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

[was_no_monster]

...I might have been including you in that "we."

[ sounds mostly tired, though ]

He's the one who decided propositioning you when you were uncomfortable was a good idea, though, and I'm the one who let him. That's absolutely our fault.

[coaldhearted]

I, uh. Didn't realize that happened.

[was_no_monster]

[ kind of pausing as he works backward; he doesn't have anywhere near his monster half's awareness when he's the one caged, and that means everything he gets is filtered through it until he can get out and check for himself—

...putting his face in both hands. muffled ]

... probably because he's an idiot and assumed that asking if you wanted him to stop was clear enough.

[coaldhearted]

I can handle hugging, but it'd be nice if he were more forward with me...

[would you have rejected him harvey

who knows]

[was_no_monster]

...That isn't something he's good at. Not without prompting, at least.

[coaldhearted]

I'm no good with roundabout ways of saying things...

[was_no_monster]

[ his eyes flicker briefly yellow again, before he makes a face and rubs at them ]

Well, now he's trying to be as blunt as possible out of spite.

[coaldhearted]

...I'm not gonna ask.

[was_no_monster]

Good plan.

[ sliding down the wall until he's sitting down ]

[coaldhearted]

[...follows suit.]




Sorry.

[was_no_monster]

...Why?

[coaldhearted]

I wasn't exactly clear either.

[was_no_monster]

... no. But we're used to that.

[coaldhearted]

[goes quiet, then 'x']

[was_no_monster]

[ ...there are an interesting few moments where he looks like he's struggling to say something and having no luck getting it out. eventually he just sighs and thunks his head back against the wall ]

[coaldhearted]

... Kaito?

[was_no_monster]

... sorry. There was something I wanted to say, but... There are things that I can't express at all, anymore, because they ended up with him when we split.

[ because I put them there in the first place. repression ]

[coaldhearted]

[...



Reaches out

Settles his hand on Kaito's hair

And ruffles it softly]

[was_no_monster]

[ ...who are you and what have you done with my Harvey

that gets another flicker of yellow, like a candle flame guttering, and then Kaito shuts his eyes and tilts his head into the touch ]

[coaldhearted]

[Okay, he can keep that up. Keeps ruffling, movements short and awkward.]

[was_no_monster]

[ visibly relaxing, despite the awkward

slowly, partly because he's focused on the petting but also because he's expecting to run into another verbal wall ]

...Thank you. You probably noticed, but we're— tactile.

[coaldhearted]

Yeah. I'm... not good at tactile, but I can do at least this much.

[was_no_monster]

[ huffs a bit of a laugh at "not good at tactile." no, really ]

It means a lot that you're willing to try.



...We don't know what to do for you.

[coaldhearted]

You don't have to do anything for me...

[was_no_monster]

[ cracking one eye back open to look at him ]

Neither do you. It isn't about "have to."