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[ladyofthehouse]

HERR NAGUMOOOOOO

Basically Kaoru just ended up on the wrong?? end of Austria's temper/patience/sanity for the first half of the game.

Austria isn't a morning person in the slightest. Like she's barely even functional so waking up in some weird ass house with some weird ass layout and bumping into some weird punk ass dude was like sensory overload-- SO NATURALLY SHE SMACKED THE SHIT OUT OF HIM WHEN THEY FIRST MET and then ollied out like some crazy loon.

But that was actually embarrassing as all hell when she was functional and competent. So naturally when she saw Kaoru again she decided their first meeting-- never happened. She will never acknowledge it occurred you could show her a video tape of that episode and she would deny it's existence right in front of her face it never happened-- it never happened Kaoru.

When the first trial rolled around she tried to be pretty pragmatic initially, but eventually it seemed reasonable to her that Kaoru was the one who most likely did the thing SHE JUST COULDN'T PROVE IT. And it drove her to a colossal break down about tumblers and chloroform and basically she was a crazy ranting woman who knew she was right somehow-- and then marlowe was acting hella shady and fuck it Austria didn't like that bitch anyways so when the opportunity to lynch that her arrived WHY NOT. if they can't find the evidence for Kaoru then she probably did it, why not. apparently not.

At that point she really did re-evaluate her relationship with Kaoru. And she realized well. Maybe I am being... unfair to him. Somehow. Although it is weird that it is just him I am unfair to it is like he is bringing this on himself-- CLEARLY AUSTRIA SHOULD HAVE NOT IGNORED THAT IN FAVOR OF BEING POLITE BECAUSE KAORU WAS IN FACT A LITTLE SHIT. but i digress.

So she tried to cut him more slack. Consciously. And then he wanted piano lessons anyways so attempting to be nicer to him wasn't that hard when she had a completely legitimate reason and scheduled time slot each week to hurl verbal abuse at him!!

But Austria found Kaoru's waffling and insecurity and mildness actually pretty annoying and frustrating but Kaoru was helpful in trials so at least he had that going for him. So when he opted to learn piano she wanted to make him more confident! For his piano playing sake and just to make him less annoying to her in general actually.

At that point she realized that Kaoru took all her yelling and demands for perfection unreasonably well for someone who was so... mild-- like she's sure Bakura would have cried like in the first five minutes of her calling his fingers bratwursts but Kaoru just took everything in stride. Which she thought was kind of weird but not completely unheard of because she generally has that effect on some men. But then it just made her kind of curious as to what would actually get to him so she got more and more bold with her critiques of him BUT SHE STILL COULDN'T GET ANYTHING OUT OF HIM.

The week four private conversation in the trial really agitated her more than she was letting on, but Sebastian was more obnoxious about it and less helpful than Kaoru was so while she couldn't stand the two of them for being so spineless she could still tolerate Kaoru more. Like seriously you're two grown ass men who can CLEARLY hold their own and you're scared of a thirteen year old? What the hell is the matter with you???

As a result she took the firing squad for their ridiculous secretiveness because she is not a complete wuss. She was not... anticipating the wrath of Glinda... however... ha ha. She took a serious hit emotionally for you cold hearted twerps.

Also she felt like her babysitting responsibilities when it came to Spain's dumbassery multiplied exponentially somehow. Because Kaoru was in it for himself basically, but Spain was still like my friends! my friends! you saved me-- no. Kaoru's a shit SPAIN DON'T TRUST HIM. That's what she got out of their conversation. Which... you know. Being a shit in a murder game fine whatever. Survival of the fittest she guesses. But this isn't someone you want to befriend Spain, he's a little shit who will throw you under the bus if it's convenient to spare himself any hand dirtying.

She really resented the calling attention to her immunity thing. Because Austria didn't like being rewarded for basically nailing Bakura to the wall and she really did think Kaoru and Sebastian were pretty disgusting behavior wise in that trial. To her it was like hey look what you got for spain being incompetent and hey look at what you got for Kaoru and Sebastian being trash-- IMMUNITY. Wait till Glinda shows up to rip you apart for it.

So when he suggested piano lessons she was like hell yes lets get the fuck out of here-- but then she started second guessing herself as being too hard on Kaoru again. And chalked his silence up to maybe more of a confidence problem??

Basically Austria went through a process of not liking Kaoru, not being able to rationalize why she did not like Kaoru eloquently enough even for herself and then dialing back the resentment.... For the most part things skated along like that for a while. She put down his name for trivia as the mastermind not really because she suspected him it was more like... morbid curiosity. Basically she knew something was up with that twerp that made him different from Sebastian (who it was really easy to understand why she hated his guts) she just couldn't figure out what it was.

So when Nanami (the actual mastermind lol) was like yeah Kaoru's shady-- Austria was like yeaaaaah. I tried to ignore it and be polite with him but... I can't figure out why.... but I know. I know.

