The Epic of the Discarded Son

Look, when your own father throws you into a well full of venomous snakes, you’re supposed to die.

That’s basically the entire point of the exercise.

But Shiro didn’t die.Mostly out of spite.

He spent years down there in the dark, eating snakes, training until his body literally broke and rebuilt itself, and having conversations with a voice in his head that may or may not have been telling him the truth.

And he is definitely not crazy