02 - a wolf among sheep

[bittydragon]

Characters: Yamato and YOU
Setting: Cafeteria! Oct 13th
Format: I shall follow~
Summary: Yamato is dressed up as an adorable lamb. He is downright psychotic with rage.
Warnings: He is actually a wolf in sheep's clothing. He has fangs. He will bite.



Yamato felt downright ridiculous as he slipped quietly into the cafeteria, looking about to make sure that it was empty. It had taken a stupid amount of time to slip this far without being detected, but it was better than someone seeing him dressed up as this- this-!

This lamb!

He was absolutely adorable! Cute! Cuddly! It was an outrage! He was a Hotsuin, and Hotsuin do not look adorable or anything of that nature! Yamato snarled quietly to himself, stepping further into the cafeteria. If he didn't need to eat, he would've just stayed under the bed for eternity!

It was bad enough going to that 'meeting' - where barely anything was solved except the candy collection. At least he could hide behind the other children there, but on his lonesome? No, if he was caught by himself, he would have to suffer being laughed at.

Total humiliation.

So someone find him and laugh at him already.

Comments

[technologic]

[April is used to seeing odd things in the tower, so stepping into the cafeteria and seeing a kid dressed up as a lamb wasn't that odd. So she just blinks at him before simply saying:]

Ah, morning.

[Even though she's mentally giggling at how cute he is.]

[bittydragon]

[The effect is almost instantaneous.

At hearing the voice, Yamato practically fluffed up in sheer alarm, and did an impressive bolt to hide under one of the tables, shuffling out of view.

Aaaaah dammit! He had been so close...!]

[technologic]

[Okay, April has to cover up her laugh with a cough, before walking over and looking under the table a bit.]

... You don't have to hide, y'know.

[bittydragon]

[Yamato glared at her over his fluffy arms, his pale eyes narrowed into thin slits]

Go away. You're not allowed to look at me.

[puppy_lancer]

Did you call for someone to laugh at you? Well, Lancer is glad to answer that request. He's guffawing at how you're in one of the few costumes less dignified than his dog kigurumi.

[bittydragon]

Yamato stiffened at the laughter, and snapped his head around to give the laughing man a truly venomous glower. No, not just a glower. A growl, sounding far too low for a child to make, rumbled in the back of his throat, and he bared his sharp canines in a style very much like a dog.

How dare he laugh?! He too was in a humiliating outfit!

"What are you laughing at, you incompetent?" he snarled, almost fluffing up in anger. Sadly, whatever intimidating he could have was soundly thwarted by his adorable outfit.

[puppy_lancer]

Lancer continues to laugh, not only at the boy's costume, but at his dog imitation. After all, it was a little hard for a canine to frighten the Hound of Culann.

"Oh, nothing much. Just the puppy who thinks he's already a hound."

[bittydragon]

Yamato lets out another growl, but instead of saying anything further, just sticks his nose up in the air and turns away like this man was something beneath him - or stank.

"Feh. Not worth it."

Trying to maintain as much dignity as possible, he stalks his way over to the kitchen. He didn't know how to cook, having never done it before, but he was certain he could raid something from the cupboards or the fridge or whatever. Just snag something so he could leave before he died from embarrassment.

[myblueskies]

"Hello Yamato!" Guess who it is, Yamato's new friend! He has been collecting candy all day and has come to check that Yamato has enough. "How are you?"

[bittydragon]

Yamato let out a small, pained groan, as if Romeo's presence brought him great mental anguish. Well, at least Romeo didn't seem to comprehend shame, even if Yamato still felt embarrassed to be seen by someone as simple as him.

"...as fine as one can be when they have been thoroughly humiliated to the point of near-death," Yamato muttered, giving Romeo a baleful stare.

[myblueskies]

"What does humiliated mean?" And it had almost killed him? That was awful. Romeo got closer to Yamato as if he was going to protect him against whatever it was that was endangering his friend.

[bittydragon]

...seriously?

Yamato heaved a great sigh. "It means an intense, near crippling embarrassment. You know what 'embarrassment' is, correct?"

