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[agooberscanons]

Psychic Sayori jumpscare what the fuck

>tfw I've been slowly and subtly hinting at it for a few months and then it only finally came to a head last month when I said it in passing on accident to my girlfriend, so we finally went through with it

Absolutely all for the came back, but came back different trope. So, as far as I and @brownhairedbookworm are concerned, that's what happened! Monika worked so hard to bring her friends back after her mistake and didn't sleep or rest well for two whole weeks to do so. She finally had her breakthrough, but they have all been forever changed since the incident, whether it was meant to be that way or not.

[eclectomanic]

Ohhhh nooo 😂 Did Ethan catch them from Mia then???! 😱😱😱

[galdrofrebirth]

When people don’t have anything better to do and message you about your friends. 

What is wrong with people. 

[agooberscanons]

Sayori whimpers and cries quietly to herself in the bathroom stall she managed to hide herself away in. Her brain is all abuzz from past trauma rearing its head from somewhere she least expected it. She had no way to prepare for it, so it hit her like a sucker punch to the gut. She's nearly ready to heave like she did get one, honestly.

Only about ten minutes ago, she was called to the front office by the principal to meet with a parent suddenly. This isn't unheard of, as she's met with plenty of parents of the students to get to know them better and let them know how their child was doing in a safe and calming environment. To her, children are equal to the adults she sees for her job, they just have trouble expressing their thoughts and feelings because they don't have the life experience yet. And neither do some of the parents. This seems to be one of those cases here, too.

A simple and courteous greeting to someone who clearly didn't want to be here, escorted back to her office where they could talk in private. A seat across from the coral-pinkette as they address the cause of this meeting: That the parent didn't appreciate what Sayori was doing for their child and probably more children here. That she should be ashamed of herself. Of course, she asks them to elaborate. That sets off a bomb, apparently.

They accuse her of brainwashing children to question authority and seek out answers from other adults that aren't their parents. That parents can't be trusted to answer all of their kid's questions because they say so and know everything and are always right? She moves to object, but they object her objection. How she was so stupid to ruin a good thing that they had going with their kid, who always said 'yes' and never talked back to them or questioned anything they said.

Sayori lets them know that it doesn't sound like a very good relationship and that it sounds more like controlling their kid with fear and repercussions for the simplest things when they're just children. Allow them to grow and find information and help elsewhere when that parent isn't around. Wouldn't it be better to then share that experience with them and then answer any questions they bring back from others and work it out together? Wouldn't that be such a good thing? To see your child as an equal who just needs a little extra help in some areas that they could come to you fo-?

"I didn't ask you for help, I came to tell you how horrible you are and that I'll be making sure you are removed from this position with the children."

"....Excuse me?"

"You heard me, you sow. If you are doing this to my child, let alone other children, I can't imagine what other parents would see in you or your teachings. You are a danger to these young minds and I'm going to the highest authority here to have you fired or removed or whatever is possible!"

"B-But why? Please, this is such a sudden jump to conclusions! We can just talk it ove-?"

"No! You will not brainwash me like you have the children! Your days here are numbered, you pink elephant! When I'm through with your boss, you'll be fired! You'll be removed!"

"But I-?"

"Gone in an instant!"

Suddenly, the room starts spinning for the young woman. Something in the way they said that and their screaming at her finally breaks her composure. She can't utter a single word to save her life right now, as she starts to tear up and shuffle back away from them. They assume they have won this and will be expecting her gone by the end of the week, smug as can be as they slam her office door behind them.

Sayori is left in the middle of a panic attack as she starts feeling everything close in on her. During a moment that it lets up, she struggles for the door and cries out for anyone to help her. No one can hear her back there as she eventually stumbles out, running in a panic to get somewhere, anywhere away to be alone for the moment that isn't her office. It was the scene of the trigger, so now she wants to be far away.

