your smile; burned and rotting

Korei Kaiya, SHSL Microbiologist. Tread with caution, biohazard material. For the Ouroboros Project. I track koreikaiya.

[koreikaiya]

what the fuck is a linear timeline [tori/kaiya]

Despair wasn't really just a thing that you could feel a little bit of.

At least, not for Kaiya.

One could tell by a glaze over her eyes, a limpness in her movements, and her lack of real words this... Really was hardly her at all. She didn't really do anything when she was in one of these moods, nothing but consciously remind herself that right, she needed to do things like eat and drink to live.

On this one occasion of likely many, she was just... staring off into space as she sat outside of her door. Fucking classy, Kaiya. Couldn't you do this in private? Whatever, apparently this was her only scheduled dose of socialization for the day anyway. AKA nothing, probably. Socialization was not required to live, and, because of her circumstances, well... Even those things weren't enjoyable to her.

So, talking? Moving? Being fully conscious?

Hah, what a joke. There was no motivation in her to do such things.

There was no motivation here at all.

In other news, she was sort of blocking a good half of the hallway just sitting there and leaning against the door. Oops. Hope no one needed to use it.

[koreikaiya]

希望と絶望 [rei/kaiya]

[linguaobsessi]

Poor Kaiya. Maybe it was best if she didn’t get out right now. Especially not to talk to Rei. Everybody had been a mess, but Rei wasn’t a mess.

She was a level above that.

Which, really, shouldn’t come as a surprise. Rei, who wanted to be everyone’s friends, would listen to anyone and help all of those in need? That took people’s pains as her own? This was all a bit too much for her already. The whole situation made her upset, but this. Killing off a good friend of hers. Having a suicide happen. And, what caused those two murders to set off, murdered in such a cruel and coldblooded manner?

It really shouldn’t be a surprise. Well, aside the fact that she ended up reacting a bit different than lots of people would. It still happened to people to laugh in extremely stressful situations though. … The creepy act probably came with their situation. But even so.

Rei looked up from her book. She has had a few visitors before. Most people were checking up on her. That was starting to get annoying, but she couldn’t blame them. She’d probably do the same. Well. Before that. It was better than keep reading this book she read a thousand times before, anyways. Being grounded in her room to rest and get better sure could be boring.

… That voice was Kaiya’s, wasn’t it? It had been a while since they talked, so she didn’t really hesitated (beyond her weak state of body) and got up to open the door.

"… Hey there, Kaiya-chan." She spoke softly, probably because of her cold. "How have you been doing?"

[koreikaiya]

"Been doing, I guess."

Her voice was soft, trying not to, well, actually disturb Rei. She didn't look all too good. But, ignoring anything the study of bacteriology and virology had to offer her, Kaiya was perfectly fine hanging out with the sick girl. Mental-emotional issues were no problem with Kaiya- no matter how awful of a person she was, she was no hypocrite.

"Kept myself up in my room several weeks. Couldn't find my medication."

ah the perks of having a degenerative brain infection that fucked with your emotions

She looked the girl over. Obviously being used to the signs in a personal sense, though of course all people were individuals, she could tell Rei was at best Not Good. Leaning towards Pretty Damn Bad, almost. She'd personally been on autopilot the last few weeks and last few deaths, probably there but with a glazed over look to her. Mentally, but not emotionally there.

Yeah, she could relate, even if it wasn't a personal trauma that caused it.

"...In any case, I hear you haven't been well. I won't ask why and won't promise I can help, since it's probably none of my business, but I figured I could try at least stopping by."

Let's say Kaiya offered Rei a hand here or something. Is it too early to give her a hug. Kaiya did not know. Better to take things slowly than go too far- obviously since Rei was already sorta despairing, anyway. She had no work to do here in intensifying her pain. Once you knew what despair tasted like, it wasn't easy to forget, so...

No point in making Rei hurt more.

[koreikaiya]

希望と絶望 [rei/kaiya]

Kaiya's lack of presence lately had been stunning.

First, with Rei having been gone, she'd really not been... Out much. Not to mention, if the hallucinations told her anything, she'd been blacking out what portions of her life she had been to. She'd seen dead bodies in the corners of her eyes for a while now; Eren's and Tori's, if she recalled, and, seeing no trace of them, she'd imagined to herself they were as well dead. Whatever, she told herself, she'd be going soon enough as well- no need to worry about the memory loss.

From what she'd heard, Rei was suffering similar symptoms.

For her it was just Despair Disease, of course. Rei? Rei was probably just mentally unstable.

