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YUYA SAKAKI UN: FUNDIRECTION

STATUS: Student Grade 9

ACCOLADES: (Here is a list of leading roles Yuya's has in school theater performances over the past two years, plus a glowing review of his familiar Odd-Eyes)

BIO: Hello! You can call me Yuya. I'm from Sendai, Japan. This is my second year in Daybreak Academy. I'm a Tamer, and Odd-Eyes is my familiar. He's the big red dragon that hangs out in the courtyards. He's friendly but he tries to steal food sometimes. I speak Japanese and English but not very good French. I'm also in the theater club. I'm in Lumiere 203. Let's be friends!

© TESSISAMESS

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[unpocoloco]

[He shakes his head.]

It doesn't matter. It wasn't your choice. And you didn't kill anyone besides. You were not the only one who lost control that night. Many of my friends were taken, a good number of them being those I would consider good people on an ordinary day. I can no more hold it against you than I would them. Even if you were a full daemon yourself, you did not choose that.

[hippocarnival]

But I wanted to!

[He yanks at Hector's sleeves, trying to get him to understand.] I was going to! It was fun chasing you down, I didn't think twice that I was strangling Toki! I knew what I was doing!

[Maybe for others, they're used to this feeling. But for Yuya the thrill of murder is a terrifying new reality.]

[unpocoloco]

No.

[His voice is firm. His brows furrow. He makes a note to ask after Toki, later, but not now.]

You thought you knew what you were doing. You felt like you were. But people who know what they're doing don't feel this way after. You have to understand, Yuya, there are things in this world that can and will take hold of your mind. Be that the hunt, or a curse, or like what happened to me. These things will make you believe that it's you, right up until they can't control you anymore. You are not responsible for that. The only things you can manage are how to move from there. If that's not enough proof for you, then ask yourself: do you want to hurt Toki and I now?

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya is already crying again, it's terrible.] No... I don't want to hurt anyone anymore, but that daemon...

[Well, he does, and right now that's an influence buried deep in Yuya. There's no reason to trust him as long as it's there.]

[unpocoloco]

[He reaches out, carefully brushing a tear off the kid's face.]

That daemon never bothered you before. You can make sure it doesn't again. I know this was terrible for you, but you can take precautions from now on. You'll know the signs and dangers and it will never surprise you like that again. You'll be able fight it off or at least warn people. You may even be able to find some other solutions.

[He presses a hand to his own sternum.]

I have a rune, right here, just for that reason. If I'm ever at risk of losing myself, I can activate it and I'll have help. I have another friend here who has promised me I will never go through something like it again and she has the magic to help it.

Because this thing is a part of you, you'll need a bit more help than just that, but that's okay. I, and all your friends I'm sure, we all want to be here for you. And the faculty has more than enough daemons who'd understand. You're still you. Just let us help, okay?

[hippocarnival]

[He's not so sure it never bothered him before. The nightmares were always there--then there was the same weaknesses, the familiarity, now this. Even if it didn't, it wasn't because of anything Yuya did.

He's not in much of a place for trying to work through that conversation, though, reaching to try and wipe his face and stop sobbing. It's going slowly.]

[unpocoloco]

[When Yuya doesn't respond, neither does he. He leans back in and wraps his arms around the boy once more, simply holding on and waiting it out.

If nothing else, he can be here for Yuya in this way. He can be steady enough.]