Running through the halls is so exhausting for her and all her heft, but her brain isn't thinking about that right now. It's about the bathroom on the other end of the school. She needs to hole herself up somewhere that no one will see her have her complete breakdown.

Back to where we started, Sayori finally lets it all out. She cries out in absolute terror and anguish as her trauma was triggered. Gone in an instant, she remembers. She forgave Monika, but that experience from then still makes her skin crawl and her soul fearful. It was just that, too. Total erasure of even her soul. There was nothing. Just a void.

She's struggling to breathe properly as she relives the experience. The memory of the experience and the feelings are washing over her entire body as she feels like she's going through it all over again. When will it stop? She's not one to have these nightmares when awake, so this is especially agonizing. She can't just wake up from this one.

Eventually, after realizing she was missing, someone finds her sobbing and having made a mess of herself on the bathroom floor when they get her carried to the nurse's office. She's cleaned up and helped to relax with the current nurse there, being asked if they need to call anyone for her or if she wants to go to the hospital. She refuses both, for now, saying she just needs time to think and lie down.

They'll have her removed, they said. Fired, gotten rid of. Her job she worked so hard to get and start the schooling for. A job where she helped other kids not become like her or what she was back then, either. Gone. In an instant. She starts crying again right there in the nurse's office, but it's now a cry of sadness and not fear. The nurse simply hugs it out with her and lets the woman get it all out. She clearly needs the support, right now.

Sayori finally gets home for the day, disheveled and a shell of herself at the moment. That person is going to spin some sort of lie and ruin her entire career, just because she was a good counselor. Just because she did her job well. Just because she did her job right. She flips right onto her couch and groans loudly, clearly done with today. There's absolutely nothing she can do, she feels. Parents always have such sway, especially those heavily involved with the higher ups or so.

After an hour or two of crying it out some more and finally napping, she gets up and trudges for the refrigerator. Something easy and simple and not experimental to eat, while she gets up the courage to call her friends about this and see if she can use any of them as references on redoing her resumé...?

[agooberscanons]

Sitting at home alone, Sayori hums to herself softly as she starts cleaning up her desk. Usually used for doing work at home, today it has deserved a much needed break while the woman didn't have to go to her job today. It's Saturday, after all!

The young woman coos and sways in place as she makes the desk a little more tidy. Sayori's room is more of an organized mess, in that she knows where everything is and should or shouldn't be. She likes it that way, much to the detriment of others who come to visit.

A blank canvas, for once, as she stares at the desktop. It's good for a productive tomorrow, but it looks a little sad and lonely right now. Oh! She can do something she hasn't done in a long time: A little doodle session! It'll be a great idea! She goes to grab some thick cardstock paper and her markers, getting right to work.

Some sunshine, some cows and blue hearts all over are Sayori's telltale signs of her mood. Of course, she's so used to drawing these that her mind starts to wander. Nothing wrong with a little daydreaming, right? She closes her eyes slightly as she keeps on scribbling, clearly focused in her head and no longer on the paper.

She hears a voice. It starts soft, but it is getting louder and stronger. Is that a piano? Suddenly, Sayori is thrust into a spiral of emotions that aren't her own, but are about her. That voice. She knows that voice. It's Monika. She sounds like she's playing her heart out about.... about her.

Sayori jolts back to reality in a loud choking gasp as it seems like she had stopped doing everything while she was under. How...how long had she been sitting there like that, just staring at herself in the mirror? She shakes her head as she tries to brush off the wave of nausea while something catches her attention nearby. Her canvas.

All the hearts and cows and all are still there, but now a very detailed sketch of Monika's anguished face stares back at her. Mid-lyric even, it seems. Tears welling up in her eyes, just like Sayori's are now. She chokes out a sob as she tries to understand what the hell that just was. She knows it had to be real and happen to her because this sketch wasn't here before, but it is literally her handiwork. She knows her own style.

The young woman shakily brushes her fingers along the sketch, unsure of what to do or say. She kind of just slumps into her desk chair and holds her face in her hands, crying quietly to herself. What could she even say?

