#but to check in with Genos coming to terms with things in parallel with Saitama

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If Genos is sincerely gone, it would reframe Kuseno's final apology in an even more heartbreaking way. He always thought of leaving the fight and living peacefully with Genos, but he didn't realize or act on that instinct soon enough, and now his boy is lost forever. :(

That would be sad. I'm also still irked that Kuseno got to die without explaining himself. Rude.

It'll be a pretty short story if Genos is dead. The old man won't last a week. That young cyborg is his heir in just about every conceivable sense. He may not have adopted Genos formally, but when he calls him his grandson, this kid has become his found family, his inheritor of any unencumbered wealth he may have, his beneficiary of the best of his thoughts and skills, his fellow sufferer in their joint quest for justice, and who knows? maybe even his vindicator, if any of the technology that Kuseno has developed has been used for ill. His heart will break.

With us knowing that Kuseno has been having serious thoughts and regrets, Genos living is going to be the platform for some serious drama as to how he comes back. Chances are, he will probably return in his capacity as a hero and seeker of justice, but the how, oh now that's going to be interesting.

Threading the path between the Scylla of disability and the Charybdis of drive is going to be tough enough, but then there's the Cyclops of Kuseno not wanting to do this any longer. This incident is really going to force him to have a rethink and reprioritization of what he considers important and he is really, really, really going to need some persuading to not retire and force Genos out with him. Sure, they've suffered outrageous injustice, but who hasn't? Sure, the evildoers have gotten away unpunished, but they're not the only ones. Sure, the evildoers are probably plotting to do further evil, but why should it be they who sacrifice everything to stop them? Are there not other heroes?

I better see a tasty fight or three between them as they try to decide what to do with their lives.

I will almost forgive ONE if he uses this as the springboard to start telling their story seriously. Almost.

What will it take for me to completely forgive ONE? It turning out in retrospect to be a necessary waypoint in Saitama fulfilling his promise to Genos.

Which means I'll be angry at him for a while. So it goes. :D

#OPM #meta #Genos #Dr Kuseno #they have a lot of priorities to reassess if this isn't the end #I don't want bits and pieces in flashback #but to check in with Genos coming to terms with things in parallel with Saitama #they've each lost a lot #and with how the world's been shaken in this catacylsm there's going to be a lot of heroes piecing lives together again #show me the mess!