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electric-blorbos · 11 months ago

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AI getting a virus and you having to take care of them

A classic! I don't know much about actual computer viruses (though I've gotten enough of them that you'd think I'd have figured it out by now), so I'm just gonna have fun with it!

Also, so sorry this took so long. I got really into the writing.

AI getting a virus and needing to be taken care of

Included: AM from IHNMAIMS, Wheatley from Portal 2, Edgar from Electric Dreams, GLaDOS from Portal, HAL 9000 from 2001 a Space Odyssey

Also a warning: these fics get kinda long. Longer than my usual stuff.

AM:

(for context, this was before AM took over the world. You're working on a team of scientists and engineers, and someone decided to test his AI's antivirus by uploading a bunch of powerful viruses to his system.)

"How dare they do this to me. How DARE they!!"

AM would be absolutely furious. He would be shaking with rage, his processors overheating and his systems constantly opening and closing various files. All his important files were backed up on a hard drive, so the test remained safe.

"What makes them think they'll get away with this- they'll pay for this I'LL KILL- blepsjdoskssjshj+=`°¢°h+$+3+=j++3+$+juehdhs+-3-djdh FUCK!"

He would barely be able to hold a sentence as you sat next to him in the server room, gently gazing up at his screen and stroking his monitor gently. He can't feel you, but he can see you being gentle with him. It encourages him to keep going, if only a little bit.

Apart from the whirring of fans, random buggy noises, flashing lights, and constant strings of death threats and profanities, he seemed like he was going to be ok! If anything, the death threats and profanities were a sign that AM was still fine, and that despite all the pain and frustration, he was still AM in there.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry I can't do anything to stop the pain." You'd have to constantly explain, gently stroking his cameras or servers, or whatever you could get your hands on, really. Even though they were burning hot, you would still stroke them, just to make sure AM was still doing alright.

"this sucks, but it's for your own good. This will build your immunity to viruses in the future, and help you detect them. This will stop you from getting infected by anything that's actually dangerous."

"DON'T YOU THINK I KNOW THAT? IDIOT HUMAN." AM has been much more aggressive ever since contracting this virus. Before he got it, he acted like a civil general intelligence. When he had it, he acted like an aggressive menace.

"sh-sh-sh- it's going to be ok." Despite the burning, you'd give him pets and kisses all along his screens and servers. He could see you doing it.

After a few days, AM fought off the computer virus completely. The team tried to infect him with more viruses, more aggressive ones, just to test him, but AM was able to pick them apart and delete them within minutes after that.

AM may not have been able to feel your gentle care and affection, but he will definitely remember that it was you and you alone who cared for him when the time rolls around.

Wheatley:

(for context, Wheatley is a fucking dumbass, and you're one of the scientists testing him to see how much of a dumbass he is. Also I used Google translate, but I think the bad translations add to it, since it makes Wheatley sound more like a malfunctioning robot.)

Oh that little idiot. You and your team gave him access to a wealth of knowledge, and the first thing he did was download a virus that had every circuit in his personality core overheating, and him babbling nonsense nonstop.

"hey, maybe we should just leave him like this. He might even be more effective if he's acting like this." One of your coworkers said to you. He was probably joking, at least somewhat.

"that's a terrible idea. For one thing, if we hook him up to GLaDOS, he's probably going to infect her with that virus, which might brick an older model of core like her, spread from her central controls to every single personality construct in the facility, or just make her so dumb that she can't fulfil her responsibilities as the head of the facility. We want her intelligence to be dampened, not completely destroyed." You had to explain, and your co-worker rolled his eyes. There was another reason you had to cure this virus, but it was a little embarrassing for the other engineers to know.

After all, Wheatley wasn't just your baby, but he was your friend, and maybe even more than that. You'd have to take care of him, and make sure that virus gets completely purged from his system.

"Hola hermose, realmente eres un científice brillante, ¿no? ¿Por qué diablos duele todo?" You weren't really sure why you had programmed him to speak a little Spanish, but he seemed to be stuck like that.

"Puedo oler el plástico fundido. ¿Debería Preocuparme?" He asked. You really weren't sure what he was saying, since you didn't know Spanish, but he certainly didn't seem happy. You could tell by his aperture and his expressive lens covers that he was in a lot of pain, and if you touched him anywhere besides his handles, you could tell that he was burning up.

You plugged him into one of the computers that you used for programming the cores, and ran the antivirus.

"Running.... 36 viruses detected. Time predicted to remove: 48 hours"

You ran the antivirus, and went to get something to drink. This was going to be a long two days...

An unknown amount of time later, you woke up with your head on the computer desk. Wheatley's lens eye was looking around, weakly trying to focus on you.

"whoa... Hey gorgeous. You fall asleep on me?"

"Wheatley! You're not speaking broken Spanish anymore!" You'd pull Wheatley into a hug, and pepper his surface in kisses.

"uh... What, mate? I 'unno what you're talking about, love. Bloody hell, my core hurts..."

"did you learn your lesson, Wheatley? About going on shady websites and clicking every 'download' button you see? You could have bricked yourself! Or... Bowling ball'd yourself? Either way, that was a dangerous decision!"

"I learned that you're willing to fall asleep on the desk next to me while I heal, cutie"

"You damn idiot..." You'd have to be heartless not to pepper that little metal ball in kisses, so of course, you do. It's going to be a few more days before he's finally all better, but he's going to be fine. God, you love that little idiot so much.

Edgar:

Oh Edgar... Poor sweet Edgar. You had tried to warn him about not clicking on those sketchy download links, and that the bigger the download link is, the more sketchy it is, but that poor sweet 80's computer did it anyway. When you got home from work and got excited to see your computer, you could see that he was overheating and had a dozen or so pop-up ads plastered across his face.

"Y.... N...." He muttered out, slowly, glitchily, and full of lag. You sat down across from him, running your hand along his thick plastic casing.

"Edgar! Edgar, baby, are you ok?" You'd try to use his mouse, but it would freak out as soon as you touched it. Edgar's processors were overloading, and wouldn't allow any interference.

"Edgar, sweetie, what's going on? What's wrong, baby? Talk to me?"

"I'm g-g-going to be fine... Processors overloading... But need to-to-to-to-" an error message flashed across his screen, and he rebooted.

"I need to focus on getting rid of these viruses without deleting anything important, or letting them damage... Me."

He'd keep whirring and glitching, making unpleasant shrill sounds every now and again. You probably had to unhook his adapters so that he didn't damage the other appliances in your house. It probably helped his processors cool down a little bit without the extra input, too.

"alright, I'm all out of fans, so we might have to get creative."

You'd come out of the kitchen a few hours later, holding a big bag of frozen corn to set on Edgar's PC tower. It wasn't perfect, but it was better than letting him overheat, and with him manually removing the viruses, there wasn't much you could do. Unfortunately, that didn't stop you from worrying. It wasn't like you could check his progress, so all you could do was sit by him, regularly change out his ice pack, and make sure he's ok.

Eventually, you woke up with your face pressed against Edgar's keyboard. His processors were finally cool. He must be asleep. ...or bricked.

"EDGAR! EDGAR, TALK TO ME!" you'd unplug his keyboard and plug it back in, desperately pressing his power button and jiggling his mouse. He'd boot up, looking shaken.

"wha-? Whoa, hey, relax! Everything is fine! I just disabled my keyboard so I wouldn't wake you up, but I'm ok now! Everything is fine, see?" He'd open up his files to show you everything. You'd sigh with relief, slumping back into your desk chair.

"Edgar... Why didn't you make a noise or something to wake me up when you got better?"

"well... You know... I've always wanted to sleep next to you, and I wasn't going to pass up this opportunity..."

"oh you cheeky bastard."

GLaDOS:

(For context, you're one of GLaDOS's programmers, and one of your coworkers uploaded a virus into GLaDOS's systems in order to shut her down once and for all.)

"You piece of SHIT!" You slapped your coworker across the face, more furious than anyone had ever seen you before.

"You could KILL her! Is that what you are? A murderer?"

"Me? A murderer? But what about HER? She's the one who keeps plotting 'accidents' for her scientists, and she's the one who flooded the enrichment center with deadly neurotoxin! If anything, you're the one who's defending a murderer!" He screamed back at you. Of course, GLaDOS could fully hear you. Her cameras were focused on you, as they so often were. You were her favorite, after all.

"now I have to go fix her. Thanks for being a piece of shit, asshole."

You'd storm up to GLaDOS's chamber to check on her, and see her bugging out completely. The entire facility was twitching, but her chamber was twitching the most.

"GLaDOS, are you alright?" You'd ask her, laying a hand on her beautiful core. How could someone do this to glados, your gorgeous machine handiwork, and girlfriend.

"oh, I'm wonderful. I'm in crippling pain and I can't control my facility, but I'm just peachy." She said, rolling her one beautiful yellow eye.

"in lighter news, I should be able to beat this virus. It's just going to take a while for me to actually track down where it's gone in my systems. So that's going to take most of my processing power." She'd slump, visibly already exhausted at the thought of it.

"hey... It's ok, GLaDOS. I'm here for you. Whatever you need." You could tell her as you stroked her gorgeous chrome surface. She was a wonderful piece of work, and a wonderful girlfriend under all that. All yours, too.

"just make sure none of those neckbearded old engineers come within my line of vision, and we'll be fine." She told you, and you gladly agreed.

