#kalechai

The Shadow You Left Behind

Rating: Explicit 🔞

Fandom: Hi-Fi RUSH (Video Game).

Relationship(s): Chai/Kale Vandelay, Chai & Kale Vandelay, Chai & CNMN & Korsica & Macaron & Peppermint (Hi-Fi RUSH), Minor or Background Relationship(s), etc.

Content Warning(s): Major Character Death, Suicide, Mind Control, Suicide Attempt, etc.

Addioltional tag(s): Kale Vandelay Wins, Kale Vandelay Is Bad At Feelings, Chai Needs a Hug, Mind Control Aftermath & Recovery, Family Issues, Unresolved Emotional Tension, Dysfunctional Family, Enemies to Lovers, Heavy Angst, Tragedy, Bittersweet Ending, Slow Romance, Eventual Smut, Past Relationship(s), Dark Past, Chai is a Ray of Sunshine, Everyone Is Alive, Sci-Fi Elements, Grief/Mourning, Healing journey, Five Stages of Grief, Music, Slow To Update, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, etc.

Synopsis: Four years have passed after SPECTRA took over and Chai stayed behind in order for Peppermint and the rest of the team to escape. Peppermint was ready to try again and defeat her brother Kale once and for all. However, before they could even do anything, SPECTRA had a sudden shutdown. Everything that followed happened too fast, a hell on earth that neither Peppermint nor anyone could have predicted. Amidst the chaos, Peppermint was able to find Chai and Roxanne. But doing so came with the price of the gruesome sight of her older brother's death or should Pepperming say suicide as Chai clung to the body, mourning Kale's death for reasons unknown

In trying to clean the company name, Roxanne had open up a recovery program called "Project Amethyst". However, this program ended up causing more harm. Chai was amongst those affected the program. Until one of the robots decided to step in and guide everyone towards the truth. The turmoil of emotions is present in every corner but the ghost of Kale had yet to say his final goodbye since Kale left one last message for Chai. The message comes in the form of an AI of himself, thus beginning Chai's painful and slow process of healing.

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rip it out of my chest / in the palm of your hands bleeding out on your dress / until i'm cryin' for more

wip wednesday!! sorry it's like 10pm <3

Lazy night