#yuusha mortem

*Vibrates excitingly on an astronautical level* Holy shit, fuck yes, I love infodumping about my AUs, let's fucken goooooo--

(CorpseWalker Infodump in the undercut.)

yess! i have been waiting a long time to talk about the kiddo.......

yuusha trivia GO

-she's a lot smarter than she lets on. yuusha is smartest at things she enjoys doing that also test her brain, like jigsaw puzzles.

-yuusha is very emotionally mature, allowing her to approach social problems with patience. however, she is still a traumatised 15 year old that lived in survival mode for most of her life, so she has CPTSD and suffers from panic attacks and freezing up when scared, as well as dissociation.

-salem has yuusha in therapy, but not intensive. spending time with mama has proven to be more effective long term, and consistently good, so she goes to talk therapy a little less often than people would usually. yuusha is a brave kid but will shy away easily if the mental anguish gets too strong when trying to confront a traumatic memory. this is something she's still working through with mom and her therapist.

- yuusha has a few slight speech impediments, due to not talking much at all before meeting salem, as well as having trouble adjusting to her new sharp carnie teeth in conjunction with also learning more vocab.

- yuusha finds it a little difficult to keep track of time. while she enjoys organising many things, the process of tediously organising her books into a perfectly color coded row seems to eat away at the clock. she barely notices.

- yuusha wants to get into some sort of craft work with thread and needle, but she's deathly scared of needles. salem has looked into knitting classes for her, and thinks yuusha might be more comfortable with that, due to the large blunt needles (as opposed to sharp, small ones, which are more similar to syringes or tranquillisers)

- yuusha hates the doctor. she doesn't enjoy being touched and prodded in such a way. she even gets upset when her mama brushes her hair. salem has resorted to grooming her hair like a cat instead, which yuusha is slightly less objected to. salem excuses it on the grounds she's not a human, so she can do that if she needs to. yuusha forgot that licking people's hair wasn't normal, for a while.

- yuusha was very afraid of everything when salem took her in. she was clearly traumatised and close to having a severe meltdown or panic attack, so salem took to a direct, stern meeting with her boss mary to let her know that if yuusha doesn't get adequate treatment, patience, and therapy, then salem is going to kill everyone and then herself. mary was so in disbelief at the audacity that she just accepted it and permitted yuusha to be treated like a normal human being (which for some reason was not the plan initially...)

- yuusha loves colorful things. salem has spent a lot of money finding rare authentic prints of lisa frank books for her girl and yuusha has read them so many times over she's begun to highlight and notate the pages with doodles in colored pen.

- yuusha has an inexplicable need to listen to technology. like, the humming of a computer monitor, or the static of a TV. salem assumes this is due to it being a sensory seeking behaviour of some sort. yuusha tells her otherwise, and that she feels like she can hear people laughing and talking to each other when she tunes into the frequencies. salem was a little concerned, but this was the only instance of yuusha saying she was experiencing something like this, so salem kept a close eye but didn't worry too much.

- yuusha enjoys mismatching colors on her clothes. she was always made fun of for doing this before salem took her in, but salem never judged her for it, so she became comfortable going the whole mile and wearing all sorts of colors and combinations of accessories.

- yuusha likes making jewellery for her mama and friends! usually kid's stuff like loom bands, kandi, beads, silly strings, etc. even candy necklaces.

- speaking of friends, salem worked very hard to get yuusha permission to have contact with other children her age. yuusha now regularly attends a youth group with some other kids her age from around the city. yuusha made some casual friends very quickly due to her friendly nature and tendency to try and include everyone in activities.

- outside of the youth group sessions each week, yuusha has contact with some of her friends from there over direct email under salem's supervision. salem installed a rainbow skin for her email address that yuusha really liked. the kid was a little upset she couldn't choose all the colors for her text color, though. she wanted rainbow text :(

-if you asked yuusha what her favourite color was, she'd say all of them. if you asked her to pick one, she'd think for a good minute or so, then tell you she likes white because it's like a blank canvas where you can put any color you want, or even all of them. she says black is her second favourite because it's the older sister of white. (you do not quite know what this means but you nod along anyway)

- yuusha has a casual interest in old retro pc software for painting, like ms paint and kid pix. salem found a shareware disk at a garage sale she passed by one day, and took it home for her daughter. since then yuusha's been experimenting a lot with what she can make with that software. salem always tells her to save her work to the USB drive so salem can show it to her coworkers.

- yuusha is the kind of person who doesn't care what dessert she gets at the buffet, even if she doesn't really like the taste. yuusha just wants to try everything and anything, not for knowledge, but enrichment of her life and experiences.

- yuusha is being trained in a private program under salem's constant supervision and mary's command, in preparation for her eventually moving to combat training, then learning how to track and kill other carnies. salem is still trying to figure out how she's going to approach this situation, given she knows yuusha won't take the psychological effects of this kind of "job" any better than she did. it's mostly just excercise and agility training, as well as reaction time + perception

- yuusha goes on outings with her mama, usually to fun places. salem always brings a gun, as well as anything she needs in case of an emergency, but ESPECIALLY with yuusha. salem has had bounties put on her head before by underground criminal networks in amber urbe, and she is always very very careful when bringing yuusha outside of where it's safe. she doesn't want to make her kid's life miserable, so she lets her come with, but salem always reminds her to practice a special safety protocol that they made together, and has a small set of rules for yuusha to follow while they're out. yuusha is a good bean so she doesn't care as long as she can have fun with mama! ^_^

- yuusha's hair is pretty coarse, so while she's tried to arrange it in silly ways, it never seems to last. yuusha typically just uses kid's hair dye crayons now to add a bit of color.