"........ I don't belong herrrrre............I don't belooooooong herrrrreee..........I don't...... belooooooong........"

She sniffles as she tries to wipe her face and nose, clearly a bit shaken by this experience. She stares at her sketch again, seeing how hurt Monika still looks even through a drawing. She needs a moment to collect herself. The young woman goes to get up and head to the kitchen. She figures that some food might help calm her down enough to figure out what happened and...and maybe call Monika about it later. It hurts a little too fresh right now to focus, otherwise.

However, another song starts pouring out of her own heart that starts to override the sad feelings from Monika's feedback. This one is a little more accurate for them both, she feels, and she'll see how Monika feels about singing it together with her later. Who knows? It helps some of her students to sing, why not her best friend and girlfriend?

"........I see the crystal raindrops fall and the beauty of it all is when the sun comes shining through....to make those rainbows in my mind, when I think of you sometime, and I wanna spend some time with you...~"

"Just the two of us...we can make it if we try! Just the two of us...just the two of us...~", hums the peachette softly while making a surprisingly normal sandwich for once. A little fictitious chicken, some fresh green romaine lettuce, a splurt of mustard and some multi grain bread.

It seems that Monika's life choices are being taken seriously by Sayori enough to at least try being better about how she eats. That means a lot for Sayori to willingly give up a lot of her favorites to try and understand someone else's point of view. She puts a few together, puts everything on else away and munches along quietly as she thinks things over still. This is going to be quite the weekend, it seems.

".......Just the two of us, building big castles in the sky....just the two of us........you and I.......~"

[agooberscanons]

someheartlesslady

the cule is Aerith, Seph, Tif and Cloud right?

“I am still not on talking terms with ‘Seph’, just so you know. There is plenty I can’t forgive him for and I hope you all can understand that.” Angery Tifa puffs.

[agooberscanons]

Suggesting: Sayori playing FFVII blind and her reactions to Red XIII meeting his dad, Aerith's death and Cloud giving Sephiroth the Black Materia

“Oh? You want me to play this game? ‘Final Fantasy’? Is that ‘seven’? Whoa, will I be okay with starting with the seventh one??”

“Oh, they’re all separate stories? You’re sure? Well, okay...! I guess I have my weekend free, so why not~?”

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After many hours playing through and grinding a little out of Midgar, Sayori soon finds herself in Cosmo Canyon. She has been slowly, but surely coming to like these characters over time. 

Cloud’s a little dorky and snarky, Barret’s a big tough guy with a heart of gold, Tifa’s a strong lady with a bit soft heart, Aerith’s a cutie and absolutely feral for a lady, Red XIII is a cool lion that speaks lots of wisdom, Yuffie is a little brash but she’s pretty cool for a ninja, Cait Sith is a funky plush dude with gimmicks, Cid is an old man who likes to be a step behind one purpose to observe better and Vincent is a gun-toting vampire! I mean, that’s such an amazing set of characters and she’s been enjoying her time doing little sidequests and trying them all out. So far, she can’t decide if Cloud or Cait Sith is her favorite.

Anyway, we were at Cosmo Canyon! Red XIII seems to have a pretty big connection with this place, as it goes on. Little bits and bites here and there for a curious lady who likes to explore every nook and cranny.

And then, the moment of truth. At first, she doesn’t seem to pick up on what’s going on. She’s watching the scene play out before her, little picks in the music starting to pluck on her heartstrings. Before she knows it, her bottom lip and chin are quivering as her shirt starts to get wet from tears just flowing down her face. She didn’t think something from an old and mostly minigame-filled game was gonna get her so bad!

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After time to recover from that and maybe a long nap, Sayori has gotten further in the game and is wondering how so much game can be on the first disc! There must be a thing where they can go back, maybe after acquiring a big boat or something? She’s unsure, but she’ll keep going!