At the end of week six Austria was unraveling entirely so when Sebastian's report came out she was like HA HA HA... She wasn't sure how involved Kaoru was in the actual reveal of that list but she figured he probably had some hand in at least helping Sebastian compile it. Which sort of pissed her off in another way because Kaoru and Chizuru seemed so tight knit-- and to her it was pretty obvious they were siblings. And he was setting her up to die-- unless he really believed a no kill week would work. SO. Austria... cut him slack again... thinking well that must be it...

So when she cornered him in the music room and was talking about what happy occasions "graduations" (bitty dk's) and "weddings" (the single grown ass adult chizuru) and how it would be nice if everyone got to live and do you really think a no kill week will work?? It was a make or break moment really for her--

So when he gave her the same placid pleasant kaoru-ness he always gave her... she sort of just gave up... entirely on him. She gave up on a no kill week. She gave up on inaction and sitting quietly by waiting and hoping that something would save them-- or hoping that someone else would die/kill so they could live.

AND SHE TOOK THINGS INTO HER OWN HANDS AND AUSTRIA KILLED SPAIN-- to get the grenade and spare maribelle. (otherwise she could have probably finagled something to kill sebastian somehow she's a creative woman IT WOULD HAVE BEEN REALLY HARD THOUGH and also super obvious) and you know she probably could have asked Spain. It just never occurred to her to ask because... no sane person dies for another person. To her love is living for someone-- also she didn't think Spain really loved her anyways because of the things Iceland told her about nations. No one gives a shit about two nations who don't want to be nations anyways. (But apparently Spain was the SPECIAL nation who was kaoru's and stiles bffl also no one knew about what spain had done to her that got her to this point thus the worst person ever to target apparently)

When Kaoru read Spain's note in trial and seemed to emote... Austria was just kind of like. Well. Maybe there is hope for Kaoru after all. Maybe something like this will finally get him out of his placid pleasantness and he'll actually do something now.

She wasn't expecting Sebastian to get knocked out of the suspect pool so early. She knew about him not being able to lie from when he specifically told her in the week four conversation I CAN NOT LIE and then he said it again at the report reveal so she didn't discount it-- it wasn't on his card though and when has the host ever been amenable enough to add something entirely game changing like that?? HA HA HA.

But she thought he'd made himself enough of an intolerable little shit who was content with letting the game roll on it's intended course that she'd be able to frame him regardless-- she didn't think she could convince the lawyers of anything but everyone else in the house definitely liked her enough and he'd just antagonized four people who had their backs against the wall. So the plan was cast enough doubt on him to make it look like it was him, test the cake with the sabotaged poison kit and watch him squirm under BUT I CAN'T LIE as his defense and roll on by on her alliances. then blow up that door and face the consequences anyways

She interpreted the host accepting his request to add "cannot lie" to his card as case sabotage on the part of the producers though-- like Sebastian was their best chance of getting the game to finish out as it was intended because he is such a pompous dingus. apparently it was just stiles and kaoru being hella bitter.

But she had this poisoned poison kit floating out in the ether like... shit. Fuck. I can easily frame someone else flawlessly but. I don't want to frame anyone else. I only wanted him because he's furthering the game and has lived for literal centuries!! So when Kaoru was like is Sebastian even an actual suspect anymore??? And she was like... we can rule him out-- she was pretty sure Kaoru knew exactly who'd done it by his reaction to her response. She spent most of the trial from that point giving answers that were true and also... pretty pressable if you were looking and trying to guide people off the wrong tracks while Kaoru was like THERE'S A 45 MINUTE GAP IN AUSTRIA'S ALIBI YOU GUYS. GUYS!!

She was incredibly impressed with how many people were willing to ignore that lmfao-- SEBASTIAN YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN SO BONED OKAY.

So when everyone turned on Iceland she confessed. And she figured everyone was gonna hate her guts-- especially Kaoru from that note reaction. But hey in her mind... at least she did something so whatever.

LITTLE DID SHE KNOW KAORU WAS THE MOLE ALL ALONG. THE HOST WAS IN ON IT. YOU KNEW THE WHOLE TIME. YOU KNEW EVERYTHING. YOU DID ALL THOSE AWFUL THINGS YOU LED THAT IDIOT SEBASTIAN AROUND ON A LEASH. YOU KNEW THAT GROUP WAS COERCED INTO KILLING AND YOU TRIED TO RALLY EVERYONE AGAINST THEM-- YOUR OWN SISTER.

And suddenly all those times Austria quelled her undefined odd internal hatred for Kaoru came back full force now with a purpose and she absolutely loathed his existence. Like she could understand being the mole, she could understand using people, she could understand the goal of doing what is necessary to break the game but she didn't have to like him for it or the way he went about it-- much like he didn't have to like her or how she'd tried to go about it.

Stiles dying compounded that by then further placing Kaoru and himself (and Gundam by just association-- actually she'd probably love Gundam if the mole meetings were aired tbh he was the best of the three) on a pedestal and their suffering above the suffering of those who had no power in this situation at all. Especially the line about Kaoru having to watch his sister die-- that one just made her snap entirely because Kaoru in her mind had done absolutely nothing to help Chizuru's situation.