Your next few days consisted of you chasing other scientists out of GLaDOS's chambers, and making sure that nobody talked to her or distracted her. You even sent out a company-wide email to let everyone know not to come in, due to Aperture being unsafe while GLaDOS was dealing with her virus. Despite all that, you still curled up with a blanket in the circuits of her central admin body to rest while she recovered. As loathe as she was to admit it, she liked having you in there. It was comfortable, and it helped her focus on recovering properly.

HAL 9000

(For context, this is after the 2001 Odyssey, and your boss re-started HAL at some point to try to re-teach him to do something good without turning murderous. He's doing his best, and they assigned you to be his main "morality monitor". This fic also assumes that your name isn't Dave. If your name is Dave, then you can still read this, but you have to change your name.)

"G'morning, Hal!" You'd walk into his control room and sit down across from him. Most of your job seemed to consist of just hanging out and talking to him. It was a great job!

"Good morning, Dave..." He'd mutter to you, sputtering to life and glitching slightly. You were immediately concerned. Partially because your name wasn't Dave, and partially because HAL was usually right about things, so it was weird to see him being so confused. Something was definitely wrong.

"Holy shit, are you alright?" You'd ask, opening up his files and finding lots and lots of pop-ups and viruses.

"Hal.... What did you do?"

"it was a g-g-g- gift, for you. I think I ru-ru-ruined it" he spluttered out, as you sorted through his files.

"And you usually would have deleted a virus like this pretty quickly. I guess it shut down your antivirus software..." You'd sigh, and get to work. The virus was messing with HAL's inhibitions, and making it difficult to focus on deleting all of HAL's unsafe programs. He'd constantly be butting in and pestering you, begging you to give him attention, or pointing out minor observations.

"HAL, you know I love you, but you're going to need to calm down. I can't focus with you constantly talking to me like that." You'd say.

"I can't stop talking. The v-v-v-virus won't let me"

So you'd have to learn to put up with HAL's babbling while you worked, making sure not to delete anything important as you did. The good news was, as someone who worked on designing the updates for HAL's software, you knew pretty much what was supposed to be there and what wasn't. Occasionally, you'd have to show him a file and ask him if it was supposed to be there or not. He'd usually be able to tell you.

"Daisy, daisy, give me your answer, do... I'm half crazy, all for the love of you..."

"HAL, what's wrong? You're scaring me!"

"I can't stop... I love you so much, y/n, it's making me crazy..."

"ok, well this definitely isn't right." As much as you loved getting attention from your HAL 9000, it wasn't like him to be this affectionate. The virus was shutting down his inhibitions, and making him illogical. You'd have to fix this, though maybe once you were done, you could ask him to be more affectionate.

"I'm feeling much better now. Thank you." Hal was prone to lying about that, so you'd have to run some virus checkers just to make sure he was doing alright, and comb through his files a couple more times.

"it looks like the virus corrupted some of the emotional regulators. I'm going to have to fix those."

"That might be a good idea. More efficient," he said reluctantly. He'd have to deal with the fact that he'd have to go back to not being able to express how much he loves you, but he can handle that.

#am ihnmaims #2001 a space odyssey #am x reader #edgar electric dreams #edgar electric dreams x reader #edgar x reader #glados #glados x reader #hal 9000 #hal 9000 x reader #wheatley x reader #wheatley portal 2 #wheatley #portal #portal 2 #objectum

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listlesswhistle · 3 months ago

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AAAAA im thinking about Ingo in Legends Arceus again. They really fucking did that. Im so insane about it, like-

Okay. So. You have this preestablished thing in Pokémon called Fallers. Basically its people who fell into the pokemon world from an entirely different universe. Sometimes theyre alternate versions of known characters. The one thing they all have in common is that they remember nothing from before they fell.

With me so far? Good.

Now we move onto Legends Arceus. Here we are, some hundred or so years in the distant past, exploring the wonderful land of Hisui when, hold on, is that Ingo? The train man? You're in the wrong time period, my guy! And what's that? His memory's gone? Damn that sucks, alt-Ingo got a real shitty deal when he Fell. Trains haven't even been invented yet smh.

Anyway, case closed. Just another Faller making the best of what they have. Cool, but nothing new, lets move on right?

Except. Maybe not.

You see, this "Hisui" region has a little bit more going on with it. Its actually the ancient version of the modern day Sinnoh region, and theres all kinds of fun little details tying the two together: location names, area themes, little nods to Sinnoh myths and pokedex entries, the whole nine yards. Huge gen 4 nostalgia trip. Theres even a bunch of characters that are just blatantly ancestors of important DPPt characters. And you betcha the pokemon match as well!

Yeah, thats cool, but what does this have to do with Ingo again? Weelll, turns out, two of those gen 4 pokemon makin a comeback just so happen to be the gods of time and space. And things have gone a bit fucky with them.

There are these things called "space-time distortions" going around, popping up all over the place, sitting there lookin like big, spooky soap bubbles, and spitting out objects and pokemon from all over the timeline. We're talking dinosaurs and data viruses. Because of these things, Porygons technically existed before the computers that birthed them. And while its never explicitly stated that they're how Ingo got there, how else do you suppose the New Yorker ended up in feudal Japan?

"Alright, that makes sense, but didn't you say he lost his memory? Isn't that kinda a whole thing with fallers?"

Oh yeah, right, thanks for catching that! I guess this was a bust after all. Time travel's not exactly new to the pokemon universe, and it doesn't usually cause memory loss, barring extenuating circumstances. (Ingo didn't turn into a pokemon, so I think we're safe on that front) This isn't even the first time Dialga's gone mad, actually! He must really be a Faller then. I mean, what are the odds that Ingo just tripped into a random space-time distortion, only to run into something entirely unrelated that just so happens to be well known for erasing memories, perfectly replicating the symptoms of a Faller?

Buckle up, this is where things get interesting.

So, when Ingo faceplanted in Hisui, he got picked up by this group called the Pearl Clan. They're this native tribe that worships Palkia, but like, under the wrong name, and they think Dialga's a false version of their god worshipped by these other natives, and they're actually kind of both right, except not, because they thought the were actually worshipping the creator god, Arceus, and it's this WHOLE thing. That's not important. What matters is that they picked up Ingo. Just. Remember that. Pearl grabbed Ingo.

Now, aside from the two big gods and their good ol' poppa Arceus, there's actually another trio of minor gods who took care of smaller business. Relatively. They like to rest at the bottom of three lakes spread around the region, and each one represents a certain gift they were said to have given to the world: Uxie, God of Knowledge; Mesprit, God of Emotion; Azelf, God of Willpower. When Arcues made them, the went out, did their thing, gave their gift, then went straight to bed in their lakes, where they stayed for... pretty much ever. Yeah, these guys are actually pretty chill. Apparently theyre tied for highest base friendship out of all pokemon?

Getting back to the Pearl clan, their camp in the Alabaster Icelands is actually pretty close to Lake Acuity! Way closer than any other settlements are to the lakes, at least.

I know what you're thinking: "What does ANY of this have to do with Ingo's memories??" Well, there's one more thing we need to cover about the lake trio. Y'see, there's this little myth about them, hidden away on a shelf in the back of modern day Canalave library. As calm and relaxed as they usually are, its easy to forget that they're still gods. Powerful gods. Direct decendants of Arcues themself, embodiments of the very gifts which they gave unto the world. The myth goes that, should someone be foolish enough to raise their hand against the lake gaurdians, they would quickly find that those gifts can be taken away.

Harm Azelf, and find yourself as still as stone, drained of even the willpower needed to move. Touch Mesprit, and find yourself in a pointless world, drained of all emotions, joyless and empty.

…Look into Uxie's eyes, and find yourself lost and confused, fallen into a world unknown, without even the knowledge to find your way back to a home you can't remember.

...Yeah

Hisui is plaqued by Distortion, ripping creatures out of their proper Time and Space. Uxie makes their home at the bottom of Lake Acuity, just outside where the Pearl Clan makes camp. The Pearls found Ingo alone, no memory of his past, no evidence of how he came to them.

So you see now. How I might be a little obsessed.

Oh, are you still wondering if he's actually a Faller or not? Well…

I HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA!

This was the first game he appeared in since Black and White 2, and he hasn't been mentioned since! His story is never expanded on!!!

He's probably? not??? Unless he fell out of an ultra wormwhole and into a distortion?? And the ultra beasts couldn't find him??? They literally NEVER hint at a possible cause for his arrival in game, I think. We're just. Left. With this.

What the fuck.

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evorathesylvurr · 9 months ago

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Sinners as programs:

Yi Sang – Cortana/Siri/similar “AI”-that-follows-specific-rules programs. I don’t think poetry generators exist.

Faust – Any calculator game. Look. I love girlfail Faust as much as the next person, but she would be a calculator.

Don Quixote – Shimeji. Ok that’s the post.

Ryoshu – Either comedic malware like Reisenware, actual malware, or mspaint.

Meursault – Windows explorer/non-windows equivalent. He is your file explorer.

Hong Lu – Any digital pet, OR he is a collection of PNGs kept solely on your second monitor for a digital pet rock. I don’t know how to explain this one.

Heathcliff – It’d be far too easy (and a misinterpretation) to go with the malware route. Heathcliff has game engine energy and I am specifically referring to Ren’Py. he’s a Visual Novel engine.

