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I like the rain, but I don't want to touch it. { An Ask / RP blog for Iyame, Amaoto, Hiyori, Asura, Ame, Katsuo, Arashi, and Amaya from Apparition Residence! } >> M!A: N/A <<

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Me an my nasty hair

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Primary Colors

Amaoto (Apres) Kyoushi (V@pro) Hinata (LFA)

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does hiyori still join amaoto in the shower

shirtless men under the cut

Iyame: …. They talk about interesting things in the shower, though.

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A summary of revamped backstory/plot.

I was starting to regret some of my backstory/plot decisions in the past so I made everything easier to understand for both me and you by changing things and deleting things LOL.

tw; suicide, genocide, death, etc.

Here it is:

Overall: 

Everything is mostly the same backstory-wise.

Character relationships with others’ OCs will be the same unless I tell you otherwise.

Personalities/interests/designs/etc will be the same.

My revamped version is VERY less heavy.

Genocide AU:

There were two superior races: humans and youkai.

So yeah, humans are slaughtering youkai because damn we want to be the most powerful.

A woman one day is like “wtf guys stop killing people or you’ll be corrupt with power” but humans didn’t listen.

Humans were cursed with corruption, and thirsted for more youkai blood.

If a human desires more power, the more corrupt their soul is, and the most corrupt their soul is, their soul cracks.

So, Tsukiko (Asura) and Haruko (Hiyori) are killed by youkai one day while their father is out neglecting them like usual.

Haruko is an ass and bullies Tsukiko into doing bad things with him.

Then yeah Iyame drowns with Yuudai and then Iyame gets corrupted with power.

Iyame meets Alita and then goes to the residence.

Haruko and Tsukiko decide to go to the residence at the same time too.

Iyame befriends Tsukiko.

Tsukiko tells Iyame that her brother’s a manipulating asshole.

Iyame and Tsukiko team up and seal her brother into a red book because shikigami and paper dolls and stuff.

They both don’t know what to do now so they kinda shrug and hope something happens.

Tsukiko notices that humans are gonna find out about the residence.

Tsukiko uses paper magic with the red book (Haruko’s soul is the fuel to the book) and yay, now she can read about the perspectives of other people.

Oh shit, Haruko’s mad and manipulates the book’s words, tricking Tsukiko and Iyame.

Genocide genocide genocide.

Tsukiko and Iyame hid in the closet and then Iyame ends up escaping to another world with the red book.

Tsukiko dies (?) idk but this route doesn’t really matter anymore LOL.

Current!Route

So yeah, similar to Genocide!Route only that the humans actually listen to the woman and stop fighting the youkai.

Eventually humans and youkai stop really caring about being the dominant race and go do their own stuff.

Tsukiko commits suicide and kills her brother as a shikigami.

Tsukiko’s pissed at her brother’s incarnations and killing him once isn’t enough.

Tsukiko somehow decides to change her name to “Asura” (it’s a secret lol).

Ame finds Arashi and befriends him as a second friend.

Ame (who is Current!Route Iyame) and Yuudai drown in the river.

Ame decides to reincarnate when she finds out that Yuudai is still alive, hoping to meet with him again in another life.

Iyame falls into the world after Ame reincarnates, deciding to wait for Alita and then they both go to the residence.

Yuudai commits suicide, finds Katsuo, befriends him, and then decides to find Ame.

He changes his name is Amaoto.

Amaoto spots Iyame and mistakens her for Ame.  He befriends Iyame.

Asura eventually follows her brother’s incarnations and reaches Hiyori (yes, Hiyori is Haruko’s incarnation) who is born at the residence because Iyame and Amaoto made a teru teru bozu.

Iyame finds Asura and is like “EYYYYYYY PERSON I CAN TRUST” but she realizes Asura is an asshole and forgets that idea.

Asura continues to torture Hiyori.  She possesses him frequently.

Asura + Hiyori = Kurori

Haruko (who is the red book) notices Asura being mean to Hiyori and is like “fuck you I’m the dominant one” and somehow manages to escape the book and possess Hiyori.

Haruko + Hiyori = Shirori

So Shirori tortures Asura a lot.

Ame & Arashi are like fuck you Shirori and save Asura on multiple occasions and then tattle tail to Iyame about it.

Iyame’s like FUCK MY BOO K and then goes to save Asura.

They try and stop Haruko but Haruko seals Hiyori’s mouth shut by sewing his mouth shut.  (Unlike Westerners, Easterners thought that it was the stomach that was like life or something, unlike the heart so yeah Haruko kept himself trapped in Hiyori’s body.)

Katsuo, only because Amaoto told him to, goes and properly slaps Haruko back into his book.

Haruko is upseto but its ok he’s chill (for now).

Hiyori’s upset Haruko jacked up his body so Iyame + Alita make a new body for him.

Somehow in the process Asura and Arashi become close friends in this revamp.

