#stabbing.

full body, lineless commission with a simple background for @thethrillof! very fun to work on and an amazing idea!

Oh yeah, Steve being a Yandere is the type of thing no one expects. He doesn't necessarily control it because of his laid-back personality. He just "goes with the flow" when it happens. The thing about that is it makes him extremely dangerous.

He's a walking natural gaslight and he knows it. It could be something in his genes like maybe he's part demon and it's a trait that was passed onto him. His smile tends to make people believe that he could do no wrong. This is dangerous for you because if you start picking up on his behaviors and start talking to those around you about it, you'll get told it's all in your head until something drastic happens.

Oops, his dagger slipped and it landed in someone's jugular vein, that someone is the one who was messing with you. Or just someone shooting the breeze. Maybe they meant no harm at all. He just shrugs and says it is what it is. And he does all of it with a smile. Those around him, despite just seeing what he just did, find that they don't believe he did it. They had to have seen it wrong because his demeanor does not change. This is Steve. He would have never... But you know what you just saw.

You have to find people who don't know Steve and that's really hard to do. As a Coven Scout, he got around and a majority of people know him for being a "Bad Boy with a Heart of Gold", playful as hell, and wanting nothing more than to create a little mischief to entertain himself when he's on patrol. In fact, that's what attracted you to him in the first place. Now, it terrifies you that Steve can literally get away with murder in a room full of people and they're certain he didn't do it.

When Steve starts suspecting you of breaking away from him and realizing what he's doing, he confronts you and tries to calm you down and reel you back into believing in him again. The way he talks to you is pleasant and soft, but it was the opposite tone of what he was saying. Seeing you weren't swayed, he'd come clean.

"Yeah, so what if I killed the guy? He was messing with you. I couldn't have that. Aren't you happy that I love you enough to protect you like that? Don't you feel safe, babe?"

No, you didn't feel safe. And you began to think about what he'd do to you if you didn't fall back in line. When he picks up on this, he just laughs.

"No, babe, I'm not going to get leave you if that's what you're thinking. This is just a rough patch. I love you too much to be apart from you like that. I'm going to stay by your side until death does us part. You're my everything. You feel that too, right? Of course, you do. We're soulmates."

This doesn’t really show it off very well, but Shuichi’s execution in the au is called “Escape room”

He’s trapped in a room with a clock counting down from 1 hour, and has to figure out the various puzzles to unlock the door and escape.

He was told before his execution that there is in fact a way to escape and if he fails both Kokichi and Kaito will die, and then so will maki for having technically killed them both.

(Ko and Kai survived by sharing the antidote, and staged the press with fake blood, unfortunately that means the poison was only slowed for both of them rather than one being cured)

While if it were just the puzzles Shuichi would have probably solved them with relative ease, unfortunately Monokuma is never fair and executions are meant to be painful

At the start the puzzles really are just normal puzzles but the more he solves the more dangerous they get. Starting with things like spikes shooting out of something he’s trying to grab on to, which is rather easy to avoid if you pay attention (which after the first time he does)

But they become more and more painful/unfair. It starts when shuichi goes to stick his hands into a hole he needs to put a combination into and fire shoots out of it. Shuichi by this point expecting the trap pulls his hands out before any harm comes to him…

It doesn’t stop, putting in this combination is absolutely necessary to get to the next step, so he has to stick his hands in flames long enough to set the numbers in to continue.

The traps continue on like this, forcing shuichi to walk while a metal pole coursing with electricity is sticking through his leg, all the way to the end of a small hallway.

Releasing a thin amount of poison gas that filters through the room for the entire rest of the punishment, which makes Shuichi woozy, weak and sick

He has to walk over nails to reach one area, and while on the way in he manages to distribute his weight as to not hurt himself, as soon as he gets what he needs a metal sheet starts closing over the exit to the area and he has to launch his body under the door to make it out in time, which means his entire front half gets raked over sharp nails. 

These are only some examples of the traps set in the room. But in the end Shuichi manages to unlock the door opening it to find…

A massive spike pit, and no exit in sight. So now Shuichi has two choices, jump out of the house and die to the spikes or stay in the house until it explodes killing him.