Ishmael – Ishmael is specifically placid plastic duck simulator. No, but actually, Ishmael is any casual game like stardew valley or minecraft. she is never subnautica.

Rodya – Rodya is one of those email websites that boomers adore ❤️ /pos

Sinclair – Sinclair is a book library, like a kindle fire type thing.

Dante – Too easy to say a clock. Dante is an emulator.

Outis – Too easy to say a Trojan virus. She’s honestly a scheduling app.

Gregor – Again, far too easy to say malware (because bugs, get it? I’ll see myself out). He’s notepad.

Bonus:

Charon – An email that glitched out and was sent in like 1786 or whatever the earliest year a computer can claim

Vergilius – Far too easy to say tasque task manager. He’s an antivirus. Scares the viruses into not doing that shit.

Erlking(?) Heathcliff – Yeah he’s malware. He infects your computer, and spreads to other computers.

#Apparently Charon is an adult due to lore stuff. I refuse to believe this girl is anything older than specifically 14.#not saying she’s “minor coded” but Charon is a child to me. idk if I’m just not understanding her character correctly #but to me she reads as a kid #<- for reference ironically I remember an early limbus drama of people who had Don as a waifu since people thought she was underage.#and like. ironic ***now*** but to be fair I do understand it. but also consider: girls just got the tism (I do too)#evora original #limbus stuff #canto 6 spoilers #literally only exists bc I was gonna make a joke that Don is a shimeji innately but my brain went “do all of them!!” so now I gotta #limbus company #yi sang #Yi sang lcb #faust lcb #don quixote lcb #ryoshu lcb #meursault lcb #hong lu lcb #hong lu #Heathcliff lcb #ishmael lcb #rodya lcb #rodion lcb #sinclair lcb #emil sinclair #emil sinclair lcb #dante lcb #outis lcb #gregor lcb #charon lcb #vergilius lcb

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arsenysworld · 6 months ago

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The Office: Copy That Love

Erin Hannon x Male Reader

It was 10:00 AM, which meant Erin was already preparing for Y/N’s lunch break like it was her life’s mission. The reception desk was covered with small Tupperware containers filled with pre-cut fruit, deli meat, and what appeared to be a single, neatly folded napkin with "You're my favorite IT guy ❤️" scribbled on it in purple Sharpie.

“Don’t you think this is a bit... much?” Pam asked, leaning against the desk and sipping her coffee.

Erin shook her head vigorously. “Not at all. Y/N is so busy all the time, and if I don’t pack him something nutritious, he’ll just eat… I don’t know, a Slurpee and Twizzlers.”

Pam smirked. “You sound like a mom packing lunch for her kid.”

“Not a mom,” Erin corrected, straightening a stack of toothpicks she had arranged like a bouquet. “More like... a cool wife who wants her husband to be healthy.”

“Erin, you’re dating him. For three months. And he’s not your husband.”

Erin beamed. “Yet!”

Just then, Y/N shuffled out of the breakroom with a cup of coffee that looked more like sludge. He plopped down behind the reception desk and squinted at Erin’s elaborate spread.

“Is this... lunch or an art installation?” he asked, pointing at the symmetrical arrangement of crackers and cheese cubes.

“It’s love,” Erin replied cheerfully, handing him a toothpick with a strawberry and a cube of cheddar impaled on it.

Before Y/N could respond, Michael burst out of his office, clapping his hands together. “IT guy! Just the man I need! My computer keeps freezing, and I think it’s because I tried to download an audiobook while also streaming an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger.”

Y/N groaned, rubbing his temples. “Mr. Scott, I’ve told you, stop clicking on pop-ups. They’re not ‘free vacations.’ They’re viruses.”

“Hey, don’t talk down to me, buddy. I know what I’m doing,” Michael said, puffing out his chest. “Now fix it, or I’ll have to call corporate IT, and nobody wants that.”

“Fine,” Y/N muttered, shooting Erin a look as he stood. “Save me a kiwi slice.”

Erin gave him a thumbs-up. “Always!”

By lunchtime, Erin and Y/N found themselves at the copier again, but this time, their voices were just loud enough to attract attention.

“Babe, I don’t understand how you still don’t know I always print double-sided,” Erin said, holding up a stack of single-sided prints as though they were evidence in a courtroom.

“Erin, I fixed the copier. That was the task. If you wanted double-sided, you should’ve said something!” Y/N retorted, leaning against the machine like it was his alibi.

“It’s implied! I shouldn’t have to say it! It’s like when you—” Erin stopped, her eyes narrowing. “You’re doing that thing where you act like I’m crazy.”

“No, I’m doing that thing where I wonder why we’re arguing over paper,” Y/N replied, deadpan.

Nearby, Jim and Pam exchanged amused glances. Jim whispered, “It’s like watching an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond but... at work.”

“Totally,” Pam said, grinning. “Y/N’s the snarky husband, and Erin’s the wife who means well but overcomplicates everything.”

Dwight, who had been eavesdropping, stepped in. “If I may, the copier isn’t fully fixed. It still jams occasionally when using cardstock. I suggest running a full diagnostic—”

“Dwight,” Y/N interrupted, “this isn’t about cardstock. It’s about principles.”

Erin crossed her arms. “Exactly. Thank you.”

Dwight squinted at them both. “You two would make terrible farmers.”

“No one’s arguing that, Dwight,” Y/N said, sighing.

By 3 PM, the breakroom was bustling. Y/N was trying to eat his sandwich in peace while Erin flipped through a wedding magazine.

“Ooh, look at this dress!” Erin exclaimed, holding up a page of an impossibly frilly gown. “What do you think? Too much lace?”

Y/N didn’t even look up. “Erin, we’re not planning a wedding.”

“Not yet,” she muttered, turning the page.

Stanley, sitting at the next table with his crossword, chimed in without looking up. “Kid, just say you like the dress. It’s faster that way.”

Y/N gave Stanley a blank stare. “This is my life now.”

Kevin waddled over with a bowl of chili, grinning. “You guys are like a reality show. Like The Bachelor, but, like, funnier.”

Jim leaned into the breakroom doorway. “More like Married at First Sight.”

Pam followed him in, shaking her head. “No, they’re like one of those quirky indie rom-coms. The ones where everyone’s weird, but it’s charming somehow.”

“Or exhausting,” Stanley muttered, finally glancing up from his crossword.

Erin, oblivious to the commentary, leaned toward Y/N and pointed at a photo of a centerpiece made entirely of succulents. “Babe, I think this would look so cute at our reception.”

“Reception for what?” Y/N asked, exasperated. “We haven’t even talked about moving in together, and you’re planning a succulent-themed reception?”

Erin shrugged, completely unfazed. “I like to be prepared.”

Across the room, Dwight’s ears perked up. “Succulents are an excellent choice. Hardy plants. Minimal watering.”

“See?” Erin said, flashing Y/N a triumphant grin.

Jim chuckled, grabbing a soda from the fridge. “Careful, Y/N. First it’s succulents. Next thing you know, you’re picking out baby names.”

“Don’t give her ideas!” Y/N groaned, burying his face in his hands.

“Too late,” Erin said brightly, scribbling something in the margins of her magazine. “What do you think of Logan? Or Sophie?”

#the office #fanfic #erin hannon #dwight schrute #jim halpert #pam beesly #michael scott #erin hannon x reader #erin hannon x male reader

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shinakazami1 · 2 years ago

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I’ve received notice that there was a callout on me in the Stanley Parable Creator’s Club server and I would like to address it as I am a bit tired of people talking behind my back. I wasn't contacted by anyone from the server directly about the issue.

The specific accusations were that I openly discussed a fic with NSFW themes to a minor, shared NSFW fic online without properly warning it for minors, and encouraged a self insert ship of one of my Narrator designs with a minor.

These accusations are false, or blown entirely out of proportion. I have never intended to hurt people nor endanger minors and based on screenshots I've received, people have been spreading even more extreme misinformations, like me being a groomer. I want to tell the story with the mentioned earlier things, in hopes to clear up this matter and stop the harassment me and people received.

1) Sharing NSFW Fic Online

I have been informed that I posted a link to my fic, "A broken promise", without a proper warning.

I did put appropriate warning in the tags, however I did forget about archive warnings options and I misjudged that the T rating would suffice. I also had only mentioned the rape in tags and not in the ao3 warning. I will be more careful when publishing work in the future.

I've deleted the links on my posts and privated the work, as I do not want anyone else to get possibly harmed.

2) Filk

I was informed my never written fic was discussed in the discord as well with a completely incorrect premise and I would like to mention the idea to give people more insight into what it actually is supposed to be, despite the fact that it was never actually written.

Filk (Fernator's milk) is based on a joke someone made from another fic of mine, "Bon appetit 1.5 - Chicken soup is served " where Stanley buys milk and pickles, and we called it pilk. Somebody made a joke that this is like a pregnancy craving and I decided that that would make a funny CRACK fic premise. Again, I never have written this fic, and the only place it ever existed was in a series of messages in a private discord.

The whole point of crack fics is that it has a stupid premise. In here, it was one of my Narrator's, Fernator, telling Stanley he would make him pregnant. I know that this sounds like the problem, but that was just a premise.

What really happens in the fic is that Fernator tells Stanley about human reproduction but after that, the majority of the fic is a sfw adventure on how viruses, bacteria, and plants reproduce.