Arashi will fight Kaede 2k16

So, yeah:

There aren’t 4644131654 Asuras (thank god).

Arashi is actually in character.

There is only one magical book: the red book.

Haruko is basically the Aka LOL but Haruko’s an ass wtf the fuck

More coming up like usual, but it’s just tiny sprinkles to the cake (mostly for Arashi bc I haven’t done his stuff yet)

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plot summary #4

For a long time, the rain quintet had been pointing knives at each others’ throats from trust issues.  However, due to all of their preferences to keep their personal issues quiet, nothing had ever been said about them.  So, most of these issues came from conflicts from a long time ago.

Iyame had trust issues with Amaoto for lying about his identity.

Iyame had trust issues with Asura for her stunts as Kurori.

Amaoto had trust issues with Katsuo for doppelganging as him before.

Katsuo had trust issues with Amaoto for doppelganging as him before.

Katsuo had trust issues with Asura due to complicated past.

Katsuo has suspicions of Iyame for influencing Natsuko’s nightmares and possibly negatively interacting with Umeko.

Asura had trust issues with Katsuo due to complicated past.

Asura had trust issues with Iyame because of blackmail.

Aka!Asura hated Ame for interfering with her plans between her and Kiiro!Asura.

The thing was, Aka!Asura wanted to still carry out her plans.  Revealed by Kiiro!Asura, Aka!Asura wanted to combine with Kiiro!Asura and possess Iyame to slaughter the entire human town near the residence due to her still-existing hate for humans.  Aka!Asura planned to make Kiiro!Asura vulnerable to combining by binding her to a book, and by making Iyame desperate for her power by causing chaos within the rain lot, Aka!Asura could possess her.  Everything was set up perfectly to start her plans -- all she had to do was poke the unsteady tower and watch it crash.

However, Atsura had trapped Aka!Asura in Hiyori’s body after a strong change of heart.  Essentially, Aka!Asura was trapped in a box (Hiyori) that was sealed with tape (Atsura).  So, Aka!Asura couldn’t do much to make her plans work, however, there was one thing that could, in fact, do to kick-start it.

When Paisely was suddenly gone, Amaoto was devastated.  He couldn’t tell who was Paisely and who was Kaleb anymore, and he was empty.  Atsura offered to grant his wish of finding Paisely if he won a game she called “The Original Sin Game”.  So, Amaoto played with Atsura -- if he lost, he would pay a punishment, and if he won, he would get his wish granted.  However, in the final round, he messed up.  In exchange for another chance, Atsura told him to make a contract.  The contract was simply, “Do whatever the ‘heart’ tells you to do.”  Amaoto, not knowing the true consequences, accepted and won the game.

With control of Amaoto, Aka!Asura made him look exactly like Katsuo thanks to their incredible similarities.  With the power to technically control ‘two’ people, she could cause chaos within the rain lot.  Amaoto under the influence of Aka!Asura will be referred to as Shiroto now.

So, Shiroto went to the kitchen with a bat, where Kiiro!Asura was watching over Ame eating snacks.  Shiroto tried to attack Ame with the bat, but Kiiro!Asura saved Ame just in the nick of time.  Mad with her getting in the way, Shiroto tried to knock her out, but Kiiro!Asura deflected with her arm just in time, and was in a slight disadvantage due to there being no paper around.  Ame fled the scene to get help, and long story short, Shiroto trapped Kiiro!Asura into a yellow book.  However, due to people coming, he wasn’t able to retrieve the book in time and fled out the window.

The Yellow Book with a Silver Diamond Engraving: The power to read about the truth.

Luckily for Kiiro!Asura, Umeko picked up the yellow book and started to read about Katsuo’s true feelings about everyone after seeing the doppelganger of Katsuo try and kill people.  However, the command of seeing his feelings stopped, and then Kiiro!Asura started to communicate with Umeko.  Usually, the four books do not communicate, but Kiiro!Asura used the loophole of telling her true thoughts of everything to communicate with Umeko.  There, Aka!Asura’s plans were revealed.

Meanwhile, Shiroto turned back to looking like Amaoto and found Katsuo trying to talk to him while he was wandering through the forest.  Not wanting two Katsuos to increase difficulties in plans, Shiroto caught Katsuo off guard and knocked him out with his bat.  After that, Aka!Asura stopped influencing Amaoto as he ran off back to the residence.  She then trapped Katsuo in an illusion so he couldn’t find his way back to the residence.

Kiiro!Asura’s main goal was to escape the yellow book.  She knew that if she stayed for too long, Aka!Asura would find her and combine with her.  However, the only ways she knew how to escape the book was if an Asura not trapped in a book pulled her out, or if a being with either a physical body or a cracked soul (explained later) pulled her out with even force.  Though, the thing was, the other two Asuras (Ao and Midori) were both trapped in books as well, and Aka was not an option, so she had no escape route.

