A/N: i don’t really do any other fandoms than k-pop but i really wanted to write about my sweet Kiyo because I’m always obsessed with him
slight warning: Danganronpa, Korekiyo Shinguji (and every implication that comes with him)
- Little!Korekiyo doesn’t like familial petnames (no Mama, Dada, Sissy… nothing like that). He calls you and others by their names.
- He regresses to a kid headspace, not a baby one. Probably around six years old, regressing to a time before things in his life started getting confusing.
- Hides pacifiers behind his mask. Or maybe he modded one to have a pacifier teat there permanently.
- Does NOT like touch!! Do not touch little Kiyo, he will cry.
- Kiyo speaks very softly, but doesn’t lisp or babble. He’s one of those kiddos who speaks in full, eloquent sentences.
- Prefers to be alone and doesn’t play well with other littles.
- Touched the hot stove once and spent an hour crying because he didn’t believe you when you said it was hot (he learned his lesson)
- Stims by playing with the zips and jewelry and chains on his jacket or with his hair. He is the only person who can touch his hair and becomes upset if anyone else touches it.
- Refuses to go to the hospital when little, but will willingly take medicine and rest at home.
- Not a picky eater! Kiyo will eat anything you cook because all food is cultural and everything is worth trying because it’s all beautiful.
- I mean, he calls everything beautiful. He sees the beauty in everyone and everything, despite being so… messed up. It’s very endearing.
- You’re at a park with Kiyo and he points to a mama bird feeding her baby birds and mumbles “beautiful”. He sees a nice group of people jogging around on the street or maybe an argument in a language he doesn’t understand and says it’s beautiful. He points at you and calls you beautiful, too.
- There are certain things you can’t mention to Kiyo, or he’ll lose it. No talk of her, no talk of traveling far away, no talk of ropes or burns, and no comments on his hair. These things are… iffy or maybe okay outside of headspace but when he’s little, these are no-go’s.
- Loves trips to the playground and to the museum! Kiyo gets so wrapped up playing at playgrounds or looking at strange and exciting museum exhibits. At the museum, he will definitely infodump about cultures and rituals and practices of ancient and recent peoples. Even while regressed, he loves anthropology.
- And you’d better listen to him!! He’s got a lot to say!! :(
- I headcannon him as autistic. It is what it is. He doesn’t mean to be unsettling, he just… is.
- I think his favorite toys would be dolls. I think he’d collect dollies and brush their hair and sing pretty songs to them and take care of them and give them special nicknames. He’s got a rainbow of Barbies and Cabbage Patch Kids and stitched-up dollies with many different hair types and many different skin colors and body types and clothing.
- And he loves them all!! :)
- Little Kork is surprisingly sweet. He listens well, communicates well, and is all around very agreeable. Just be sure to check-in with him and make sure he’s doing fine from time to time and he’ll be content.