#remember to get some sleep if it's late!

[bi-panicatthedisco]

The Game That Is Life.

Prologue.

[Hey quick authors note, this is my first fic lolol. Hopefully it worked out well, and I already have a few other chapters mostly done in my notes app. So... Yay! I've always loved self aware au's, but been a bit too nervous to post my own. Hopefully it read right, and please enjoy the fic! And of course remember to drink some water and get some rest!!! Btw, this can work as a stand-alone fic. It just ties in a little bit in the last/fourth chapter]

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Ramshackle is the same as always, not metaphorically, it's completely static. Same cobwebs, same torn curtains, same everything.

By now, you'd think Yuu would be used to it. They stay here most of the time the player isn't controlling them. But even "blank slates" get tired every now and again.

They've tried going to see their friends, but it's really not worth going out of their way anymore. It's not like the others even consider them as a real friend.

"Friends" constantly looking beyond them, constantly wishing it was the player that was here, and not them. It gets under your skin after awhile.

At least Grim seems to care, even if it's through bribes of tuna. It's better than the others. But even Grim has gotten entranced by this... "Player" person.

Yuu is here now! Why can't any of them see that!? But no. It's constantly player this and player that! "Oh the player cares so much, even though they think we're only game characters!" Absolutely pathetic, all of them!

Maybe they just need to get the player out of the picture...

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Grim was lounging in ramshackle, also bored out of his mind. Yuu has been acting weirdly recently, they haven't given him any tuna for a week!!! Geez, talk about selfish. It's not like he's worried about them!

But... Eh, he should probably go and visit them. They are his henchhuman after all! What kinda boss would he be if he didn't check up on them once in awhile? They're probably in their room again. ...it's been lonely since they switched to a different room than his...

Huh?! Why'd the human lock the door!? No one locks the great grim out! Hmph.

"HENCHHUMAN! OPEN THE DOOR!!"

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Fine then, he'll just have to show off his amazing climbing skills!

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(Forty six minutes later...)

GAHHH!! WHY'S THE WINDOW SO HIGH UP!? Ah... He'll have to ask his henchhuman to get a first floor room later... Ahhhhhh...

(Another twelve and a half minutes later. The ghosts finally managed to stop laughing long enough to remind him about the ladder in the storage room.)

Finally! Now too see why they weren't opening the door! ...huh? What in the world are they doing??? Is that a cutout of the players home screen character? ...geez Yuu, sometimes he's embarrassed to be your boss...

Wait a second, don't get sidetracked! Why's his henchhuman ignoring him! What?! Are they seriously ignoring him to write a note or somethin'?! Hmph! If that's how it's gonna be, then he'll just ignore them then! See how they like it! Now how to get... Down... HUH?!!? Did they tape the players screen to the wall behind that cut out!? Oh no... That ain't good...! MraaaahhhhhHHHHHH!!!!!

Yuu looks over just in time to notice the tail end of... Well, a tail. Plummeting to the ground in ramshackle garden. But honestly they've had too many energy drinks and too little sleep to care, they'll deal with that in the morning...

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You're logging into twisted wonderland for the first time today, the login bonus flashing on your screen. With a little visual glitch? No character there, and an empty text box. But hey, it's a cool screenshot, so why would you care? Lol.

Speaking of glitches though, there's another one on your home screen. The character doesn't talk, doesn't move, doesn't do anything. A lot like a paper doll. And the background is a ramshackle bedroom.

You're unable to click anything even if you tried, only for a pop up to appear on the screen. But it appears more like a handwritten note than a regular update notice. And... Is that tape on the edges?

"Dear player, I'm afraid you cannot come back. It's very personal honestly. Not sorry, you can just delete it :) Thanks -Yuu"

...what in the world...?

[first part!]

[cryptidmickle]

i love. tears.

[beardedmrbean]

[elenadoeslife]

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[sysig]

maybe you should doodle however many or few starcon/helix/damned characters as you like (in human or alien form) in cute halloween costumes! imagine... ZEX dressed up as Ariel thelittlemermaid...

