#lil ultimates

[lockpickingliar]

Big feelings...

[nonsensisystem]

Noni,

An important question for the system as a whole:

Do you own a cat/cats?

If not, do you own any pets at all?

If you have no pets, what would your dream pet be?

- Saber

We do have kitties we do we do! We gots three of them! Also gots lots n lots more so gonna put 'em aaaaaall under a cut so doesn get too too long:

-Kokki

From left to right is Marty onna Kokichi Bouba, Tak on the freezer, n Izaya nappin wif Li'l Kokki! Koma-nii made Li'l Kokki from their own pattern all by themselves y'know!

Marty is fun cause hims gots a stubby li'l tail, n we think got Japanese bobtail in him to make it like that! Him also teenie tiny but secretly the oldest!

Tak is pretty blue n had yellow eyes at first, but they turned green when she growed up, so might got some korat! She also gots cerebellar hypoplasia, so she wobbles n doesn jump good. It was scary when she got up onna freezer there cause she jumped aaaaall the way from the back of a chair n almos fell! (Marty thought it was mazin too!)

Izaya is the biggestest n also a bully kinda cause him doesn know when no means no n Marty grumpy wants to he left alone when Izaya jus wanna play. Here him as a kitten with guy him's named after! They're all named after guys we like!

We also gots mousies! Nilla n Wafer from the Dangan sect has two white mousies named Hajine n Izuru. They post bout them sometimes on @lockpickingliar but also also here they are! Hajine gots a lil mousie sized naan from when Zachie-nii made naan the other day, n this a old picture of Izuru in the dig jar cause Izuru more shy.

Also gots a gold mousie named Byakuya! That's Koma-nii's mousie. Them n Nilla tried introductions to Hajine n Izuru yesterday, which thought went well but then in the tank them started fightin n this mornin had to take Byakuya back out cause Hajine was mean n bit her n made her bleed... Gotta try again later n be more careful...

Here some pictures when they were getting along during play date yesterday tho!

Then there's Ouki n my mousie: Kokichi! Gots Kokichi wif Byakuya, n was SPOSED to be a girl mousie like all the others so wouldn't have MORE mousies, but Kokichi LIED. Him's a boy! So had to put him separate in him's own tank. Gotta play wif him every day tho so hims don get lonely! Boy mousies will fight so can't keep more than one together. But, but! We gonna get girl African Soft Furs for him to be friends wif, 'cause they look like bigger mousies but different enough can't have more mousies! He gonna lie to them more like "Yes, yes, I am a ASF too, jus like you! Is not a lie, I'm jus kinda small but still a ASF really real for real! Nipipipi!"

Then finally, one of Koma-chan's bonds, Yozo, has ratties! Them's named Rosie n Shamrock n they're super sweet too! Rosie is super curious n confident while Shamrock is a little more hidey. Thems also got rattie-size naan when Zachie-nii made naan! They're super smart n come runnin when Yozo opens the food tin in the mornings cause Yozo gives em each a piece by hand first thing every morning!

That's alla the pets we gots right now, but we used to have fishes too n I wanna get them again when we have another tank to put Kokichi n him's future DICE in so my old fancy fishie tank is empty again. Also! Also love love ferrets! Want those sometime maybe when have more space n monies to take care of them all.

Inside Sunshine City, residents can has their own pets inside, too! Don't gotta have them outside. Like Cookie from the Dangan sect has a foxie that's kinda like a service aminal! Bet he'd like to talk bout it if you asked. Also also gots pokemon in there cause why not y'know???

Fankyoo for question! Was fun!

-Kokki

[lockpickingliar]

Crayons in the Night Sky—Intro

CW: Medical setting, afterlife setting, vent regression

They were still common, even now, the nightmares.

Memories of darkness and pain and a crushing anxiety and loneliness the likes of which he had never thought possible. Of scary monsters lurking in every corner with hundreds of eyes that watched him. Scrutinized him. Of strangers who never knew him and never cared to know him staring him down as he backed into the maw of a mechanical beast, engulfing him with a deafening whir until—

Kokichi woke with a choked, startled gasp on air he shouldn't need.

The hospital room was dark, and eerily quiet with no heart monitor to fill the silence. His lungs were tight as he wheezed through the oxygen mask—a superficial remedy for a deeper, incurable ailment. His entire body ached, and his head was a soupy, discombobulated mess. He whined, blearily pawing at the uncomfortable mask, tears clinging to his eyes.