Like Kiiro!Asura, Midori!Asura had been desiring to escape the book for a very long time to help comfort Iyame, who was her best friend.  When sensing Kiiro!Asura’s strong determination and will to escape the book, Midori!Asura rushed to Kiiro!Asura with her desire to escape.  The two almost shattered from the strain, but they combined into a turquoise book and combined souls.  Because of the rule of “a book can only contain half of a soul”, the two were rejected by the turquoise book and were allowed to escape the book.

So, we now have:

Aka: Trapped in Hiyori’s body and bound into his body by Atsura.

Kiiro and Midori: Combined as “love” and “determination”.

Ao: Trapped in the blue book and held by Iyame.

This is where we are right now.

Side notes:

“Cracked soul” is a term referred to the Genocide!Route.  It is when a human spirit youkai is eaten by corruption and is cracked from strain once the corruption is forcefully stopped in a certain way.  This allows them to be vulnerable to other spirit youkai to ‘possess’ them, and other bad penalties.  Iyame is the only known cracked soul in Current!Route.

Because they are complimenting opposites, if Kiiro and Ao combine, they will not be able to separate again, and Asura will be permanently be back to normal.

When two halves of Asura combine, they gain each others’ memories.

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a shikigami and a priest

As I thought about my father in the alleyway, I felt a tug on the edge of my shirt.  I turned around, and there was a little girl with short, purple hair standing right behind me.  I felt something off about her at first sight.  Although I was a terrible priest, even I could tell there was something up with her.

“Excuse me, but what are you doing here?” the girl asked with a childlish, yet innocent smile.  I felt a sweat run down the back of my neck.  I didn’t know what a small girl like her was doing here.

“I was just exploring here, like I always do,” I replied, keeping my cool.  The first step was to establish who was the one in power.  As long as my soul never wavered, I could potentially get this girl to leave me alone.  However, she seemed much too interested in me to move away.  I felt like I just encouraged her more, in all honesty.

“You always seem to loiter around these alleys for some reason,” she commented with a slight frown.  From the tone of her voice, I could tell she felt really concerned about me.  I let my guard down a bit as I thought about that fact.  She gave a cheerful smile.  “My name is Asura!  What’s yours?” she asked happily.

“I’m Katsuo,” I introduced, not saying anything else, mainly because there was no purpose to.  Asura gave a grin.  “Wow!  Nice to meet you, Katsuo~!” she replied with a happy wave of her arms.  As she started to ramble, I took out a lollipop from my pocket and began to ate it, not really listening to what she had to say.  When she was done, she gave a pout.

“Wow, did you listen to anything I had to say--?”

“No.”

“e HH--  YOU’RE TERRIBLE--!!”

“’can’t help that I don’t care.”

Although she was quite annoying, she didn’t seem to be a bad person.  I also didn’t mind her company.  The next day, I found her in the alleys, and then we talked.  The day after that, we met each other and talked again.  It would be dumb not to call each other friends at that point.  I never had any friends at the point of time, so it was nice to have her around.

“Today I saw this old man who was actually tall!  Imagine an old man with the legs of a basketball player!” Asura exclaimed.

“Ahhh, seems interesting,” I mumbled in response.  I was already getting slightly bored of the conversation, so I tossed her a small bag, and she blinked, catching it.  Asura looked down at the bag and opened it, and there was a fresh piece of taiyaki in it.  She seemed mystified.  It was as if she’d never seen taiyaki before.

“.... ?  Is this for me?” she asked me with a dumb look.

“Of course it is.  Who the hell else?” I asked bluntly, pulling another bag for myself.  I watched as she pulled it out from the white bag and kept staring at it as if wondering where to start.  I sweat.  This girl was really pitiful.

“You can start from head or tail.  People who start from the side are crazy.  Don’t be like them,” I explained with a sigh.

“Huhu, like this?” Asura asked, biting from the side.  I stared at her for a moment, and I really did want to fight her for doing that.  Asura noticed my expression and snickered.  I gave a grumble and bit the tail of my taiyaki.  She was irritating, but even then, I still didn’t mind her.

As a present, a girl thanked my mother for helping her and gave her a couple of ribbons.  My mother, not really knowing what to do with them, decided to give a few to my brother and I.  We both exchanged weird looks.  “Give them to a girl you like at school,” my mother said with a laugh when we asked what to do with them.  We shrugged at each other and continued on with our days.

“Yo, Katsuo!” Asura greeted with an enthusiastic salute.  She was very slangy that day apparently.  I gave a wave in return and leaned against the wall right beside her.

“So, today, I found this cute cat with golden eyes!  It was so cute!  I had to keep petting it,” Asura started to ramble happily.  “It seemed to really like me too!  It couldn’t stop following me around!  I wanted to keep i--”

“-- shut up for a second.”

“eh--”

I leaned off the wall and stood right in front of her.  I reached into my pocket to grab something.  She gave an awkward smile, seeming to be a bit intimidated by me as I kept fumbling around.