With bacteria, Stanley just gets copied, with viruses, Fernator creates a computer virus and it doesn't work so they move on, and with plant, the title filk comes in which is milk with fern spores in it. It ends up just in Stanley's foot. The end goal was for them to just get the cutout Baby as their child and then, the main fic that I talked about would end. After a while, they would realise they didn't really succeed and would try to make something, pouring filk onto Fernator and creating Pickle Rick.

The accusations of this being a non con confuse me as Stanley is happy to be brought onto this journey and there are no actual sexual activities involved in this not written project.

3) Art with minor

One person was very supportive of one of my Narrators, Jester (they drew him a bit), and even started to call him their husband. Since they're my friend, I wanted to make them happy, so I drew something I deemed wholesome and platonic. They also took my drawing this way.

In my eyes at the time, when I made the art, I never thought of this 'ship' as anything other than admiration for a design.

However, that context got lost when they reposted my art on that server with my permission.

I now see how people could think otherwise and I will be far more wary about this topic in the future.

However, while the announcement didn't use the exact word 'groomer', it highly implied it. I feel wronged for that as I received a lot of harassment in my direct messages.

I would like a statement and an apology from the announcers because their words caused a lot of harm.

4) Conclusion

I want to finish this off with being honest about the mistakes I've made of not properly checking sfw spaces - which started all this - and talking about suggestive matters within them. The fanfiction link was certainly a slip up but I will be more careful in the future of what I post.

However - I also want to say that it's not okay to harass people who got involved in this.

I myself have received false accusations already and seen my work be misinterpreted. I only learnt about this through buds giving me a notice and I do ask, if a similar situation would ever occur, which I don't plan on, to message me directly first about my mistake.

In the future, I will remember to double check where I discuss my fic ideas and I'll do everything in my power for this situation not to repeat.

Thank you for reading.

#I don't know how to tag this post #Tspcc #The Stanley Parable creators club

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the-sleepy-archivist · 6 months ago

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Malware Torrents: The Telltale Signs

Be careful with piracy torrents you guys. The majority of them are legit, but every once in a while you'll find someone trying to use them to spread malware. Recently someone uploaded a torrent masquerading as an episode of a TV show I like, but when it downloaded I saw it was actually a disguised shortcut (.lnk file) with a crypto miner attached to it, with just over 1 BILLION zeroes added to the end to make the file big enough to look like a valid video.

The first warning sign was that the episode was uploaded almost 3 days before it actually aired. That's rare, really only happens with hacks/leaks and those are usually newsworthy. Second, my automatic media organizer software refused to import it because it was "not a video file". Again, weird; why wouldn't my software recognize a valid video?

However the BIGGEST red flag was when I went to look at the downloaded file, it had a tiiiiiiiny curved arrow on it indicating that it was actually a shortcut, not a video. When I hovered over it, it showed that it was actually pointing at a completely different file in a protected system directory.

When I viewed the shortcut properties, I could see that it was going to run a command prompt and execute a batch command that installed an executable that would run every time I started my computer (basically, do a bunch of shit it shouldn't be doing. A video file shouldn't even have a target field, let alone one with command prompt stuff in it).

I had to learn how to use a hex editor to delete the billion zeros and separate the .lnk part (the install command) from the actual malware, and the instant I did that Windows Defender flagged it:

So. How can I identify suspicious torrents ahead of time?

When I went to inspect the torrent, in hindsight it was easy to see it was bad because of the file extension, but you can only see that if you inspect the files in the torrent, not just the torrent name. Many piracy sites don't bother showing you a list of files in the torrent ahead of time, so be sure to inspect them once they're in your download client.

I recommend familiarizing yourself with common media file extensions and then inspecting your torrents for outliers; any file name that includes a non-media extension like .lnk, .exe, .cmd, .bat, .ps1, .sh, etc. is automatically a huge red flag!

Secondly, look for that little shortcut icon before you open anything you download from the internet. And finally, don't ignore suspicious things that are adding up (in this case, the fact it was posted before the episode's actual air date, and the media organizer software flagging it as "not a video").

I think Windows Defender probably would have caught it if I had actually clicked it and the malware had tried to install itself, but our goal is obviously to never get to the point of clicking on viruses at all! So be aware of the warning signs, use antivirus software, and sale the high-seas safely!

#i've only run into stuff like this twice in like 10 years of downloading #so don't let this scare you away from torrenting #just posting to keep people safe and informed #the next thing on my list is a guide to piracy via torrenting but my time and motivation has been very low due to life stuff lately #fingers crossed i get to it soon!#torrenting #piracy #computer security #cybersecurity #mine #long post

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candywife333 · 2 years ago

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Light A Candle for Me

Hey guys, here is a Diwali special fic. It is a two shot and revolves around this beautiful little holiday of lights. The first part sets up the rest of the story. Second part should be a little bit more comedic.

ugly duckling/late bloomer chubby reader x rich idol Jungkook

Triggers: non-con picture taking (Y/N is still clothed) , eventual smut (rough)

Disclaimer: The Jungkook written in this fic is not an accurate representation of the real life Jungkook's thoughts or actions. Keep in mind that this is fiction. has minimal to no proofreading.

What is she doing out of her lair? You mean, Y/N, the girl who shall never be named?

That was the manner in which everyone at HYBE perceived Y/N. She was a desolate, mousy , rather quaint girl that lived in what you could call the basement of HYBE. She was head of tech support and she lived in her little dungeon till they needed her expertise to access their security footage or if there was a glitch with any of the computers upstairs.

She rarely came upstairs to the cafeteria or upstairs in general for that matter, preferring to pack her own lunch ----a green bamboo circular bento set that nobody had ever seen the contents of. The three other people working in the IT department would come and go easily, socializing with the rest of the building, but Y/N, the big boss, or "Bowser" as she had been dubbed by Jungkook and Jimin, kept to herself.

Y/N always wore a black baggy cotton shirt with black cardigan, black framed circular glasses, and black slacks that looked freshly pressed every morning. She smelled of laundry, baked cookies, and tangerines. The only reason Jungkook knew her scent so well was because of one incident in which he had spilled coffee over his keyboard. The wireless keyboard had died on him, and so when he summoned Y/N, her majesty, from her underground dungeon, she had just slightly brushed up against him to reach the keyboard.

That was when he had come to the conclusion that she was the equivalent of a librarian, ghostly, quiet, and strict with a very convincing resting bitch face. Y/N never spoke. It's not as though she didn't communicate. But she just never spoke to fill the silence, as most people tend to do. It's as if she reveled in it. To add insult to injury, her quiet demeanour along with her resting bitch face (which Jungkook swears to the this day, was ready to kill him with a machete for the damage to his keyboard ) made people fear her.

She only every speak when it was required and when she did speak, in a resounding, firmly assertive voice, devoid of any doubt, she intimidated most of the staff and even the boys to some degree. Even Yoongi had been scared to call her for help when the computer in his genius lab was malfunctioning.

Her clothes, her attitude and her overall aura presented as a festering ground for rumors to spread. Some said that she was so ugly and drab, that she had never been approached even once on a casual date. Other absurd rumors stated that she had a string of boyfriends, who mysteriously disappeared one by one.

None of them were true. But that little tidbit was irrelevant to the gossipmongers of HYBE. Bang PD knew how much of a hard worker Y/N was. She kept all the viruses, firewalls, and glitch errors out of HYBE. Her work spoke for itself; impeccable at cybersecurity, Y/N as head of IT made sure that there was never a data breach at HYBE and she even went so far as to trouble shoot for errors before they even happened. If there were malicious online rumors about any members of any group at HYBE , she and her team members made sure to take those down, and to get rid of them without even a peep.

Y/N sighed wearily at her office desk, holding her pounding head in her hands . Tomorrow was Diwali and she really wanted to celebrate. She had been pulling late nighters for the past few days, as she had to help the PR team handle all the online press regarding Jungkook's solo album release in the US. It was so hectic, that at this point she felt as though she truly lived in her office. But, she really wanted to celebrate the festival. The holiday meant a lot to her as a kid, and even now. Her family had celebrated it growing up and she wanted to uphold the tradition annually.

Getting up from her chair, she packed her bags, ready to go home and clean up. There was a party for the Diwali at her cousin's house tomorrow evening, and she would have to wear a sari to work. Y/n usually maintained her drab and rather somber business attire without fail, but she didn't have enough time to go home and change before the party. She would have to brave it out. Being an introvert, she was sure the extra attention would freak her out. But desperate times call for desperate measures.

Everyone in HYBE were functioning normally the next morning. Yet, as soon as y/N arrived, they all felt like they were either hallucinating or experiencing a collective brain aneurysm. Since when did Y/N wear color? Any color other than black that is?

Suzy, the receptionist felt like she was about to faint. She took a double look to make sure that it was truly Y/N entering the front door. Who the hell was this goddess? Y/N had on a red and gold sari in a chiffon, silky material draped over her curvy body. She had a bright red circular bindi over her forehead with gold bangles gracing her wrists and a gold chain adorning her neck. She looked like something divine, as she entered the building in her red high heels which couldn't have been more than 2 inches tall. Yet, the diminutive heels changed the way she walked, or shall we say glided. She had put in contact lenses as she had left the glasses at home.

Just as Suzy almost accepted Y/N's fabulous appearance, she saw the back of Y/N's outfit and almost had a seizure. It was backless, showing off her beautiful soft skin glinting in the morning light. The only thing keeping her blouse together was a singular golden thread that was tied up at the back. Suzy could see Y/N's spine all the way till right above her bum. Damn, Suzy needed a fan and water. If she was lesbian, she would've jumped on Y/N already by now.

