Why does the moon compel me...?

((Main blog: @emmy-thedragoness )) ((To learn more about the regular canon of this AU, go to my OK KO sideblog and look for the tags at: @your-local-lakewood-dragoness )) ---------- Therapy Carpool canon version of the Alterwolf Curse/Imprisonment AU.

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

Let's go over the rules of the ask blog

((If you wanna about the AU in general then go read this here. Heck, maybe even type in the tag "alterwolf imprisonment/curse au" if you'd like! It's all on my OK KO centric sideblog! Also, this KO is post-canon/post merge, as evident by his TKO snaggletooth and magenta wristbands and sweatbands))

Before sending in your asks, please be sure to read these important rules:

1. Don’t be asking stuff that are way too uncomfortable NSFW territory, for this KO. Even though the version of this KO is a teenager, at 13-17 years old, he is still considered a child after all! So keep it at least PG-13 at most. Treat him like you would with any teen boy.

2. Shipping doesn’t really have involvement, sorry!

3. This particular blog is therapy carpool canon only. Don't worry, I'll label it in the tags.

4. Not the post for RPs and all that… but it probably wouldn’t hurt to ask.

5. He has a right to delete any ask that happens to make him uncomfortable. (Except Lupus, he deserves the most hard time.)

6. Any harassment, hate and bullying of all sorts is NOT tolerated. (Lupus is the sole exception for this, so he doesn't apply to this rule)

7. Lastly have some fun with this, and thank you!

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Mutant KO: @ask-mutant-ko-n-tko

B-O-T!KO: @ask-beast-o-tonicko

Kimera KO: @ask-kimerako

Pros!KO: @ask-prostheticko

A!KO: @ask-apocalypticko

Decomp!KO: @ask-decomposingko

Spec!KO: @ask-spectralko

Lone!KO: @asklonefighterko

Edgy!Lone!KO: @askedgylonefighterko

AU!KO: @askamongusko

DK!TKO: @ask-dreamkeeper-tko

Timekeeper!KO: @ask-timekeeper-ko

Power Trip!KO: @ask-power-trip-ko

Brutal KO: @askbrutalko

Propthetic TKO (Tarot): @askpropthetictko

Project Distortion KO (Slime): @askdistortedko

K-0/TK-0: @k-0thepowcardfan11

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

So. How are you feeling?

[His body generates a couple purple sparks upon being asked that. His voice lowers in a TKO-ish tone,] How do you think I'm feeling.

[There's the sound of a toilet flushing coming from inside the house. KO glares at that anon for a good, long moment before he fully steps inside and slams the door shut. If you'll allow me to translate: he blames himself a lot.]

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

...We'll find him for you.

[He sniffles, wipes his face and nods in silent acknowledgement.]

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

Don't you want to help?

[He scoffs.] Lupus said it himself. He said using my body was a "big help" doing what he needed to do. Plus those... mean anons started getting in my f***ing head... And I thought all you guys were automatically nice and friendly by default since I met you, but NOPE. I found my first bad apples out of all of them...

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

Will you tell the therapists.

[He barely takes a step in, and he freezes upon being asked that. From his facial expression right now, he seems to be terrified at the possibility of MKO getting furious and yelling at him again... like the last time it happened. He sweats from being asked that. He stands there frozen as if he saw a ghost. No offense to Spec, though! 😅]

[He doesn't answer this question.]

Go look for Shiny. At least most of you good ones left won't let him down... [He sighs. Damn, he's really feeling things right now...]

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

Do you want us to get your mom?

[He doesn't respond to those requests, but he knows that he probably wants to come to her about it personally. Yes, he'll be thinking about her.]

[He doesn't say anything. With how his current mindset is right now, there's probably no more to help him out of it.]

[He doesn't say anything to that as he opens the door. It quietly squeaks.]

[He stares into the doorway. After what felt like ages of him being unresponsive, he manages to whisper a simple, quiet sounding,]

i failed him.

... i failed her.

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

Why do you, an old fart, care about a kid being too nice so much to send him to space?

[Lupus eyes roll. He ignores this, thinking answering this is a total waste of time as he watches through KO's eyes.]

[KO doesn't respond again, shuffling close enough to the door without a word. He takes a second to look down at the note that reads "just turns asks off then back on if you don't wanna deal with the problematic anons anymore if u want" before taking it off his phone and stuffs it in his pocket. He reaches for the doorknob and turns.]

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

...What's up?

[Slowly, he removes his hands away from his face. He stares at his home across from him. He doesn't answer the question.]