“W .... hat is it, Katsuo?” she asked with a nervous laugh.  I silently reached over toward her head, and she flinched as if I were going to attack her.  Then, I tied a light purple ribbon to the side of her hair.  She froze, her eyes widened, and touched where I had tied the ribbon onto her.  “W ... hat’s t ... his?” she asked, seeming really shocked.

“It’s a ribbon.  I thought it’d look good on you,” I replied.

“Ha ...  Haha!  I know, right?!  I make anything look good!” she exclaimed with a boastful attitude, but I could tell easily she was flustered.

“..... Sure,” I mumbled in agreement.

“Why’d you give it to me, though?”

“.... No reason, really.  I just had it in my pocket.”

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a rebel

When I was way younger, I wasn’t really that much of an attention-seeking person.  I lived in a family whose bloodline was strongly connected to many successful priests.  Therefore, my younger brother and I were forced to undergo training to become one, or at least I was.  My brother seemed to enjoy it a lot, and became more talented than me.  So, my parents paid more attention to him than me.

I didn’t really care my family in all honesty.  I enjoyed roaming around the streets and alleys to explore around the city.  I was a complete lone wolf, and I liked it that way.  However, the training we had to undergo was a bit annoying and exhausting.  I hope I would graduate or something from this soon.

However one day, a family consisting of a mother, father, and a son came into our shrine.  They sobbed about their son being cursed by a dangerous spirit, and that it was causing havoc in their life.  My father, up to the task, decided to go and help them.  He was surprised to find out that this spirit was a shikigami that had been living for a whole century.  He wondered how something like a shikigami could still live on with this much power without its master.

So, my father went to make preparations and my mother made my brother and I watch the entire thing.  He failed many times that day, and just gave them a protective charm in hopes of the shikigami of leaving them alone, giving them to another shrine that could hopefully help them better.  The family thanked him and left.

The next day, my father died from an accident.  My mother sobbed when she received the call, and my younger brother grit his teeth, knowing that it was the spirit that killed our father.  He wanted to end this shikigami in revenge, and wanted my help.  However, I wasn’t interested.  I went over to explore in the alleys like usual.

There was a sudden sadness that filled my soul.  Even though I wasn’t really close to him, he wasn’t particularly a bad man, so I didn’t hate him, but I didn’t love him that much either.

“....  I’m so sorry,” I mumbled to myself, stopping in my tracks.  Maybe if I could have a little more extra time with him, I’d probably try my best to get to know him better.

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Arashi┃Yamata-no-orochi (1/8)┃Stunt Double / Dealer

Basic Information

Height: 5′ 4″

Eye Color: Red

Hair Color: Orange with red ends

Physically around 13 or 14.

Represented with the color orange.

Personality

He seems to be very sweet and innocent when first stumbled upon.

Surprisingly outgoing.  He likes to socialize with other people a lot.

Is very blunt about his opinion.  He isn’t afraid to offend someone or call them names.  Sometimes he acts innocent and likes to offend people whenever he gets the opportunity.

Is actually pretty cocky and smug about everything.

Super mischievous.  Likes to play pranks and mess around with people, and doesn’t seem to mind going too far.

Hard to anger, really.  He’s the type of person you don’t want to get angry, though.

Likes to manipulate people and only really gets close to people out of either amusement or for his own advantage.

Is willing to boast about himself a lot.  His ego is high.

Super masochistic served with sadism.

Extra

He’s friends with Ame.  They somehow stumbled across each other in the alleyway.

He wears his scarf because he thinks he looks like a superhero with it on.  He never seems to take it off.  Where he got it, though, is a strange question.

His favorite candy flavor would be orange.

He has a weird taste in a lot of things (music, fashion, etc.)

He prides himself in his skin and hair.

He’s surprisingly good at dancing.  He’s pretty smooth.

If you tick him off, his serpent scales become visible, and his skin becomes almost as rough as solid stone.

He is a slut for sweets.

[oocameoto]

update on group thing

So, I decided to make two new groups lol–

The first one is the one being decided in the poll.  There is no limit to the number of people, so you can join this one whenever you want.

The second one is the Yamata-no-Orochi, because people seemed a hell lot pumped for it, but uh, it’s too limited, so I decided to make a separate group for that.

So, first call first serve kind of thing for Yamata-no-Orochi now since the first group exists.  You can just join the first group and be good with it after all.  If you REALLY want to be in Orochi but there’s no more slots, message me and we can work it out.  Thanks for your participation, everyone!

There are currently one slot left available for Yamata-no-Orochi.

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tw; blood and eye strain

Iyame: ...  You should brighten up a little.

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Summing up my characters with a song ...