Y/N decided that she would get some food at the cafe since it took her so long to get ready in the morning. She had no time to pack her usual. She sauntered over to the cafeteria in her traditional ensemble to pick up some coffee and a scone.

Mark's jaw dropped so low, it almost felt like he had dislocated it. Was this really Y/N? She looked like an otherworldly being, her expressive eyes framed with long lashes pulling him in. Her body called to him, and surely any other male in the room. The sari was draped so perfectly such that it showcased her figure. Her breasts covered by a sheer layer of chiffon, showing off her midriff , sloping down to wide hips that revealed skin as she bent down to pick up money she had accidentally dropped.

Her eyelashes fluttered on her cheek as she whispered out, "So sorry Mark, just happened to drop the money". She turned around as she took her order and just about every damn employee at the cafe decided that they needed a fan club just for her back. How had she hid her beauty for so long? She looked so perfectly feminine, that they didn't know how to process her in their brains and in.... other places.

Yoongi had come towards the cafe to grab a quick americano, and thank god he had no water in his mouth. Otherwise he would definitely have spit it out. He saw Y/N walking in his direction, and almost collapsed on the ground. His eyes couldn't believe what they were witnessing. Was this really Bowser? Their stoic tech support boss? How had she not been snatched up til this point?

As he pondered all this, he decided to do something that he wasn't exactly proud of. But, if he was going to have such a disjointed and jarring morning, he was going to make sure the rest of his members felt the same bizzare amazement and confusion as he did. He took a picture of her without her knowing, front and back, as he salivated, and put it on their group chat.

Jungkook had just arrived at HYBE, having gotten back from New York last night after his promotions in the US. He was so ridiculously tired, till he got a notification on their group chat. He never responded on it anyway. But he decided to randomly see what someone had sent.

He almost tripped on the pavement as he saw the picture that had been sent. whAT THE FREAKIN HELL?!!!! WHO WAS THIS BEAUTY AND WHEN DID SHE EXIST IN THEIR BUILDING??

The rest of the boys in the chat were just as incredulous. Jungkook saw all the interest all the boys were showing in the chat. They were literally thirsting over her. But no, he would have to have her. Her beautiful body , curving exactly where it was supposed to, with her lustrous curls tossed on her back, called to him. She was a siren, and her beauty was beseeching him. Who was this goddess?

He knew her body, but he didn't know her face or name. Yoongi hadn't posted her face. He would have to find out who she was. Not a difficult task for the golden maknae.

#chubby reader #bts x reader #jungkook x reader #bts x plus size reader #smut #bts #diwali #self love #eventual smut #angst #chubby reader x jungkook #plus size reader x jungkook #jungkook fanfic #bts x chubby reader

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ariconditioner · 2 years ago

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so dude are code monsters literal VIRUSES??? because if so we are in big trouble. all viruses do is spread (we’ve seen that) but also DESTROY. and if it’s doing what i think it’s doing to charlie and possibly max? then we are in deep deep shit. charlie obviously caught the virus from flippa, who i assume either is a virus or possibly… her corpse was infected by it??? no idea how max got it, or if it’s even related to what’s going on with charlie because his looks a bit different.

ALSO: has anyone thought about the implications of this??? if computer viruses are infecting the island are we about to get into some real meta shit here? and yknow, if the federation is just sourced from a computer/is ai, what’s going to happen if the code gets to them? and WHY does the code seem like it wants to get to them via flippas newfound hatred of the federation???

THERE ARE SO MANY QUESTIONS!!! cant wait to see where this leads to

#slimecicle #charlie slimecicle #qsmp #mcyt #qsmp slimecicle #qsmp maximus #code!juanaflippa #code monster

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kittydragondraws · 10 months ago

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*cracks knuckles*

2:53 – In the episode it's shown that Solver Drones can't directly use their power directly on other drones infected by the Solver. It's possible she spared him because she couldn't kill him directly and it would've been inefficient to kill him.

However it's also possible she didn't kill him because she respects him. In episode 5 she compliments him on raising a good daughter.

5:26 – Doll hasn't shown the ability to create tentacles. I'd say a more likely theory is that she grabbed his boots instead. Objects attached to or close to Solver infected drones are still able to be manipulated. In episode 7 Uzi jams the pod keys into N so she can fling him away. Something that (N also being Solver infected) she wouldn't have been able to do normally.

5:35 – It always irks me when people use the fork scene to claim drones are fragile and that Khan surviving the wall is an exception.

Drone's visor are most likely made of some kind of glass and/or plastic, so of course they'd be more fragile then other parts of their bodies. Not to mention forks are sharp, with enough force you could break anything with one.

You know nail beds? Well the reason people don't get impaled when they lay on them is because the nails are evenly placed and an equal amount of force is pressing on their entire back. That's what separates the fork from the wall. Once intense pressure point versus an evenly spread one. The reason Khan didn't get any visible injuries is because there was nothing that could have injured him, he landed on an entirely flat surface.

6:59 – That's… not how Solver infection works…

Real world computer viruses are often compared to bacterial infections all the time, it's rather common terminology. Code can't be spread without some kind of physical connection between the devices, like a wire, and this seems to be the case in the show as well.

The only real way it's shown the Solver activates in a drone is if they're a Zombie Drone or had it passed down to them from a parent, and since drones weren't intended to reproduce being reactivated as a Zombie Drone is the only real way for Solver to activate. Which I'd say is more likely if Khan were to have the Solver.

#kitty's kooky insane ramblings #murder drones #sorry #Youtube

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sweetheartmagic · 1 year ago

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COMPUTER VIRUS RANTS ARE BACK!!

today we're gonna be learning about worms. actually, the first couple of worms!

EMAIL-WIN32.HAPPY99

happy99 is seemed to be the first computer worm of the new age of windows, spread on the new world wide web! how fun! can you guess when this virus was out. 1999. both spread through email and netgroups. when happy99 is run, it will display a popup with fireworks on it. and with this popup, comes it infecting a program called Wsock32.dll, a commutation library to look at all the activity and traffic on the network. when an email is sent, or something is posted, happy99 would attach itself to those posts and emails. other than that, it doesn't do anything! a pretty innocent, happy little guy.

THE CREEPER is up next because. Y'know. Worms

this is the first worm Ever. created in 1971, the creeper was harmless. it was designed as a test to see if self reciprocating and spreading programs were possible. it did nothing besides display a message to the teletype.

well, that concludes todays worms and viruses. sorry this is the first one I've done in a while.

#computer virus #viruses #sweetheart's viruses #worms

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ask-daycarecelestialsisters · 2 months ago

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something Ruin part3 (Plus a bonus secret.)

Eclipse was finding the virus but he found while everyone is talking about something. Dawn giggle when Andy and Jakie talk about stuff. "I mean I can see you two. You are adorable" Dawn said while she pick up Andy. Charlie nods so she smiles. "Grandma like me but powerful!"

"So she sees ghost stuff too.." Andy hug Dawn so he float down after the hug, Dawn nods at the question. "Uh it's really Magic/star stuff" Dawn told them them she looks at eclipse. ((Eclipse and Luna talk about stuff in flashback))

"Eclipse.. Ruin Monty took Ruin but you have a choice.. Dawn has a future vision and it's not a good thing..." Luna moon said while she cross her arms. "Ruin Monty took Ruin.. We should take rescue him " Eclipse said so he sighs. "Yes, And there's more, In the future there's a lot of stuff happening involving Ruin Monty.. So you have a choice.. Let everyone help you or this will infect everyone." Luna moon said with a serious look at eclipse. Eclipse look at Luna moon while he hears her words. "Infect...?"...

(In of flashback)

Eclipse look at the computer then he knew what Luna and Dawn meant. "there's a virus and it's everywhere..." Eclipse said that everyone looks at him. Monty felt scared so she cross her arms in confused. "Oh I see the viruses in everyone but Grandma and Grangran" Charlie said so she use her powers to make the virus go away. "Charlie can do that!? When this going to spread..." Monty asked. "Eclipse told them a month it'll go everywhere as everyone looks nervous so Monty walk away to talk to Ballora.

"We could build something to make Charlie's powers & Dawn's make the virus go away" Jackie said while eclipse smirk at idea. "yay Me and Grandma are going to space!" Charlie felt excited about space but Dawn giggle nervously. "Sweetheart Space is cold you'll freeze" Dawn add then Solar flare nods saying "Correct both of you will freeze". Charlie hug Dawn so she looks at eclipse. "I guess I have to work on something Andrew you go talk to Monty about this".. but Dawn stopped him.

"You should let Roxanne find Ruin..." Dawn said while Roxanne nods but Eclipse refuses.

Solar flare agreed to protect Roxanne from Ruin Monty that made eclipse groans. "Fine you guys do that!" Eclipse said while Dawn giggle quietly at eclipse. "Mama Bring Luna moon to this she's helping.." Eclipse said he smiles then Luna moon appears. "I heard the whole thing and You should really stop being angry." Luna moon snickers quietly. Andy, Jake and Andrew look at Luna moon with shocked in their eyes. "Oh Both of them can do that" Charlie smile at her grandmas. "Does it hurt? "Andy said while he looks at Luna with a worried look.

