NOTE: I tried to keep this section as canon-compliant as possible. I’ll admit I’m not great at this sort-of writing, and I mainly relied on their wiki page, but fuck it we ball. Also, they/them pronouns for Imu, ig.
!! ALSO, TW: VERY brief mentions of sex !!
Does anyone else lowkey have Imu as a hear me out? Just me? Okay.
Imu isn’t a loud yandere. They don’t go around proclaiming that you are theirs and theirs alone, or making any sort of grand scene that’d get the message across, they just see it as an irrefutable fact; like, they literally cannot comprehend the idea that their ownership of you is something that can be contested. It doesn’t register. They—in their own mind—already own the entire world, so by extension they own you.
As such, they don’t get jealous easily, if at all. Jealousy implies insecurity or even acknowledging someone as a threat, which Imu doesn’t do. They’re not stupid, mind you—they absolutely know when someone is actually making a move on their darling—they just don’t see the person as a threat; at worst, they’re a nuisance, but never a threat.
Though if someone is notable enough for Imu to consider them a threat? They’re dead. Imu is extremely possessive of their possessions, and you are their most prized one, so any actual threat is getting wiped from the annals of history. Usually, it will be done by someone else, simply because Imu very rarely gets involved hands-on in a situation, but they are absolutely capable of dealing with the threat themselves if all other options are exhausted.
This is very rare though, since they'd probably keep your existence as secretive as their own; for one, because they don't want their own existence exposed, but also because they don't want anyone else encroaching on their possession.
So you're probably never interacting with another person. Anyone who does know Imu will be ordered to ignore you, and vice versa. They are the ONLY one who gets your attention.
Let me also make this clear: you are not their equal. They do not see you as a lover, they see you as a possession. A pet. A prized pet, yes, but a pet nonetheless. Do not expect them to show you any level of respect for your autonomy, because they won’t. They can very easily take away any privileges you do have as their favorite, and that includes what little ‘freedom’ you have.
Don’t bite the hand that feeds, is what I’m saying. That hand will buster call your home island (with absolutely zero remorse) as readily as it will pet you.
Now thankfully, it’s not easy to piss them off. They don’t rise to insults or the like, because they don’t particularly care about your thoughts or feelings… which, okay, is kinda shitty, but considering who you’re dealing with, it’s probably a good thing. Just don’t mention any of the touchy subjects (Lili, D, Void Century, Joyboy) and you’re probably okay.
Plus, thankfully, they’re pretty straight-to-the-point. They won’t pull any, “I’m fine,” on you... which is a small mercy.
Even so, they’re just not very flexible or lenient in general. Insubordination—which they define very loosely—is still punished, it’s just not as severely as if you really pissed them off. I actually don’t think they’d get physical, just because of their belief that a ruler shouldn’t get their hands dirty, but you’ll definitely have privileges revoked until you learn to behave. To Imu, they’re basically conditioning a dog to not go to the bathroom inside.
Their punishments can get pretty bad though. I said they won’t get physical with you, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t have someone else rough you up. You could also have food, water, or sleep (they see these as privileges) deprived from you, or some other fucked-up way to punish you… and they’ll keep it up until you make it clear you won’t make whatever mistake led to you being punished in the first place.
And if you're bound by the covenant, the punishments are a lot more extreme, because there won't be any lasting impact due to the near-instantaneous regeneration. Imu knows this, and Imu exploits it.
I’m also deliberately not mentioning verbal abuse in the list of punishments, because I don’t see Imu as the type, as they don’t like needless rudeness… which is arguably worse. You’ll be starving and filthy, and they’ll just be perfectly polite and serene the whole time. There’s a certain cruelty to it in a way that them degrading you wouldn’t have, because degradation would mean they’re at least feeling some sort of emotion towards you.
They will expect complete and utter subservience—and reverence—from you. That means speaking when spoken to (and you better add that -sama honorific) and doing as your told, when you’re told. As stated, they don’t get pissed-off easily, but they can be on the temperamental side, and what constitutes a slight against them is pretty broad. This, of course, leads to you being punished.
So just don’t be deliberately oppositional, alright?
Also, hope you don’t mind being on your knees. A lot. I don’t even mean this in a sexual way, I mean you are quite literally going to be kneeling for very long stretches of time, at least until Imu decides that they want your presence… which can sometimes take a while.
They’re naturally pretty solitary, and don’t really need companionship of any variety. This, coupled with their reclusive nature and the whole eight hundred years of very little interaction thing, means they can go very long periods where your presence is neither needed nor wanted.
They’re also not very affectionate. You will probably never hear the words, “I love you,” from them; partially because they don’t love you, but also because they just aren’t the type to say such a thing. In tandem with this, they aren’t particularly fond of physical contact.
As such, they have a pretty much nonexistent libido… so uh, at least you’re not a sex slave…? Like there’s a non-zero chance you won’t ever get freaky with Imu. Which, admittedly, isn’t even the bare minimum—it’s just a basic human right—but silver linings ig?
(Though if you want my personal hc on how that would go, I’ll just say that they’re no different in bed than they are out of it. They’re probably actually cheeks at sex, tbh, because they’d absolutely be the type to finish and just go, “we’re done now,” with ZERO regard for if you finished. Literally the most unsexual sex you can think of, if that makes any sense.)
Now, this all doesn’t mean they’re completely avoidant when it comes to the instances where your presence is desired, it just means that their ‘care’ doesn’t manifest in the traditional way one would expect. They still ensure you are kept healthy and the like, because they don’t want their favorite possession to just fucking die on them or something, they’re just not overt with it.
Though you don’t even get the benefit of flexing your situation! Like you can’t flex on your haters at all, because Imu will just actually kill you for revealing their existence… but at least you can drag your opps down with you?
Don’t try to escape. Just don’t. The chances of you succeeding aren’t even negligible, they’re absolute zero. Imu has the entire World Government at their beck and call; there is, quite literally, nowhere you could run.
Plus, since you’re their favorite, they’ve probably bound you with the covenant; so even if you SOMEHOW escape, and evade Imu’s other methods of recapture, your ass is getting possessed and you’ll go through the shame of walking yourself back to their side.
All in all, your life will actually suck if you somehow got Imu as a yandere.
I think Imu is an interesting character, especially for an imagine like this, because I really don't think they'd differ very much in a similar scenario where they aren't a yandere. There are minor differences, of course, but none of them are so significant that they'd be any better or worse either way; they're just so dogshit as a theoretical partner that you're not better off either way.
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