Iyame: Eine Kleine (Kenshi Yonezu)

Amaoto: The Noise of the Falling Rain (40mP)

Hiyori: Berserk (Mafumafu)

Asura: Spider Thread Monopoly / The Trash-Heap Princess and Apostrophe (sasakure.UK)

Katsuo: Life Howls (Neru)

Ame: Terror (Neru)

@sura: Self-inflicted Colorless (Nekobolo)

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genocide!route

In that world, it was either kill humans, or be killed by humans.

Unlike him, I was raised to hate youkai.  My parents were loving, however, my mother always told me stories of how youkai slaughtered humans cruelly -- stories of humans who were left in devastation or shambles because of them -- and so we either had to kill them or be killed by them.  We were just toys to them because of how powerless we were.  It was time for humans reverse the role and become the ones overpowering youkai.

-- and to think that I would become one of those endless stories of being a victim from a blood-thirsty youkai.

I screamed out to the roaring river, in hopes of somehow, fate would let Yuudai survive from drowning.  Before I knew it, I was shoved into the river to drown too.  As I fell, I caught glimpse of white hair and beating red eyes.  A loud splash rung through my ears, and I was left to die a painful death.

Suddenly, I awoken next to the river, and at first, I thought I wasn’t dead, or at least I hoped I wasn’t.  So, I waited by the river bank in some lost hope in thinking Yuudai would come back to me and we could go home.  I waited there for days, and I realized that if I was really alive, wouldn’t I have died since I wasn’t drinking or eating anything for a long period of time?  I just watched as water slipped through my hands, not feeling the coolness of it at all.

I couldn’t have become a youkai, could I?  Those youkai who kill humans; those youkai who were just terrible monsters.  For some reason, some warning set into my chest -- a feeling that I should just stay at the river and not go back home.  Since I died and became a youkai, I figured Yuudai had done the same since he drowned with me.  So, I just put the illusion in my head that Yuudai would come back for me, and we could both end our miseries together.

“I’m not one of them!  I was human too!  Just leave me alone!”

The youkai hunters were chasing after me at an alarming speed.  They really wanted to kill me because I was a youkai.  I wasn’t like those human-killing youkai, though.  I used to be human too.  I had feelings too.  I had no desire to kill anyone.  I just wanted to find Yuudai and get away from this place.

“Someone, get the paper slip!  Looks like this one’s a yurei,” one of the men shouted out, pointing toward me.  A woman in the group pulled out a paper slip, following his orders.  They all showed no hesitance at all, their determination in slaughter high.  Even if I was just a peaceful ghost, they still wanted to kill me--?

“Leave me alone,” I muttered.  I felt something crack within my soul, and somehow, I felt a strong emotion burst through it.  “I don’t want to just become another villain in those terrible stories ... I don’t want to be brought up as a terrible monster!”

As I screamed, a burst of flames created a wall between myself and the group of hunters.  I smelt burning ash and the heat of the wild, blue flames.  Adults yelled, asking what to do, and before I knew it, a rip was created in the walls of my flames, and I felt a pierce of pain in my abdomen.  It took me a while to look at myself because I was so frozen stiff by the sudden events.  I was shot with one of those special bullets that had the power to kill spirits like me.

I gave a broken smile, and I felt myself getting weaker and weaker.  The flames surrounding them and myself slowly began to die out.  I figured that it was my fate to die labelled as a monster.  However, as I was just about to give up, I remembered something.

“Iyame!  Let’s promise to be together forever!  We’ll never separate, promise?” I had remembered Yuudai had exclaimed randomly on a rainy day.  I agreed with a childish tone, and we both pinky promised together.

I stared up at the sky, which looked so dull, and then I clenched my fists.  I felt tears coming out from my eyes, which to my surprised were flashed a soul-stabbing red.  I glared at the hunters, suddenly fueled more with this strong emotion.  They winced, fearing about what I was going to do to them.

“I’m not going to die.  I will live.  If anyone gets in my way, I’ll slaughter them,” my voice boomed, and before they knew it, I burned them to ashes.

That day, I had realized something.  If I wasn’t going to kill, I was going to die, no matter how hard I tried to hide from it or avoid it.  So, I toughen myself up from the fear of killing others, and whenever a group of hunters came in my path, whether or not they attacked me first, I deceived them into thinking I was a lost girl in the woods, and I led them to their own demise in that very river that caused me all this pain.

Eventually, I corrupted myself.  My thirst for power and living was too much.  I eventually got the thought of killing innocent humans that dare strolled through the woods, leading them all to their own death.  It wasn’t even to keep living to see Yuudai anymore.  It was because I loved the feeling of killing people.  I hated everything, because I forgot what love felt like.  Just the feeling that I was getting stronger and more powerful was amazing.  The fact that I was going to live longer because I was more powerful felt satisfying to me.  If I couldn’t be happy, then they couldn’t be happy either, so I ripped that happiness out of all of them.  The fact that I could decide their fates was too glorious.  I knew for all those years by that river that no human could defeat me

-- or, so I thought.

