AND UNDER THEIR MASKS, THEY ALL HAD NO FACES

TSUBASA OTORI

Age: 17

BeyBlade: Earth Aquila 145WD

Team: GanGan Galaxy

Tsubasa is a calm and collected blader who has an air about him that says he has it all together. He usually keeps to himself and is unbothered by the plights of others, but that isn't to say that he won't be willing to help his friends if they needed it. He just doesn't normally sweat the small stuff and tends to look at things from a grand-scheme-of-things perspective. He joined the Dark Nebula Organization as an undercover agent for the WBBA under the guise of doing it for the money and the power or whatever. However, this event would butterfly effect into him becoming infected by Ryuga with what is known as the "Dark Power", an affliction that attacked his psyche and his sense of self-worth. Losing turned from a minor inconvenience or a mistake to learn from into one of his biggest fears, not because of what it meant on his record as a blader, but because of what the Dark Power made him do when presented with the possiblity of a loss. Where there was once confidence, there was now violence. He would lash out at his best friend Yu, causing him to sink further into this despair that masqueraded itself as his subconscious. A light at the end of the tunnel would soon come in the form of Ryuga telling him that it's already over and he's already overcome it. The one who caused this despair was the one who dragged him back out of it, or rather dragged it out of him.

Everybody's counting on me. I should feel honored, but instead I feel a crushing sense of dread. Not the normal pressure of wanting to do a good job to impress your friends, no, nothing like that. More like that feeling when you're alone on the late night train but you can swear there is someone right behind you. You can feel weight on your back as if the train was full, you can feel breath whisping at the hairs on the back of your neck, then suddenly, it speaks with your own voice. You look, but there's no one to look at but your reflection. Suddenly the train is full of people who look exactly like you, and they're all laughing at you for being a failure. Your own thoughts are drowned out, and there's nothing you can do but be swallowed up by them as control of the train is forfeited.

PLAYLIST

  1. animal by sir chloe
  2. where you'll find me now by neutral milk hotel
  3. CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE by R.I.P.
  4. bran-new lovesong by the pillows
  5. big bird by andrew jackson jihad
  6. door by mitski
  7. the other side of paradise by glass animals
  8. the devil within by digital daggers