[mostremaining]

Gilbert spotted an unusual sight as he entered the cafeteria for another meal. A child! A child in an adorable costume! He just couldn't resist. He had to talk to this boy. "Hey, little guy," he said softly. "Enjoying the game?"

[bittydragon]

Yamato stiffened up, and clenched his jaw as he tried to stifle the instinctive urge to snap irritably. He inhaled sharply and turned to give the strange man - pale hair and red eyes, what was it with people having such unnatural coloured eyes here? - a cold stare.

"Do not call me little. And sadly, yes, I have been dragged into playing this ridiculous game."

[mostremaining]

"But you are little," Gilbert replied, not quite grasping the seriousness of Yamato's words. "So I take it you're not having fun with whatever game is going on? I can see why you wouldn't. Apparently, the higher-ups forced people into their costumes." That did not help his perception of this place at all, nope.

[bittydragon]

Yamato let out an annoyed huff at the insistance of his smallness, but simply stuck his nose up into the air.

"...they are playing a sadistic game. Aside from forcing us to wear such humiliating outfits, we have to collect a certain amount of candy - if we don't, we die."

[manlyasfuck]

You too, huh? [There's another young boy walking over, looking just as embarrassed in his own lamb costume.]

[bittydragon]

[Yamato blinks and stares a little - well. Okay. That makes him feel sort of better. At least he manages to look dignified in such an outfit]

...it seems so.

[firstofthefallen]

[Lucifer is pretty well acquainted with Halloween. And in most cases he enjoys it quite a bit.

The fact that he's been dressed as a stereotypical red devil, not so much. It's annoying and insulting and the fact that the Tower believes it can continue to get it over on him it's getting to be quite enough.

Lucifer takes a long, quiet look at Yamamoto before speaking.]

Brace yourself. They never cease with their insults upon us.

[bittydragon]

[Yamato growled when he realised there was someone here after all - dressed just as ridiculously as him at that - but paused briefly. This child... Yamato squinted at him.

Something was off about him?

Although there was something off or weird about everyone in the tower. Well, that is how the pattern went, anyway]

What are you dressed as?

[At least Yamato recognised his outfit, as humiliating as it was. But was was this child's? The horns made it appear demonic, although Yamato had never encountered one that looked like that]

[firstofthefallen]

An insult, just like yourself.

[Lucifer's voice is flat, annoyance still slipping out but holding back on his anger. Even if it's annoying to be asked that, to possibly have to explain it, Lucifer is at least able to remind himself Yamamoto is just a child and adopt some semblance of patience however thin.]

This place is foolish, and those who administer it are foolish. Then again. Perhaps the people here are foolish most of all for continuing to go about with what they're told to do at times by those running this Tower.

[Not that Lucifer himself gets much of a choice on the matter either. But he refuses to say that out loud. Or perhaps to even admit it to himself.]

[bittydragon]

[Yamato frowns at the irritation clear in the other's tone. He didn't think 'child', because really now, he was beginning to recognise the vibes as something demonic. Different in some way, however.

He almost sighed, feeling too wrung out to really butt heads with this demon - entity - possible star - whatever...really, whatever. He was so done]

Everyone is a fool, then?

[Yamato's tone is a bit flat]

[crouching_sin]

Naoya was in the cafeteria, attempting to find something to eat, when he spotted the child. Or, more accurately, the child's costume.

'... Breathe,' he had to remind himself. Sheep. Always sheep. Tch. Well, he could at least feed the child. - There. Some pumpkin bread. He grabbed some for himself and headed over to the child with the other half.

"... Here." Yeah, yeah, stranger danger. Whatever. He could deal with a child.

[bittydragon]

Yeahhh no. Yamato knew better than to accept food off people he didn't even know.

He glowered up at him, hunkering down in his sheep outfit while trying to appear as dignified as possible (and failing. Miserably).

"...do you really think I would accept that off of someone I don't know?"

[crouching_sin]

He shrugged, and broke off half of it to eat for himself. "I assumed you were here because you were hungry. While I'm pleased you're not a complete idiot, I've seen far too many hungry children to want to let one go hungry."

He remembered what it was like all too clearly, after all.