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THE MASTERMIND AU MEME

THE MASTERMIND AU
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With Round 3 now over, it's about time we had the mastermind meme!

To those who aren't familiar, this is essentially an AU where your character is the one responsible for Round 3's Mutual Killing Game, and all of the carnage that came with it, from the kidnapping to the motives to the trials to the executions! And now, they have chosen to reveal themselves before the remaining members of their class at the final trial!

As such, you are free to play around with this as much as you would like; did your character make a contract with Kyuubey, or did your character put everyone in the Killing Game for a different reason? What is your character's motivation for bringing despair? What do they intend to get out of this seemingly senseless killing? And what does the rest of the class have to do to stop the madness and go home?

There's probably going to be quite a bit of AUing from your character's original canon happening here to make them into the best harbingers of despair they can be, so feel free to go as nuts with it as you want to! And, of course, feel free to tag others with your character's reaction to their classmate's big reveal; it doesn't matter whether or not your character made it to endgame, have fun and mix up the survivor pool as much as you'd like!

Oh, and feel free to describe your character's sweet new Monobear-themed duds, too!!

Original meme text borrowed and modified from loveisanopendoor!

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[That actually gets him to laugh, though he doesn't sound amused or happy about it at all.]

Why should I? There's no point in it anymore, I might as well let you know how badly this has screwed me up!

I never hated myself before this. Sure I knew what I was doing was wrong and awful by human standards, but I never cared. It brought me pleasure, so why should I worry about what everyone else thought? But here... It's like every single one of you has known this entire time and you've dedicated your lives to making mine as miserable as possible. I thought I'd be okay when I agreed to play, to keep an eye on things from the inside. I thought I'd be fine during this trial, because everyone would hate me and it'd be easy to pretend that I was happy about what I was doing.

No one's ever treated me like you guys do. No one's ever gotten me to feel things like this - and it's not just you. Every single one of you has gotten some sort of emotion out of me and I hate it. None of this was supposed to happen. It was supposed to fun. I thought that the final chapter would make every single one of my efforts worthwhile and just... look at me. I'm a mess and I'm managing to screw something this simple up. You guys hate me, I open the vote, you guys convict me. Simple.

So why the hell shouldn't I speak harshly about myself? I didn't just manage to screw myself over, I managed to fuck with all of your lives and ruin everything. And even if I genuinely didn't care about the others, look at what I've done to you. You're going to die because of me, because I'm a fucking idiot who should have stopped this long ago.

Put a stop to it now, then.

[He's shaking, and his voice is far from steady, but he's managing to keep his gaze level. To not look away.]

We can still salvage this. Even if the others hate you, even if you don't want to be around them anymore. We can still...

[...]

We can still go home. You know that, don't you?

Why? Why do you keep doing this? Even if... Even if I could convince Bluebeard to open the doors, to put a stop to this, why would you want to take me home with you? After everything I've done I deserve to die.

I don't understand.

Because I love you. I know what you're going to say, and I...if I'm going to be honest, no, I don't know why, but the fact is that I love you and I can't make myself stop and if that's how it is, then so be it.

I don't want you to take anyone else I love away from me.

[Well, he thought he'd gotten all the emotion out, but apparently that's something that can just come back whenever the fuck it wants to. Ryuunosuke shakes for a moment before abruptly collapsing onto the floor of the balcony. The railing is a bit too high to see him from down there, but you can probably still hear him crying.

Give him a few minutes to process all of that. It's been one hell of a bad day.]

[It's the sudden collapse that gets him to move; can he get...up there, or is there going to be some sort of magical bullshit that stops him from doing it...]

[Nope, no magical bullshit! There was never any to begin with because no one was supposed to see the stairs and more importantly, Ryuunosuke didn't tell Caster that Tsukiyama's vision is much better than a normal human's.]

[...God bless Ryuunosuke Uryuu's hilarious lack of foresight, honestly...]

...Ryuunosuke.

[He isn't going to try to touch him but he's up there and he'll kneel down on the floor nearby; just...he's here, okay, even if he completely hates himself for being here.

You don't deserve his sympathy, and offering it is leaving him feeling raw and angry, but it's as he said - he can't stop.]

We don't have to do this anymore. You know that.

[He's actually pulled himself into a sitting position by the time Tsukiyama joins him, but Ryuunosuke's got his head pressed against his knees and he doesn't move when he's addressed.]

...I'm just going to keep hurting you. Keeping me around is going to hurt you.

[The words are muffled and he sounds tired. He's shaking pretty badly, but the words are even.]

I know.

[...This explains a lot, doesn't it, when it comes to why Ryuunosuke kept apologizing for that when there was no need. Either way, he nods once that's out there; there's not much sense in denying it.]

I know it is.

I don't want to hurt you, but I don't want you to die. I'd... I'd do anything, anything...

[He's silent for a moment before trying again.]

I don't know if I can keep doing this to you. I'm selfish as hell, but things are different with you.

Don't you understand? I don't have anything left.

[He can feel the tears starting up again; he can't really say that he cares.]

Don't leave me.

[That gets Ryuunosuke to look up again and it takes him a moment to react. He's still crying and he's still shaking, but seeing Tsukiyama hurt like this is doing all sorts of awful things to him. He reaches out again to touch Tsukiyama's arm, though he's expecting to get turned away again and that's probably for the best.]

I... I'm so sorry...

[It's a genuine apology, but it's far too little and too late.]

I-I won't leave you. Okay?

[The offer is hesitant because he's really not sure this is for the best, but he can't hurt Tsukiyama anymore. He doesn't want to.]

[He'll actually allow the contact this time, though he's keeping his gaze low; it takes him a while to nod again, though the tears aren't really stopping.]

I... All right...all right, good...

[He tries to breathe; it's jagged, shuddering.]

...Thank you.

[He's pretty pleased that Tsukiyama's allowing the contact. He's going to have to get up in a moment to go talk to Bluebeard, but for now he just wants to stay like this. It's not as nice as all of the other times, but nothing's going to be like that ever again.]

Don't thank me. Please don't thank me. I haven't done anything to deserve that.

[The words are quiet and gentle though.]

...Just stay with me.

[Everything about this hurts; Ryuunosuke's touch burns through the fabric of his sleeve. But he doesn't want to pull away, no matter how bad it gets, not matter how much his chest aches.]

I won't leave you.

[And that's about when the black and white Monobear hops off the throne and comes over. Ryuunosuke jumps a bit and pulls away from Tsukiyama before grabbing the bear and immediately bolting to hide out behind the throne. He's whispering, but Tsukiyama can probably pick up on most of the conversation. Bluebeard's completely confused by everything Ryuunosuke is doing and Ryuunosuke keeps mentioning Command Seals, but after a few minutes of hushed conversation they seem to come to some sort of understanding and Ryuunosuke returns to sit next to Tsukiyama.]

...It's over.

[He's not crying anymore but he doesn't seem to be feeling much either.]

[Tsukiyama's quiet for a moment; he doesn't move to touch him or show him the usual affection that he always offered when Ryuunosuke sat next to him before all of this happened, he just...goes very still.]

And what does that mean?

We're getting out of here - you, the other survivors, and me. I need to go speak with him in person before we go, but... it's over. I'm not going to leave you.

[He just kind of...settles, then, bowing his head and trying to breathe; his emotions are all over the place, and he can't make them stop, and...

He's so tired.]

...The others want that too, you know. They're tired of killing people.

They won't have to. No one else is going to die.

[...]

I'm sorry. For everything. But... thank you, for not leaving me.

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THE MASTERMIND AU MEME

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