Ignis AU: Lighting and Jin

Hikaru Kusanagi: When he was a young boy his parents ‘mysteriously disappeared’, and he was left orphaned. He was taken in by his Uncle and Aunt who already had an older boy named Shoichi. Shoichi was initially excited, having always wanted a little brother, but Hikaru was a prickly and angry child from losing his parents. They got on each others absolute nerves! It turned from hostile to outright hate…..until Hikaru was taken on the way home from school.

Shoichi was devastated, guilty, having argued with his parents about taking Hikaru home that day cause he had soccer practice. So they decided Hikaru will learn to walk home by himself, and then they didn’t see him for a year.

After he was returned home, Hikaru was very subdued, but he hated being touched and would get violent, lashing out at his adoptive parents and Shoichi. Due to this he was put in a mental rehab facility 24/7 as it got to the point where they couldn’t handle him, as well as his repeated muttering about finding someone.

Shoichi blamed himself for leaving him alone. Wanting to atone and build a relationship with him, he turned to hacking and coding to find the people responsible while he took over the care of his brother.

Hikaru is a very arrogant and haughty person, despises to be touched by people he doesn’t know. Due to his time in the Hanoi Project his therapist believed he imagined up a friend that helped him through the experience. Hikaru knows better,and keeps trying to find the person who comforted him during his time in captivity. Hikaru refuses to talk about his parents, it’s an incredibly touchy subject.

He allows Shoichi to calm him when he gets out of control, the older brothers persistence in trying to forge a bond with Hikaru won him over. So now he claims that Shoichi is one of his and leaves it at that.(Shoichi himself is not sure how he feels about that but counts it as progress). Hikaru takes pills to handle his anger and severe mood swings, and likes to isolate himself in his room with a computer.

Hikaru is a little underweight and seems to have problems putting on weight, electrical burns from his time in captivity, and developed a hair pulling problem when he gets stressed. He will pull his hair so often it will leave his head sore.

His Avatar name is “Raijin”, as he has a high opinion of himself. He’s is more calculative and playful, as it’s easier to keep a cooler head. His costume is damn near identical to Jin in cannon.

Jin who is simply known as Prince. It from his name which a single character meaning “Benevolence”. In the show Lightning was the leader of the Ignis you can say he even saw himself as a king. So if he was the King then Jin is the captured Prince waiting to be rescued in cannon. In here Jin is the eldest Ignis and acts like a mature big brother to the rest of the group. He runs the adult district since Yusaku didn’t want to do it, Spectre either, and the others can’t be trusted not to indulge themselves.