She really should keep that disease better locked up, considering oh hey, Monocobra had it now. Haha. Oh boy, can't wait for that one.

Putting her failures as a microbiologist aside, she gave a small tap at Rei's door. They'd grounded her? Really? What was she gonna do, kill someone? Rhetorical question, of course, but that was sort of what was expected of them. Like giving someone a detention for doing schoolwork, she thought.

"...You alive in there, Kwaa-chan?"

Well, hopefully. Even if Rei was in a shitty mental state right now, all that told Kaiya was that she'd fallen further into despair. AKA Wow, now she's even cuter. (What the absolute fuck Kaiya.)

Nothing wrong with talking to her either way, right?

[blindprofits]

this is it. this is an au.

it is happening.

i do not give a shit anymore.

this is all my fault. and now i can’t stop.

help me.

this is part one. scenesfromthehoodstuck the musical.

shuns gang. its’ called persia. dont even ask it is such a stupid reasoning. just. dont.

[blindprofits]

you thought this was a joke?

scENESFROMTHEHOODSTUCK THE MUSICAL PART TWO

DAISUKE’S GANG. FIRE EXIT.

CAUSE THEY’RE HOT. AND LED BY AN ESCAPE ARTIST.

[koreikaiya]

yes it is i sleepy

[serenesociologist]

The sociologist was busy minding his own business, heading out of his room with a yawn emitting from his lips. What time was it? Was it the afternoon? He didn’t really know for sure to be quite honest, he would like to sleep in as much as possible to say the least.

Hearing a girl cursing while coming towards his way, he turned his head, his eyes half open while his outfit was untidy to say the least, messed up sweater, messed up hair, all the sort. In fact, he was trying to go ahead and put his barrette in right about now.

Having his hands full with putting a barrette in his hair, he called out to the girl, who he recognized as the microbiologist, “Good morning! Afternoon! How are you?”

[koreikaiya]

Wandering around was too much work, decided Kaiya, who was just about ready to just plop down on the floor and wait for someone to drag her to the kitchen. However, just in the nick of time, humanity happened. She hadn't spent an awful lot of time getting to know her fellow prisoners in satan's icy asshole, but this one at least seemed conversational.

"Bored, thirsty, probably about to go clinically insane from all the nothing that's around here to do."

Her grumblings aside, she didn't feel quite awful enough to actually kill this guy on the spot and idly hope she was his target. I mean, that was a plus, right? He life was already despair-y enough, no need to get herself killed. Not to mention he seemed just as messy as she was right now.

"Lead me to the kitchen, I've been locked in my room like a fucking y2k conspiracy theorist since the last motive was announced."

At least you could give Kaiya that she was honest. If a bit brash in how she spoke.

[koreikaiya]

yes it is i sleepy

The only answer to embarrassment and no food, according to Kaiya, is literally fucking barricading yourself in your room until it is safe.

She wasn't exactly foreign to the idea of surviving on all the chips and soda she'd squirreled away in her room (she knew monocobra would pull the "haha ur gonna starve to death" shit someday), considering well. That had been her only method of recovery for the scars now on her chest. Locking herself away whenever possible and not letting anyone see her look weak. Also, bonus of not being a target for murder.

Gently she popped her knuckles, figuring, okay, she was out of all the good kinds of chips, her room looked like a fucking bear had gotten into it, and she was dangerously dehydrated after having run out of sugary drink 2 days ago.

(god damn it kaiya)

Food run time.

Hurriedly, she began trying to kick the something about 25-35 empty chip bags she'd so far gone through into the corner, god forbid someone look into her room while she was gone. Cans of soda into another corner. Awesome, it looked... Slightly less like a bear had been in here, and more like a gigantic slob had been in here.

She'd take it.

Swiftly making sure she had, in fact, taken that shower THIS morning and not two days ago morning, she slipped out of the crack of her door and glanced out. Still fucking lame ass cabin and shitty fucking snow. Had she ever gotten her coat back from Shun? Eh, she'd take it when they got out of here. First things first, she'd heard someone had died during her great hikikomori period, so the food should be back, right?

Kitchen. Fuck, where'd she put the kitchen. Shit. Fuck.

Cue a lot of wandering exactly where the kitchen was not and cursing.

[shsl-student]

((plot twist, this is all just some wacky japanese game show and the dead students are paid actors haha))

[reticentchessmaster]

Knight Takes e4

With the amount of people falling asleep all around the school, Tanji almost wasn’t surprised to see another unfamiliar face slumped back in a chair. It was only when she walked closer that she noticed a nervous chill creeping over her—the shadows on the person’s neck, and the stilled rhythm of their chest. Their first murder. 

