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]

Good.

...Do you want to be alone because you want to be alone, or because you don't want to hurt anybody with that?

[coaldhearted]

I've been alone before. I don't know why it's so hard to stay away this time.

[so option two]

[was_no_monster]

[ ...giving him a really pointed look and sniffing, and then looking away ]

It's your choice. I won't push you on it. But... I would be more upset by you being alone.

[coaldhearted]

It would be better if I could just... not care too...

But I do. So.

...Stay...?

[was_no_monster]

...of course I'll stay.

[coaldhearted]

[...l-lean on kaito]

[was_no_monster]

[ wrapping an arm around Harvey's shoulders ]

[coaldhearted]

[the objective starts to ramp up already but it's fine you signed up for this and kaito knows what you were hiding anyway and you're horrible enough that you asked him to stay so it's

it's fine

whatever]

[was_no_monster]

[ excuse you that face is not fine ]

...Harvey?

[coaldhearted]

Sorry.

[he's mostly just tired. the self-loathing is THERE but none of the discomfort from earlier is, and the former is drowned out by just. numb tired.]

[was_no_monster]

[ well, it's not like he's intimately familiar with any of those emotions or anything. ]

Why are you apologizing?

[coaldhearted]

Because I want to thank you for staying but I shouldn't have asked you to in the first place.

[was_no_monster]

Like Hell you shouldn't have.

[coaldhearted]

[just shakes his head]

[was_no_monster]

[ ... covering his face with his other hand Harvey please stop being him ]

...Harvey. I know what it's like to die alone. Not wanting that for yourself isn't— it's not—

Don't apologize for it.

[coaldhearted]

...I won't, then.

[but he won't stop being sorry]

[was_no_monster]

[ one step at a time.

pulling his hand away from his face again. his eyes are just steadily flickering now, casting light like a guttering candle ]

[coaldhearted]

...Kaito?

[was_no_monster]

[ distant ]

My turn for wanting things you wouldn't like.

[coaldhearted]

[just. waits for the bomb to drop.]

[was_no_monster]

[ shaking his head a little, and then harder until his eyes refocus ]

...Sorry. It gets loud.

[coaldhearted]

You can say it.

[was_no_monster]

I would have to let him back out, I think, and he'd jump all over you.

[coaldhearted]

...

It's okay. I'm not hiding from you anymore, so it's fine if he does.

[was_no_monster]

[ looks incredibly dubious

but after a moment he lets out a rough sigh, which transitions into a really irritated growl as the yellow of his eyes goes steady and he reaches over with his other arm to manhandle Harvey partway into his lap ]