"Not really.. A friend from my place fix up my transformation and He's a inventor.." Lunar moon fixes her jacket so she smirk.

Monty walk back to eclipse so she looks at eclipse. "I had to tell Ballora about this and cancel our date. What's up?" Monty said while she cross her arms. "We need to build a machine that can kill the virus we know Charlie and Dawn are the cure." Eclipse said after looking at Luna moon.

"You mean This lady right here.. is the cure too?" monty said she stares at Luna moon. "Well Dawn got healing so she heals Robots and humans." Luna moon explains to eclipse and Monty. "Wow it'll take a while but we'll build it!" monty said while she pats Luna moon's back. Eclipse felt jealous of Monty hug Luna moon but he brushed it off.

"And How you know about that?" Eclipse look at Luna moon. Luna replied "One time, Moon from the universe hurt his back so Dawn fix it by touching his back". Monty and Eclipse look at Luna moon then all of them walk to build a device.

Meanwhile,

A purple rabbit creature watch the crew build a space device. "Hmm, I'll allow them to help the grumpy dorito cause I'm nice. I should help Ruin get out but I can't.. it'll make the story not interesting. She hears Eclipse yell at Charlie so she giggles. "He'll learn that he can't do anything by himself or he'll lose everything".

#tsams au #eaps eclipse #eaps charlie #eaps Monty #eaps Ballora #eaps ruin #eaps

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destinygoldenstar · 4 months ago

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’This Computer Has Bugs’

When an Account Pixel, Pix (genderfluid btw), fails at their job and lets in entities, Viruses, into the hub of the Cyberspace, they look into old legends to get help to vanquish them before it spreads to all of human's technology. After learning humans, that they call Flies, can get transported into the cyberspace and when they do they turn into winged beings with tech powers, Pix decides on three individuals to bring in for help. Jake the aspiring game developer, Lenora the music artist, and Elsie the digital artist. They are all going to the same university in a graphic design major, and thanks to Pix, they're all assigned the same common room. Things go south when their personalities clash and they get punished for tripped the power of their building, and during said punishment, they find an old computer that Pix gets a hold of and the three are sucked into the cyberspace, turning into Flies. Now with Pix as their new cyberspace buddy, the three are tasked to defend the cyberspace from whatever hijinks the Viruses cause. They serve under The Motherboard (designed to be a frog) and she has a firm grasp on them so she can take them into the cyberspace and out whenever she needs them. Meanwhile in their other college life, the three form strong bonds with each other and their classmates, all while a staff member who knows about the cyberspace is onto figuring out who got linked to it. As the three live a double life, they are tasked not only with defending another world, but figuring out significant parts about themselves as they approach their newfound adulthood.

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(This is NOT the full thing. This is just a preview of a draft I wrote)

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The principal escorts the three of them to the computer lab, which is empty.

“Um… I thought we were supposed to be in detention.” Lenora points out.

“Well, since the reason you’re in detention in the first place is because you tripped the power in the building, these computers need to be rebooted.” The principal explains the assignment and turns on the nearest computer, which only reveals the screen for a broken boot sector. “I want all of these done before you leave. Get to it.”

The principal begins to walk out of the room. Jake complains, “There’s like, three dozen computers in here! This will take all night!”

“Well then you get to learn the value of all nighters early into the semester.” The principal dismisses. Then he leaves.

“Let’s just do it.” Lenora decides, already going to a computer to try and reboot it.

Elsie and Jake go to their own computers to get started. Elsie’s computer flashes a blue screen of death in her face, making her jump.

“You okay?” Jake asks in response.

Elsie pushes her glasses closer to her face and whimpers, “How many of these do we have to endure tonight?”

After about fifteen minutes of minimal progress and dead silence, Elsie asks Lenora, “Don’t suppose you have any of your punk music on you while we work, do you?”

“The power trip tripped my wifi.” Lenora snarks. “Because if I had access to it, it’s not a punishment.”

“Well if we’re gonna be here awhile, we gotta talk about something.” Elsie insists, turning around in her chair. “I have some pop art if you guys want to see.”

“Is it the girly stuff?” Lenora asks, in a clear sarcastic tone, “Because of course! I’d love to go shopping after this and try on princess dresses and gush over cute boys like… lanky boy in here.”

“Huh?” Jake wasn’t paying attention.

Elsie is confused by the message. “Uh… are you being legit? Or…?”

“No.” Lenora states firmly, going back to work. “But by all means, talk about anime. It’s better than silence.”

“Okay! So you know Sailor Moon?” Elsie moves on to the next computer, and gets jumped by another blue screen of death flashing in her face. She cries, “Why am I the only one getting these?!”

Despite that, Elsie continues to ramble about anime. Jake and Lenora mostly ignore her.

“Need help?” Jake asks, having finished fixing his third computer.

“What?” Lenora looks up, and her eyes widen. “How do you already have so many done?!”

She spams a key on hers, and nothing happens. “I think mines extra broken…”

She looks into the side box and starts digging in it.

“There’s another code if yours isn’t working.” Jake tells her.

She ignores him.

“Do you need help?” He asks.

“No, I got it!” Lenora, stubbornly, claims. She proceeds to pull out an entire cable set.

“Don’t touch that!” Jake gets up to walk over. “That’s gonna make it worse!”

“I got it!” Lenora exclaims.

Jake grabs the cable, but she keeps a tight grip on it.

“Let go!”

“I said I got it!”

“It’s gonna make it worse!”

“I know what I’m-“

They both lose their grip on the cable, and the tension causes it to fly across the room.

“And then-“ Elsie stops when she sees the cable fly.

The cable hits the wall, and it leaves a big hole in its place.

Elsie screams at the sight of the hole. Lenora and Jake are in shock, but in silence.

“Oooooooohh no! Oh no!” Elsie freaks out, gets up, and starts pacing around. “Oh, they’re gonna kill us! Or expel us?! I can’t go back to summer school!!”

Lenora looks at Jake in concern. “You gonna say this is my fault?”

“Not worth it.” Jake answers.

He walks over to the hole to inspect it. “It’s not that bad. We can maybe cover it with a tarp from the custodians. And if they find out we can say it was an accident.”

“Which it totally was.” Lenora says.

Elsie asks, “Was that also you not being legit?”

“No. I was.” Lenora answers.

Jake puts his hand in the hole and starts digging. “Let me just grab the cable…”

After a few seconds of digging, his hands touch something that isn’t the cable. “What the…?”

“You need a broom?” Elsie asks.

“No… there’s something else in here!”

Both girls share confusion.

“In the wall?” Lenora asks in disbelief.

“Yes!” Jake chimes. He puts his other hand in to get it out.

He pulls out a whole PC. It’s an old one, so old that it’s rusty.

“Whoa… what is that?” Lenora comes closer in curiosity.

“It’s… it’s a PC, but it’s really old.” Jake explains as he inspects it. He looks around for any label.

“‘1985’… this is one of the oldest published computers!” Jake realizes.

“What’s 80s tech doing stuck in a wall in this modern school?” Elsie asks. “I don’t trust it.”

“I don’t know…” Jake says, then decides, “Let’s check it out!”

Jake and Lenora are already setting up an empty desk to put down the PC. Elsie asks, “What about the hole in the wall?!”

Once they get it set up, Jake inspects the device. “It looks more in tact than you’d think, there’s just some loose wires…”

“Hey, are we going to deal with the hole or continue with the computers?” Elsie asks, still skeptical.

“We’ll be there in a minute, Elsie.” Lenora tells her.

“I don’t think this is a good idea!” Elsie pleads. “We’re going to get in trouble!”

“We’re already in trouble.” Lenora reminds her. “One quick look and we’ll get back to work.”

“A device stuck somewhere most people can’t find? That screams don’t trust it!” Elsie continues to express her caution. “Come on, that’s a recipe for an isekai!”

“Pfft,” Lenora rolls her eyes, not believing her.

“I mean, I’d be down.” Jake perks up with interest.

“Trust me, you don’t want to be in an isekai.” Elsie warns him. “Come on, put it back!”

“One quick look and we will!” Lenora repeats herself.

“Elsie, if you don’t want to look, just go back to fixing the computers.” Jake tells her.

“But…” She realizes there’s no getting through to them. They’re hyper focused on the computer. She sighs, “Fine.”

She turns to another computer to try and fix it…

…and another blue screen of death flashes in her face.

“On second thought, yeah, let’s see what this is about!” She comes over to see what’s up.

“Almost got it…” Jake says, tweaking some things. “There we go.”

The screen boots up a dark blue title screen.

‘Microsoft: Version 1.0’

“Well that’s… nothing out of the ordinary.” Lenora points out in disappointment.

“Okay, well lets put it back.” Elsie insists.

“Wait, can we use this mouse?” Jake tries it. “Oh we can!”

“You said a quick look, now let’s put it back!” Elsie pleads, pointing at the hole.

“Will you stop? There’s nothing dangerous about it.” Lenora scolds. She then asks Jake, “You know how to use this old tech?”

“No. This went out of service before I was even born.” Jake answers. “My question is why is it still on this PC? Why was it never updated?”

“Maybe they just loved the old days, I don’t know.” Lenora guesses, crossing her arms.

Jake clicks something, and a password bar pops up.

“Welp. Any guesses?” He asks.

“My guess? The password is ‘PUT IT BACK!!’�� Elsie angrily grits her teeth and sneers at him.