He sniffled, then coughed when his lungs refused to cooperate, then choked out a stifled sob as the tears spilled over. It was hard to think, it hurt too much, everything was so big and he just a tiny, frail thing. It was lonely. He curled up the best he could, clutching the purple jacket he refused to take off more tightly around him.

It was so cold, being dead.

"Koko...?"

So caught up in his upset, Kokichi hadn't even noticed the presence beside him. Toto-nii groggily reached out to wrap an arm around him, pulling him back against his chest. Kokichi let him, feeling the gentle pressure of the embrace. The tears kept coming, and he shakily tried to wipe them away.

Kokichi tried to ignore that the embrace wasn't as warm as it should be.

"Hey, what's wrong, bud...?" His voice was heavy with sleep. He yawned. "You have a bad dream?"

"U-uh-huh..." Kokichi nodded. Laying on his side like he was, the mask on his face pressed uncomfortably into the pillow. He whined and pawed at it, shoving it off. What'd it matter if it hurt to breathe? He shouldn't need to breathe in the first place. It was dumb. Everything was dumb. And hurt. And wasn't fair.

"Hey now, don't do that," Toto-nii gently chastised him. More awake now, he propped himself up on one elbow to reach around and fix the mask. "You need that for your lungs."

"Don' wan' it, Toto-nii!" Kokichi bawled. Stuck with his back to Toto-nii, he couldn't even hide away in his chest. He had no strength to turn himself around. Instead, he pushed Toto-nii's hand with the mask away and curled up more, burying his face in his hands. "Don' wan' it, don' wan' it, don' wan' it!"

He couldn't take it anymore. Couldn't take the hurt and the fog in his head and the cold and it was dark and scary and everyone kept trying to give him medicine to make it hurt less but it made the foggy head more so he didn't wanna and he could barely move and he couldn't breathe and he couldn't think and the itchy mask was just the last straw!

And then Toto-nii's arms were securely around his trembling shoulders again, and Kokichi could feel the faint puff of his breath in his hair.

"You wanna go stargazing?" he asked softly.

Kokichi wiped his tears again and nodded.

The hospital was nearly empty, practically for show, so sneaking out wasn't the most difficult thing in the world. Kokichi couldn't walk, but that was little issue for the great Luminary of the Stars, who made sure the small boy was securely bundled up in his jacket before hoisting him onto his back. Kokichi draped his arms over Toto-nii's shoulders, sleepily resting his cheek against his back as they snuck through the dim halls.

It was cold, just like Kokichi was, and lacked the gentle tempo of a heart, just like Kokichi did. But that was okay, because it was Toto-nii, and if Kokichi closed his eyes, the sway and pace of his steps felt almost like a heartbeat.

A kind lie.

The sky was clear and the grassy hill the hospital was on was soft. Toto-nii gently lowered Kokichi to the ground so he could sprawl out on his jacket, then sat down to join him a moment later. Together they looked at the stars and Toto-nii told Kokichi stories about how they were formed and the ways they gathered in sweeping galaxies. The stars here were different than the ones they knew, but a lot more real than the projected screen of that dark, scary place.

Toto-nii talked about how, when they got better enough to leave the hospital, he wanted to study the new stars here. Kokichi wanted to hear the stories Toto-nii would tell about them, too.

For better or for worse, they were out of there. They were here now, and if nothing else, they were together.

Kokichi could doze off again with Toto-nii's words reassuring him of that.

[lockpickingliar]

Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Amami Rantaro/Oma Kokichi, Amami Rantaro & Oma Kokichi Characters: Oma Kokichi, Amami Rantaro Additional Tags: can be read as gen or ship, Hurt/Comfort, Age Regression/De-Aging, set in the killing game, Crayons, Oma Kokichi Needs a Hug, Oma Kokichi Is a Little Shit, Oma Kokichi Being Oma Kokichi, Oma Kokichi-centric, Caregiver Amami Rantaro, Regressor Oma Kokichi, Fluff Series: Part 1 of Milk's Favorite Cookie

There was no way he could trust any of these idiots, especially with how Akamatsu had been leading them. Not a single pragmatic brain cell among them, except for maybe—

“You’re out pretty late. Or:  Kokichi has been struggling to juggle the many masks he’s crafted to deal with the killing game and his new “classmates”. Amami, ever vigilant, takes the time to teach him about the stars.