Somehow it didn’t occur to her to do her own investigation first. Maybe panic did that. Whatever the reason, she quietly backed out, closing the door behind her, and promptly sprinted down the stairs to the first floor and the dorm area. She did not act frantic. She did not scream.

The first door she knocked on was Nagashi’s, for the simple reason that he was more likely to be in his room than anyone else she’d talked with recently.  Somehow she managed to explain the situation before turning right around and bolting back to the classroom, assured that the rest of the students would come soon. It would be best to catalog the available evidence before it could be disturbed.

>Investigation Start!

The first thing that had to be done was…determining cause of death. Approaching with probably less trepidation than she should have had, she peeled away the person’s—the body’s—shirt collar, revealing a pink stain on the inside that could only have been blood. The back of their throat had been sliced open. She frowned at the purple shadows on their neck she originally took to be bruises from strangulation, and rubbed at it as if trying to get a spot off a mirror. A bit of it rubbed off on her hands. Yeah, definitely not a bruise.

[koreikaiya]

A dead... A dead body. Kaiya hadn't known the male well, so she had no qualms with approaching the corpse once she entered the room. She'd seen enough corpses in her day to hardly care anymore, and this one seemed to be far less decomposed than she was normally used to. Oh well, she figured, approaching both it and the girl who had already taken to investigating. Certainly it was. Dead as dead. Slowly, she fished a little notebook out of her pocket, just a small little pad that fit in the palm of her hand. She flipped it open, only to reveal... A list. A list of check boxes. -Cause of Death -Murder Weapon -State of Crime Scene -Time of Death -State of the Body ...Cause of Death. Slowly she slid over the the other woman, peering at the wound. Deep, but clean and small. She tore off a page of her notebook and folded it, proceeding to just. fucking shove it in the damn deadly wound. Pulling it out, she noted that while small on the outside, the incision penetrated well enough deep to sever the spinal cord, likely, therefore, the cause of death. "Any idea what the purple junk is?" She said casually, as if not even realizing this body could just as well have been hers.

[chitong0083]

[pretzel-the-hognose]

Who’s that Pokémon?

[koreikaiya]

[[if i threw away this weak and mortal body]]

[linguaobsessi]

Oh god, was she crying? If Rei could, she’d get the girl up in her arms and carry her all the way to the cafeteria- but she didn’t have the strength the other had. She just settled for holding her closely, maybe it would give the other some comfort? “It’s okay, don’t worry about it~” She said in a light hearted tone, hopefully the girl would feel less tense soon. Not that Rei could do much about it but patiently show that everything is alright- the girl did had a hallucination, and panicked to boot. She smiled at how the lil girl held onto herself, it was a good sign, right? Even if she was staring at the floor…

"Really, it’s alright. Everybody has their bad days, right?" Said the same girl who cried in front of everybody not too long ago, at least she had experience. "By the way, what’s your name? I’m Reinheld Kwaadsteniet- but everybody just calls me Rei." She tried to make a conversation so maybe her mind got distracted easier, and Rei had a way to call the girl as well. Walking in the direction, however, provided to be an dead end to a classroom. …Dear lord, why did she had to be like that. She couldn’t take care of people if they’d get both herself and others lost! "I guess… The way wasn’t over here after all, haha…" Greeeeaaaat. She tried to brush it off walking back but damn, awkward much.

[koreikaiya]

Not wanting to seem QUITE that helpless, Kaiya paused just a moment to wipe her tears away on the sleeve of her labcoat. Luckily this was that one time when her lack of makeup did not come back to bite her, and her white sleeve stayed that way. White. Having hallucinations was very definitely not cool, and at this rate, she'd be the first one to die having been seen as a weak link. She knew how social structure worked, and obviously this would be what brought her down.

Letting herself give a weak nod, she didn't even question where the other girl was leading her until they apparently didn't get there. Well, she wouldn't be much more help than Rei herself in any case. Haha Get Lost Duo. Well, here they were. Some classroom in the middle of nowhere. She followed Rei anyway, figuring better with her than alone in case of getting jumped by the one targeting her.

Unless Rei was targeting her, in which case she was already 7 different kinds of fucked and had no way out.

"Reinheld... Kwaadsteniet."

Probably a weirder name, she'd admit. Rei was a suitable enough nickname, she assumed, since this girl was certainly not Japanese. But Kaiya was used to weird names all the same, considering giving bacteria and virii pretty names wasn't her top priority.

"Korei Kaiya."

