#aw!ko

[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]

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.]