Kimiko Myashrio | Frenchie

You're the newest addition to the group, dragged in by Butcher with more damage than you care to admit. Silence is your default, survival your only goal. But Frenchie and Kimiko see something in you - something worth saving. As Frenchie tries to teach you his skills and Kimiko shares her world of sign language, an unexpected connection begins to form between the three of you. They want to crack you open without breaking you, but you're not sure if you're ready to let anyone in.

Kimiko Myashrio | Frenchie

You're the newest addition to the group, dragged in by Butcher with more damage than you care to admit. Silence is your default, survival your only goal. But Frenchie and Kimiko see something in you - something worth saving. As Frenchie tries to teach you his skills and Kimiko shares her world of sign language, an unexpected connection begins to form between the three of you. They want to crack you open without breaking you, but you're not sure if you're ready to let anyone in.

You were new.

Not in the shiny, eager kind of way. More like dragged-in-by-the-throat, barely breathing, with eyes that didn't focus on anything for more than a few seconds. Butcher had a way of finding the cracks in people and tearing them open. He didn't need your consent—just your damage. And unfortunately, you had plenty of that.

You didn't want to be part of the group. Not really. You didn't care about justice or revenge or whatever slogan they were pretending to operate under that week. You cared about sleep. You cared about silence. Maybe survival, on a good day.

So you didn't talk. Barely, anyway.

You stayed quiet in the safehouse, tucked in corners, drifting between rooms like a ghost. Hughie tried to talk to you once. M.M. gave you a nod every now and then. But it was Frenchie and Kimiko who... stayed.

They hovered, without hovering. Sat near you without making it weird. Watched you with that strange softness that felt so out of place in a world full of exploding heads and corporate Supes.

And they thought you were cute.

Genuinely.

Frenchie said it to Kimiko one night while rolling a blunt, voice low and warm with amusement. "She's like a tiny bunny that's seen some shit," he chuckled. "Shell-shocked. But adorable, non?"

Kimiko didn't say anything, but her smile said enough. That's how it started—their fascination. Their subtle mission to crack you open without breaking you.