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]

[ sssidelong look

if Harvey has ever actually dealt with an animal overstimulated and grouchy enough about it to consider biting, it is definitely the same sort of look ]

No. It wouldn't help.

[coaldhearted]

[Yyyyes he's familiar with it and perceptive enough to notice

Hesitates]

What would?

[was_no_monster]

Nothing.

You smell like you would, though.

[coaldhearted]

I wouldn't, though.

[Calm and quiet]

[was_no_monster]

[ conversational, like he said absolutely nothing at all worrying there ]

No. It's just... mmm. Affinity? Something. You have a lot of the things that are mine, now.

[ finally getting up, dusting himself off in the process ]

[coaldhearted]

[Wait.

Blinks, caught off guard.]

What?

[was_no_monster]

[ grumbles ]

It's hard to put into words, it's all symbolism and bullshit...

[coaldhearted]

I don't get that stuff at all...

[still weirdly and suddenly uncomfortable, as opposed to how calm he was, say, when kaito was talking about maybe eating him]

[was_no_monster]

[ what in hell, Harvey. tilting his head to one side to eye him, nose scrunched up

...and then hums, thoughtful ]

You don't want them.

[coaldhearted]

I don't know what "them" is.

[was_no_monster]

They're... mmmn. The things I'm made of?

... "Youkai"—what Yukari made us into—they're human fears that have gotten big enough to take lives of their own. "Death," "disease," "the unknown..." A youkai made up of one of those things represents it, too. It's theirs.

[coaldhearted]

[oh fuck there is literally no way i'm not youkai bait]

...And what are you made of?

[was_no_monster]

[ why do you think you smell delicious, Harvey.

leaning against the wall while he tries to pick the right words ]

... "An eye for an eye making the whole world blind." Betrayal, although that one's complicated... "Restraint" in general: having too little and hurting other people, having too much and hurting yourself, we're both just different sides of that.

[ quiet, for a moment ]

...Loneliness. Being unloved, being rejected, being locked out in the cold to watch the world move on without you— all kinds. Every kind.

[coaldhearted]

[well

Harvey sure smells fucking delicious.]

Ah.

[meanders to the wall and stubs out his cigarette against it, then pockets the butt.]

[was_no_monster]

[ that moment where you have to decide between eating someone or hugging them

nnno that's still not even a decision. waiting for Harvey to finish with the cigarette and reaching out to snag him by the back of the hoodie ]

[coaldhearted]

[MAKES A SHOCKED NOISE AND GOES STILL?]

[was_no_monster]

[ reeling him in and then draping over his shoulders (although he keeps most of his weight against the wall) ]

[coaldhearted]

[simple dog noises internally, stock still and rail thin in his arms]

[was_no_monster]

[ ...hhhhhuffgrumble. ]

You didn't have a problem when I was shaped differently...

[coaldhearted]

...I guess I didn't.

[was_no_monster]

[ grumble grumble grumble. Harvey can probably feel the resulting vibrations against his back with the way they're pressed together ]

I don't want to shift back.

[coaldhearted]

Okay...

[he's not TRYING TO LEAVE but he's only getting more tense because he's also getting kind of flushed because. sliding scale of physical contact objective.]

[was_no_monster]

[ kind of sucks about my sense of smell, then, huh. sniffing? ]

[coaldhearted]

[getting aroused and there's also a cold stab of panic because you're smelling him and probably smelling it]

[was_no_monster]

[ ...that would be really nice if not for the whole panic thing :( ccconsiders ]

...Do you want me to let go?