#Defeat p5! C-ta didn't win male yandere for nothing

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A-ya and C-ta are the first pairing I think of when thinking of Toxic Yaoi. They are both from Shuuen no Shiori, making up half of the unofficial Occult Research Club in their school.

The two grew up as childhood friends, A-ya the autistic loner and C-ta the social butterfly. As they grew up, C-ta would try his best to help A-ya interact with the world by interpreting A-ya's mannerisms for the people around him. Telling them what he thought A-ya was thinking. However, it was somewhat apparent that A-ya just didn't care as much about his perception while C-ta cared too heavily about it.

One day, while they were still kids, some of C-ta's friends found a plush bunny at C-ta's friends. C-ta started panicking, thinking it was an irredeemable incident that his friends would find something so girly in his room. However, A-ya noticed C-ta's panic and decided to claim that the bunny was his that he accidentally left at C-ta's house the last time he visited. This made C-ta panic but in a different direction. C-ta thought that A-ya was dependent on him. That A-ya would be incapable of taking care of himself without C-ta's help. He feared that A-ya would try to turn the tables on his perceived balance of the relationship, that A-ya would try to make C-ta dependent on him. However, A-ya wasn't thinking about the bunny in that sort of way at all. A-ya just thought that C-ta had been nice to him for so long that he should return the favor every once in a while. When C-ta realized that A-ya wasn't trying to flip the script on their relationship, he doubled down on his idea that A-ya was dependent on him, that A-ya was doing it to protect C-ta so that C-ta could keep protecting A-ya.

A-ya wasn't dependent on C-ta, C-ta was dependent on feeling like A-ya was dependent on him.

And so time passed with these two in this relationship, C-ta thinking that A-ya depended on him while A-ya thought they were mutuals. Over time, A-ya became slightly more confident in interacting with others, but C-ta was blind to his gradual growth, believing A-ya was forever dependent on him. Though, despite A-ya being slightly more confident talking to people, he was still quite, quite introverted. Lonely beside the accompaniment of C-ta.

When A-ya was a teen, he picked up an interest in the Occult and Rumors, this interest being the only thing he really found interesting in his isolated world (besides hanging out with C-ta, even if he wouldn't admit it). A-ya's interest led him to spreading rumors around school about his classmates, most notably about the popular girl B-ko. B-ko figured out it was A-ya spreading baseless rumors about her and would confront him several times about it, however A-ya would over time get B-ko interested in the Occult as well. When C-ta heard about how A-ya was talking to B-ko, he got so jealous and worried that he straight up dissociated, feeling as though he was watching himself go through the motions. He eventually decided to bug A-ya, put microphones on him so that C-ta could keep a watch on A-ya and make sure he didn't make any 'mistakes' without him.

B-ko started hanging out with the two over time, forming the Occult Club, however another girl would notice the club and join. D-ne joined the club but had no interest in the occult, she simply was there because she wanted to be with B-ko. She Loved B-ko! She Wanted To Become B-ko. She Loved B-ko. D-ne is one of the most observant occult club members and leading up to the start of the series, she noticed that C-ta was dependent on A-ya. It disgusted her. It reminded herself about how much she was dependent on B-ko. But, unlike C-ta, she knew that she was dependent on B-ko. So D-ne decided to call C-ta out, completely roast how C-ta was so dependent on A-ya but couldn't even realize it. C-ta took it not well, sending him into more panic spells. He would hook up security cameras around A-ya's room so that he could always watch A-ya, escalating. Surely he wasn't dependent on A-ya? Surely, it was A-ya that was Dependent on Him.

When the series proper begins, the Occult Club attempts to gain the titular Shuuen no Shiori (Bookmark of Demise), however in their attempts they accidentally begin the Demise Game. In the Demise Game, they must find out who the traitor is that caused the game to happen and kill them, otherwise they are doomed to encounter urban legends until they die. C-ta gets fueled with Paranoia that A-ya was replaced with an impostor due to A-ya acting 'out of normal' recently (A-ya committing the crime of: Talk to B-ko platonically without telling C-ta about it first and taking a second to remember that the doll they had was a rabbit).

The two are assigned two different urban legends. A-ya gets Hide and Seek Alone (Hide and Seek verses a haunted doll. This represents how he is lonely with only his interest in the occult to console him since it's the only urban legend assigned that requires the participant to know about how it works to participate in it.) C-ta gets Mearry-san (a ghost that calls and texts you, constantly updating you on where you are and how far away the ghost is. The ghost is getting closer and closer and after enough time. Mearry-san will call you, saying "I am right behind you" before killing you. This represents C-ta's stalking behavior toward A-ya.) C-ta, stalking A-ya on the cameras, thinks that A-ya setting up Hide and Seek Alone is the fake A-ya practicing to kill. He sneaks into A-ya's house, sees A-ya name the plush rabbit he was going to play the game with "C-ta", solidifying in C-ta's brain that A-ya was practicing to kill him when C-ta saw A-ya stab the plush as part of the set up for Hide and Seek Alone. C-ta would then take the plush's place and would seek A-ya, killing him. C-ta forgets that he killed A-ya, but remembers a few days later. In his panic of remembering, Mearry-san calls C-ta and he makes the mistake of answering, causing Mearry-san to kill C-ta. Both teens were found later by police clutching onto their phones, stabbing several times with boxcutters.

There are other timeloops where different things happen. It's implied, however, that C-ta and A-ya are always doomed to kill one another unless they finally openly communicate. They have several songs and other things. But! That will go into a different reblog. This one's much more so "this is who they are" rather than neat things

Toxic Yaoi Tournament Round 1: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist (Persona 5) vs. A-ya/C-ta (Shuuen no Shiori Project)