𝕯𝖔𝖓𝖞𝖆 𝕼𝖎𝖖𝖎

eat honey 🍯 and revelation thou shalt receive 🐝

Then, I suddenly think of how Kit bought a ticket for Lili, and Eiji also bought a ticket for Ash.

Both the tickets weren't properly delivered/used, but Lili and Kit still ended up together eventually.

Balance is important, yes, but we know that he has some variations even if becoming a "6" has infinitely changed him from being just Atticus. I find it interesting that he's not some weird pushover when outside of the island— what I like is that he seems to not uphold the rules of Apeiron very much when he's outside of the cult lol (ie: his little interactions with Vertin)

He even has instances of being playful sometimes, it's very rare, very brief but it's there. And it makes me wonder if he ever has moments of it with his darling. (Dude the way he smiles a lot more in his Collab skin...)

Sorry that was a lot. I Never found someone as interested in R1999 very recently enough to write unhinged (in a good way) fics about it. I love your works btw ❤️

Thank you (And don’t stop writing, I love it when people rant because YES POUR YOUR HEART OUT-)

In general, yes, even without being a yandere, you have to approach him if you even want a relationship with him. Not that he wants you to pursue, more like having a relationship is a very new thing to him, and he can allow you to invade his schedule in a relationship.

But as a yandere, and especially out of the Apeiron, that’s where 6 can actually manifest more as a yandere, I imagine him to do things very differently than the average manipulative Yandere like Sunday (a character from HSR I have found striking similarities to).

So basically to understand 6, we gotta understand the duties and also the abilities of the ‘Revelation’. Basically the Revelation granting the current ‘6’ the knowledge of all of the past ‘6’s, and if it wasn’t for Atticus preparing, Atticus would have been a distant and disconnected vessel of knowledge like his aunt Alma and his mother. So 6 would have been scared that his being, his very person would be erased.

And that I think is one of his biggest fears, 6 doesn’t want to break his Darling, besides who wants a shell? And to answer the question of 6 being aware of his yandere tendencies, I think that 6 would be very lucid as to what is going on, yet 6 strives for balance, and just because he is outside the cult, doesn’t mean that all of the beliefs are fully dispelled from his core belief system or how he makes decisions, I believe that 6 while he is lucid about his possessive tendencies, 6 justifies hard about it, thinking it to be some balance, Darling is his balance, his equilibrium, his other half that makes him balanced.

Also I fully think that once 6 is fully off of the Apeiron, or away from his duties as 6, it’s free game for Atticus to actually manipulate the behind the scenes to try to make Darling dependent on him or go to him out of everyone else, and he would try to make the opening, but he won’t approach, he lures you in closer, not just because he is careful or a shy kind of yandere, but because he is still new to the feeling of wanting to be ‘yours’.

I kinda have a sort of inward kind of joke that 6 is a sleeper agent kind of Yandere, where as 6’s manipulation is so subtle it kinda rubs off as a sort of weird yet endearing admirer charm, yet the moment someone is too close, he doesn’t kill, rather he justifies it as removing the irrational variables, to get rid of the threat of an imbalance between you and him, I actually made a point to the main frustrating point of a Yandere6/Atticus, his justification, a debate is run on logic, he was a judge but he can be challenged as a fellow debater, taking a life can be frustrating to get through to him because of how calmly and firmly yet so logically sound, you can’t get it through to him.

As for the brief moments of a more playful Atticus, they re so brief to me that I could never really have a chance or a sense to add the bit of character to him in any of my yandere fics about it, but I was really hoping to make one about his playful side.

Really I imagine his playful side being a slight teasing touch, more so becoming aware of your more ticklish area and lightly grazing the area, fascinated yet also tilting his head as he takes in how you tense up, or the slight smile he has when he has the opportunity to be close to you, maybe a playful nudge or a small bump from the back of his hand against your closed hand, slithering against your own wrist before his hand finally intertwines with yours.

I don’t think Atticus would show his playful side, as a yandere, he still retains a carefulness, a preparation, it’s like a sort of ‘breaking’ period, chipping away at your defenses, making you slowly get used to him, or better yet, he will show a more playful side if you are oblivious to his yandere tendencies and just see them as a sort of friend to lover kind of thing.

As for smiling, bro is unsettling when he smiles, imagine how it translates when he’s in yandere mode, imagine him locking in and just smiling, imagine how terrifying it would be to captured Darling, and how endearing and humorous it would be for an oblivious Darling like Atticus doesn’t even have any kind of flirt to him or some of that confidence that playboys have, just look at him and tell me that he doesn’t awkwardly try to smile on the first date when you two are holding hands.

(This is how I imagine 6’s Udimo is staring at Darling doing anything ‘upsetting the Balance, lol-)

Additionally, I find that his aunt's death was the most devastating moment of his life. That he resents the image presented to him by what a 6 is supposed to be but at the same time grieves a time he could walk the same beach with her without numbers attached. Like I think the reason why he walks the beach so much is because of his aunt, because that was probably the last time he was seen as Atticus, to experience his life a little more spontaneously, and to be seen.

So now he has to grapple with the demands of his people and his own hidden desires. To question the path laid before him always.

I feel like the type of person that would make him break is someone who is extremely understanding/emphatic, who would see him beyond his inherited title (and is even not afraid of it!), and allow him to process his grief or ugly emotions. Given his tendency to open up to the likes of his spontaneous aunt or the irrational number such as Sophia, I feel like it has to be someone who doesn't fit in the norms/expectations of his society. Like the type that challenges him or causes him to work hard to be with. That makes him feel alive.