For those that don't remember: Copy Paste was a horror AU where Osomatsu was afraid that his brothers would one day leave him forever, because they had grown so different from each other, from him. He planned to change their personalities to make them act like him, like they were when they were kids.
I had so many plans for this AU, but then last year I got stressed out, which killed my motivation for a lot of things I had gained an interest in, like comic making and MMD amination. This put Copy Paste on hold.
I don't want this AU to rot and die. I want to tell its story, but I have too many projects going on to work on this. So, what does that mean?
I'm going to tell you all how it was going to go and end. I'm sorry I couldn't give this the proper love I wanted to give it.
I guess I'll put it under a "read me more" in case people don't want to be spoiled, in case I ever go back to it. I don't have everything figured out and might have forgotten somethings, so be aware:
It was set after the "Letters" episode, when the brothers had all left home, mins Osomatsu. Even though they had came back, Osomatsu's unchecked abandonment issues had risen to a level way beyond what canon!Osomatsu has.
He was afraid that due to how different they were all from each other, they would drift apart and leave him again, but they wouldn't come back again. He remembered how close they were back when they were kids, back when they were basically one person. To save his brothers (as he called it), he was going to make them go back to how they were.
He was subtlety doing it at first, but then Karamatsu noticed. He wasn't happy about this and was going to talk to Osomatsu about it in private. They waited for a day where all the brothers, and their parents, would be out.
Karamatsu told Osomatsu how he knew what he was doing, and that he needed to stop. He tried to reassure Osomatsu that they wouldn't leave him, but Oso wouldn't listen. Their civil talk soon developed into yelling and arguing. Karamatsu had enough and was going to leave. He mentioned how he was going to tell the others what Oso was doing. This greatly scared Osomatsu.
He was going to lose his brothers again. He didn't want that! He couldn't let it happen, but what could he do? He needed to stop Karamatsu, but he wasn't going to listen to him.
Oso's anxiety was high, causing him to panic. He needed to stop this!
Before he could realize what he was doing, he grabbed a belt and wrapped it around Karamatsu's neck, choking him. He ends up killing Karamatsu.
Osomatsu instantly regretted it. How could he kill his brother?! He tried, but he couldn't save Karamatsu. He was gone.
This event causes his abandonment issues and his paranoia to sky rocket. He might have failed Karamtsu, but he could still save the others.
He waited for someone to come home. His plan was to pretend he had just gotten there, just before whoever showed up. He was going to make it look like a suicide.
The family arrived home at the same time, but it was Choromatsu who went to their bedroom. He found Oso there, crying and shaking Karamatsu, trying to wake him up.
Cut to everyone in the waiting room of the hospital, worrying and praying Karamatsu would wake up. Oso and their mom went to the back to talk to the doctor, leaving Choro with the younger trio, who were all huddled together and ignoring him.
Oso comes back and talks with Choro. He talks about how it was too late; Karamatsu had been dead an hour before they found him. At some point during the talk, Oso accidentally (or on purpose?) says something like, "it would be awful if something like this happened again. If only the others had someone to lead them." I honestly can't remember what it was going to be, but it was going to be something that gave Choro chills and made him think about the suicide.
When Choro had found Karamatsu and Oso, the belt was on Karamatsu's side, instead of wrapped around his neck. There also hadn't been a chair or anything near him that he could have stood on, so how could he have strangled himself?
It doesn't take long for Choro to realize that Oso had murdered Karamatsu. He finds out about Oso's plan and comes to a conclusion that Oso had killed Kara because the latter wouldn't become like the former, wouldn't fall in line. Choro believes that if him and the others do the same, then Oso will kill them. To prevent this, he tries to become just like Oso, and ends up becoming his right hand man. Once Oso starts to corrupt the others, Choro is there to correct them if they start doing anything that Oso wouldn't: Like, if Todo starts to eat something that Oso hates, Choro would step in and stop him, making him eat something Oso loves.
Choro truly believes he's saving them from death, not knowing that Oso would never kill them.
As I mentioned earlier; Kara's death makes Oso's mental issues worse. This leads him from trying to subtlety to being more aggressive, but still in the shadows.
What does that mean? It means he ruins his brothers' life without them knowing:
To achieve this, Osomatsu starts visting Dekapan's lab and secretly steals devices that will help him with this.
For Jyushimatsu: He steals this device that is round and the size of a baseball. It's purpose was to find items that Dekapan had lost. It also had a feature where you could add DNA (like hair) in the opening to find people, and a part where you could add a location for it to go to, as it was deigned to fly.
It was labeled a failure because it ended up being too heavy to fly, and a regular person would have difficulty carrying it. Osomatsu steals it, steals some of Ichi's hair to put in there, and then puts "shoulder" as a location on it. He puts it in this poach like thing that would make it look like a baseball, and then places it in the basket full of baseballs that Jyushi uses when he's practicing his throwing.
When he does this, Ichi often helps by catching the balls, which Oso knew. He also knew the park they practiced in, so he secretly follows them and hides in a bush to watch.
Things start out normal: Jyushi throws some balls right into the glove Ichi was using. He does this a few times before he picks up the device. Since he's so strong, he doesn't notice that it's heavier than the others, and throws it. He aims for the glove, but neither of them notices that it veers off course and smacks Ichi right in his shoulder.