For now, they’re zeroing in on how to get something fight Meteor! This’ll be a piece of cake, this is what she did the extra grinding for! She’s going in, fully prepared even if she has no idea what’s to come.

And after a short time, it happens. The moment. Sayori gasps and audibly screams as the cutscene plays out, watching something happen that she had no idea could happen. A game can literally run through your heart, much like the Masamune did to poor Aerith. She’s shocked into silence until the cutscene finishes, needing to collect herself again after a short time of staring at the screen. That actually just happened...

Sayori sits uneasily as she finishes through the end of the disc, trying to still come to terms with losing a whole party member. Especially one so important in the grand scheme of things in the game. She has to go cry and sleep some more before starting Disc 2.

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A bit later in Disc 2, Sayori is still grinding the party and trying to continue with the story, even after getting through the tough mountain pass and getting turned around a lot. She does her best to keep her chin up as the story progresses, even as she starts piecing things together that the characters either don’t notice are outright ignoring as they’re brought up and to the front to be addressed.

She’s soon seeing her favorite boy start to be forced through some sort of mental manipulation into handing over Meteor, screaming along with the party members and Cloud’s inner voice to not hand it over! She is so very much invested in this game now and she’d getting swept up in the story too.

Another long and powerful cutscene plays out and before she knows it, she’s playing as Tifa and finding out that Cloud disappeared from the face of the earth. Once she has a chance to, this is finally her point she must stop for the weekend even. That last part, with Cloud being manipulated and messed with like that hit really close to home for her.

She does her best to try and sleep that night, but finds it difficult when an old recurring nightmare rears its ugly head with an added effect from the game’s story. She tries her best to scream herself awake and just wait until day to sleep, but she can’t help it now.

“Mmmmnnn...what a game...”

Another flash of her past and she breaks down crying again, having to curl up into a ball under her bed, hugging her cow plush as tight as possible.

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Sayori’s finally passed out from sheer exhaustion hours later, but that doesn’t stop her nightmares from bubbling back up again.

Emerald eyes, long hair, a long sword. An angel? No, a demon. Truly a monster! And worst of all, it’s both parts her best friend and this video game’s villain. She didn’t want to think or experience this again, let alone from a fun little video game.

But there stands her nightmare in her bedroom, looming over her in her dreams. Unblinking, ominous otherworldly powers, a silhouette and presence like no other.

Moniroth.

[agooberscanons]

“Same to you, love~ best therapist too”

He laughed softly, leaning into her and putting his arm around her shoulders, hand rubbing her shoulder

“I don’t see why not, unless they all secretly want us to explode or something”

He joked, kissing her head

"Ehehehe, I think we already would've, if that were the case~?" She giggles softly at that, but it does finally make something click in her head.

"I'm sure I've said this before or maybe Moni told you, but I didn't really have a good time back in high school and my parents weren't exactly the best role models? Mom was always working and expected the most out of me and my dad kind of just... didn't care, either way? So, my anxiety to do anything good enough for my mom to count or my dad to even acknowledge had sort of completely obliterated how I handled my expectations of myself around others?"

She hugs tighter into him, sniffling again already. "Maeve, Moni, 'Suki and Yuri were the first people to actually believe in me for being me in years. I also thought, that at any moment, they would just discard me as the weird little freak I was and never look back. But they never did. Sure, we fought or argued and you definitely know what happened between all of us now that one year, but...we all came back out together. And better than before, even!"

"And then I met you, through Moni! You're the best thing to happen to us since each other, Wool. I can say that wholeheartedly and mean it~." Smooch. Squiiiiiish. "I know polyamory and multiple partners and spouses and stuff can be scary, but I'm excited to take that journey with you and Moni and whoever else it may end up being, if we all hit it off with them too~!" Squeeeeeeeeze. "You finally got my heart to realize I don't have to listen to my anxiety brain ever again. Thank you so much, Wool. I looooooove yoooooooou sooooooo muuuuuuch~!"