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 :))

Comments

[fortunatetoaster]

[ she's stood here having a lucid conversation with a Shadow who doesn't seem to be about to bust its way out of his host's skull and go rampaging, who seems to be somehow co-existing with his host while still maintaining his own separate identity and Labrys is just as floored as she is absolutely terrified by the implications of that. ]

Yer... not a Persona. [ a statement, rather than a question. ] So, whaddya mean "broken"?

/2

[was_no_monster]

[wrinkles his nose a little at the word "Persona," like he hasn't heard it before, and then grins]

No, I'm not tame.

I mean traumatized, really. There were a lot of things my "fake self" [he says that almost like it's a joke] had to lock up, just to keep living without going insane, so he couldn't really accept that I was him all at once like that without it destroying him just as much as if I killed him myself. In the end, I got talked into being satisfied with just being acknowledged. ...Which I wasn't, but by that point I couldn't really do anything about it right away.

[was_no_monster]

...The rest is where it starts getting really long, and also kind of crazy, so I probably shouldn't tell you all of it in the middle of the street. We were going to get ice cream; do you want to come with us?

comes back 20 minutes late with starbucks

[fortunatetoaster]

[ this doesn't make sense. it goes against everything she knows about Shadows -- he shouldn't be this lucid, shouldn't even exist, but here he is with the suppressed cacophony of her sensors to prove it.

And he's offering her ice cream. ]

Uh... y--yeah.

[ she's too floored by all this to give a real response, so all she can really do is nod dumbly. ]

I want -- the whole story, yeah?

[was_no_monster]

[he grins at her again— still honestly and openly pleased, but there's more than a little of that too intense, slightly unhinged edge that most Shadows seemed to have to it]

Mmm, of course. Do you really think a Shadow would want to leave anything about itself out?