Ayano Aishi has never been able to feel emotions. She has always been... empty. Then her entire life changes when she witnesses Saitama defeat a monster with one punch. For the first time, she feels something. And now she knows what she wants: to be...
2021 update: OPS in a nutshell seasons 3-4 is out! You can watch it up there. (You should watch s1-2 in a nutshell first tho, you can find it on my channel iHateFridays)
A/N: Hello everyone, this is a new project I decided to start... because yes. This will also be a comic which you can find on my deviantART and Tumblr, iHateFridays and fridayhater respectively. This story is probably going to be one of the... darker things I've written. I won't go over the top with anything, but viewer discretion is advised. Hope you enjoy it.
Also yes, I know there is new intro dialogue, but I felt the old version fit a bit better. Thanks.
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I can't feel anything.
For as long as I can remember, I've never been able to feel emotions.
I pretend to be normal when I'm around other people, but on the inside, I feel nothing.
It's not as bad as it may sound. I know that I'm broken, but I don't care. This is normal for me.
My mother was just like me when she was a child. Cold. Empty.
Incomplete.
She told me that one day, I would meet someone special. Someone that would... complete me.
I've been waiting for that day ever since. It's the only thing I have to hope for.
It's the only thing I have to live for.
...
"Hey, girl!"
Ayano barely even registered the monster's rough voice. Why should she? Monsters had never scared her, and why would they start to now? To make her look normal? After all, she'd only pretended to be scared of them to seem normal. But there was no one else around now, so why should she bother? She was stuck in some kind of huge crater with this monster. All the other people that had been around her were knocked out.
"Hey! Girl! Are you even listening to me?"
Ayano sighed internally. She stared at the monster in front of her with mild interest. He was a few meters tall, with goopy, purple skin. Two antennae stuck out of his head, and his mouth was full of sharp teeth. His beady eyes stared her down.
"Is there something you want?" Ayano asked calmly. Part of her was silently hoping the monster would kill her. Another part was inquiring about being late to school. Not that it mattered much. School had never mattered to Ayano. She only went to keep up her 'normal' facade.
"You're a confident one, aren't you?" the monster asked.
"Are you going to kill me?" Ayano asked, tiredly. "If you are, get on with it."
The monster smirked evilly. "Well, if you insist..."
The monster reached out a large, purple hand, the size of Ayano herself. But before the hand could grab her, something moved her out of the way. Well, not something. Someone.
He was a bald, pale-skinned man wearing a yellow jumpsuit, tied up with a zipper. Rubber red gloves and boots adjourned his hands and feet. A long, flowing white cape spread out behind him.
Ayano frowned. A hero? She didn't recognise him from the Hero Association catalogue...
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