she expected.
Unknown to summer the child had been awake for a little bit before he came out of the tent ,watching the fight. Taking it all in.
And as he stumbled and switched his way towards the Grimm something odd happened. He was getting better. His movements becoming less jerky by the second, his twitches stopped, he was moving like a normal person.
And then he was moving like a hunter. Defensive but quick. He met the Grimm and began to weave around it with familiar movements. Movements summer had spent weeks practicing were being copied by a child.
No more than that they were being Improved on! His movements were changing again. It still kept the traits of a hunter but summer also began seeing other traits in his fighting and she realized that just as he picked apart her at a glance he was doing the same to the Grimm.
In a beautiful and horrifying display this child who by all rights should be comatose right now began tearing through Grimm like a hot knife through butter. Wasteful blasts of aura gouging chunks out of Grimm and the land also began to refine in the middle of combat until he was bouncing around and shredding the surrounding Grimm with very stable and solid looking claws of aura.
Summer didn't even know that was possible!
Eventually somehow the tide of Grimm started to subside. Until it was just summer, the child, and a whole lot of questions. Chief among them being
"Kid are you ok?"
He started at her with those glassy eyes before speaking.
"Kid are you ok?"
Oh that's not good.
"What's your name?"
"What's your name?"
Definitely not good. How aware is he right now? Is he even awake or just in some kinda weird auto copy mode.
"My name is Summer Rose, what's yours?"
This time he paused and seemed to struggle for a bit.
"What's my name? Kid?"
Ok not just copying. Well he is but at least he's using what words he's copying in different ways, he's not fucked up beyond repair!
"I don't know your name, I just found you, but I'm a huntress! I'm here to help. Let's get you back to civilization and see if Ozpin can find your family."
Her words seemed to trigger something in him. His eyes got slightly less glassy. A spark of life seemingly flaring inside them.
"I'm here to help."
So we've got a amnesiac Jaune saving summer from her destined death.
His semblance here is similar to his normal one but different and is also tied to him getting his aura awakened while having amnesia.
Your semblance is born of you as a person, your sense of self in a single ability.
Jaune when he had his aura awakened didn't HAVE a sense of self. His aura and body are both taking everything around him in. Skills, movements, experience Jaune is pretty much a version of shirou emiya that copies people and semblances. The only reason he didn't use Summers is because he didn't see it.
But there's still traces of the old semblance he would have had. He's not amplifying anything but what he is doing is refining. All those skills and semblances will pretty much be blended together into the best versions he can make at the time.
He is not however invincible (despite how this chapter makes him out) he's doing this automatically so there's really no way for him to stop integrating things he sees, so a smart enough opponent would make him see something very different from his fighting style that he'd have to adjust to, he would adjust but it would throw him off.
For example if he's in the middle of a sword fight and you somehow position him to see a breakdance he's going to incorporate that breakdancing in the middle of the fight. No matter how much it throws him off.
He can also be overwhelmed and sorta shut down. It didn't happen here because this was mostly the same stuff he was copying. Claw slashes, lunges, bites. Mostly standard across the board.