~You'll see it's all a show~ Keep'em laughing as you go~

[stalking_horse]

Character Names: im_in_ur_exit & pickldpineapple
When: Late night Friday 9/2, after Saguru's anticlimactic showdown with robo-Kaito.
Where: Room 010/Mukuro's door.
Summary: Mukuro gets a present after Robo-Kaito unwittingly re-enacts one of Saguru's first few showdowns with Kid.
Rating: PG?
Warnings: Likely language. Detective with "basically the God of all hangovers" and no dignity. Mukuro.


At a late hour of night, if Mukuro's paying attention and awake, he might notice some funny, quiet noise just outside his door.

Whether he chooses to investigate right then or in the morning, he'll find an empty hallway.

That's after he gets the door open; it might be a little difficult since there's an unconscious detective handcuffed to it.

In his boxers.

With the words "Happy Birthday Mukuro, love Kaito ~<3" drawn on his chest ornately in Sharpie marker.

No, it was not a good night for the detective last night.

Comments

[pineapple_fairy]

"Why wouldn't I be? He and I are of similar origins. Call it a feeling of kinship if you will. I would simply like to meet him is all."

Almost honest... sort of. There were a few things he needed to settle with this 'Kaito imposter', one of them being Saguru's safety. He didn't care what else that thing went on a rampage on, but he needed Saguru's body in top shape at all times in case of an emergency. The other being the fact that this one also is an experiment. While Mukuro is hardly capable of feeling something as sentimental as kinship, there is a bit of a tie there. Perhaps it is from his lack of contact with Ken and Chikusa, but a new member to the once infamous Kokuyo gang was quite an exciting idea.

And perhaps this one would be able to tell him more about Saguru...

...knowing the order of canon events, this tag is kind-of depressing.

[stalking_horse]

He still isn't sure he trusts much of anything that'd be "benevolent" or "empathic" coming from Mukuro, but trying to seek out others with similar issues makes some sense.

Even though he's pretty sure he's going to be undoing damage here and working against some pushing towards a much more bitter, cynical, and misanthropic world view.

Still, for all that he wanted to do as much as he could to NOT see this not!Kaito turn into a monster? "Here let's avoid you being exposed to anything else" wouldn't work either.

"Mmm. And at least I know I have - some resources back home to try to help so that he has a chance to get a life."

Re: ...knowing the order of canon events, this tag is kind-of depressing.

[pineapple_fairy]

Mukuro turns to lean on the door frame, smirking.

"That would probably be quite helpful, but do allow me to warn you: depending on what he is, and what has been done to him, you cannot hope to integrate him into normal society without putting other's at risk."

He tucks his bangs behind his ear, and his face becomes somewhat more serious. For once this is honest advice, not for the sake of others, but for the one like him.

"Even if you should teach him all of your proper morals and codes of conduct, he will lack the basic foundation to act upon them properly. And that is if you can even instill ethics into him properly."

[stalking_horse]

The sudden change in Mukuro's demeanor is enough to get through the migraine and everything - it's not standard behavior for him, and is ...

More than sound enough to be honest.

"...I'd settle for some kind of loophole that'd give time for him to learn, and get to be his own person, instead of someone's tool or weapon... if I don't function in more than the fringes of 'normal society', I ... know I can't expect someone who's been through that to do any better." He frowns, draping an arm over his face and sliding down to lay across the couch. "As it stands, if nobody does anything to try, to most people he'll be a 'thing' - some kind of failed experiment or dangerous 'object', and no-one deserves that."

[pineapple_fairy]

"Well what I'm saying is something a little different from just functioning on the 'fringes' of society. Let me give you an example: Once I had escaped from what remained of the laboratory, I was taken into another family, and they raised me as their own for a good few years. However, despite their teachings and such, I would still manage to slip up. For example, one day I found a cat betting around a mouse in an alley way, assuming this to be some ungodly act of cruelty I decided to punish the cat by repeatedly smashing it's head against the pavement until it was long dead and a bloody mess."

He chuckles and shakes his head, not mentioning that at that age he still took similar actions against people.

"It is not that my morals were misplaced exactly, it is that I simply acted on them the way I found came naturally. It is a very 'Of Mice and Men' like case if you will. This one will not be able to socialize without proper supervision, otherwise you run the risk of an 'accident'."

[stalking_horse]

There's a shift as he's moving his arm a little from covering his face - he's listening, intently, even through the headache... let's face it, "CEEB Psychology" isn't exactly something there's a wealth of information on, and getting something "from the horse's mouth" is always going to be more valuable than attempting inferences.

"It ... makes sense - there's a lot of basic groundwork 'taken for granted' in normal society that ... wouldn't exist." And it makes Mukuro make a huge amount of sense, really, as well. "As much as I deal in 'abnormal psychology', I admit, this is territory where any other resource I might have is pure theory."

[pineapple_fairy]

Mukuro nods, knowing full well you will get no better resource than himself. Not only has he experienced it first hand, but he has the self-awareness to realize what actions of his were deemed as inappropriate by normal standards. Of course there really was only so much damage that could be reversed with Mukuro. While his intelligence allowed him to figure out how to act properly around people, he never did quite figure out the point of genuine empathy.

"Now imagine what would happen to this fellow if he happen to slip up? Perhaps he mistook a couple on the street playing around and accidentally snapped the boy's neck. What would happen to him? He would either be locked away, or forced to flee with the label of 'monster'. You see, integration is something next to impossible for that very reason."

which is why it would be best if you left this 'Kaito' up to Mukuro