I decided since the rest has been so slow going, that I’d go ahead and post the first part of Cookie’s agere fic requests. Enjoy!

[lockpickingliar]

Koko,

May I ask what your "Toto-nii's" coat looks like? Do you have any other unique accessories or clothes compared to other Kokichis in your headspace, such as a different scarf, different clothes under the coat, different shoes, any jewelry, pin badges, stickers, and so on?

Thank you!

- Saber

Oooooh! Um, Toto-nii's coat is big! And 'urple! And has pretty stars and spacey stuff on the inside! Like to wear it like a cape or cloak like a super hero or leader! The sleeves are looooong and flipfloppy and I like that. It's cozy like a blanket! Makes me feel super small and itty bitty to wrap up in.

He gived it to me special before I died, for a super special secret plan, and I gived him my scarf, so I don't have it no more... Miss my scarf sometimes...

But got a new one here that Toto-nii gived me when I got here, so it's okay! Fankyoo for the question!

-Koko

[lockpickingliar]

Floor Time feat. Me n Ly ( @woobifykamukura ) wif Clover n Bindle n Nilla n Uma!

[lockpickingliar]

Lock and Pick,

Do you have any other unique accessories or clothes compared to other Kokichis in your headspace, such as a different scarf, different clothes under the coat, different shoes, any jewelry, pin badges, stickers, and so on?

Are you physically different from them in any way, too? For example, different eye colour, hair style, being slightly shorter or taller, and so on?

Thank you!

-Saber

Hullo! Fankyoo for includin us, thas so sweet for you to do! Since we're the host, we're stuck outside mos the time. We don get to go in the city much cause it takes lotsa focus n time n energy to do.

Pick used to be in there mosly for to hide cause hims was like... had all the icky emotions n was like Chapter 5-y Ouma hidin in the hangar so not bother nobody, so hims jus laid around in bed n didn take care of himself at all until he comed back out jus a lil while ago n here to stay!

We do have stuffs outside for feelin Ouma-y though! Like we gots our own scarfs (wearin one right now!) n a leader hat n like to wear purple n black n white lots. Oh, also we're 5'1" really for reals n that's nice we think. We try to wear our hair the same kinda but obviously doesn stick up nearly that much in real life. Does a lil though! That's neat.

When we do get to go inside to the city we like to look jus like them though! 'Cept when we're lil like this, then we're smaller to match how we feel. Better for bein' carried!

We like the mismatchy eyes too though maybe we should do that? N Lock can have it one way while Pick has it the other for to tell us apart. We won't switch around like Petty does, hoooooonest!

-Lockpick

[lockpickingliar]

Cusp,

Do you have any other unique accessories or clothes compared to other Kokichis in your headspace, such as a different scarf, different clothes under the coat, different shoes, any jewelry, pin badges, stickers, and so on?

Are you physically different from them in any way, too? For example, different eye colour, hair style, being slightly shorter or taller, and so on?

Thank you!

-Saber

Mmmmm, 'm like Gem 'n' jus' got out the ho'pital a li'l bit ago... Mos'ly jus' wear whatever Ranran (You can't call him Ranran jus' me. You call him Mandible he says so.) wan's'a put on me? Mos'ly t-shirts 'n' Ranran's sweabers. An' my scarf...! Scarf is special...

I do got sumin' different from the others, though! My toof!

He points excitedly to his right canine.

This Ranran's toof! Didja know, if you knock a toof out, 'n' get to the ho'pital fast enough, they can put it back in? Ranran 'n' I knowed each other before the killin' game! He was in DICE, too! When we were nine, we made a plan to switch toofs, so we could aaaaaaalways be together. I brushed my teef good for a whoooole month to prepare, 'n' then we hit each other in the face with rocks to knock 'em out! We swapped 'em out 'n' went to different ho'pitals so no one would knowed we switched on purpose. Ranran's family's rich so he gived me the money to pay for it to get put in 'n' everythin'!

Toofs on'y las' like... fiiiiive years I fink, when you put 'em back in like that. It was almos' gonna fall out but then we died firs' so now they'll stay there forever! I like that!

-Cusp