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[startagainaprologue]

(two hats. strangulation. character death talk in general)

was thinking abt abt an au concept rolling around in my mind lately! teeeheee! wrote this on impulse in discord last night so nottt the best but. still wanted to post it here!

(You dont know when it happened.) (You were yelling for so long it all kind of blurred together.) (Your throat burned painfully. but you still yelled. yelled about what you lost what was taken from you. all while your hands grasped tighter around your copy's neck) (Eventually. You took a moment to breath. Your eyes burned, youre sure if you could cry. thats what you'd be doing.) (You stare down below you. Siffrin had gone still. His eyes glazed over.) (You blink, loosening your hands around his throat) "Stardust…?

(…) (Nothing. He was still.) "Stardust. Stardust. Siffrin. What are you doing. This isnt.." (You already know. don't you. You don't even bother to check.) (Isnt this.. what you wanted? You said it yourself not too long earlier. Didn't you?) (So why doesnt it feel good.) (Why do you feel guilt burrowing its way under your skin more and more the longer you stare.)

(Youre not sure how long you sit there. Staring at his body blankly. Feeling it slowly, slowly start to become colder under your hands.) (Eventually. You hear voices coming near.) "Siiiiifff, you still over here? It's been a bit. Cmon-" (You tune out the rest of the voices. All of them.) (You hide yourself quickly. Just as you always did.) (Always the coward, arent you?)

(Of course.. hiding behind the favor tree's leaves does little to cover the screams of the party when they discover what you left behind.)

[quirkle2]

*kicks down your door* i just rewatched Train to Busan aND WAAAH MY MIND IMMEDIATELY WENT BACK TO YOUR ZOMBIE AU will zombie mob become human again bcs i'm seriously hurting for ritsu THAT BOY NEEDS A HUG (also also, give zombie mob some milk too, i think he deserves it 😔)

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OOOO i've never watched train to busan !! just looked it up it looks inchresting

and yes !! absolutely yes they find a way to cure him eventually. haven't thought abt the actual process too much, but it takes a long while, and he's never rly the same afterward

he doesn't just magically turn back to being a healthy human—there are things that stay with him well beyond the curing. some of his speech is slower, and muddled. definitely a lot of nerve damage, and his sense of pain is forever fucked up. sometimes i think it'd take a bit for a concept to click in his head, even if it seems simple

i've changed it a bit since i last talked abt it i think ? but it's very easy for zombies to die from sleep deprivation bc they never feel tired. something in their brains has simply gone offline, so the signals we typically get that tell us to rest are nonexistent here. a zombie will quite literally keep walking until it collapses and dies from exhaustion. after mob is cured, those signals are still absent and he'll stay up for days simply bc he doesn't feel tired, so he has to follow a strict schedule

overall he's never quite the same as before, zombie or no. that same exact mob from before the apocalypse will Never be here again, but ritsu doesn't mind that so much. he gets his brother back, even if some chunks are rusty or malfunctioning. he can hold a conversation with his brother again, and he's never been happier. unluckiest, luckiest kid alive.

[dutchwinter]

no one really cares about me anymore and i hate everyone now so im just gonna kms. okay goodnight. and dont send me asks or dms about it i cant

[scaryfaggot]

Okay usually im 10 or 20.but rn im 7 Because these pajamas are so damn comfy