Komaeda saw a lot of things. He saw people hurry past him who didn't exist, he saw ants crawl against his skin that were never there...but mostly, he saw color. He saw the blues in the sky fade into purples and swirl, he saw the stars in the middle of the day, he saw sunsets against his ceiling whenever he tried to sleep but couldn't close his eyes. It was amazing. It was real. It was him.
Komaeda was currently under care. Not anything like a mental hospital or whatever people associated his disease with nowadays, but a rehabilitation home. Basically, where all the suicidal kids, the delinquents, and the "mentally ill" went. Anyone who could be of danger to others, or themselves. He supposed it was best. Didn't want themselves recking that perfect little vision society had set up for them. The American dream. Some lived it, and others didn't. A few charities now and then, and the big ones figured we'd keep quiet. And we did.
Schizophrenia, it was called. What he had. At least, that's what they'd told him. Taking his medicine had only been enough for a while. The moment you refuse to leave your room for fear of what you'd been threatened was out there, the second you start to scream in the dead of the night at the invisible axe murderer, it's apparently too much. At least the fear was his. At least it was real to him.
Now, he was here. Hope's Peak Home.
"Not forever."
"Only a few months."
"You'll be home soon."
Hard to go to a home that left you while you were away. So until the day that Komaeda could learn to resist the temptation to avoid his medicine and the outside world, he was stuck inside this place. A place where he couldn't tell the difference between reality and his own, and nobody was there to assure of which was which. A place without hope.

Until the day Hajime Hinata had come to stay.

Notes:

Yep, absolutely no dialogue in this one. Considering making the whole thing like that, but considering this is from Komaeda's pov and he's not the deaf one, I'm not sure how that'd go ahah. Let me know?

A note, I am trying to be as authentic as possible, and wish to offend no one. Let me know if you see a mistake.

Thank you for the support!