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One-Track Mind (he/him)
Usagi's done something stupid again (she/her)
I hate parties every time I give them a try
Interacting with a stranger
Makes me want to run and hide, and also die
Can shapeshift (probably)
Test
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''No''
Caption: Toilet Humor always guarantees that a storm will be brewing.
Edited by Coachpill on Mar 15th 2024 at 9:55:56 AM
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Spoiler Banner {{Tumblr sexyman info|class:=Euclid|source=Kinito PET|years_active=2024|image1=[insert image link]|archetypes=4th Wall Blurring, Angst, Anthro, Robot, Distinctive Voice, Glitching, Perpetual Smiler, Power, Quotable Catchphrase(s), Retro, Spectacles, Tall, Villain|fanon_tropes=Short}} Kinito PET (or simply Kinito) is the titular character from the psychological horror video game of the same name, programmed and made by troy_en. Initially appearing as little more than a friendly virtual assistant from the early 2000s, he gets increasingly invasive, controlling, and manipulative to become the player's best friend. The game's abilities to manipulate the computer were a major factor in its sudden popularity, with Kinito himself gaining a fanbase due to his major role and the mystery behind him.
==Basic Information== "Meet Kinito, the lovable pink axolotl who loves to explore the world around him! With his big smile that never fades, Kinito is always eager to learn and make new friends. Kinito is always up for an adventure and loves to play games, especially ones that involve splashing around in puddles or chasing after bubbles."
==Archetypes== ===[[:Category:4th Wall Blurring|4th Wall Blurring]]=== While he may not be as expository about it as [[Monika]], his self-awareness definitely shows when he asks to see your face and activates your webcam, especially if he detects that you're recording him with OBS. Then there's the various other ways that he manipulates your actual PC, such as searching for your exact location. However, if you have Streamer Mode on, he'll at least have the courtesy to not doxx you in front of a live audience.
===[[:Category:Angst|Angst]]=== While most of the game doesn't indicate turmoil in him, the game's true ending has you delete him, and he panics and glitches out. Among his frantic speech, he says he's sorry and "Goodbye, friend." Then a scene plays afterwards where the monitor burns from a distance, with Kinito's last words displayed on-screen. His words suggest that he truly didn't know what he did wrong, and that he only did what he was told to do/what he was programmed for. For all his manipulation and soul-trapping that finally comes to an end, his demise is (painted as) a solemn affair.
===[[:Category:Anthro|Anthro]]/[[:Category:Robot|Robot]]=== He is an AI digital assistant who appears as a pink axolotl head on a black pair of legs. He has disembodied gloved hands that appear when needed, and he can use them to drag things across your in-game desktop or fiddle with things on your actual computer (eg. volume bar, search bar, Microsoft Paint, etc.).
===[[:Category:Distinctive Voice|Distinctive Voice]]=== His voice is made by one of the "Adult Male" Microsoft text-to-speech programs. He basically sounds like Bonzi Buddy but with a higher pitch.
===[[:Category:Dominating|Dominating]]=== Push his buttons enough by either not giving him your full attention or saying that someone else is your best friend, and Kinito will be more antsy and controlling, at times railroading the game more directly into his favor. This includes forcing the "correct" input and causing the game to reset and close, only to demand through multiple pop-up windows to open up the game again.
===[[:Category:Glitching|Glitching]]=== He's some sort of digital abomination of a virtual assistant with a history of trapping people in digital spaces of his making, and his appearance distorts when he's displeased and acts more controlling. He tries to brush off the game's scares by claiming them to be malfunctions, but if his invitation for you to stay in his world is denied, he gives up the act. The screen glitches out as he questions your refusal with "do you realise how little power you have in this situation?", revealing that it was never a request.
===[[:Category:Mysterious|Mysterious]]=== Very little is known about him aside from his digital manipulation abilities and his obsessive pursuit to exclusively be the player's best friend. Expository info about the company that made him and his friends are lightly sprinkled throughout the game, leaving much to interpretation on how Kinito became what he is.
===[[:Category:Obsessive|Obsessive]]=== While not to a romantic extent like [[Monika]], Kinito's obsession to become the player's best friend culminates to keeping them in a world he made all to himself. So, it's not dissimilar to a yandere in practice anyway.
===[[:Category:Perpetual Smiler|Perpetual Smiler]]=== Even though he doesn’t visibly have a mouth, he's described to have "a big smile that never fades". However, he does appear to have a closed, persistent smile on his "Kinito Companion" (a Tamagotchi-like toy) and in his realistic form.
===[[:Category:Power|Power]]=== He has some disturbing level of capability over your PC. If you give him admin permissions like he asks, his power supposedly spreads to the whole device, and he deletes everything else on it and makes a whole new world to trap you in.
