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]

[ today, apparently the bad associations being forced to do homework had formed with the library have worn off enough for Kaito to actually set foot in there again. not enough to keep him from giving the entire nonfiction section a wide berth, mind you, but. he's in there!

aaand going straight for the section with the trashy romance novels. classy. ]

[worldofdifference]

[ ......... guess who is totally in the trashy romance novel section reading erotic fiction with a blank look on his face. ]

[was_no_monster]

[ —taken off-guard enough by that that he ends up sputtering out the beginning of a startled laugh before having the good grace to cover his mouth ]

[worldofdifference]

[ Looks up! And quirks an eyebrow at. ]

What is it?

[was_no_monster]

I beg your pardon. I wasn't, ah... expecting us to have similar taste in reading material.

[worldofdifference]

Oh, this?

[ He has the dignity to blush a little now himself. ]

... I like stuff that's completely out of this world, so it's only natural.

[was_no_monster]

[ huffs, wryly amused ]

Aah. I do like getting a guaranteed happy ending.

[ starting to pick a few books out for himself, pretty obviously looking for ones he's familiar with ]

[worldofdifference]

...... mm. Is there one in particular you're looking for?

[was_no_monster]

Not really. Just about any old friend that catches my eye, so to speak... If you have any favorites that keep the melodrama primarily light-hearted, though, I wouldn't mind a recommendation or two.

[worldofdifference]

A light read? I have something I could offer.

[ He goes over to a pile of books! And pulls out a fairly fluffy looking novel. ]

[was_no_monster]

[ visibly perking up as he reaches out to take it and scan the back ]

Aah, thank you. I haven't gotten to have much free time lately, so I'm planning on making up for it by lying around for as long as I can get away with.

[worldofdifference]

... what keeps you so busy?

[was_no_monster]

[ pausing, glancing up from the book and then off to the side ]

...There was a situation. Getting it fixed is actually what Tristan is paying for, at the moment.

[worldofdifference]

[ I want to know... but it's not my business... ]

You all seem close.

[was_no_monster]

Aah. Tristan was one of the first friends I made here, and Harvey and I... we have a lot in common besides our faces.

[ fusses with the book, and then sighs and admits: ]

...that, and. Well. The situation I mentioned involved magical bindings. It was initially just between me and Tristan, but the Theater botched it when we asked them to shift one end of them from Tristan to Harvey. It's difficult not to be close with that.

[worldofdifference]

... I'm surprised there's something magical that an bind Tristan to that degree.

[was_no_monster]

He's technically not the one it's binding. That, and it would damage the both of us if it were simply broken.

[worldofdifference]

How? Is it binding you?

[was_no_monster]

...Yes. I have to obey his and Harvey's orders at the moment.

If the bindings are broken too quickly... it would be about the same as snapping a real chain that had been under high tension. The ends would go flying, and there would be shrapnel, essentially.

[worldofdifference]

I understand. Are you alright, living like that?

[was_no_monster]

...To perhaps be overly blunt, I haven't been entirely "all right" in a very long time. I make do.