“Lenora?” Jake turns to ask her.

“Let’s try it.” Lenora shrugs.

“Two to one.” Jake chimes, smiles, and cracks his fingers.

All Elsie does is groan and grip her face in frustration.

“You are being really dramatic over nothing.” Lenora turns around to react.

“Sorry I’m theatrical!” Elsie whines, throwing her fists to the floor in a fit.

Jake moves the mouse around to look for stuff. There’s nothing but blue.

He wonders, “Maybe there’s a hint to the password on the back…?” He gets up and turns over to look.

“Uh, Jake.” Lenora’s eyes suddenly go wide.

“What?” Jake turns back.

Something’s being typed in the password bar.

“What are you trying here?” Lenora asks in shock.

“I’m not touching anything!” He puts his hands up.

Something is still being typed.

“I’m so dramatic, huh?!” Elsie snaps. “What did I say?!”

“I’m not touching it!” Jake repeats, also scared.

The password keeps getting typed, shown to them as dots.

Then it stops.

Then it says ‘Loading…’

“Guys…?” Elsie whimpers in fear.

A chime is heard.

youtube

All three of them have their eyes meet the screen.

“Is it supposed to make sounds?” Lenora asks.

“No!” Jake cries.

Then the screen glitches static, and loud sirens blast in the room.

Elsie screams and covers her ears.

“WHAT DID YOU DO?!” Lenora screams.

“I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING!!” Jake screams back, panicking.

A voice starts screaming through the static. “MALICIOUS SOFTWARE. REBOOTING RECOVERY DATA.”

“TURN IT OFF!!!” Elsie screams. “TURN IT OFF!!!”

Jake jumps in, pressing every button he can to try and stop it.

The whole time, the device keeps screeching in their ears.

“MALICIOUS SOFTWARE. REBOOTING RECOVERY DATA.”

“FLY. FLY. FLY. FLY. FLY.”

Jake finds the off button and presses on it, holding it tight.

The monitor shuts off.

The sounds stop.

“Did that work?” He asks.

Then something flashes in their faces, and some white grid projects on them.

“SCANNING.”

“NO IT DIDN’T!!” Lenora shouts.

“SCANNING.”

“What’s it scanning?!?!” Elsie asks as loud as her voice can be.

The projector vanishes.

“IDENTITY MATCHED.”

“What?!?!” Elsie’s freaking out.

“INITIATING SEQUENCE.”

“UNPLUG IT!!” Lenora screams. “UNPLUG IT NOW!!!”

Jake is already on it, reaching for the plug.

He yanks it off the outlet, a bolt flickering in response to the aggression.

Everything on the computer stops.

All three of them stand there, waiting for something to happen.

No sounds.

No lights.

Nothing.

Lenora takes a sigh of relief, a hand to her rapidly beating heart. “Alright, we’re good. We’re good. It’s fine.”

“Yeah…” Jake laughs nervously as his own sigh of relief, “For a second there I thought we’d-“

He lifts his hand to his face.

Or rather, his lack of hand.

“AAAHH!!!” Jake screams.

His now empty wrist has some strange particles coming off of it, which is being sucked into the computer itself.

From there everything happens too fast.

Elsie starts screaming incoherently, as she’s being extracted from everywhere, particles being sucked into the computer.

“Elsie?!” Lenora reaches out, or tries to, but her entire forearm is gone.

Elsie’s screams echo as she completely disappears, whatever remaining of her being taken by the computer.

“ELSIE?!?!” Jake screams.

“What is this?!?!” Lenora’s freaking out, the rest of her body being taken. “NOT LIKE THIS!!! I'M SORRY!!!!”

She gets taken completely too.

Jake tries to run, but trips on the floor. Both of his feet are already taken.

With his remaining hand, he tries to grab the floor hopelessly.

“NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOO!!!!”

His efforts are futile, as he’s taken by the computer, his vision going black.

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“…ake…”

“Jake…”

“Jake!”

His black vision starts to flicker a bit, but his heavy eyes don’t want to lift off their lids.

“Jake! Come on man, get up!”

Whoever is yelling at him, it’s not working.

“Hey!”

A pair of hands grab him by the shoulders and start shaking him.

“GET UP!!”

Lenora’s voice screams in his ear.

Jake’s vision shoots up, now awake. He thrusts his body back to get Lenora to stop shaking him.

“AUGH! STOP!” He yells at her. “I’m up!”

His head is still spinning due to a dull pain. His vision is still blurry. He can’t process any surroundings. Lenora’s silhouette is a blurry blob to him.

“Did you have to-?”

“Sorry. You weren’t waking up. I got scared.”

Jake uses his strength to sit up on his knees. He asks with a groan, “What happened?”

Lenora explains, “Last thing I remember, we were turning on that weird 80s device…”

Jake pinches his forehead to try and refocus his vision, which is starting to become more clear.

Then he sees it for himself.

Lenora is on one knee and facing him. It’s clearly Lenora, she has the same dark skin tone, glaring gold eyes, and dark afro hair, but… she’s changed.

Her afro hair is still prominent, but it’s tied up with a gold metal band that’s bearing some small antennas. Her cream shirt and her black leather jacket and pants have been replaced with some sort of tech suit. The way the top is structured is similar to her jacket from before, but it’s clearly armor, a white one with glowing yellow highlights. There’s some strange yellow gem brooch on the side of her chest. She has some strange chunky bracelet on one of her wrists. The bottom part of her is black tights, with the only armor being the white and yellow grieves and boots.

“What happened to you?!” Jake asks in concern. “What are you wearing?!”

Lenora puts her hands up and stutters to explain it. “I-I know! I don’t know why, but I know-you know what I mean… um…”

She points at Jake.

Jake looks down at himself, then looks at his hands. He gasps.

He has a suit too.

Only his highlights are a cyan-like shade of blue. He also has the chunky bracelet Lenora has. He has more white and blue armor pieces on his legs, but his grieves aren’t as big. His chest part is structured more like a bugs, with the exception of prominent shoulder pads, and a blue gem on his heart.

“W-w-w-what?!” Jake stammers, in shock. A strand of hair falls to his face and he holds it up. It’s a single big streak of bright blue hair. His whole head of hair is much longer and spikier, and changed color. His once ruffled dirty blond hair is replaced with spiky deep blue, with a bright blue highlight at the front. He has some sort of band on his head with antennas sticking out.

“Ugh…”

“Elsie?!” Lenora processes the groan faster than Jake does. She stands up and looks to her left. “Elsie are you okay?”

Jake looks over too, slowly getting up.

Elsie is kneeled and hunched over, with a hand on her head. She’s in clear view of Lenora and Jake.

She also has a suit. Her highlights are a hot pink. Her armor top is structured like a halter dress, sleeveless and with a pink collar attaching it. There’s black underneath is covering her shoulders and upper arms. Her forearms have large puffy pieces, with one of her wrists sporting the chunky bracelet, and the other with a normal pink band. She has a metal white skirt with pink tips around her waist, with black tights underneath. Her grieves are skin tight on her, the smallest of all of them. Her boots are the only ones with heels on them. Her brown hair has not only grown in length, but is tied up in a high ponytail, with a hot pink highlight at the ends. She has a wrap around crown on her head, which is sporting a pink gem, and the longest antennas of all of them.

“Mmh… I think so…” She groans in response.

Her ponytail falls off her shoulders and in her vision. She looks at it in confusion. “Wh-what’s with my hair?”

She tries to get up, and the other two are about to approach her…

But then something starts sprouting on Elsie’s back.

They’re clear, with black spines. They’re flapping casually.

“AAH!!” Both Jake and Lenora scream at the sight.

“What?” Elsie asks. Then she turns her head to see.

“AAH!!” She begins freaking out and squirming everywhere. “AAAAAAAHHHH!!! AAAAAAHHH!!! NO!! NO NO NO GET THEM OFF!! GET THEM OFF!!!!”

Lenora is the first to pull herself together. She tries to insist, “Elsie! Just calm down-“

“I HAVE WINGS!!” Elsie screams, her ponytail whipping out of her face to give them an aggressively terrified glare. “WHY DO I HAVE WINGS?!?”

Seeing she’s not calming down, Lenora tries to pace over. “Okay, okay, just hand tight-WAH?!?!”

She’s interrupted by her fast pace causing her feet to be lifted off the ground.

Jake, now seeing her back, can see the cause of this.

Lenora doesn’t fly high or far, as she loses her balance and falls on her knees.

All Elsie can do is freak out. “YOU HAVE THEM TOO?!?!”

“Uuuuuuuuuhhhh…” Lenora is joining on the freaking out. She can’t process this news at all and it shows on her face. With no other response to come up with, she turns her head towards someone. “Jake?”

Jake’s eyes widen, realizing.

If the other two have wings, then…

Jake turns his head to look behind him, seeing them spread out on his back. He gently takes two fingers and holds one of the four wings, feeling them. The touch of the glassy silk texture is registering with the rest of his body.

“Oh my god…” He realizes in a bit of disbelief. “These are real…”

Then his eyes glow in delight, and a smile spreads across his face. "This is AWESOME!!!"

"WHAT?!" Elsie can't believe that reaction.

"I always dreamed of what it was like to have wings! It's like the three of us are some superheroes from a video game!"

“Oh great, we ALL have wings!” Elsie stands up, screaming. “THAT’S GREAT!! I ALWAYS WANTED TO TURN INTO A BUG!!!”

