YANDERE TERUKO HEADCANONS ♡
Teruko Tawaki ･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*
Ultimate lucky student and main protag, despite the distrustful nature and cold glares, self proclaimed unlucky, it's perhaps it's just her luck to fall in love with you! Her first instinct was to hide away to die of embarrassment and horror, perhaps threaten you away like she's done so many times towards others. To her you are just another person who can betray her and another thing to keep her mind awake at night, but like a moth to flame, her addiction arose and she knows the hard truth. She really does love you.
Don't expect this to be a cakewalk though! You are bounded to a fate of conflicting feelings, obsessive desires, and bad ending for just about everyone else. I guess it's your turn to be the unlucky one.
If we were to go off her before Xander's betrayal and her post betrayal, we get pretty major differences in behavior and stability, at least on the surface that is.
To cover some of the traits that stay consistent between both arcs..
— EXTREMELY paranoid, both with and without you. Worries constantly about her luck hurting you or just people in general, worse during the post betrayal arc.
— Is much softer towards you even with post betrayal arc. It just comes naturally to her and is embarrassed to admit. The others certainly know that but she couldn't care less what they think.
— Massive over thinker, be careful with what you say around her or she'll immediately go into panic mode. If you had phones it would be a nightmare to text her without having her rethink every interaction just by accidentally sending a dry message.
— Clingy. Just, clingy. No matter what she says or how cold she acts, her fearful attachment is still attached to YOU. Nice cuddle buddy when she gets more comfortable with sleeping in the same bed.
— Wants to protect you so, so badly. It can be perceived as possessiveness but when it comes to yanderes it's kind of a built in feature. I would characterize this more as over protectiveness due to her paranoia.
Everything after this list is stuff exclusively between all the bullshit Teruko has been through, the rest of the list is headcanons specific to arcs and small blurbs.
At the start..
Before the storm had truly settled in. Teruko was far more open, and hand was extended to you especially. It started out as a small puppy crush that some of the others would tease her about and swiftly get an ass whooping from. It was cute.. innocent.. A time where Teruko was blinded by friendship and naivety, at least that's how she sees it.
In all truth, it was fucked from the start.
— Normal Teruko is pretty blunt, but when she's with you she clams up. You chalk this up to awkwardness and just the stress of.. well everything going on. That quickly changes when she switches up being shy then casually saying she would kill somebody for you..
— You wouldn't describe her as a stalker but she's certainly watching regardless, with "innocent" intent. She's not as bad as other students but be aware she's most likely around a corner, watching.
— Teruko doesn't like how she feels, despite the teases she genuinely understands this more messed up than just a crush. Trust me when I say she does feel guilty about what she does. ( she's not gonna feel very guilty later )
— Steals stuff from you, not actual items or belongings but stranger things. Like the band-aid you had on your knee that fell off or the plastic spoons that you used at breakfast.
— Teruko's biggest shipper and hater is her luck. Expect cheesy romance cliques ( that may or may not have been on purpose ) to happen only for them to go horribly wrong. Broken ankle, ouch!
That night..
It permanently changes Teruko, fundamentally, physically, mentally, and emotionally. It's when everything really started going overboard, her vow to never get close to anyone again and cut everyone off like dead hair.. Of course she gave you the same treatment but it never stuck on for long, and that just made it even worse for her. She fell so far in for you and if she has to drag you down with her than so be it.
If you want someone to blame, it's Xander and Min.
— All bark no bite.. It's easy for Teruko to throw sass at you but it makes her feel horrible after, her soft spot for you still holds true even at her worse. So as some advice, don't take anything she says personally.
— More emotional and vulnerable than ever, everything is on overdrive for her, you are both her aid and the cause. Comforting her will only make her obsession worse.
— She's not above telling you to stay away from others, lying or any dirty tricks to keep you close. It's a mixture of paranoia and her own selfishness.
— She's also not above threatening people.. J was lucky she just took Teruko by surprise, if you were there J may have not even survived that interaction. The cuts and bruises didn't just come out of nowhere and you know that, so maybe for your friend's sake, stay away.
— Trapped in her room 24/7, if you're a naturally introverted person, great! Being isolated is a little less unbearable! ( Teruko says it's for the best and in a way maybe, just not in the way you wanted it )
— It will end up someone being dead, no matter what you do. Wether it's her, you, or god forbid someone else. If you played your cards right but might be able to avoid this scenario entirely, though I don't bet it.
If there was any unlucky-ness to Teruko, if her curse is true, than anything that could go wrong, only went wrong for you.
" I don't know why you're throwing a fit about this, I thought you wanted me to trust people!? Well, this is how I trust more people, by keeping you here and safe. I just want you to stay.."
( song recommendation : Saccharine by Jazmin bean, feels very Teruko coded :3 )