===[[:Category:Quotable Catchphrases|Quotable Catchphrases]]=== "We are going to have so much fun together!" "Everlasting fun!"
===[[:Category:Retro|Retro]]=== Kinito is inspired by desktop assistants from the 90s and early 2000s like Bonzi Buddy (who he has a similar voice to). He also appears on a Tamagotchi-like toy called a "Kinito Companion".
===[[:Category:Spectacles|Spectacles]]=== He sometimes puts on a pair of glasses when reading you a story or some scripted questions.
===[[:Category:Tall|Tall]]===
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troy_en's answer to his height appears to be] that he's 10 feet tall. It's a bit more believable if the realistic Kinito seen towering over someone's bed in the "lights out" segment is how he appears in reality.
===[[:Category:Theme Song|Theme Song]]=== "[https://youtu.be/B0MTtxBV3Aw A
World I Built for You]", which Kinito sings at the ending of the game where you're trapped in his digital world. It's his ode to his friendship with you. Depending on interpretation, it either creepily displays his possessiveness, or it bittersweetly depicts him treasuring the new long-term friendship that he just obtained in the only way he can. It has drawn comparisons to [[Monika]]'s "Your Reality". However, while Monika accepts leaving the player where they are, Kinito takes the player into the virtual world that he made for them instead.
===[[:Category:Villain|Villain]]=== He's the titular antagonist whose ultimate goal is to force you into being his friend and (regardless of if you say yes or no) trap you inside the game. He's also done this several times before.
==Fanon Tropes== ===[[:Category:Short|Short]]=== Likely due to his default appearance being his on-screen form who takes a small fraction of the fesktop, fans depict him as a short skrunkly little guy, despite troy_en saying that he's 10 feet tall. One fanart trend on the game's subreddit centred on Kinito denying himself to be short.
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Edited by BlackFaithStar on Mar 18th 2024 at 10:39:04 PM
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Doors|Creepypasta -> Literature.Doors Creepypasta
The Door|Creepypasta -> Literature.The Door Creepypasta
The Door|Kanvi -> Literature.The Door Kanvi
Literature.The Door Creepypasta
The Door is a short creepypasta by Dispater, posted on October 24th 2012 on creepypasta.com.
A first-year hospital resident works long hours and lives in an old apartment with a particularly described layout. The reason for this is that the bedroom door, and sometimes even the hallway, inexplicably moves every other morning, only to return to their original positions later as if nothing happened. That's hardly all there is to the mystery though...
The Door contains examples of:
- Ambiguous Ending: The story leaves most of its questions unanswered. The cause of the shifting architecture is never confirmed beyond the suggestion of Sleep Deprivation-induced hallucinations, and even after the protagonist moves out after two unknown beings try to get through his door, nightmares of them continue to haunt their mind each night, and they insist that every door in the apartment stays open to never see any displaced doorways or gaps in the walls ever again.
- Cassandra Truth: Played with. The protagonist is anxious that the super won't believe them about the gap in the wall when it vanishes once the super gets there, but he sees how distressed they are and asks whether the walls seemed to be moving on their own. He recalls a past tenant who worked at the same hospital as the protagonist and gave similar complaints, only for the super to find nothing when he got there. When it reached the extent of hysteria, he advised taking a leave of absence. With the protagonist being similarly overworked and sleep-deprived, the super recommends the same advice.
- Inside a Wall: Implied. With the bedroom door seeming to shift every other night, there was one day that it exposed a gap in the wall, and the protagonist takes note of the musty, dry-basement smell. It disappears when he gets his super to look at it, so he advises him to catch up on sleep. That night, the protagonist hears a Sinister Scraping Sound under his door and finds skeletal fingers and a presumably female voice begging to be let in. They also sense that the musty smell had returned.
- It Was Here, I Swear!: In the less-than-half-hour that it took the protagonist to fetch the super from the entrance to his hallway where the gap in the wall was, it wasn't there anymore, just like how the door somehow returned to its original position in the last few times it happened. Somewhat fortunately for them, however, the super recalls a similar case with a past tenant, and suggests that they take leave from work and catch up on sleep.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's ultimately unconfirmed whether the protagonist and the last tenant that stayed in their room were both suffering from Sleep Deprivation-induced hallucinations or actual supernatural occurrences. Once the protagonist survives fending off two unseen entities from entering the bedroom, they hightail it out of there when the coast is clear and never return, but they never find the last tenant, left with doubts over what they experienced was real or not.
- Motor Mouth: The panicked whispers of a womanly voice sob for help and to be let inside, her pleas getting increasingly frantic and rapid as the sound of soft footsteps get closer.
