Rose: a broken doll tossed out into the world with the carelessness befitting her status below humans. However, acquiring a power beyond what she should be able, she fights and Rose Against The Heavens.
The story of a homunculus fighting against fat...
"I see it now, you're the me that hungers for answers and solutions," She muttered, "The one that wants to move forward at the fastest speed possible."
"And which me are you?" It asked, brows furrowed incredulously.
"Hmm."
Rose couldn't answer that. She didn't know.
"Which part do you think I am?" She instead asked.
It looked her over, focusing on her face.
"I think you're the part I shed. The fool who takes things as they come in leisure stride."
"Then I suppose that's what the current me is." She simply nodded in the end, accepting the thought of the other her. "After all, what is the point of living if it isn't enjoyed?"
As she smiled, thoughts upon Elsa and Lilias, the replica merely stared at her.
"Aren't you wasting time?" It asked.
Rose shook her head. "Even I need to rest soemtimes, you know? You can't always run forward. Whether homunculi or not, you'll burn out at some point."
It scoffed, then opened its lips as if a curious question had struck it.
"If the Hunbrey family stood before you, right now, especially that brother," It asked, "Would you kill them?"
Rose pondered upon her question. Revenge? Naturally, she had thought about that possibility before. But it also seemed a silly thing to chase. To be tethered to as if you weren't free to do anything else. As if you were still at the mercy of their oppression.
"Unless they chose to harm me again, or stood against my path in this world," She said, "I would not go out of my way to hurt them."
The other her smiled as if she found her words amusing.
"I would," It said. "They deserve it."
Rose didn't doubt that fact. In fact, she found herself smiling in return.
"Yet, they were also one of the reasons I exist in the first place," She replied.
"It's a comical thing, I'm aware." It nodded.
There was a brief silence as they stared at their identical faces, taking each other in once more.
"We need one another," The other her said.
Rose nodded.
"That we do."
Though both of them were logical beings, they each had differences in the way they saw the world. Yet, they each also recognized that there was more nuance in the world, a time for everything. You couldn't truly be free if you only chased for answers and revenge, and you couldn't enjoy your freedom fully if it could be taken away at a moment's notice.
Their weapons disappeared as they stood and walked closer together.
Then they held their hands out to one another.
"Alright," The other her said, speaking assured, "You're real."
Rose nodded.
"And so are you, Rose Ausra."
They shook their hands.
In the end, only a single one remained in that white room as a door of golden light spawned, standing, smiling. Then there was a burst of laughter. Rose couldn't help but laugh as she found herself whole again.
"Now that was interesting." She smiled and entered the doorway.
It was as if she had tangled and wrestled with her own consciousness until she came out with a single conclusion. Neither of her had been wrong, and neither had been fully correct either. Neither had been fake, and neither had been fully real. In the end, both had been her.
When she met Elsa and Lilias, the three of them unanimously agreed that they were done for the day. Amongst them, Rose noticed that Elsa seemed the most contemplative. Even more so than herself.
'Odd,' Rose curiously thought, 'Why does she keep staring at my face? Do I have something on it?'
At her cluelessness, Lilias merely chuckled ambiguously.
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