[KO doesn't respond to this. He stares at his house for a good moment before looking back up at the sky for a moment longer. The female anthro dragon takes a quick moment to a single sticky note in front of his phone with something written on it before moving on to currently yelling and scolding the portion of problematic anons that previously went out of their way to purposely make him miserable in the background.

Eventually, KO gets up and steps out of the train, moving towards his house at a sluggish pace. From the current expression on his face, it's clear that he looks... dejected.]

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

...KO?

[Sometime later, he arrives back back in his home universe. His hands are covering up his face as he sits in the train car he usually boards on, slouching and quiet.]

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

The way you're phrasing your answer makes it seem like you care. Why does it bother YOU if he was being used as a doormat? It doesn't concern you.

I'm through with this. Anyway, I suppose I'll get back to—

[He stops speaking when he sees KO's continuous struggle to send a voicemail.]

—

[The phone trembles in his hand as the anonymous equipment trembles in the other, stuck to stammering repeated "ums" mixed with deafening silence in an alternating pattern until he utters a whine that should be too high-pitched for his teen vocals that he presses end call and throws both it and the anon equipment that he start running off to the train and into his train car, audibly sobbing. The female anthro dragon rushes to catch the phone on time before it even hits the ground, promptly boarding back to the front of the train with a sigh of defeat.]

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

Not saying what you did was okay. I'm asking why you didn't kill him if you hated him so much. Was a quick death not good enough for you?

A quick death wouldn't do it enough. What is enough is that I wanted to serve this to him as a lesson for him to live with the next time he interacts with individuals that may be more than too eager to use him as a doormat. Plus, he has to have a hate bone in him somewhere. Brat needs to grow a spine.

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

Why didn't you just kill him, instead, Lupus?

I thought you were furious at me for sending him up there alive a moment ago. Did you change your tune all of a sudden? 🤨

Hh... hello, mmmi... um.... nnnuuuhhh... uh.....

[His vision of his surroundings blur and double. His mouth feels like it's drying up.]

I'm... I......

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

...If you tell her, you might give her hope. She'd be so much more distraught if he didn't make it back, if she knew.

.....

[KO wheezes a barely audible "yeah". The tone then sounds from his phone, so he inhales.]

Uh.

.....

H-hhhe— [*clears throat aggressively*]

Umf. Hm—

I-I...

Uhh...

[He goes uncomfortably silent for the remaining period as he's now sweating like the Niagra Falls. It feels as if he wants to throw up his heart out. ((Figuratively btw)) He trembles visibly, struggling to find the words. Any words. But he can't seem to find any.]

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

Yeah. Cause sending a child to die a slow, painful death, is relieving.

Sass me all you wish, I'll consider this a victory for me.

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[The phone continues to ring until about almost a full minute in, an automated voice then speaks, "The person you are calling is not available. Please leave a message after the tone." KO gulps, as the anxiety and dread spikes to its maximum, not wanting to leave a message, but I guess he's going to... if he has the emotional strength to.]

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

...Her phone might be busy.

[KO anxiously waits for an answer as the other end most likely, is probably ringing a couple times.]

[Oh, geez. You seriously should NOT have mentioned anything about the limb incident to that geezer...]

He was at death's door for something that cost him his arm and leg, you say...?

That is... [He smirks.]

Certainly some information...

Proud is an understatement. I prefer the term "relieved".

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

[KO's heart races at a rapid pace, phone shaking in his hands as there is a lot of hesitation from him to dial the number in the middle of the anxiety spiking, overwhelming onslaught between his inbox filled with half of the anons that give him genuine encouragement to use the offered equipment and giving Shiny's mom a call to help Shiny home, to the other half of the anons that seems to be actively causing him visible distress by discussing horrid topics regarding things such as Shiny's currently helpless situation, his death probability and the worst of all... even one ask suggesting that Shiny's mom could be "furious".

As one of the more reptilian, but sensible workers of the therapy carpool train actively fights to ward the more troublesome half of the anons off and act on emotional/mental damage control, KO grabs a piece of the anonymous disguising equipment with one hand and with the other hand holding his phone, he grimaces and dials the number. He shakily moves the phone over his ear, breathing very shakily.]

[ask-alterwolf-curseko]

If he dies, two kids die.

[He grunts and growls at those specific anons,]

Shut it. I am calling her. I am saving Shiny.

[He inhales, ignoring his currently sweaty hands as he scrolls to her name.]

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And why stop with her? Why not make the brat's Mr. Gar from his universe croak as well? And Lord Boxman...