“I know you feel really lonely, but ... killing innocent people won’t do anything!  I know you’re a good person inside, I really do, but if you keep acting this way, you’ll be nothing but a monster!” a young boy my age had shouted at me.  I felt something in my already-cracked soul break.  I had remembered something deep within my lost memories -- a certain feeling that I forgot I had.  This feeling was fear.

“....  I . . . “ I mumbled to myself, feeling more and more thoughts collapse one by one inside of myself.  “I .. do n’t ... w ant. .. t o .   s t .. ay .... l i ..k e a. .. mons ter. .  i . .  w an t . ..  to  .. . li v. ..e”

The boy ‘spared’ me from my fate, and I was left there in a great, broken mess.  Eventually, Alita found me, cheered me up, and then somehow, we both stumbled across Apparition Residence.  To be fully honest, I didn’t know how lively and happy youkai could be together.  I decided to become friends with every single one of them, and I think for once, I actually smiled and felt really happy.

However, there was a desire in my soul that talked to me whenever I was alone.  “Isn’t it boring?  Don’t you want to kill again ....  ?  Your friends don’t satisfy yourself as much as killing those humans did,” it said with its mocking tone.  I ignored it.  Corruption wasn’t going to stop me from being happy with all of my new friends, or so I thought it wasn’t.

As time passed, I felt something inside of me grew more and more bored from the lack of murder I was performing.  No matter how much I tried to avoid killing people from then on, it was hopeless.  I had to remember that, in order to survive, I had to kill.  One day, I had stumbled across a small group of hunters dangerously close to the residence.  They looked like they knew where it was, too.  In order to protect everyone, I ended up having to kill them, and the feeling that was once pleasure had turned to guilt.

More and more just kept coming, though, and no one in the residence seemed to notice that there were humans trying to attack.  So, I stayed undercover and kept killing every single man, not letting any escape so they couldn’t tell anyone about me.  Eventually, Asura caught me slaughtering a band of four of them.  I panicked, not knowing what to tell her, but she held up a hand.

“...  I knew you were killing them all, Iyame,” she said with a calm tone.  “I know everything.  Don’t ask me how.  For now, we have to focus on protecting the residence and ... slaughtering them.”

I stared at her, and it almost felt like Asura had seen this same situation many times before.  It turned out it was true.  She had been protecting the residence for much longer than me, killing and scaring off humans that happened to come across and have the ability to spot the residence.  She had knew long ago that I was going to help her achieve her wishes.

Surprisingly, Asura was a powerful spirit.  She was more powerful than me, and it shocked me that someone could be on such a different level than me.  I felt myself become weaker when I watched her in combat, and I could tell that even in combat she was only half trying.  Asura saw how clumsy I was at killing, and so she taught me everything I know.

“Being powerful doesn’t mean gaining power.  It means you take what powers you have and turn it into something that will aid you,” she had explained.  “You see, it’s not about overpowering the enemy with stats.  It’s about using your mind and taking your powers as your advantage.  There’s always a way out of a disadvantage.”

I took her word for it.  As weeks passed, I became more unstoppable, and soon, I even seemed to be on the same power-level as Asura.  I felt my soul crack even more, though.  The feelings that had once wanted blood seemed to grow more and more bored of now weaker enemies now that I was more stronger.  However, these ‘weaker’ enemies seemed to be getting more and more stronger due to more new technology.  Eventually, it became tough for the both of us to defeat a wave.  Asura, feeling bad about this, told me something.

“....  Iyame.  I’m sorry, but ... we’ll have to ‘try something’ if we want to survive,” she said, her eyes glowing a pale blue.

'I’ immediately became undoubtfully the strongest youkai in the residence, and ‘I’ caused a massive genocide into the nearest human town.  ‘I’ can still remember the smell of their blood, and the constant echoing of their screaming, and ‘I’ remembered enjoying every single bit of it.  ‘I’ had thought that we had set the humans back to leave us youkai alone, and so ‘I’ had left the situation alone.

Asura approached me after that day of mass murder, and said that she couldn’t fight with me anymore.  I got afraid and asked why.  She didn’t answer, and she left me.  My best friend -- the one who shared the same fear and strength as me -- never talked to me again.  In fact, she seemed to be acting a bit more differently.  Instead of being her usual, narcissistic self, she seemed to be more compassionate and kind.  I watched her, wondering what had happened to her.

It was silent for months.  No hunter ever stepped near the residence, and I actually thought that they were so scared and decided to leave us alone.  I was terribly wrong.  The humans caught us from surprise.  They started to slaughter us out of no where, and I heard the terrible cries and screams of other youkai and creatures.

I tried to hold the humans off as I let other youkai and creatures escape, but it was no use.  They all died while I fought because they were too weak to fight for themselves, and I felt another crack open up in my useless soul.  I wiped out the humans on the floor I was on, trying to look for Asura, who was the only one I knew could fight off the humans.  Instead of me finding her, she found me, and instead of asking me to fight with her, she immediately hid us in a closet.  I struggled under her grip, shouting for her to help me kill them to protect the remaining survivors, but Asura stopped me.

