"Your duty is to be useful to your father and to the family. Do you understand?"
A beautiful young woman with dark skin spoke, yet her face remained cold, expressionless, devoid of every emotion that should appear on the face of a mother speaking to her young children.
"Yes, Mother."
Five small children answered. They shared her dark complexion and some of her facial features, but their hair and eyes were sky blue, inherited from their father. Their voices varied in pitch, yet all carried the same tone of complete obedience, as though they had learned this before anything else in their lives.
Thorne slowly opened his eyes while leaning against the trunk of a massive tree deep within the forest. The night still lingered, and the stars shimmered between the branches overhead.
"It was a dream."
He muttered quietly as he gazed up at the sky.
Yet it was the kind of dream that refused to fade upon waking. It lingered in his mind, continuing to haunt him even during his waking hours. That cold voice... that emotionless face... those commands given to small children as though they were operating instructions rather than a mother's words to her own sons and daughters. He knew that this dream had not appeared from nowhere it was the echo of a memory deeply rooted within him.
In truth, Thorne and his siblings from the same mother belonged to a relatively new branch that had emerged within the Walt Family during recent years. They were Dan's children with Yuko, the girl Dan had once met after her entire life had collapsed, the one for whom he had fulfilled her revenge.
She had grown from a teenage girl into a beautiful young woman. Yet despite that, her fundamental nature had changed very little. Even after becoming friends with Nira, who had given her a measure of emotional stability, her true personality remained the same. Her purpose in life never changed absolute submission and unwavering devotion to Dan, the man who had granted her vengeance.
After years of continuous training, which she approached with unmistakable seriousness under Nira's guidance for the most part, she believed she could become a useful tool for Dan, one that could be used against his enemies if only she became strong enough. However, as time passed, she gradually realized how greatly she had overestimated that way of thinking.
Dan simply had no enemies in the sense she understood. Or rather, there was no being in this world worthy of being called his true enemy. Even if such a being did exist, his children and grandchildren were already so powerful that Dan himself would have no need to move, as any one of them would be capable of dealing with whatever situation this world could present.
So Yuko began searching for another way to become genuinely useful to him. After thinking for a long time, she realized that Dan loved watching his family grow and expand, loved having many children and descendants, and took joy in seeing the bloodline he was building continue to branch outward.
So she chose what she believed to be the best path and offered herself to him openly and directly. Naturally, when Dan saw her determination and sincerity, he did not refuse. He was not a hypocrite pretending to possess a purity he did not have. He was simply a man who accepted his own desires instead of denying them otherwise, he would never have taken twelve wives. Of course, Dan did not indulge excessively in this aspect of his life and always kept it under control, but at the same time, he never denied it, nor would he reject something sincerely offered to him.
Over the following years, Yuko gave birth to many children, to the point where she bore almost one child every single year with remarkable regularity. Had Dan not helped her apply the Three Vitality Seals to her body, her health would have completely collapsed under the strain of such relentless pregnancies. Together with his wives, he repeatedly tried to persuade her to slow down, but every time her answer remained exactly the same.
"If it is an order, I will carry it out immediately."
She spoke with that same calm, emotionless voice every single time. Her unwavering nature placed Dan in a difficult position, because arguing with her never produced a different result.
In the end, he allowed her to continue as she wished and instead asked Rin, the rest of his wives, and his daughters to help care for her children, especially since Yuko's unusually cold personality made it difficult for her to provide the warmth and affection young children needed during their earliest years.
This was precisely what had shaped her eldest son, Thorne. In Dan's eyes, Thorne possessed extraordinary intelligence, one that could almost be compared to Sato's ability to understand and analyze. That alone placed him among the most exceptional members of the Walt Family.
Yet because of his mother and her unique nature, this left a profound mark upon him, especially in the formation of his personality. As he grew older and gradually came to understand the complete story behind his mother's condition, he learned everything that had happened before he was born .the original wound that had transformed Yuko into the person she had become.
Instead of making things easier for him, that knowledge only made them heavier. He loved his mother in his own way and understood her, yet at the same time he could clearly see the effects her way of raising them had left upon both him and his younger siblings. All of these inner contradictions eventually drove him to ask for permission to journey through the outside world so that he could understand more.
He wanted to witness the world with his own eyes rather than simply hear stories about it. After giving it considerable thought, his father granted his request, especially since Thorne had already become so powerful that almost no one in the outside world posed any real threat to him. The only true difficulty awaiting him would not come from enemies, but from himself... and from the questions he carried within.
And that was exactly what he faced now as he leaned against the trunk of that ancient tree, carrying with him the dreams of his childhood, the questions of his youth, the memories of ruined villages, and the tears he had shed upon the ashes while struggling to understand the contradictory nature of humanity.
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About Thorn Walt's personality.
In reality, Thorn wasn't inspired by a single character, but rather by a combination of traits taken from several different ones. The core of his personality, however, was primarily inspired by Kiritsugu Emiya (Assassin), (the Avenger alcides), and Archer EMIYA (Shirou Emiya).
The reason for inspiration from these characters will become clear much later in the story. Thorn is destined to play an extremely important role in the events to come, and the same is true for his older sister, Sera Walt. Both of them will have a major impact on the direction of the story in the future.
(Leader of the future C.P.S (Committee for the Protection and Containment of Strangeness) Thorn Walt pic is available to everyone on my Patreon page even if u r not member)
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