Day 26 - "I hadn't realized humans also had aquatic subcultures!" "Oh, well, uhm..."

[threbe]

I wonder if Merlin convinced/asked King uther to adopt Arthur

Than she set up Excalibur so Arthur could be king

Why is Merlin going to these lens for Arthur of all people considering there have been other chaos users and as long as Merlin's been around I'm sure there have been other humans she could have given Excalibur to and help them become a great ruler a king in order to use chaos why does she have to

pick Arthur pacifically I wonder I know it goes with the Arthurien Legends and all but why is it in this story Merlin shows Arthur that's just one of the many things that was never really cleared up like there's a bit more about their past we don't know and then there is the stuff that happened in between the end of seven deadly sins till what we're looking at currently I've been trying to piece the timeline together

From what I can tell it goes in this order

First we have the end of the seven deadly sins after the god-awful chaos ark

Then we have the safe by light movie which I'm still convinced a large majority of this fandom has not watched including myself I got the screenshots I have with Arthur and Merlin in it off of a YouTube clip

Then there's the next part from the night from the beginning of the manga who the age the characters when they've got to the Crystal caves I can't remember his name right now

And he showed how Arthur recruited him and it seems this happened right after the demon King's my asthma was affecting the southern Britannia and our large amount of people in it right after the attack the when the demon King finally was defeated or whatever around this time so could Arthur's personality have begun to split and he not know it at the time where chaos was in control and then he would go back to normal and then at some point it was just completely chaos and control

Cuz looking back at it Arthur's outfit is the exact same as it was from the movie unless Merlin just made him multiple copies of the same outfit cuz they were working on just rebuilding Camelot at the time so focusing on appearance and what they look like wasn't probably a top priority which is understandable so Arthur just has multiple of the same outfits in different colors because even in color we see that this outfit is the same one from the movie just in Black

Or maybe the my asthma was just so bad that it had a longer lasting effect on Britannia I'm wondering and this takes a place a bit later this could be a year later from when the movie was set because if I'm correct from what people have told me king and Diane were getting married in the

movie so I'm guessing it took place a few weeks maybe a few months to maybe several months later cuz that's how long it takes to plan a wedding or whatever so this could be several months later and Arthur started to turn at that point and maybe at

first Merlin didn't notice it because around her even though he was still with seemingly seems to be depressed about everything that happened with Camelot and trying to rebuild it he was still trying to maintain his own personality but glimpses of chaos would come through

I'm trying to piece together the timeline and what's happening with Arthur's personality because it's clear like we all been saying from the beginning it's been chaos and control not Arthur and personal having Spirit magic I think will be a driving Factor helping bringing the real Arthur back there was also the theory and I mentioned in another post before that I saw from Reddit where someone had

mentioned that Arthur could have been being controlled by the spirits and Excalibur but I think it's pretty clear especially when looking at the anime and color and you see Arthur's eyes change you see more white in his eyes than his own color of his eyes which are purple meaning that chaos truly is slowly taking over Arthur

(sorry I don't have a visual for this right now Tumblr won't let me post any more pictures in this post )

I'm assuming Arthur is Chaos's first true host it's had full length too I

believe before maybe at some point on chaos was creating humans it puts larger parts of itself in certain humans so that way maybe one day it could have a host and maybe Excalibur was always the key to that but it got corrupted over time and at

some point the Lady of the lake meant Merlin and told her about the key to chaos and maybe that's why she used Excalibur to wake and Arthur since Excalibur seems to just be a chaos key I don't think it was meant to hold the spirits of the heroes but for some reason it did and now that chaos is more free and had gained more control over time I'm

guessing within a year or maybe even a couple years it fully consumed Arthur and about 10 years ago from what pellegard said that's when Arthur's fully started to change because it was around part two after the time skipping for nights and and Donnie met pellegard he mentioned he hadn't been able to fully understand Arthur's motives and almost 10 years something major had had to change where Arthur was willing to fully let chaos consume him