Asura held me tight, and she just let everyone in the residence die.  I could hear their screams from the endless pain -- were they being tortured?  I sobbed my eyes out quietly, and I gave out, hugging my knees tightly.  She covered my mouth, and slid a book into my arms.  The only words I could remember her saying was, “GO, NOW!  DON’T LET US DOWN!”

The closet door flung open, and I watched her die in front of me as I traveled out of the universe and into a new one.  I found myself by the river again, and I opened the book up frantically to read more about it.  Apparently, I had fallen into a world where youkai and humans coexisted peacefully.  I couldn’t believe it.  A world like this seemed impossible.

It seemed as if humans weren’t the threat to the residence.  It was the youkai that were the threat.  I knew how powerful youkai were compared to humans, and at first, I got scared.  Then, however, I realized how weak everyone was compared to the world I was in.  In my world, everyone focused so much on having more power than the other side, that we grew dangerously strong to harm one other.  However, in this world, they didn’t have that threat.  So, they had no real purpose to become any stronger than they needed to.

“How disappointing,” my cracked soul said with a sigh.  “You know, if you wanted to, you could just kill everyone here?  They’re just fleas compared to you.  Oh, unless that’s just ‘you’, that is.”

“...  I cannot become ‘myself’, because ‘I’ am not here,” I replied, looking through the blue book.  “I’ll just have to reply on myself.  Not ‘myself’.”

But little did I know ....  about

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Asura: Lately I've become more energetic and all over the place than usual .....  and more happ--  wait, since when was I such a nice person--?

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asura and books (clearer explanation)

I guess I accidentally confused people with all the book stuff whoops.  Here’s a clearer explanation of what happened!  (Trust me, it’s not as complicated as it seemed before once you read this.)

To help explain, I will give nicknames to my characters:

Iyame will refer to the Iyame from the Genocide!Route.

Tsukiko will refer to the Asura from the Genocide!Route.

Ame will refer to the Iyame from the Current!Route.

Asura will refer to the Asura from the Current!Route.

It all started in the Genocide!Route.  Iyame and Tsukiko were the best of friends and always seemed to get along.  However, in the Genocide!Route, the humans were much more aggressive and more advanced in technology / youkai hunting than in Current!Route.  In Genocide!Route, the humans had heard about a residence filled with youkai and creatures and decided to kill them all.  Tsukiko knew about the humans’ plans and decided to try and stop them.  However, she could not get close to them, so she decided to create a magical item that would allow her to know what they were doing without her getting physically close.

Tsukiko knew that she would probably die while trying to protect everyone in the residence, so she bounded half of her soul to a red book in order to power the books.  Essentially, in order for the books to work, they need half of a soul, no more and no less.  Once a soul is bounded into the book, the soul inside of the book will be trapped inside of that book until a soul that isn’t bound to a book has a strong desire to pull the trapped soul out.

In addition, if one side were to ever be killed, the other side would drag the dead side back to itself and essentially “become one whole”.  You could say Tsukiko was immortal from the humans as long as both sides were not killed at the same time.  So, Tsukiko became two:

A side with a strong sense of love and care.  We will refer to her as Midori.  Midori was the side that was not bounded a book.

A side with a strong sense of hate and insanity.  We will refer to her as Aka.  Aka was the side that was bounded to the red book and trapped inside.  Her specific power to books is to write down about the present as events passed, keeping the past inside of it.

However, a split between LOVE and HATE is not the best.  Aka, hating being trapped inside of the red book, turned against Midori and lied about the humans’ plans.  As a result, the genocide came unexpected and Midori had to hide Iyame and Aka inside of a closet as youkai and creatures were slaughtered left and right.  Midori gave Iyame the red book and told her to save everyone in another universe.  As she did, the humans came, shot Midori down, and Midori was immediately dragged into the red book with Aka as Iyame traveled to another universe.

So, we’re now in Current!Route:

Ame reincarnates to meet Yuudai again.

Iyame takes Ame’s place and waits by the river.

Alita finds Iyame.

Alita and Iyame go to the residence.

Iyame meets everyone and befriends them again.

As these events occurred, the red book became unstable for two reasons:

The book was not meant holding two halves inside of it.

Aka and Midori were conflicting parts (hate and love) and were not successfully becoming one soul again.  Aka wanted to make another genocide happen, however, Midori didn’t want that, so she stubbornly kept herself inside of the book to make Aka inactive.

Midori’s original plan was to make a paper clone of herself for Aka to bind with so Aka could become powerless, so she created Hiyori to overpower Aka.  However, the plan failed due to Hiyori’s amnesia and sudden curiosity for the world, with the addition of Asura mistaken him as her brother’s incarnation and using him instead.

