#this may be the fault of my very first enstarrie friends

[asbestieos]

i was digging througj old discord messages and found more crazyb niki-centric horror that i thought up!! what the hell was going on in early ens era asta’s mind . under a readmore because theres a lot theres so much

(auto) cannibalism mentions, starvation, silly severe depression moment, zombies//

niki becomes the patient zero of Unidentified Zombie Disease, but he isnt 'turning' the way popular media depicts the undead usually do, and thus no one - including himself - notices at first. but slowly over the course of weeks, his hunger stops being satiated by normal food. at one point, he furiously cooks up meals of all types in a vain attempt to please his tastebuds - to no avail - sweets are the first to go, then fruits, vegetables. finally, even meat stops filling his stomach. in fact, everything is making him sick enough to vomit. its pointless to keep trying to cook and eat when he cant keep anything down. but his nose is sharper than ever, and its telling him the people around him are delicious - not just the sweet-smelling mayoi, but also alkaloid, his audience, his circle friends. kohaku, himeru, rinne. himself.

when niki stops cooking, rinne takes it as another depression period. niki's known for them; hes either cooking, working, or laying in his room staring at the ceiling. thus, rinne's several solutions include forcing him to eat take-out, stealing multivitamins and supplements to forcefeed him, waterboarding him showering niki himself to keep him from stinking up the apartment, even slipping him sleeping medication to see if a good rest would alleviate the hunger - the usual things that push niki out of his depressive state. when he comes back to the apartment to see niki gnawing on himself, though, he realizes something is deeply, deeply wrong, especially when niki looks so inexplicably skinny, feels so horribly cold, seems more like a wild animal than an actual person,

rinne asks him, very firmly and seriously, what the fuck is wrong with him. niki says he doesnt know, but rinne smells really good to him. he says he wants to eat him. not as a joke. really eat him. rinne can tell by the way niki drools -and, like, the literal inches of flesh missing off niki's arm- that this is true, and if rinne didnt have a strong grip on him, niki mightve actually tried. for the very first time ever in his life, rinne considers calling 911 but mentally berates himself instead and decides to simply have a unit meeting to figure out How In The Hell To Proceed with this

the solution is kohaku gives niki the dead bodies of those he's commissioned to kill /joke