[koreikaiya]

[[if i threw away this weak and mortal body]]

[linguaobsessi]

Welp, Rei was afraid she would scare the poor girl, and not make her hug her so hard- oh mygod how could one girl be so strong?! She had most of her breath squished out of her, but oh well, as long as the girl felt better… And as long as she didn’t die in the process. That’d be shit. She kept hugging the other, however, granted she wasn’t really dying out of breath.

When she was let go, she felt an immense relief- it felt so bad to feel relief for that, but god she was really strong - and looked at the shorter girl. She didn’t really understood what she said, but one could deduce she was apologizing. With a smile, she waved her hand. “Don’t worry about that! If you’re feeling better, then all is well.” Except her almost snapped spine, but it should be fine, she hoped.

Putting her arm over the girl’s shoulder, she scooted her to the exit of the library, since she didn’t seem to be able to do that by herself right now. “Let’s see… The stairs should be there?” She looked to the opposite side of the stairs. God, let’s hope both of them are up for a walk.

[koreikaiya]

Not accidentally killing out of order would be a plus. However Kaiya wasn't intending to kill the girl, so. She gave a small nod instead, kinda. Sniffling. No don't you dare cry, you've already shown enough weakness, and as far as you know she's the one trying to kill you. Hopefully Rei's bruises weren't too awful, Kaiya told herself, trying to stand upright. Keyword being trying, as she stumbled again and grabbed the edge of the table for support.

"Mmmmnn... Thanks."

She was quiet, wrapping her own arm around Rei's shoulder in response. She kept her eyes pointed at her feet, not even daring to look the Polyglot in the eye after that fiasco. Hopefully no one else would get word of this, and she'd just lose the trust of one individual rather than the entire group. Still, her eyes were brimming with tears, though at least the hallucination had stopped for now.

"I-I'm... I'm sorry..."

She repeated once again, tears starting to actually fall as she nodded about the stairs thing. Upset. Why, no one would likely ever know. Or maybe Rei would if she could stand being around Kaiya long enough to be told about it.

[koreikaiya]

Monocobra: Cause of Death; Butt Crushing

[koreikaiya]

[[if i threw away this weak and mortal body]]

[linguaobsessi]

Rei was getting sick to her stomach with worry- but alas, it was better that she was here, what could have happened if she was there alone by herself? As she tripped, Rei started to dash forward to not let her fall, but luckily, the girl didn’t fall. Phew. When the girl got her hand - and man, for such a small and cute girl, was she strong. That hurt as hell, but Rei decided to just hold her hand back, with a firm grip. There’s no way she could manage a strong grip like the other even if she tried anyways…

"Yeah, let’s. just get you a cup of water-" It didn’t look like the girl would move on her own, though. She reached to hug her, then pat her back. "Hey, it’s ok- just take deep breaths, okay?" She wanted to make sure the girl was breathing.

[koreikaiya]

Upon being allowed to hug the girl, by god did Kaiya hug. She was an emotionally distraught teenager having painfully lifelike hallucinations. Save her, girl who can speak many languages. The microbiologist tried not to snap poor Rei's spine, but hopefully beyond that she had at least given the Polyglot enough room to breathe herself. For maybe three quarters of a minute Kaiya just kind of. Made heavy breathing noises into Rei's shoulder. Charming.

Slowly pulling herself together was pretty much the hardest step for Kaiya. However, not wanting to literally cry all over the poor student, she shakily kinda. Raised her head and scooted a bit backwards. She mumbled some apologies, which were. Barely audible, let alone comprehensible.

Dammit, now she looked stupid. Stupid and crazy. No one wanted someone who had hallucinations around. Everyone was going to hate her and no one would care when she got murdered. She was literally trash.

[koreikaiya]

[[if i threw away this weak and mortal body]]

[linguaobsessi]

And that’s why Rei is wary of walking into delicate situations she didn’t know how to help. Someone could panic and jump and well. She could also panic back. She was trying her hardest to focus in what she should do (even though she didn’t had a clue) and in keeping her cool, so she didn’t scare the other girl more than she already was.

It seemed she really was seeing things, though, and while Rei was a very honest person, it was a bit painful to be the one that confirms that indeed, there was no one there. Hesitantly, she shook her head, then sighed a bit. “Not really… Hey,” was she getting blue? Oh god, please let her be breathing! “you’re… not alright, are you? Do you want to come and have a glass of water? It’s alright- it might just be stress getting into our heads… I wasn’t so good a while ago either” she wasn’t seeing things, but different people cope with things differently. She was sure it was just that… right?