It's so heavy that the blow is enough to break Ichi's shoulder. They go to the hospital where Ichi has to have surgery to try and save it. The surgery is successful, but Ichi still has to go through physical therapy after it's finished healing. Even though he can still use that shoulder, he can't lift anything heavy, or he'll risk damaging it forever. He can't even lift the heavy cat food bags he usually uses to feed his cats.
Since Ichi nor Jyushi noticed the ball had changed course on its own, they believe Jyushi had accidentally threw it wrong, and that's why it ended up hitting Ichi's shoulder. Ichi doesn't blame him, but Jyushi is filled with guilt. He remembers how Osomatsu once told him how sports were dangerous, and that Jyushi didn't know his own strength. Jyushi laughed it off, thinking Oso was just being a worry wort, not realizing how odd that is for Oso, or knowing that saying that was just part of Oso's plan to get him to quit playing sports.
This leads to Jyushi believing that Oso was right. He becomes scared that he might end up hurting someone again--maybe even worse next time--so he quits playing sports. This makes him easier to mold to becoming like Oso.
Jyushi starts to put some distance between him and Ichi. He's afraid he'll hurt him again, so they're not as close as they are in canon anymore.
He ends up hating his yellow hoodie, because it's too cheerful and bright, so as Oso's suggestion, he switches to wearing a red hoodie.
For Todo: Oso buys a roofie, either from Iyami or some rando. One night Todo goes out with some friends to drink. Oso waits until the friends leave before he "happens" to show up. He convinces Todo to drink with him. At some point in their drinking, he puts the roofie in Todo's drink. The roofie is so strong that it erases Todo's memory of the night.
Todo wakes up alone in the restaurant where he had been drinking, not knowing what he was doing there. His head is killing him, so he gets his phone to order a taxi, but stops when he notices all the text messages he has from his friends and groups. For some reason, everyone he knows is cursing his name and wishing him dead.
He searches all his groups and finds messages he apparently sent: They were crude, awful messages of things he would NEVER say. He tries to explain in the groups that he had been really drunk, or that he had been hacked, and that he didn't even believe the things the messages said, but the damage had been done. Todo has lost all of his friends and his social circles. He was ruined. He would be stuck at the bottom of the social ladder forever.
He cries to Osomatsu about not knowing what to do, or how to win his friends back. Oso proposes that Totty just needs to lay low for a bit, until his friends cool off. He suggests Totty wears one of his red hoodies to do this, so his friends won't be able to tell its him.
Totty is desperate enough that he actually listens to Oso and does so. He ends up becoming clingy to his older brothers, scared he'll lose them too, becoming like how he was in high school.
Ichi, though, was going to be the thorn in the side in all of this: He had always suspected something strange about Kara's death, but couldn't figure out what it was. He also found it odd how the others were starting to follow in Oso's footsteps.
I couldn't decide if he was going to lay low and pretend to act like a copy of Oso, or if he was going to protest loudly and refuse to act like Oso. The latter would have scared Choro, thinking Ichi was going to be next to be killed, so he tries harder to make Ichi fall in line, not telling him why.
He would also have guilt over Karamatsu's death, even though it wasn't his fault. He would feel like he should have been nicer to Kara, or been there to stop him from dying. Choro would also have this guilt as well, but they would have kept it secret from others.
Eventually, Ichi was going to figure out the truth behind Kara's death and reveals it to the others. Oso's mental state at this point had gotten worse. He ends up breaking down, revealing that it had been an accident, that he couldn't let Kara ruin everything and take them away from him. The others realize just how insane Oso has become and decide to send him to a mental hospital to get help.
Once Oso is away, the others end up getting therapy to help them deal with the trauma, and to help some of them get back to being their real selves.
The ending scene would be Oso locked in a padded cell, in a straight jacket, screaming about how they need to let him out. He didn't want to be separated from his brothers, to be alone. They needed him!
"Don't worry, Oso, we'll never leave you."
Oso looks over and sees Choro next to him. Soon the others join him, even Karamatsu! And they're all in their own unique hoodies!
Oso becomes happy. His brothers are here with him, and they still love him!
It would then cut to outside the room, looking in through the window of the door. Osomatsu is in the room, crying, laughing, and talking with no one. He's just gone so insane that he hallucinates his brothers.
The point of the ending scene was to show that Oso truly regrets what he did to them, including trying to change who they were.
I wanted to make my Oso different from other horror!Oso's: I believe most people would have made Oso murder on purpose, but mine was just someone sick that ended up going down a bad path.
I'm not sure how to explain this without making it seem like I'm defending Oso, because I'm not. What he did was awful, and shouldn't be copied. I'm just trying to say that not everyone is born evil, but sometimes they're good people that made choices that lead them to becoming evil. Oso did awful things, but in his mind it was all to protect his family. He wasn't like, "Oh, I'm going to break Ichi's shoulder because I'm a pyscho," but rather, "this is the only way Jyushi will stop playing sports."
Oso is still bad, but in his mind he's a good person that's only doing what a big brother should. He's a sick person that needs help, but that doesn't excuse his actions and he should be punished just as much as an Oso that would do this cause they're evil. ALl of this could have been avoided if he just talked to his brothers, shared his fears, listened to them.
I hope you understand what I'm trying to say.
Next post, I'll go into depth about what inspired this AU.
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