14th ♫ | the nightingale is still locked in the cage

[daydreamy]

Kyouko Kougami/Reflector Heart CMO

A CMO/voicetest for Kyouko Kougami/Reflector Heart, an OC from a magical girl verse Daydream Reflection!

You're free to pop in with assumed CR, new CR, AUs and whatever else i'm not that fussy i just wanna thread man just plonk a character in a comment down below, give me a scenario and let's do some RPing!

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[shineinside]

You...

[ She hesitates for a moment. It's almost enough.

Yuka steps backward, recoiling from the gesture of affection as the circle at her feet expands again. Vines lash out and wrap themselves around all four of Kyouko's limbs, desperately trying to hold her back. ]

D... Don't just declare that on your own with no basis! There are things that can do, and things that you can't! No matter how much you say you care, there's nothing you can do for me, Kyouko! This is the only way!

[daydreamy]

[ Kyouko strains forward like she's leaning into the winds of a hurricane. It feels like her arms are going to come off at the shoulder, popping out of the joints like a broken action figure. But she doesn't stop. ]

If it's the only way, then why were we fighting so hard before?! You saw it, I know you did! Every single time we stopped a monster, things got a little better for people in the real world! It wasn't perfect but we were still making a difference!

And if I can make a difference for all those people, for strangers I didn't even know, then what makes you think I won't be able to do that for you? What makes you think I'd ever stop before I did that for you?!

[shineinside]

B-Because...

[ One by one, the vines break as Kyouko pushes forward. Yuka looks up, tears streaming down her face. ]

...Because I don't deserve it! Because I'm a coward who just ran away from all her problems! I gave up, even knowing that it would hurt you! I betrayed you because I'm too weak to keep on living the life I was given!

Just hurry up and give up on me! I haven't done anything to deserve your kindness!

[daydreamy]

I'm not giving up on you!

[ When the vines finally come apart, Kyouko's momentum carries her forward a few steps. She almost falls flat on her face but instead of coming to a stop, she keeps moving. Towards Yuka.

Before the other girl can protest or even think about moving away, Kyouko throws herself forward and wraps Yuka up in the tightest hug she can muster. She hurts all over and her arms are screeching in protest at the overexertion. But she's not giving up on Yuka. And more importantly, she's not letting Yuka go. ]

You really think you can call yourself a coward after you lasted so long like that, all by yourself? All that time you spent pushing on, even though there was no one you could talk to? And then when we found out about this world together, even though everything'd been so hard for you, you decided you were going to make things better for everyone with me!

You're amazing, Yuka-chan! And if you're a coward then I'm-- I'm just useless! I'm useless because I couldn't see how bad you were hurting. I got so caught up in trying to save everyone else... I didn't see the person right next to me who needed saving too.

[shineinside]

[ I'm not worth it. Fighting for me will just end with you getting hurt again. I can't be saved. All the things she wanted to say vanish in Kyouko's embrace.

Her words make Yuka realize one thing she had overlooked - Kyouko was suffering, too. But it wasn't because of some dream she couldn't realize or something she wanted to become, it was because she hadn't been there for her best friend. If the worlds merged, then that wound would stay open forever. Could such a world - one where she could erase her own pain at the cost of Kyouko's happiness - ever really be worth it?

Slowly, hesitantly, Yuka reached up to hug her back. She clung almost painfully tightly and cried into Kyouko's shoulder, overwhelmed by her warmth and kindness. ]

It's... not going to get easier... Even if I go back... I'll just end up wanting to run away again...

[daydreamy]

That's okay! That's-- it's hard. Living in the real world when you know all the bad stuff that happens, especially when you have to live through so much of it! Wanting to run away from it to somewhere safe doesn't make you a bad person, it just--

[ It just makes her as human as anyone else.

Kyouko's arms tighten around her. ]

Any time you feel like that... every single time you feel like you have to run away, just come find me, okay? And if you ever do run away I'll just come and find you. You don't have to go back and face up to all that by yourself.

[shineinside]

[ From this close, they can't see each other faces, but even so, Yuka does her best to put on a smile. It's shaky, uncertain, and stained with tears, but it's for Kyouko, she can at least try. ]

...I think, maybe... I can face that world again... as long as... I'm with you...

[ Yuka finally recognizes the feeling taking shape in her heart, the emotion she had mistaken for simple gratitude. There are so many things she wants to say, if she can figure out how.

I never want you to suffer because of me.
You're the reason that I can be strong.
I want to keep you at my side forever.
I love you. ]