shamelesshookery | KAITO: SHADOW GARBAGE AU EDITION OPEN POST

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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[silence means he strongly disagrees with this idea, and he's not flinching]

Please. He could make me hurt you, or just— stop seeing you— please, Harvey.

I can't stand by while he hurts you.

... If you interfere, he will use you to hurt me more. He can't do that if he doesn't know about you.

Edited (HANG ON NOT ENOUGH FEELINGS) 2015-03-10 05:34 (UTC)

Kaito...

[ kind of kneading at his wrist, little upset grasping motions that he doesn't seem to be quite aware of making ]

I... literally cannot disobey him, right now. He has the sort of power that could do that to you, too.

I am not above blackmailing you by telling you in detail the ways it would destroy me if he did anything to you, if it would keep you safe. You're one of the only good things I have left.

Don't. Please don't, I just- I want to help you or do something, I can't just sit back while he does this to you.

... sorry.

I've been trying, but I can't think of anything that can be done that would lead to any sort of- of permanent solution. One of the other members of my team might be able to do something, or- or Yukari, but if he could lock me up...

[ shaking his head ]

...I can't do nothing. I can be careful, but I can't do nothing.

[ ... well

time to completely disgrace myself by starting to cry ]

[fuck

i fucked up

kneels here awkwardly]

[ YOU ARE NOT THE ONE WHO FUCKED UP, HERE

just. continues to cling to Harvey's wrist, unable to ask for more than that with the rest of him locked away to rot, and hitches in unsteady breaths with his face covered by his other hand ]

I don't- I don't know what to do. I don't know what you can do.

[i have a hunch

i mean not a relevant hunch but a hunch that works for now

said hunch is tugging Kaito into a one-armed hug.]

[ congratulations, your hunch is correct.

flops limply against Harvey and tries to breathe; it's a couple of moment before he unsteadily brings his arms up to hold on to Harvey's shirt, like a little kid might ]

[Just... Gonna hold him for a bit and maybe be a little smug he figured this one out.]

[ HARVEY WAS SUCCESSFUL AT INTERPRETING SOMEONE ELSE'S FEELINGS, ALERT THE MEDIA

applying his face to Harvey's shoulder and snuffling ]

...Thank you. Thank you, thank you— I can't even ask, like this, I can't—

I've got you.

[It helps that Kaito was really explicit about being unable to express what he wants like this, Harvey can work with that much.]

[ makes a quiet, cracked noise and slumps, the tense line of his shoulders finally relaxing ]

[supports his weight, arm tight around him. He's not bullshitting.]

[ just cuddles, for a while. he'd gotten used to letting his other half handle it, when things were too much to take; it didn't know despair, or feel the future stretching out before them in quite the same way. not having that, not having anything to take him out of his own head or take the weight off has been... ]

...This helps. Maybe not the kind of help you meant, but it does.