Effect: The Next Generation [✔️]

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Jamie Naomi

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Jamie lived a happy life with his parents for many years, always looking forward to the bright future he had ahead of him.

The bright future that never came, after the night of his eighteenth birthday.

After the little party he had with his parents, he decided to take a nap to enjoy his presents during the night. However, when he awoke, he found found nothing but darkness when he opened his eyes.

Confused, he felt his face where his eyes were to make sure that he was actually awake, only to find that they were missing. He called out to his parents for help, but nobody came to his aid.

He decided to get up himself to try and find them, shuffling around and bumping into the furniture. He soon found them by the sounds of their voices and explained what was going on.

To his surprise, his parents didn't seem shocked at all. And everything changed for him once he found out the truth.

"We took your eyes, and we sold them for a great amount of money"

Those were the words of his own father that he'd never forget.

His mother did nothing more for him but gift him a blindfold to conceal the gaping holes in his head.

That blindfold was the final gift that his parents left him with, before leaving him to fend for himself. They used the money they had made with his eyes to move away to a better home, leaving Jamie behind in an empty house.

He lived in hiding, using his senses and Prediction power to hide and avoid being killed anytime he went out in search of food. One day, he felt a familiar presence as he wandered down his neighborhood's sidewalk, the exact same presence that he felt from the eyes that were stolen from him.

He followed that presence to a neighboring home, and waited until everyone was asleep. He broke into the home and ventured to the room where that presence laid. He came to realize that the presence came from an unusual pair of eyes, much like his own.

Without hesitation, he took those eyes for himself. He ignored the screams of pain from the stranger, desperate to get himself out of the darkness.

Once his new eyes successfully connected with him, he finally got his vision back. However, he found a few things that he wasn't happy with.

He found that the eyes he had stolen were from a kid around his age, unconscious and covered in blood like he was. He closed his eyes to try looking into the future like his former eyes, but what he saw was entirely different.

The presence of the eyes felt the same to Jamie, but the eyes were the complete opposite of his former ones. Instead of seeing his future, he saw right into his own past.

Little did he know that these knew eyes held the power for him to see through everyone's past every time he closed his eyes, including his own traumatic past.

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For years, Jamie had been haunted nonstop by his past every single time he closed his eyes. He was happy to be out of the darkness that he was forced into, and his new eyes made him hate that darkness even more.

It got so bad for him that he stopped himself from blinking, and even sleeping, just so he wouldn't have to face his past. He lived in fear of the dark, both figuratively and literally.

He eventually found a street market that sold many things, one shop selling goggles and other eyewear. He stole a pair and wore them to hide his pain and fatigue from the world.

He began to fight back against the very people that he once ran from, getting stronger with each and every experience.

He fought and he killed, eventually getting strong enough to finally get revenge on his parents for what they did to him. Though they nearly took his eyes again, he still prevailed over them and killed them in the end.

Even if he would've been happy if they took his eyes again, just to escape from the torment he was under, the fear of being left in the dark again prevented him from letting that happen.

He fought to protect his sight and access to the light, and lived only to be able to see the beauty of world. After years of being alone, he was discovered by a stranger that recognized his talents.

The stranger took him in, and gave him a new place to call home. He agreed to protect him, as long as he worked under him as his apprentice to carry out his dirty work.

Jamie agreed, only to fulfill his own wishes and to stay protected under the stranger. He began his new life, under the direct tutelage of The Boss.