KAITO: SHADOW GARBAGE AU EDITION OPEN POST

[was_no_monster]

Because sometimes you love both the split personality and inner demons tropes way too much, and there's only one way to handle it.

THE AU IS RIDICULOUS, but all you really need to know is Kaito got humanity's malice dumped into his head along with ridiculous power, and his way of coping with both that and the trauma involved was to shove it all in with everything else he represses the heck out of and then completely dissociate himself from it. End result: what he thinks of as his inner monster has completely split off into a personality of its own, following the imagery and pattern left behind by the Shadow from that one time the Vocaloid Dressing Room had a Persona event.

(Please don't judge me.)

Feel free to pick a scenario, if you can't think of one just blank tag this sucker and I'll come up with something!

Warning! There will be a decently high probability of maiming in this post! If you're not okay with that, that's cool; just let me know in a comment header or something and I will have normal Kaito intervene. (Alternately, if you want to get mauled... well. All you have to do is ask :))

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[was_no_monster]

[...there's something a little strange there, because the moment he spots Tristan his eyes go wide— and that just makes it all the more obvious that they aren't dark blue anymore; they're a vivid, poisonous yellow.

maybe he was just imagining it, though, because as soon as Kaito blinks and sits up they look the same as they ever did.]

I— no. It was a close thing, but I'm still here.

[downvoted]

[...Was that a trick of the light? Maybe Tris is just seeing things, but it seemed so vivid. But now that he looks it's just the same Kaito as ever, so it must have been his imagination.]

A close thing... What happened?

[was_no_monster]

[...ha ha. hahahahaha.

r. rubbing his face.]

...The same thing that happened to the rest of my team.

Do you know what a youkai is, Tristan?

[downvoted]

Yes. A powerful being... Such as Miss Yakumo?

[Looking at him curiously, unsure.]

[was_no_monster]

—You know her?

[downvoted]

...Yes... I've known her a long time.

[That is the least happy expression wow. Maybe don't mention you have taken her on cute dates.]

[was_no_monster]

[PROBABLY A GOOD IDEA. meanwhile he calms down a little at the words "a long time"— if she hasn't done anything to make him obviously fear her, then he might be safe. ...at least for the moment.]

...She's tortured nearly everyone servanted to the man I'm contracted to. She kept him from us for months.

[downvoted]

Ah...

[Yeah that sounds like Yukari.]

What... Has she done to you?

[was_no_monster]

She made us like her.

[downvoted]

...Like her...? Youkai? How?

[was_no_monster]

... I don't really want to talk about it.

[downvoted]

...Okay.

I am truly glad to see you. I'm sorry you have been having a hard time.

[was_no_monster]

[shifts, like he's considering flopping over to lean on Tristan— but his eyes flicker to that sickly yellow from before and back to blue, and he settles back against the wall instead]

Mmm. ...I'm sorry I worried you.

[downvoted]

[He lifts his hand like he's going to touch Kaito's cheek, hesitates, then lets his fingers ghost just under Kaito's right eye.]

I'm simply relieved to see you. Your eyes...

[He starts the question, but not sure how to continue it, he falters and lets it trail off.]

[was_no_monster]

[they flicker again when Tristan touches him, just before Kaito lets them slide shut]

Aah. It's... when that side of me is the one in control, they'll look like that.

[downvoted]

[He leaves his fingers there, lingering there on Kaito's cheek. ]

That side of you? How much have you changed?

[was_no_monster]

[...manages the ghost of a laugh, bitter]

Not much at all. I was fortunate in that, or maybe just... suited to it. I probably would have become a youkai on my own, if they had existed where I came from.

[downvoted]

You seem... is it that bad?

[was_no_monster]

...The circumstances around it have been spectacularly terrible. The change itself, though...

I don't know. Some of it is.

[downvoted]

And the rest?

[was_no_monster]

...Well.

If you wanted me to, I could quite easily take on your employer, for one. I can protect the people who are precious to me.

...from everything but Yukari, at least.

[downvoted]

[A little doubtful that anyone could easily handle Ariel, even someone on Yukari's level, but he just trails his fingers down Kaito's cheek.]

Could you not do so before?

[was_no_monster]

[makes a quiet noise of negation, since he doesn't particularly want to shake Tristan's hand off]

Not well, at least here. I was stronger than a normal human, but there are a lot of people here that are even stronger than that. Like this, though...

As pretentious as it sounds, I'm closer to being a force of nature at this point. Human nature, but still.

[downvoted]

Mm. If it's important to you I'm glad it's something you have a better ability to do. But it does not seem as if... You enjoy what brought you to it.

[was_no_monster]

[his eyes don't flicker this time— they abruptly blaze, glowing with the same reflective quality of a cat's in the dark]

She forced us into it. She hurt us. You didn't answer his question— do you know what youkai are?