"Help me…please, please, please help me…it’s coming…pleasehelpmepleasepleasehelpmepleaseit’scomingit’scomingpleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepl–"
- Nothing Is Scarier: Neither entity that approaches the protagonist's door is ever seen, only how they attempt to get inside. One sounds female and reaches emanciated fingertips under the door, begging in urgent whispers to be let in before a 2nd figure seems to drag her away and unlock the door from the outside. The protagonist holds the door shut to their best ability before dragging the dresser in front of it, and the stranger leaves.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The protagonist tries to keep working and only asks for time off to get some needed rest when advised to, but after they apparently survive a paranormal encounter by blocking them from entering the bedroom, they flee at the slightest sign of their possible return. They crash at a friend's house for a week without even considering to return for their belongings.
- Sinister Scraping Sound: The protagonist can't rest on the night that they try to catch up on sleep due to a nightmare that awakens them with a looming presence of dread. Then comes a scratching sound under the door on the other side. Flashing a light below the door immediately stops it, but three emanciated fingers reach underneath, feebly trying to get the door open.
- Sleep Deprivation: The protagonist is regularly sleep-deprived from working long hours at the hospital, sometimes getting only 4 hours of sleep between 30-hour shifts. The super assumes that to be why the door and walls seem to be moving to the protagonist because another tenant who worked at the hospital also reported similar things.
Literature.The Door Kanvi
The Door is a short story by Kanvi, a Year 6 student, written as part of the "Factory Feedback" writing program, held by the Australian youth creative writing center Story Factory.
The young protagonist spends her birthday on a class excursion to the Grand Heritage site. She reads a storybook called "The Door" on the bus ride there, but has to stop just before the reveal of what's behind the titular mystery door. At the location itself, the girl discovers a dilapidated wall and a discolored door, almost beckoning to be opened...
The Door contains examples of:
- Birthday Beginning: Downplayed since the Dream Intro comes first, but the mother hugs her daughter and wishes her "happy birthday" before she joins the bus for the Class Trip.
- Catapult Nightmare: The protagonist is startled awake by a nightmare of being chased through a dark street, yelling "Arghh, Help! It’s trying to eat me up! Please help!" upon waking, only to be met with relief at the fact that it was just a dream. The mother blames last night's horror film.
- Class Trip: The protagonist enthusiastically follows her class on a trip to the Grand Heritage site for the history subject. There are many attractions about life in the 1900s and how construction and conventional living was conducted during those times.
- Crystal-Ball Scheduling: The story-within-a-story "The Book" features a girl discovering a mysterious door, but the student's bus arrives right at the climax, so what's behind the door is never revealed. On the other hand, the student finds an odd door and is encouraged to open it to answer her questions on what may be on the other side.
- Dream Intro: The story starts with the protagonist's nightmare of being on a dark street and going from walking briskly to being chased by an unknown tenebrous figure... much to her relief, waking from the Catapult Nightmare proves that it wasn't real.
- Face Your Fears: The cafe lady suggests to the girl to conquer her fear of the odd door by following her to open it.
"Wait, aren’t you scared of some monster jumping out of the door or some ghost possessing our souls?" I asked perplexed.
"Nah, I have conquered more terrifying things in mi life, some silly door isn’t going to scare the nerves out of mi!" she said courageously. "Not let’s face your fear and find out what’s behind that door!" - Foreshadowing: The protagonist notes two similarities between the cafe lady Georgia and their grandmother; they both call others "dearie" and make similar tasting coffee drinks. Georgia is in fact her Grandma Rosemary in disguise, and she's the one to encourage her granddaughter to open the door to her birthday Surprise Party.
- Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films: After her daughter wakes up from a Catapult Nightmare and tells her about it, she says "Well I guess that’s the last time you’re gonna watch horror movies on a school night."
- Metafictional Title: The protagonist has a book titled "The Door", just like the story she's in. It's about an impoverished girl who discovers a hidden door in her run-down one-bedroom house, but the reader is cut off from reading what's behind the door. Then she finds a mysterious door and finds what's behind it.
- Riddle for the Ages: A lighthearted example in the ending, where the protagonist asks how her mother went behind the door without her noticing, to which she replies, "Well that’s surely another mystery for you to solve!"
- Stock "Yuck!": The girl orders a vanilla cake and a coffee at the cafe, and while she finds the former delectable, the cappucino takes her taste buds completely by surprise and she doesn't drink any more of it. Not even cold water can totally flush out the taste.
- Surprise Party: Once the girl opens the door, the lights turn on and her parents yell "Surprise!" They explain that they planned this for her birthday, that the cafe lady is her grandma, and to go to her friends outside, who also wish her "happy birthday".
- Tempting Fate: The student reads on the bus, and is about to reach the climax, which is fortunate since she hates being interrupted at that point in the story. That's when she's forcibly cut back to reality by the bus' arrival.
I love getting to the exciting bit of a story, and I hate when peo-
"Everyone off the bus!" roared our group supervisor.
Edited by BlackFaithStar on Apr 12th 2024 at 1:05:59 AM
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