A Room of My Own
"This will be the room you will be staying in from now on," Glynda shows the young man around the room.
"Woah! All of this room for myself?" Alban looked around the room and asked Glynda with sparkling eyes. A room given to the Specialists is not too large. It is just a simple 1LDK room. But now? This room looks five times better than his room back in Atlas.
The room for the teachers and as one of the best huntsman academies in the whole Remnant, Beacon treats their teachers the best of the best. He had only seen this kind of bedroom on TVs.
Glynda smiles warmly at the young man in front of her. "Yes, it is. Each teacher gets their own room. You can decorate it however you want," she replied.
"Really? Thank you!" And… he is gone, looking around the room he was given. Glynda patiently waited for Alban to return.
"Oh, I am very sorry, Miss Goodwitch," he quickly returned and apologized.
"This will be your teaching schedule, Mister Cygnus," Glynda gave him a note. "And here is my scroll number. Call me whenever you need help," she added and put another note in his hand.
"Thank you, Miss Goodwitch. You are very kind!" he beamed. There were only two people back in Atlas who were kind to him like this. His benefactor General Ironwood and his partner.
"Ahem, that will be all, Mister Cygnus. We will see each other tomorrow. Please take a rest for now," after saying that she walked out of the door without looking back.
Alban looks around his room again. He felt a little proud for getting a room like this. Although he does not own this room, it is something he got from his hard work after all.
"It has been 20 years since I reincarnated into this world," he muttered.
He remembers almost nothing about his previous life other than some important things that happened back then.
But he remembered the day his parents died. They died the next day after getting him a new phone. Since he was still 13 years old, he was sent to live together with one of his relatives.
It was when his nightmare began. He was given little to none to eat by his relatives. He was told to live in a tool shed at the back of the house. He was bullied at school. Since then, a happy-go-lucky kid like him was reduced to a gloomy kid with self-confidence issues.
He did nothing and accepted it as his fate. His fate is to get bullied and abused by his classmates and relatives. It was his fate that led his parents to their death.
The young boy just held onto the phone which was the last gift from his parents. He treated it with care. That was the only thing he owned. He didn't use it other than researching what he wanted to know.
It was when he was 15 years old. While he was researching he found an ad. It was an ad for the game called Honkai Impact 3rd. He had heard about it because his classmates were talking about it as well.
"Just this once," he muttered. And it was what changed him.
He played story mode up to where it was updated in just two nights. He remembered how he envied Kiana Kaslana. How she defied her fate. How she kept moving forward even after many bad things happened to her. How she bonded with her friends. He envied all of that. Him, who chose to accept his fate, and her, who chose to defy her fate.
How he silently cried while playing Chapter 25 was part of his important memories. He tried to change the very next day. Instead of sitting down and cursing his fate, he started working hard. But… It only lasted for a week.
There was a robbery at his workplace. He was working at the convenience store as a cashier. He was placing the cans into the fridge because the one who had to do it was on sick leave. The robber panicked when the police arrived and shot the kid not far from him.
But luckily, he was near the kid and protected her with his own body. He was shot in the heart and died with a smile. At least he was able to save someone. How he died… was also one of his important memories.
And he met some kind of god who wanted to give him a second chance.
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Flashback Starts
"You will be reincarnating into RWBY," the god told a soul in front of him.
The soul is obviously our protagonist. When he heard where he will be reincarnating, he couldn't help but be surprised. He is going to be reincarnated in a show he watched together with his parents before they died. He only watched it up to Volume 02 and he didn't have time to watch the shows as he was forced to do housework.
"Now tell me your two wishes," the god added.
"Can I have the Judgment of Shamash? Together with Kaslana Gun Kata?" the soul asked for his first wish.
The god raised his eyebrow. "A weird choice but it is doable. I will add that weird fighting style as a gift."
"As for the second wish, is it possible to get the power of multiple Herrschers?" the soul asked.
"I believe there is that Herrscher called Herrscher of Flamescion," the god said.
"Absolutely not!" the soul immediately replied. "It is the result of her hard work. That is a status that shows how much she had grown up. So, no. I am not taking that title," the soul added.
"So how about this? I will fuse the power of two Herrschers into one and make a gem for you and add it into your body before you turn 6 years old," the god answered after thinking for a while.
"You can do that? Thank you very much!" the soul replied enthusiastically.
"Now, tell me the name of two Herrschers," the god asked.
"Void and Thunder," the soul immediately replied.
"As for your own name, you will have to find its meaning on your own," the god said while fusing the two powers.
"I will!" the soul nodded. It is weird because it is just a ball. "Er… do I need to worry about Honkai in that world?" the soul asked.
"No," the god simply answered.
"Can I request something? Can I have an mp3 player?" the soul requested.
"Another weird request… fine," the god nodded and created an mp3 player out of thin air.
"Oh, the songs I wanted are already in there," the soul is moving up and down.
"I will send it together with your weapon," the god said and shooed the soul into the Remnant.
Flashback End
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Alban stopped thinking when he noticed a black and red circle appeared in his room. His eyes lit up immediately. He knew who was coming from that portal.
After a few seconds, a woman walked out of the portal. She has long black hair and bright red eyes plus slight age lines are under her eyes. Her hair is tied by a red bandanna and loosely done up in a ponytail with the ends resembling curved black feathers. A cowlick can be seen protruding from the top of her head.
As soon as he saw her, Alban rushed toward her and hugged her in a tight hug.
"I miss you, Auntie Raven!" He gave her a toothy smile.
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Author's Note;
Trust me. I was kind of unsatisfied with this chapter. His previous life story is kind of rushed, but we are not going to read about it, so it's fine, right? As for the powers of the Herrschers, I can make an original one but I like those two, so let's go with that.
Like any other character from the show, Alban also has an allusion. He was based on "The Ugly Duckling" by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. His name, Alban Cygnus means White Swan.
And I would like to thank Jeonmin for drawing the portrait of Alban. The cinnamon roll looks amazing. You can check the illustration in the paragraph comment.