#cyrus will suffer strokes much earlier than his father but as of right now? hes healthy

[obliviouskind]

﹘ HC + medication

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Early death and sickness is a fairly common problem in the Akagi family; one that has seen to target the men of the family more often than not. Cyrus, however, is still young – though his appearance sets him beyond his given years, he’s physically fit and have no ailments in need of medical attention or treatment. (His father back home is slowly growing more and more sickly with age. He’s at the age where his own father passed after having experienced repeated strokes – something that he, now, is beginning to go through as well. This is, however, something that Cyrus doesn’t know, and won’t be aware of for quite some time still.)  But, he did meet a relative who had ailments. Charon was a man Cyrus only learned of in boyhood due to a televised appearance that the man had made where, quite unexpectedly, he threw a fit and never quite recovered from the public condemning. A researcher charged with unlawful experimentation, it’s no surprise that his title was stripped from him shortly thereafter – even if it didn’t, in any significant way, put a stop to his nefarious ways. When they met, it was by chance, and the matter that Cyrus was in need of capable hands was perhaps but divine fate.

Charon’s around fifty by the time he becomes Galactic’s head researcher, and ends his reign within its ranks at around fifty-two. At first, Cyrus wasn’t aware of his great uncles physical illness – but he quickly learned why the old man’s joints easily swelled, grew sore or stiffened to the point where he, at times, couldn’t be stay standing for more than a few minutes.  Rheumatoid arthritis was the cause of Charon’s pain, a degenerative illnesses of which had begun to show itself in his late forty’s and only grew more troublesome as time went on. Stubborn as he was, however, the offers for treatment often went ignored – “I’m no frail old man, boy. Mind your own damn business and get out of the little hair I have left.” – though Cyrus came to learn that there was little one could truly do for such an illness aside from slowing its progress.

Eventually, painkillers were accepted, and I suppose that was as close as Cyrus has gotten to someone that was in need of medication. That he knew of, of course.

(He always felt quite taken by Charon, despite his faults. He was the sole family member who he actually got to know outside of his parents, after all.)