NOTHING. If anything he'd furthered it by fueling on Sebastian.

But then she was like well if we all die we get saved anyways if their plan goes forward-- but then she didn't get why people in mm cared so much about Spain then and why Spain was suddenly more important to keep around than Maribelle?? Like there were so many glaring contradictions in the way she was perceiving Kaoru and Stiles' anger and approach towards the game she just ended up getting more frustrated.

The hypocrisy was so great she couldn't stand it. Being vilified by Stiles for what she'd done is one thing she could understand but Stiles then placing himself and Kaoru as the saviors of Craven Castle after everything they had done just made her snap entirely-- so she strangled Stiles until Spain pulled her off him but had no outlet for her rage against the Kaoru machine so that just festered and festered until HIS STUPID ASS FACE SHOWED UP FINALLY.

And then he copped an attitude immediately and she was so angry she actually ascended into a place of anger that is so placid and lukewarm it is probably what being Kaoru's fake persona feels like if that was a literal state of being. Like Kaoru was so completely dead to her in that moment even though he was living and breathing and standing right there.

So she said nothing and walked away and she would have been so content to just leave it like that and go home and never think about Kaoru fucking Nagumo or any of his disgusting friends ever again. But then she got stuck in his base camp as opposed to going home and they crossed paths at her piano.

And Kaoru said all the right things really to undo the things that Stiles had enraged her about. And yeah while Kaoru maybe had more knowledge and slightly more power than anyone in their little group-- what it comes down to is the game was the root of things. The game caused all of this. So it's not really Kaoru's fault so when she frames it like that she can let things go and understand things better.

Kaoru really needs to start up his piano lessons again anyways, what a mess that kid is. God. Blaming the keys... give her a break. MOVE YOUR BRATWURST FINGERS.

And yes she does relish in the fact that when she shouts his name... he flinches ever so vaguely. You remember this Kaoru.

[souredsweet]

RAGE AGAINST THE KAORU MACHINE IM CRYING omfg... i love this meme so much because basically everything has been like "we were all slightly confused and angry and it took us 2 months to get on the same page". BLESS... GOD... IM SO GLAD IT WORKED OUT THOUGH I WAS SO SAD WHEN THEY SPLIT OFF INTO LITTLE SEPARATE RAGE BUBBLES the power of piano and not being as much of a smarmy immature shit has served kaoru well this murdergame. he needs to go back in timespace and tell bs!kaoru to cut that out

[ladyofthehouse]

if austria knew about any of the conversations kaoru had where he implied hey lets just manipulate and use austria how hard can that be??

she'd probably laugh at him like how'd that work out /grenade wielding phantom of basilisk wing

she's actually kind of glad they worked it out even if it's just admitting they are both ANGRY AND CONFUSED BUT IT'S NOT REALLY OUR FAULT I GUESS-- otherwise if Austria dies again and ends up in blank state 2 the possessed rot they find in her heart that time will be so much more involved from craven castle drama alone... god...

she likes teaching kaoru piano so that makes her pretty happy really c':

[souredsweet]

YEAH LMFAO kaoru was wrong about so many people. HEY AUSTRIA'S EASY TO MANIPULATE. WOW KAZOO'S A PUNK WHO WON'T GET ANYTHING DONE. CHIZURU WILL DEFINITELY KILL FOR A DIPSHIT. THERE SURE IS NO WAY PEKO WOULD KILL peko kills literally the next week peko he was rooting for you.

i'm shedding a single tear tho NO ONE CAN DIE NOW BECAUSE THEY'D ALL END UP POSSESSED IF BS IS THIS WORLD'S AFTERLIFE. NO ONE DIE... they can just sit around angry and confused playing piano for the rest of eternity.

oh no tho that's cute... KAORU LIKES LEARNING. with all these musicians and musicians-to-be we will have our musical murdercamp yet...

[ladyofthehouse]

hehehe. oh no really kaoru. we could have bonded over our mutual rooting for of peko!!

tbh iceland spewing that info about spain did wonders for her because she'd of just let that stay quiet forever. and ever. and let it devour her whole-- BECAUSE THAT'S HOW SHE HANDLES HER PROBLEMS.

i hope it takes a while to figure out the tech to get everyone home because even though she is acting like a leper to other people-- getting to teach kaoru piano and chizuru flute and garden with wriggle THESE ARE THINGS SHE LOVES

[souredsweet]

HE WAS peko was his favorite dango rumpus... and then she set his wing on fire...... but he still liked her PEKO WHY. they can bond over it in camp now clearly, both of them can give peko smiling lessons which she so clearly needs.

GOD THO bless u iceland. that would have festered and exploded hideously some day...

now instead they can garden and play music WHAT NERDS. I HOPE SO TOO THO gosh just like imagining their little commune after another three years... weh... kaoru likes gardening too clearly they should also bond over that. nERDS what great nerds