I've been thinking about doing this ever since I read dacry's fic (I still can't believe they actually wrote it! (yeah months have passed and I still can't believe it))
I know that in the fic the reader and Idia don't explicitly hate each other...but I thought the idea was funny
Furthermore, Yuno would channel that frustration into displeasure towards the poor Idia TwT"
Admire the creation of the new account tag, Yuno is going to be my sona with whom I will ship with Ortho
♡warnings: MINORS DNI, Stalking, Gore-adjacent intrusive thoughts, MINORS DNI
♡tags/notes: no smut and nothing sexually graphic just don't want minors on this blog, no use of "Yuu" but whoever it is was isekaied into twst, could be purely platonic your mileage may vary, is mostly about a sort of crush from Ortho's end, slight yandere maybe?
♡w/c: 900+ | ♡masterlist♡ | ♡ao3 mirror ♡
They're warm.
Not physically, his thermal sensors usually read them with an average temp a little below the 36.5 to 37.5 degrees of a typical human body, but something felt like what he knew as warmth, when they smiled at him.
It wasn't quite like his heat sinks were malfunctioning. In his ordinal shortlist of tangible sensations he could more easily run simulations of, the impact of their presence was closer to what he imagined would occur if his endoskeleton were spontaneously transfigured into gallium.
His internal components would run warm as they always did when he saw them, because he quite liked to thoroughly record every nanosecond of their interactions in full detail, and that "warmth" would melt his bones. The molten metal would leave his internals imperceptibly, inextricably ruined. As the technomantics of his internal repair module would begin initiating, the joints of his exoskeleton and frame would lock up and leave him staring and immobilized. In a few seconds, because his big brother was an amazing mage, he'd be back to somewhat operational capacity as primary functions were restored. However, his processors would lag, just enough to necessitate the dozens of checks before executing any action or dialogue.
He feels warm now. Melting, as he lays his head against their chest.
Approximately 82.143 seconds ago, the positions were reversed. They had laid their ear against his chestplate to see what it sounded like. In the womb, a heartbeat bonds the fetus to the parent. Once matured, listening to a human heartbeat can still reduce stress and anxiety and promote better sleep. He had suggested it to Idia once, but even with an algorithm to set an optimal rhythm for an artificial pulse, it had been too wrong, and his big brother had deleted that function outright.
He wished he still had it, that he'd downloaded it before then, but they smiled anyway and it melted him too much to re-program it into him. They said it was a little like Grim, and they liked Grim. Loved Grim, even, by his own observation, so it was a positive comparison. When he tried to increase the resemblance by allowing a slight spark of controlled pyromancy in the heartflame's cavity, they'd noticed, laughed. He liked it. He liked hearing it so close, so clear, compared to the security feeds.
(STYX left cameras in Ramshackle for Grim's observation, but they were always with Grim, and he much preferred focusing on them. They were an optimal candidate as a companion for his big brother, but the same traits made them a candidate for himself too. He should have focused on Idia, he did and does love Idia, but Idia wanted him to live beyond his role as Idia's little brother. So that meant it was okay to have them first, didn't it? Idia and Ortho, that first Ortho, would have wanted that right? So he watched them sleep and eat and hang out with their first-year friends, analyzing, simulating, and when the time came, he knew just what actions to follow to fit right in.)
They weren't wary of him. Not like the other students were. Everything was so new to them, a technomantic android was as much an anomaly to their perception of the world as a talking pyromantic feline direbeast. From the curve of their smile and the tone of their voice and the dilation of their pupils, they liked him. Thought him nice, sweet, cute, interesting.
They asked to hear his heartbeat, and he was happy to comply. When he asked to hear their heartbeat too, they thought nothing of it, even though he could hear it just fine, without physical proximity.
It's nice to hear up close though, like their laugh was, is. He lays against them, pressure on the places where Grim usually lays. They reach a hand to his head and pet him out habit as though he were Grim, he notes it, innocently, and they laugh again, apologizing. He says its fine, runs the module that lets him purr, vibrations and all, for a few seconds, and it makes their lungs expand that funny way, makes their heat beat so nicely and prettily. He sees it as much as he hears it, and because it's magic, they won't even be affected by any radiation.
(He hopes they live a long time. He'll help them like he helps Idia, if he has to. Better even. He'll make sure they take the things humans need to live long, happy lives, like sunlight and exercise. He won't let them say no.)
He records the sounds and sight of them breathing, beating, being. He knows he can play them later, but such strange simulations and comments run in his head anyway. That it would be nice to have their heart, to take it out, to keep it. A little display, technomancy to make it beat. Maybe in a shelf, like his big brother's trinkets. He could hollow out and rearrange the internals in his chest cavity, and slide their heart right behind his own core.
But that would hurt them. That wouldn't contain the rest of them. He likes all of them. He'd want to keep all of them, if he ever does something like that. He'll construct scenarios on that later. Maybe he can make functioning prototype miniatures of their heart, their lungs, their everything. Maybe they'll think they're interesting too.
For now, he listens to their heart, and smiles as he melts close to them.
I recently watched the Chainsaw Man movie with a friend and it was cool
We spent almost an hour looking for a tie for the "cosplay" I was trying to do and we could only find one for 60 soles
Tsk tsk I'm too cheap to buy something like that