[koreikaiya]

No, breathing wasn't a thing that was happening right now. That may have been partially why her vision was getting blurry, actually. Also why she proceeded to trip over her own feet as she attempted to just move slightly aside. Luckily for Kaiya, she had just enough balance to grab onto the table and not fall flat onto her face. What just happened, exactly? She didn't believe in ghosts, but... Hell, that cryptozoologist or whatever should be all over this.

"A-ah..."

With her hand that was not helping keep her upright, she grabbed one of the polyglot's hands. Hopefully not her dominant hand, because good god she was squeezing with enough force to snap a couple bones. At the rate of how fast her heart was going combined with not breathing she'd likely be passing out in a few seconds anyway.

She forced herself to nod. Maybe not being in the library would be a good idea for a second. Or sleeping. That too.

[koreikaiya]

The first thing Kaiya did was attack herself.

Not physically, of course- mentally, she berated herself into doing the one thing she hated the most. Research. She’d finally found the map function of her Electro-ID, so she… Had actually seen where the library was. Good going Kaiya.

[genderbendamericaaprilfjone-blog]

[[if i were to give up this weak, mortal body]] (Open)

April walked in a turned on the laptop then got up and walked to her “hey do you know the code to turn on the laptop”

[koreikaiya]

Who?

She’d gone through the basic profiles of the other students a couple times and hadn’t seen anyone like this there. She glanced at the woman here and again, before flipping on her Electro-ID and comparing each picture to the chick standing at the laptop. Nope, not a one. None of them.

"…Eh? Eh? Eh? Eh?"

Was this a hallucination, or the mastermind dumbly showing their face? Figuring no, the mastermind wouldn’t do that, she immediately jumped to either hallucination or inept servant of the mastermind. Not wanting to believe her insanity to have gotten that far, she chose the latter. Perhaps this woman had even somehow gotten in- maybe she knew how to escape.

Escape?

Considering the prospect within the space of a few seconds, the answer Kaiya arrived at was to storm up to the woman as quick as possible and grab her by the collar, hoisting her up a few inches into the air. Sure, Kaiya wasn’t too tall, but it looked like for once her superb upper body strength could come through for her.

"Who are you? How did you get here? How do I get out?"

[linguaobsessi]

As soon as she had freetime and the opportunity to go to the second floor, she decided to give it a try. Some students said it had a library? She was looking forward for that! She had a limited collection of books after all. Taking her good while getting lost and unlost, it was a new floor she didn’t know anything of it after all, she found the library. Huh, it wasn’t so big, so it was unlikely it held the books she was looking for… The ones with the languages she was seeking to learn, that is. No matter- she could always exercise her kanji, after all, there were far too many of it, and the older ones were lost in her.

Looking through the shelves,  she didn’t notice at first someone exited the back room of the library, looking through the briefs in covers so she found one it interested her enough. After a small while, though, she heard someone. Huh, was there someone in the library as well? She left the book in its place, and walked in the direction of the sound. Oh, there it was! There’s a blonde girl she haven’t seen before… Damn, there were so many students, and she wanted to meet every single one of them! But the girl seemed… to… be confused? Did she lost something? Rei step up to offer her help, when the girl attacked… thin air?

Was she having an hallucination? Oh. … What should one do when faced with this kind of situation?! Rei had no idea of how to behave with someone having an hallucination- but the girl seemed so agitated, she might as well kill the air, so she decided against going to look for Cole or Tori- maybe one of them knew what do to?- and carefully, walked towards the girl. Patting her shoulder, she spoke up “Hey, are you okay…?” Well, she tried.

[koreikaiya]

"There aren't- There aren't teachers here! You can't be...!"

The tone of her voice was almost more scared than angry, both of her hands now moving to clench around what she thought was the woman's neck. However, unfortunately, she had not been informed that... someone ELSE was in this library, and when Rei spoke up, it pretty much made Kaiya jump right out of her skin.

She dropped the hands around the woman's neck, quickly moving them to cross over her chest. And just kind of. Shivering. She didn't need someone seeing her killing another person, even if she wouldn't technically be punished for it. What was going on? She was scared and confused most of all, not to mention the fact that her target now knew an awful secret of hers and. Things were really going downhill very fast.

"C-can't you see-"

She raised and accusatory finger, shakily pointing it in the general direction of where she had last seen the woman. But now her vision was getting blurry, and she couldn't make out the outline anymore. What had just...?

"THAT-?"

She was still shivering, her face probably drained of color. She may have just literally seen a ghost. What the hell.