#they are both so toxic T_T good luck to darling

[merakiui]

Feed me more Heizou brain rot, you don't understand how much I NEED it.... Absolute creep, warming himself up to you while you remain clueless at just how LONG he has stalked you.... 10/10

He’s so creepy!!! Allow me to share all the brain rot!!

(cw: yandere, unhealthy behaviors, stalking, obsession)

Heizou is good at keeping surface-level friends. The type of friends who he can rely on if he needs something. Nothing ever goes deeper than that, though. His classmates see him as a cheerful, confident guy who declares he’ll be the world’s next best detective. Heizou is incredibly smart and excels in his classes, so he never really needs to ask for help. He’ll ask to study with some of his friends just so that he can immerse himself in the social atmosphere. He’ll get lunch with some of them and talk about very surface-level things. He learns more about the people he eats lunch with or walks to class with than they do about him. It’s not that Heizou doesn’t want to talk about himself or that he’s hiding some deep, reputation-killing secret. He just doesn’t see any importance in giving out information about himself.

Heizou is usually absorbed in his thoughts when he’s alone, and it can be difficult to get through to him when he’s thinking so deeply. But when he’s out taking a walk and he passes a trio walking and he catches sight of someone he stops, turns, and perks up. That was how he first met you, and you were laughing at a really bad pun one of your friends, who he’d later learn was a man named Cyno, had uttered while another man, who he’d later learn was Tighnari, groaned. Heizou has always been naturally curious, so he trails the three of you, typing notes into his phone as he walks. He writes all of his observations he can make from your conversation, the clothes you’re wearing, your tone of voice, and much more. He ends up following you all the way back to the dorms, where you disappear inside with your friends, and he’s left to stare at the many bulleted notes he’s taken.

Heizou is scarily good at keeping track of your movements and whereabouts. He learns your schedule rather quickly, where you like to frequent most, and who some of your close friends are. He follows you around like a lost dog, always adding new notes and corrections to his digital record. He likes you for a reason he can’t quite understand yet. Perhaps it’s because you’re a puzzle he has yet to solve and he’s determined to work out your life so that he can be satisfied. He loves a good challenge, but lately it’s felt too easy. You never notice him, but then he never stands out. Maybe it’s better to be inconspicuous. Although he will admit it’s nice to watch you at parties because, come night, the lights dim and the sky darkens and he’s able to approach you when you’re drunk and he won’t have to worry about you recognizing him on account of your poor focus and bad lighting.

Heizou’s meeting with Venti is not ideal. He’d been following you, as usual, and Venti had come behind, thrown an arm around him (completely casual, though the two had never talked before), and had greeted him so brightly.

“If it isn’t Heizou! How goes it, Mr. World’s Greatest Detective?” Before he’s given a chance to respond (thankfully his phone is away), Venti adds, “You know (Name)?”

Normally Heizou’s good at interactions. He has to be if he’s going to be interrogating criminals in the future! He has to be smart and witty and quick. So in the time it takes him to come up with a suitable scapegoat, Venti’s already giggling.

“If you like them, I can hook you up!”

Heizou laughs. Not at Venti or at the suggestion, but at the situation he’s found himself in. He always prided himself on his ability to spy undetected and the fact that Venti—someone who is in a vastly different realm of study and has never once spoken to him—could see through him… Venti might just give him a run for his money. Or perhaps Venti is just a good observer. Either way, Heizou manages to keep up with Venti enough until he can make it to his building, where he excuses himself as casually as possible. Venti smiles and waves as Heizou climbs the steps before gasping dramatically.

“Oh, you should come to hang out with us this weekend!”

Heizou glances back at him, curious. And in the same fashion Kuni had been welcomed into the group, Heizou was led to you and the rest of your friends by the outgoing and ever so friendly Venti. But unlike Kuni’s arrival, Heizou’s had been immediate. He knows Kuni’s took longer because he watched Venti spend weeks pestering him to come to the forest for drinks and Kuni had been so against it, claiming he wasn’t interested and that Venti should “piss off,” in his exact words.

If you watch Heizou long enough, you’ll realize he doesn’t drink or smoke as much as the others do. There’s a reason for this—a few, actually. For one he wants to be sober and coherent enough should anything happen. He also wants to be the first one to offer help when you need it. And he also wants to be able to admire you without anything clouding his senses. He likes to listen to the unfiltered version of yourself: the you who belts out drunken ballads with Venti, the you who tries to add lines to Kazuha’s poetry, and the you who tries and fails to sketch nature with Tighnari with unsteady hands. Of course he also likes you when you’re conscious because you’re so enjoyable to be around, and you trust him a lot! In the year he’s spent with you, you’ve invited him to your dorm, you’ve binged movies and TV shows with him—going so far as to fall asleep with him—and sharing some deeper things about yourself. Usually just fears and doubts about whether your major is right for you and if you’ll find a job you enjoy. He always reassures you with caramelized sentiments. And you believe him every time because it’s the truth.

He was content to continue admiring you from the sidelines, adding more notes to his activity record. But then Kuni invades his peaceful world and suddenly the activity record is all wrong. Suddenly the schedule you’ve followed for a while now is off. Suddenly you’re with Kuni all the time, growing closer with each passing day.

And then you show up with a ring on your finger. Now his records are very wrong. You aren’t supposed to be engaged to anyone but him. Kuni’s moving too fast, spreading his roots like a parasite.

Heizou knows to stay calm and collected when unexpected situations arise. This is just another case he must solve with an objective outlook, and as the weeks wear on and your spirit dampens and tires gradually he begins to worm his way between the both of you. Heizou can be parasitic if the circumstances call for it. He’s nothing if not adaptable. But that’s exactly how detectives must be: adaptable. He’s just practicing for the real world, you see! And once Kuni’s gone, he’ll finally be back on track.