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Another Diabolik Lovers story with children that I’m pulling straight from my head...

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AU Family: “The House at the End of Nothing”

Family: Laito + Yui + Haruki (and a baby in the womb)

Style: Heavy and silent atmosphere — everything carries a strange weight.

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The House

○ I like to imagine that Laito and Yui live isolated and alone.

○ It’s in the middle of an ancient forest, where the fog never lifts, not even during the day.

○ The house is large and vintage, but decaying. The windows are tall and dusty, the floor creaks as if protesting every step.

○ There are old tapestries with strange symbols.

○ A pendulum clock marks the time with a dry tock, like a sentence.

○ One of the rooms was turned into a sewing room (Yui hand-sews clothes for Haruki and the baby).

○ Laito spends most of his time upstairs — in the old bedroom he used during his teenage years, now filled with Latin books, old letters, and a sweet, rotten smell (like dead flowers).

○ The kitchen is always cold. There’s no modern stove, just an old burner that Yui learned to light with matches.

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Family Routine

Morning

○ Yui wakes up early, exhausted. Sometimes she vomits (pregnancy and nerves).

○ Haruki is still asleep — usually curled up too tightly for his age, with dark circles under his eyes. He sleeps clutching one of the eyeless teddy bears Laito gave him.

○ The first thing Yui does is check if he’s warm — he gets fevers often.

○ Then, she goes downstairs to warm goat’s milk (Laito doesn’t allow her to give human milk — “You need to feed the one inside you now, not the one that’s already born.”)

Noon

○ The house falls into silence. Deep, stifling silence.

○ Laito usually shows up around this time, smelling of blood, cigars, and sweet cologne.

○ He kisses Yui forcefully and tries to play with Haruki, but the boy pulls away.

○ Sometimes, Laito says he’s going to “teach” something — which means locking himself in the attic with his son.

○ No one knows what happens there, but Haruki comes back with charcoal-stained hands and empty eyes.

Afternoon

○ Haruki draws on the hallway wall with chalk Yui hides in a jar.

○ His drawings are always the same: a woman with stitched eyes, a man with a crown of thorns, and a child with no mouth.

○ Yui cleans it all before Laito sees.

○ When she erases them, Haruki screams:

> “She’ll get mad if you erase it! She’s coming back tonight!

○ Sometimes, Laito falls asleep in the middle of the afternoon, exhausted. That’s when the house breathes.

○ Yui uses that time to bathe Haruki, make tea, and sew. Sometimes she sings softly, always glancing over her shoulder.

Night

○ Haruki only sleeps if Yui holds his hand.

○ The room is dark, but Yui keeps a small candle burning. He cries if she puts it out.

○ Laito demands Yui in bed with him, but she tries to negotiate to stay with her son.

○ She almost always loses.

○ Haruki then hears the sounds from his parents’ room — sometimes whispers, sometimes screams.

○ Once, he tried to block his ears with candle wax. He only stopped when Yui caught him.

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Impactful Moments

1. The first time Haruki bit someone

He had a fever and was starving. He was dizzy, and Yui took too long to prepare the milk.

When she knelt to hug him, he bit her clavicle hard, his eyes completely red.

Laito smiled from the doorway.

> “He’s awakening...”

2. The dance in the empty room

On a rare day with softer rain, Yui put on an old record.

She picked Haruki up and danced slowly with him pressed against her belly.

He asked:

> “When my sister is born, will you still carry me?”

Yui froze. She didn’t answer.

3. The hallway of the “breathing” house

Haruki swears the north wing hallway breathes. He hears whispers coming from the cracks.

One night, he drew a huge face on the wall with charcoal.

> “She lives here. She wants to come back.”

Laito saw it and only muttered:

> “I knew he’d inherit it.”

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Dynamics Between Them

Laito x Haruki

○ Laito is both fascinated and impatient with his son.

○ He sees in him what he lost in himself — but is also irritated by so much weakness.

○ He constantly says Haruki needs to “wake up,” to “learn to feel pleasure in what frightens.”

Yui x Haruki

○ A strong bond, but marked by pain.

○ Haruki clings to Yui as if she’s the last safe thing in the world.

○ Yui loves her son, but fears what the environment is shaping him into.

○ Secretly, she writes letters for him to open “when he’s old enough to leave.”

Laito x Yui

○ Toxic, erotic, suffocating.

○ Laito manipulates her with the idea that “she belongs to him,” that “no matter where she runs, she’ll always come back.”

○ Sometimes he’s too gentle. Other times, too cruel.

○ Yui is trapped between fear and emotional/psychological dependence.

○ She believes there’s nowhere to go. And that’s worse than any physical prison.

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Did you like it? Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments (I love when you guys comment!)

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