Riku Replica Heart

Writing Commission for FairyofThunder22 300 words
Kingdom of Hearts: Riku Replica

I rise from the darkness and open my eyes. A throbbing pain awakens in my chest. I wince and wrap my arms around myself, the pain pulses and intensifies. Is this my punishment? Because I could not defeat the real Riku? The one who gets to live as an individual, the one with a life and a heart. A heart…
Throb.
A heart. The thudding in my chest increases and vibrates in my throat, causing my hands to shake with the power of it. A heart? But I am the replica—the fake one. I should not have a heart. I’m not real, I don’t even think killing Riku could have truly given me this but, I was the one who was defeated as a fake is destined to be.
My heart beats. My cheeks flush, burning with this sudden realization. I look down and slowly lift my hands from my chest. I can still feel the thud-thudding of my heart throughout my body. Does that mean I am no longer a replica of someone else? I was created from Riku’s existence. Instead of DNA, I was made from sewing together twisted data and spiraling information into the puppet being I am. I am a toy. I couldn’t be an individual with free will. I wasn’t made that way—such a life was never granted to me. I was empty. A heart never graced the empty shell that is Riku’s Replica. That, being me.
Suddenly ‘me’ becomes a word of real meaning. ‘Me’ always meant being a copy of someone else. I was his shadow. My heart beats, my mind chimes: me is I, I am me. Am I really living? Am I a separate thing from Riku? I hold up my hands, examining the black-polyester covered palms. What these hands have done. The lack of control they’ve had. Could I really deserve a heart?
I do.

Here is a 300 word commission that I wrote for FairyofThunder22

This was a request to write about Riku Replica from Kingdom Hearts if he suddenly had a heart.