and the beast in your eyes slowly becomes tame and dim

UPDATED 4-2-2011! Look, I did a thing! ... four months later yes I know shut up :(

WARNING! There is going to be triggering content and some nsfw sexual discussion, the first because Kaito has ridiculous issues and the sexond (LEAVING THE TYPO, THANKS :'D) because I am ridiculous, period. The second is in its own section; I'll remove this warning once it collapses. The triggering stuff is also in its own section (under the mental heading), so stay out of there unless you are cool with some in-depth discussion about heavy depression and some of the things that go with it. Obligatory "o kaito why are you so messed up :(" goes here.

TO DO:
Physical Differences: Biological Differences, Uncanny Valley, Effects on Kaito's Mind
Mental: "Now see my body's a beast, and I am a rider," "The beast in your eyes" if I can use song lyrics for all of my posts in this category, I'm HAPPY
Timeline: Basic timeline, figure out the dates, suicide attempts.

OKAY BECAUSE WE ARE TERRIBLE and almost constantly plotting, our AU has pretty much gotten HUGE! As a result, there are several other people from our little universe that we'd LOVE to see other players pick up 8< To make that a little more possible, here's sort of a "cast of characters" with a little bit of background information on each of them. Most of them also have somewhat more intricate pieces of headcanon, and we're always generating more; but most of that I'm gonna leave out for the sake of length and also not putting too many restrictions there if anyone DOES want to pick one of them up.

Rin: STANDARD KOKORO/KISEKI-verse model! With one exception: she's met Kaito once or twice. He told her not to tell Len that they had because Kaito being there was "a suprise. Humans like suprises, so please don't spoil it for him." Takennnn.

Miku: ADORABLE AND TOPPY and maybe a tiny bit of a friendly troll. Somewhat religious, but what religion and how much is something we've left open. In love with Kaito- I personally imagine some "AM I EVE HOLDING THE APPLE OF KNOWLEDGE" angst there but again, that is negotiable |D She named Kaito "Adam," after the first man. ...she also died by getting hugged to death by Kaito after essentially confessing to him. OOPS. Other than that, she's standard-issue Miku.

Meiko: IS MEIKO. Not much different there except she's also a surgeon and worked with Len on Kaito. Mayyyyy have also had a crush on Len. Was sent away along with Len's remaining lab assistants after the incident involving Kaito's birth. TAKEN what is this ahhhh

Gakupo: GOOD NATURED OLD MAN; really, he's just aged-up regular Gakupo. He taught Kaito most of his morals and manners, as well as how to play chess. Died while trying to keep Kaito from getting violent on some nice policemen that were asking too many questions about Kaito's presence. T-t-t-taken.

If anybody's interested, you can either drop a comment here or e-mail me at opalinesque at gmail dot com and I will be OVERJOYED to dig out some more of the details behind each of them (assuming I have them. I ADMITTEDLY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING CONCRETE for, say, how Kaito met Miku yet).