-yuusha is oblivious to the fact that her mom intimidates the living shit out of any kid or parent that knows her. however, since yuusha is so easygoing about it all it tends to rub off on others, and people feel slightly more at ease around salem when yuusha is with her. a bundle of sunshine and joy, and then the most dark brooding broad shouldered woman youve ever seen (thats mama)

-salem always makes sure to keep yuusha away from inmates scheduled for execution (meaning their freshly deceased bodies will be provided as food for salem and now also yuusha) because while yuusha knows she has to eat people, salem doesn't want her to get attached to anyone like that. she just wants yuusha to eat without worrying, or feeling guilty, so salem reminds yuusha that everyone will die someday, and whatever time it happens can be really random, and sometimes inconvenient, but it's just the way life is, so living happily is the most important thing, and to be thankful to be alive and amongst her loved ones. yuusha rolls with this, but internally has a lot of questions about it.

thats all i got, but i'll give an extra bonus salem fact

I clearly remember that the Ceremony was at night, which means more shenanigans for the CorpseWalker AU.

*rubs my gay little hands together* mmmmm, yes, more story material...

(Short-ish??? Story in the undercut. Idk, man, I wrote this in the middle of the night.)

From Beyond The Grave

have you seen The Promised Neverland??? bc omggg the angst potential for Yuusha to have come from that universe

OMG HI I JUST WOKE UP WKSKSKSKSKSKAKAKEKWKSKSKS--

I never seen the Promised Neverland, tho it HAS been on my to-watch list for a while. 👀 bUT!! I do get the general concept of it!

Good lord, an AU where Yuusha came from one of the human farms in Promised Neverland?? THAT'S PRIME ANGST MATERIAL THERE, BABY!!

Oh my god, imagine Yuusha just telling everyone about the farms and how basically every child there is raised to be a demon's lunch-- Complete and utter horror, I'll tell you. (Leona and Jack never see meat the same way ever again.)

Can.. Can we call this branch AU the "Dead Neverland AU"?? Idk, I just think it sounds neat. :)

I think in the Dead Neverland AU, Yuusha is one of the kids who actually managed to escape along with a few others, but got betrayed and was left for dead by another kid as a "distraction". (Cue DN!Yuusha having trust issues.)

DN!Yuusha is more resourceful and physical fit than regular Yuusha, so they will be more independent and secretive about their "condition". They're also more.. cruel?? manipulative?? malevolent??? than regular Yuusha, too. Hey, you gonna do what you gonna do in order to survive in a world full of murderous mamas and bloodthirsty demons.

They're also a LOT younger than regular Yuusha by 4 years since the demon want more "fresher" meat. (Regular Yuusha is 16, just like Ace and Deuce. While DN!Yuusha is 12. Lol, good luck to Crowley because he's now taking care of an angsty, traumatized 12 year old with trust issues and a knife.)

aLSO!!!!-- I want to see Yuusha reacting to the wonderful mess that is Twisted Wonderland!! What I can see in the anime, the Promised Neverland seems kinda dull and plain. So, seeing and experiencing a lot of fun, colorful things is one way to make Yuusha open up their undead heart. :, )

DN!Yuusha getting to try their first cupcake/tart with Riddle and Trey. Playing Magishift with Jack and Leona. Eating seafood for the first time and having to play the piano with Azul. Taking dance lessons with Jamil and riding into the sunset on the magic carpet with Kalim.

Wearing extravagant clothes that they only see in storybooks with Pomefiore, and Vil fussing over their health and appearance just like all the other mamas. Seeing technology for the first time and having random gaming matches with Idia. Getting to see Malleus doing magic tricks for them and Lilia reading bedtime stories.

(hMMMMMMMM, HELL YES, NRC STAFF SUPREMACY, LET'S GOOOOOOO--)

Crowley speedrunning on his research on how to travel to Yuusha's world, just to beat up whomever dared to kill his (figurative) child.

Crewel making scent-cancelling and regeneration potions for Yuusha, and trying to fix their numerous stab wounds. (Kudos to Crewel, but his efforts will go to waste since the wounds will just show up again once nighttime comes.)

Trein comforting Yuusha whenever their nightmares of their death gets a little too real, and giving them cookies and hot drink like he did with his daughters.

Vargas encouraging Yuusha to be more active and encouraging students to talk to them because he noticed that Yuusha is always alone during pair-up exercises.

Sam giving Yuusha discounts on food and school supplies, even offering Yuusha a job to work in his mystery shop since Monstro Lounge only had night shifts available.

(Who are you and how did you get into my drafts? HOW?? JK JK)

The time where Yuusha finally reveals that they were murdered by someone they love is more of a matter of if, not when. Despite their friendly and kind nature, Yuusha.. is surprisingly very secretive about their past. Yeah, they will talk about their hobbies and likes for hours and hours if prompted, but any single curious question at their background and Yuusha will go deadly silent.

But if Yuusha DID ever reveal their murderer's ture identity, well... Let's say that a lot of people are VERY overprotective of Yuusha.

(NRC's reactions in the undercut!)

Lucky for you, my version of Yuusha actually IS amab, but they prefer gender neutral pronouns.

Omg, what if Twisted Wonderland doesn't have vines, and when Yuusha tries to recreate the "MY DICK FELL OFF" meme, Deuce and Ace would take it seriously aijsijwihxinishihx--

The MC trio (and Grim): *barges into Crewel's office with Yuusha hung over Deuce's shoulder* PROFESSOR CREWEL!!!--

Crewel, exasperated: What is it now, you three?

Deuce: YUU'S DICK FELL OFF!

Crewel: ... Yuusha. Explain. Now.

Yuusha: ...