Speaking of Asura, she accidentally hit the unstable bond between Aka and Midori hard upon physical contact with the book, and forcibly kicked Midori out of the book.  In addition, Aka tried to bind Midori’s soul into a blue book so Midori wouldn’t be able to interfere with Aka’s plans, but accidentally instead bounded half of Asura’s soul into it.  Aka didn’t seem to notice that it wasn’t Midori inside of the blue book, and continued on.

So, Asura had become two:

A side with huge determination.  We will refer to her as Kiiro.  This side of Asura is the one we are most familiar with.  Because of her strong boosted will to live, she became a very powerful soul quickly.  With the addition of wanting to exist for for others, she is probably one of the most powerful souls in the residence.

A side with huge patience.  We will refer to her as Ao.  She was bounded and trapped in a blue book due to Kiiro’s persistence to be the one to keep living.  Her specific power to books is to write about the future and erase the present as events happen.

Aka, seeing how powerful Kiiro could be, decided to set her eyes on her, and instead of combining with Midori again, decided to combine with Kiiro to steal her determination.  However, since Aka was trapped in the book and could not find a way to get Kiiro to pull her out, Aka created a paper clone of Asura to torment her.  This way, Kiiro would be devastated, pull Aka out of the book as last resort, drive Kiiro insane, and then Aka could do what she pleased.

This paper clone will be named Atsura.  As much as Aka would have loved for Atsura to pull her out of the book herself, Atsura didn’t have the right amount of persistence to do so, considering she was also just an artificial clone similar to Hiyori.

Meanwhile, Hiyori was in a troublesome.  He was a clone of only half a soul that could easily pass onto the afterlife, considering he had no purpose or regrets to live with.  In other words, he didn’t have enough determination, and even with enough determination, one strike could make him wake up in the afterlife.  The afterlife was sucking him into the cycle of reincarnation.  Because Midori knew she couldn’t be bound to Hiyori forever, she bounded herself inside of a green book so Ame could save him, or at least, buy him more time.

Ame gave half of his soul to Hiyori, and with that, Hiyori was successfully bounded to his paper body.  The only way for Ame to get half of his soul back was if another half-soul bounded Hiyori down.  However, since he was half-gone from his body, he became empty.

So, finally, after weeks of torture, Atsura had successfully driven Kiiro to the brink of despair.  She gave a deal to Kiiro, saying that if she combined with Aka, she’d leave her and everyone else alone.  Kiiro accepted the deal, and she pulled Aka out of the book.  The two stayed as one for a while.

Now, Atsura was now in a similar situation as Hiyori.  She had no purpose to serve in the world anymore once Aka finished her plans.  So, afraid of being on similar terms as Hiyori, she bounded herself to Ame to keep herself alive.  As she stayed bounded to Ame, Ame seem to become cheerful again.  However, as Ame went around and interacted with other people in the residence, Atsura shared Ame’s feelings of love and protection for other people.  Overwhelmed and surprised, Atsura seemed to enjoy how being loved and giving love felt, and seemed to share similar goals with Ame: stop Aka.

The two, with an amazing amount of synergy, became Shirome and confronted Aka/Kiiro.  They both dragged Aka out of Kiiro, and Atsura, fed up with Aka’s treatment, dragged Aka down with her with the last of her energy, leaving Kiiro, Hiyori, and Ame by themselves.  The two disappeared somewhere, and somehow in the process, Ame got his given half of his soul back, and now everything is back to normal.

So, that concludes what happened so far.  Now, for some diagrams to clear some things up for visual learners:

Aka, the hateful and insane side of Tsukiko (bounded into the red book with a golden heart) → The ability to write about current events into the book as they happen.  The book contains information about the past and present.  Writing a person’s real, full name on the back cover gives a perspective of their story.

Midori, the loving and sane side of Tsukiko (bounded into the green book with a golden clover) → The ability to alter fate in exchange of an equal price.  The book doesn’t have any specific rules, unlike the other books.  It seems that the book doesn’t accept the offers or wishes of certain people who mean harm.

Ao, the lazy and patient side of Asura (bounded into the blue book with a silver spade)  → The ability to erase events in the book as they happen.  It seems to be filled with a lot of information of the future, however, the book is in a strange conlang Tsukiko created named, “Samaya”.  It’s full of riddles and puzzles nonetheless.

Kiiro, the determined and persistent side of Asura.  Has not yet been seen bound to a book yet.  This part of Asura is who we’re most familiar with, and the main one.

Atsura → A clone of Kiiro.  Was given memories.

Hiyori  → A clone of Midori.  Wasn’t given memories.  As a result, he escaped from the red book with “amnesia” and shapeshifted into Haruko’s current incarnation after seeing him in a picture inside of the red book.  Accidentally bounded himself in a teru teru bozu made out of paper.  Mistaken himself as a hiyoribou with Iyame and Amaoto.