#amplified tenfold by the others issues. u provide either of them with someone with a solid idea of love support & identity from the start

[butchford]

prompt: Observer Mao, Hinata in Yuki's Role, Yuno same place

Mao’s grown rather fond of the girl and her girlfriend who leave a trail of carnage in their wake. Not that that’s WHY she’s so enamored with the both of them, but it is what tipped her off to whatever the hell they have going on between the professionalism of the human perpetuated kills and the downright slaughter of what appears to be a pack of dogs utilized on occasion. So of course she brings herself to introduce herself, if not only after both Aru and their boyfriend Yuki convince her to do, and of course it goes about just as well as one may assume. Yuno lunges for Mao and Hinata barely manages to talk her down in time but on the same hand Yuno just… seems very tame around Mao in comparison to others who have shown such outright affection towards Hinata. Perhaps it’s because she approaches Yuno with the same inclination of hitting on her without thinking about it. And Mao inadvertently shifts Yuno’s single minded goal of just getting Hinata Through This fades in light of “oh my god. This is a killing game. This is a literal killing game that I’ve been through once before and that Hinata’s being forced to participate in and that Yuki lost his, admittedly extremely shitty, father to. This isn’t right. The enemies aren’t the other diary users it’s… it’s the very God who devised this actually” and that’s when Deus comes knocking on Mao’s sense of being because she has more than failed at what she was created to do and actually done the exact opposite, in fact. And Mao rebuttals with “fuck this fuck you I adore Hinata I adore Yuno my love is real and I regret Nothing” and Deus is so gobsmacked that he lets her go without so much as another word. And after THAT Yuno manages to fully shake the haze from her eyes and fully take in what she’s been through what she’s witnessed others put through and what she is no longer willing to do. Yuno reluctantly stops killing because yes she can just do this all over again but that would be buying into God’s shitty game and the weight of the value of life sinks in as she thinks about Mao’s nearly being taken away from her. And she starts to fully remember that Hinata just wants her dad to see her as more than just another creature on par if not less than his dogs as more than just a note in the back of her mind. And Yuno kisses Hinata in a way she’s never kissed Hinata before; in a way that’s more than a desperate “you’re all I have to cling onto for a hope of a better future” and instead a “oh. I see you now. I’m sorry my vision was so blurred with the blood on my hands and the tears in my eyes.” And Hinata blinks twice before returning it and Yuno traces her hand down her cheek before turning to Mao and in a very gentle and tentative manner coming from Yuno, she places her lips against the other girls. And she gives a gentle smile with her eyes filled with clarity for once and says “alright, let’s get the gang together. We’re going to kill god”