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Day Five: Sharing a meal / Sharing a bed

Summary: Togami isn’t showing any signs of the Despair Disease, but Komaeda stays close anyway. Hope looks different to both of them, but somehow, in the quiet between words, they find something that might be close enough.

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Komaeda is so fun to write, truly.

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What are the state of the rooms of the kamukuras? If they even have them (this is pointed at Kyoko, who seems to live in the walls). Do they share the same rooms? Nagito would likely do that once or twice. Or do they make specific portions of the house "theirs"? Do they keep items from their old lives-like Makoto's old books and games that he no longer has an interest in-or do they completely abandoned them-like Mahiru would. I like thinking about how one would decorate and organize, and the kamukura project is a perfect example of how that would change.

Oh boy, a new Kamukuras AU ask!

(Kamukuras AU Masterlist)

I love this question.

Addressing Kyoko first, she "has" a room, in that there's a bedroom designated as hers, but there is no physical evidence that she's ever been inside it. She does actually visit it regularly, just to see if anyone else has been inside. Like checking one's email inbox. But she doesn't sleep there. No one knows where or when she sleeps, any more than they know where she is at any other given time. Leaving a note in her room (or a less straightforward message, like moving something a centimeter out of place) is a good way to get her to eventually come talk to you. Calling for her out loud just annoys her.

Since it's Byakuya's house, he kind of has big hotel manager energy toward the whole place. There is a bedroom that was already his before the procedure, and he has kept all of the contents from that time, including schoolwork he no longer needs and trinkets that no longer interest him. Since returning from the labs, he hasn't thrown anything away that was in his bedroom. But he did meticulously sort it and tidy up. Now, that bedroom is like a museum to who Byakuya Togami was.

He doesn't really sleep in his bedroom either. He usually sleeps in the library, constructing a temporary sleep area for himself that he will tidy up as soon as he wakes, and casually setting up a few traps that should theoretically prevent any of the other Kamukuras from bothering him while he's sleeping, but he has been known to wake with Nagito cuddled against him. That's an ongoing battle of theirs; sometimes Nagito's stealth thwarts his traps, and sometimes his traps thwart Nagito's stealth.

Whatever the case, if he wakes with Nagito next to him, 50% of the time he'll push Nagito away. If Makoto is also there, he usually won't push Makoto away.

Izuru has a bedroom and uses it, to sleep and store his clothes. He doesn't really have possessions other than his clothes and grooming tools; if he buys or finds something that he takes home, he gives it to one of his successors. They're his interest, after all. His collection. So there's nothing to decorate his room that wasn't there before him. Even if he wanted Hinata's possessions, they were disposed of by the school back when he went missing.

Also, he doesn't tidy his room. He doesn't make up his bed or dust anything or vacuum. There are others in the house who care about that kind of thing. He lets them. Oftentimes, Nagito or Nagisa will be seen cleaning Izuru's room.

The other Kamukuras often sleep in Izuru's bed. It's open to any of them. Usually, it's Makoto and/or Nagito. Sometimes the child Kamukuras crawl in, especially if they're scared of something or have nightmares.

Nagito has customized his room, redecorated it, renovated it. It is a ship of Theseus room; no part of it is the same as it was before him. He's got all kinds of hobby stuff in there: puzzles, paddle-ball, plants, a metal pole that was installed horizontally for ballet one day and vertically for pole dancing one day and now seems to have been incorporated into a mixed media sculpture. Some days it's all thrown carelessly around, some days it's perfectly arranged and neat as a pin.

He also doesn't sleep in his room. He's always trying to sleep with Izuru, Makoto, Mahiru, or Byakuya. Or trying to start a cuddle pile (like in this post), in which case he wants everyone to join in. Meaning he needs to plan ahead and use Makoto to lure out Kyoko and Byakuya.

He might have grabbed a few possessions that belonged to his previous self. If he ever went back to his old house or dorm, there would be at least one thing that he picked up on a whim. He doesn't have a sentimental attachment to that Nagito Komaeda, but he can be interested in pretty much anything.

Mahiru usually sleeps in her room. She's kind of adopted normalcy as a hobby, so she slips in and out of it. She decorated her room based on a personality she made up for her "outdoor" self. So it's like, she decided on a favorite color. Actually, she decided on two: a normal, common favorite color (purple) and a color she would have chosen as her favorite in the absence of her consideration for normalcy (brown). And that's her color scheme.

Her bedroom decor is magazine-worthy. Sometimes she wonders if the dead Mahiru Koizumi would feel tempted to photograph it.

At some point in the decorating process, she finds she has a slight imbalance in the distribution of colors. She needs more brown. And she also needs a rustic element to suit the personality she's given herself. The person she's being is a bit on the prim side, as represented in the purple crystal vase, but she's also got an edge to her that isn't yet represented. And this happens to be at a time when Nagito is practicing taxidermy, so she spends an evening working alongside him, and there is a stuffed squirrel displayed in her room. The perfect shade of brown.

(Nagito suggested filling the crystal vase with walnuts, to hearken to the diet of Sciurus lis, and Mahiru does. To offset the new color imbalance this creates, she buys another purple candle.)

The child Kamukuras also sometimes come to her room to sleep, if they're scared.

And like you said, she doesn't keep anything that was Mahiru Koizumi's.

Makoto, kind of similar to Byakuya, has a room filled with his own old things, either taken from his dorm room or his old classmates. He studies them, sometimes. He needs to learn how to be Makoto Naegi for them, after all. He tries to keep things slightly cluttered, since he's seen what Makoto Naegi's dorm room looked like. It wasn't especially messy, but it was flawed. He does his best to imitate the flaws. The untucked sheets under the tidy comforter, the ends of loose leaf paper sticking out of textbooks, the desk chair out of place.

He sleeps in his bed when no one tells him any different, but often Nagito or Izuru will call on him to sleep with them. Sometimes Nagito climbs into bed with him, sometimes the children seek refuge there (or if they're all awake, they might "abduct" him to sleep in their room; it makes them feel powerful to kidnap Makoto from his bed; way more powerful than climbing in with someone else).

And sometimes he'll wake in the middle of the night and find that Kyoko has climbed into bed with him. (She's gotta sleep somewhere, and she trusts him.)

All the child Kamukuras share a room. They have separate beds but often share.

Monaca and Nagisa don't own possessions.

Kotoko and Masaru have a lot of little trinkets and toys and devices, and Kotoko collects stray animals in her closet. (They have separate closets.)

Jataro doesn't really have possessions in the normal sense, but his tendency to take things apart has resulted in him collecting things like, a key from a keyboard, a screw from a piece of furniture, a doll arm, some scraps of broken plastic and torn rubber, tons of tiny springs, etc. Sometimes he makes stuff with them, but usually he's more focused on unmaking things. The other kids have to guard their possessions from his habit.

Their room is kept tidy, mostly because of Nagisa, though the others will contribute if one of the older Kamukuras ask them to.

Masaru paints murals on the walls.