Atlantis: The Lost Hero (Rewrite)

Chapter 1

Song of Chapter: Absinthe BY idkhbtfm

Kate's Pov

I stared at the world above me, the sky consuming the overhead of everything around me. Laying on the cool grass while the nice, refreshing wind brushed passed my royal blue tufts as the chatter of the kids around me filled the void.

Finding someone to play with or at least talk to in class was difficult for me. Most of my life I've been involved in my mother's business, cooking and being a chef. For as long as I can remember and even while I was a fetus, I was with my mom while she worked, helping when needed and socializing with the adults around that were her friends. The struggles of being a single mom weighed down on her and I didn't blame her for not having enough money or not having time to play. Although I wasn't made at her, it still tolled on me. Loneliness and isolation usually tolled on me when I couldn't go out or do anything.

It was easy to socialize with adults because I just had to be polite and not touch anything. With kids my age, it's a different story. As I said, we didn't have a lot of money, so getting a phone and learning social media cues and what's popular confused me. I didn't blame the kids around me either, to me I was some weird girl without a phone that didn't know anything. But it was still hurtful. I still don't know if it was considered bullying, but it hurt enough to be isolated from people that are supposed to be your friends.

Now, it's as expected. Laying on the floor like an egg ready to be fried.

I could do other things at the moment, of course, but none of my interests was really there on the blacktop, plus the people didn't like involving me in worry that I didn't know how to do a certain thing. I liked playing heroes, but that involved others being competitive about quirks and not having actual fun, just showing off.

Speaking of quirks, they're pretty much superpowers, but without all the spandex.. nevermind I forgot All Might exists.

All Might is the top hero of Japan. To fill anyone in, there's this list of top heroes from each country. Japan being one of the most popular from media, All Might was brought into light, as well as other reasons.

A lot of people want to be heroes, and understandably want to help the world become a better place. Others, however, have different plans on how being a hero should be like. Fame, money, and those are just a few reasons. It's understandable for different reasons like if the person is less wealthy than others and want to help their family and stuff, but this idea gets so much into people's heads that they forgot why some of they're heroes become who they are, indulging in the popularity and wealth that they forget why heroes exist and what their motives should be. It's honestly freaky to me and something even more odd is that some people indulge in heroes and quirks so much that they consume themselves in this unhealthy lifestyle of trying to become something that they're not.Its really depressing when you think about it.

That way of thinking kind of gets to kids too in some ways. Things like "do it because your quirk is amazing" and other stuff like that is shoved into kids brains when they get a powerful quirk. Other ideas are made as well as they're almost more unhealthy as the last. The idea is that if someone has a weak quirk or no quirk at all, they're weak and don't deserve the same stuff and praise as other kids. It's pretty messed up and unhealthy to feed people that are still growing. It could easily grow into something like a superiority complex or an inferiority complex, or even both.

Yes, it goes around the world, sadly, and it does continue to infect the people around me as well.

Because of all of the ideas and ways of "getting better", I've grown into not wanting to show off my quirk because of the idea that someone will either judge me or put me at such a high pedestal that could easily either give me a superiority complex or anxiety about not rightfully earning the place of being at the top or being considered powerful.

That's one of the reasons people don't usually want to hang around me, some think I'm weird and I don't like showing off my quirk or that I'm quirk less. Either way, I've usually been casted out.

I don't mind it most of the time, but it gets lonely and sad at times. My mission of trying to make friends and socialize didn't lessen as people avoided me, it only grew. Being isolated from people that I want to be with only makes me want to be with them more.

But maybe they're the wrong people and maybe it's the wrong time.

Middle school was drama filled, and hatred was the only thing that people cared about. It was exhausting, plus school work was getting harder and harder as everything quickly fell apart.

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