In Merlin disappeared or maybe chaos trapped her away or something but we can tell that Merlin has been active there have been hints that she's possibly hiding in lions , and then there's gwaian who I believe isn't like a clone or hybrid or anything I believe she's just like a normal baby that Merlin saw had magic potential maybe like she did with Vivian and Arthur so she left the granny golem with her to train her to use magic and sunshine is something Merlin enchanted on to her as it's next host so Sunshine could be active again and possibly used to defeat Arthur or at least stop chaos at some point the same can be sailed the Lady of the lake who I believe still had some magic left over from one Merlin had the seven deadly sins send their magic towards the leg during their battle with the demon king and there was some residue magic left over and the lady of the late gave it to Lance a lot which is why he's so overpowered and people say he's on the same level as the seven deadly sins is because he has some of their magic in him

[pyrotechnicdarts]

dmc you say

DAMMMMMM i am still pretty early in but ooh. oooh baby i am about to become Insufferable About That Man i can Feel It thank you for adding another white haired man to my arsenal <3

[scrawlingskribbles]

not me blearily waking up at 5:30am almost in tears bc I had a dream that Ian had apparently been making more little OK KO shorts on the side and the utter joy I was feeling as dream!me was scrambling to find & watch them only to wake up before I could........ :((((

[luis-serra-kennedy]

well, I was working on what's supposed to be the final chapter and realized I'm probably going to have to split it up... there's not 9k words of stuff that will actually be posted because it's a rough draft document that includes some duplicate scenes written in different ways and a few scenes that happen offscreen but that I needed to write out just for me to reference, but still, I think even with all that cut it'll be a longer chapter than I wanted for this particular fic. I've done 10k word chapters before, but for a very different fic which felt more suited to long chapters than this one.

my bad because I strayed from my outline and made one subplot way more important and focused on. the final chapter was supposed to mostly be Krauser finally getting some consequences with a tiny bit of domestic Serrennedy, but now it's shaping up to be a lot more domestic stuff. like probably won't be more of the fluff than of the Krauser stuff, but it'll be a lot closer to a 50:50 mix than I had planned.

the Krauser stuff does tie into everything else too, it's not all completely unrelated

[wisebillygaysex]

[sysig]

Hazing (Patreon)

[nicklukenelson]

Can we pretty please acknowledge how creepy the logan x Kendall plotline is for a second? That is a 25 year old sleeping with a barely legal adult. Under false pretenses ! Weird as hell.

[muckablucka]

you know what whenever I need to become tired I'm just gonna read about genetics while simultaneously listening to the constant ticking of clocks and I will get sleepy so fast. not that genetics is boring— I actually find it fascinating, and would love to learn more— it just makes me so drowsy and tired when reading about it and also the ticking of really just any timepiece soothes me

[fitpacs]

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[seithr]

Randomly remembered the half-reason i call my oc-verse by the name it has while laying in bed. One-half of the reason i still knew, but I had forgotten what had truly, really cemented it jointly until now

(it was a song from my favourite band I haven't listened to in a while.)

(the song fit so well at the time, still does, that i needed to hold onto it for the main protagonists forever, by partially naming their story in reference.)

Does this explanation make any sense? Does anyone know why I'm tearing up remembering this. Aahh

[jup1tersparx]

Hi !!!! Are you having a good day filled with whimsy and enchantment?

HIIII OLI KIND OF TY FOR ASKING :DDD i stayed up wayyy too late last night (partially bc the universe just decided to fuck me over for the lolz and partially bc i got too excited researching a character) so i have felt a teensy bit like i am no-clipping out of reality all day and i did have a shitty exam this morning, BUT i went into cambridge w/ parents (sam has abandoned me for fucking germany rn 😔) and got some cool new clothes, got to listen to an absolute banger of a hfth episode whilst gazing out over the town from the top of the 6 story parking lot, and now im trying to speedrun some drawings im gonna send to someone!!! so both good and bad id say :D