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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Never been the sort of thing to stop me, really. I get it, though.

[ ... finishes off the piece he was playing and flops directly sideways ]

Kaito?

[ I required cuddles ]

I really wish you hadn't seen that.

[ scrubbing at his face a little, and even Harvey's shitty eyesight might be able to catch the flash of white gauze sticking out from under his sleeves ]

...

[slides his arm around Kaito's shoulders]

You're hurt.

[ CRANKY GRUMBLE ]

I'm allowed to be hurt. I'm going to the Theater later; I was planning on asking them to fix it.

Kaito...

[ ROLLS EYES, reaches over, plants one hand firmly over on top of the gaping hole where Harvey's core goes ]

Don't even start.

...I didn't pull it out myself, though.

[ freezes and drops his hand ]

...aah.

[puts his head on kaito's shoulder.]

Why?

[ ...rubbing his wrist in that habitual gesture he sometimes does while thinking ]

...My first impulse when badly upset is usually to take things apart. That doesn't exclude myself.

One of his first orders was that I wasn't allowed to let myself be hurt. So I couldn't- couldn't take what I was feeling out on anything. ...I needed to prove to myself I could, now.

...

So just the one time, then? That's enough, right?

[ ...rests his cheek on the top of Harvey's head ]

Mmm. ...And I am going to get it fixed.

Mmkay.

... sorry.

[WHAT THE HELL DO I SAY HERE

when in doubt, lean]

[ perfectly valid strategy ]

...It'll be a while before I'm completely free again. Tristan and I managed to... mmn. Tangle ourselves? The only solution that won't make things worse is to take it apart slowly. ...So I'll probably be poor company for a while.