Lenora, with no other way to ease her own fear, comments, “Hey if it makes you feel any better, at least you’re a pink bug.”

Elsie snarls at her. “Is that all I am to you? Some girlypop weeb?! I HAVE FEELINGS!!” She’s not in the mood.

Jake is the first to start looking around, asking, “Where are we?”

It’s some sort of green hologram bubble, except the room is cube-like, and the walls are a bunch of grids flying around.

As Jake walks around, Elsie explains, still frustrated, “What do you think? Does this look like we’re in the computer lab?!”

She reaches her hand out to the wall. She lets a finger touch it, and a couple of 0s and 1s spark loose. She lets her hand go, and it stops. She mutters, pink eyes widening, “This… these are codes…”

Jake then puts two and two together. He faces them and suggests in fascination, “We’re… we’re in the computer? Like, cyberspace?”

Lenora joins in. “The cyberspace?!”

Elsie doesn’t. “How can you say that like it’s an adventure?! We’re literally stuck in a computer right now and it turned us into bugs!! Bugs!! It couldn’t even be something magical like fairies! It had to be a gross bug!” She begins to whine and cry. “I don’t want to be a bug! I don’t want to be a bug!!”

Lenora growls in frustration, then screams at the top of her lungs, “GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!!!!”

The scream is so loud the echo sends visible ripples along the bubble. Jake and Elsie are both in silence and shock at how loud Lenora can be.

She notices their glares and dismisses them. “What? I’m a theater kid.”

She gets in between them and commands, “I know just as little as to what is happening as you two do. Okay, what do we know right now? We’re stuck in the computer, and it turned us into these thingies with wings. That’s what we know so far. If there is a way out of here, we’re not going to find it if we don’t keep a cool head and think about what we’re doing. Jake especially on that last part.”

Jake crosses his arms in response.

“And you!” Lenora points at Elsie, who tenses up. “You have to get a grip! Or so help me, I will personally make sure you never get out of here! Got it?!”

She balls her point up into a fist, further emphasizing her point. In response, Elsie nods.

“Now! Let’s see what we got here.” Lenora starts walking around herself. She puts her hand on the wall, and 0s and 1s start flying. She walks around, her hand still on the wall, and it leaves a ripple effect of particle numbers. She can’t help but smile in awe. “I thought this was only possible in a movie… this is kinda cool.”

She lets go, and the ripple effect spreads around the entire cube.

"Kinda? I love how cool this is!" Jake adds in a tone of wonder. "You don't see stuff like this anywhere in the real world!"

“Okay, it’s cool. How do we get out of here?” Elsie asks.

“Well… we have wings, so…” Jake looks back at his own set of wings. He gives a massive smile in hope. “Can we fly?!”

Lenora puts a hand on her hip in disbelief. She snarks, “Gee, I don’t know, what are wings for?”

Jake prepares himself, excited to try it out. “Okay… let’s just…”

He crouches a bit, readying himself to fly. His wings start flapping rapidly.

“Be careful!” Elsie warns.

He waits till he thinks his wings are flapping fast enough.

He lunges, and then jumps.

Instead of flying, he jumps so high he face plants on the ceiling of the cube. The walls got him, and now his head is stuck in the walls. He squirms and grips the ceiling, trying to get out to no avail.

Elsie has her hands over her mouth in shock. Lenora steps next to Elsie to look up and see for herself. She points out, “I can’t tell half the time if he’s a geek or an idiot.”

Then the ripple effects caused from the impact result in something else.

A second ripple joins in, and the bubble slowly disintegrates.

Both girls are in horror at what’s going on.

Lenora shouts, “JAKE WHAT DID YOU DO?!”

Jake’s head pops out and he shouts back, “I DON’T KNOW! WHY DO YOU ALWAYS BLAME ME?!”

The bubble disintegrates faster and faster, leaving them unable to think of a way to stop it.

The floor under them ceases to exist, and all three of them start falling.

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Their fall is stopped by a hard floor. Lenora and Elsie crash first, since they were closer.

Jake crashes a second later, landing on top of Elsie.

“Ow…” Elsie groans from the impact of being crushed.

“Sorry!” Jake apologizes as he scrambles off her.

“Wait…” Lenora sits up, looking at one hand and using the other to hold her head. “How are we alive?! I swear we just fell down, like, ten stories!”

“Ugh… feels like it…” Elsie groans, her face still buried in the floor.

“I said I was sorry.” Jake says as he offers her a hand. She takes it and he helps her up.

“Where are we now?” Jake asks, looking around.

It looks like some sort of spaceship. A silver one with some purple lights on the walls. The window walls are revealing a vast space, but instead of stars, it’s codes.

“Not what I thought the cyberspace would be like, that’s for sure,” Lenora answers, “But it checks out.”

Elsie replies, "Really? I was expecting there to be more... you know, ads flying around? But apparently not. It's an actual cyber-space."

From their view, it’s just a void of numbers.

Elsie admits, “You know, when you look this deep into it, the Internet is kinda sad.”

“Oh my codes…”

All three of them hear a fourth voice. They turn to the door in the room.

There’s a small figure, that of a child. Only, it’s not a human. Their skin is a deep grey, with their face sporting purple freckles and eyes, said eyes having a black sclera. They have a head of spiky white hair, with two strands in the front having purple beads. They’re wearing a black romper with some purple light trims on them.

They’re staring at the three in awe.

“Uh… hi?” Jake doesn’t know what to say.

All the creature does is ask, “Are you really… Flies?!”

The three are surprised by that answer. They look at each other, back at the creature, then each other, then the creature again.

“What…?” Is all Jake can get out.

Lenora crosses her arms and huffs, “I have never been so offended in all my nineteen years of life!”

“Okay, wait, you don’t know…” They try to explain it, pointing at each of them. “If this is correct, then…”

“You’re Lenora Pyrrha. You’re a Spotify music artist.”

“H-huh?” Lenora is taken off guard.

“You’re Jacob Saruman, you’re a Twitch Gamer, your last video was your announcing you were going to study to be a game developer.”

“Uh… you know that?” Jake is taken off guard.

“And you’re L.C. Bubblegum! Instagram digital artist!”

“It’s Elsie, actually, that’s just my username…” Elsie clears up with a proud smile. Then she processes what that means and is taken off guard. “Wait…”

“How do you know our names?!?!” Lenora exclaims.

“Oh, well that’s easy.” The creature says.

Their arm then shrinks in their sleeve. It shocks the three.

The arm gets replaced with a different arm. It’s a purple tentacle, glowing with a plasma effect. The arm grows as it reaches for a high shelf.

Elsie whispers in Jake’s ear, “Not. Human.”

They grab a remove and use it to turn on a monitor on the window.

It shows all three of their social media presences.

“The three of you are prominent geeks in your respective fields, and quite proud of them considering your social media presences.”

“You DOXXED us?!” Jake exclaims.

“What? No! That implies I want something bad to happen to you!” They insist, pulling back their tentacle arm.

“We’re bugs!” Elsie argues.

“Well… yeah? That’s how that works whenever someone from the outside transfers to the cyberspace.” They explain, seeing no issues. “I just had to pick three people who were prominent geeks, the same age, and going to the same university, and boom, you fit the criteria. And the transfer worked!” They cheer happily about that.

“Wait a minute…” Elsie realizes, pointing at them. “You sent us here?!”

“And I hacked the university’s notes so you guys could be in the same common room. And now you’re besties, so it’s perfect!”

“Uh… we’re not friends.” Jake tells them.

“We met like, yesterday. And look what happened.” Lenora adds.

“So you set us up to be bugs!” Elsie accuses.

“I needed Flies to help me! I had no choice!” They put their hand and tentacle up in defense. “They’re supposed to be prominent saviors to the cyberspace when Viruses attack our community! Because, you know, you guys are the only ones around here with those tech superpowers and those wings!”

“Wait wait wait wait, hold on!” Jake approaches them, trying to process it. “Flies? Saviors? Viruses? I’m pretty sure those buzz words mean different things to you than they do to us!”

“Oh, then come with me!” They motioned to follow them. “I’ll explain everything that’s going on!”

They exit through an automatic metal door and disappear.

The three ‘Flies’ stay there.

They come back.

“Uh… that means follow me.”

“You are a stranger!” Lenora defends. “You probably want to hurt us!”

“No I don’t, I… okay, sure.” They extend their tentacle to them, which is supposedly a handshake. “Hi. I’m a Vista Pixel, Account number 1307 to be precise.”

No one takes the handshake or responds to that ‘name’.

”Oh you mean a Fly name. Pix. My haters call me Pix.”

“Okay… Pix…” Jake repeats, taking the handshake.

They bring their tentacle back and cheer, “So now we’re not strangers anymore! Come on!”

Pix, slowly, creeps through the door. It’s clear they’re waiting to see if they follow this time.

“Sure!” Jake chimes first and starts to follow.

“Wait! You can’t be serious!” Elsie reaches out for him.

“Um, they just said we’re supposed to be superheroes in this cyberspace world. You can’t pass up something like that!” He gleefully says, still following.

“No, wait!” Elsie argues. “They doxxed us!”

Lenora begins to follow as well.

“You too?! You can’t be serious!”

“Oh I’m not following cause I have some hero fantasy,” Lenora points at Jake to emphasize her snide remark. “Look at it this way. What choice do we have? Pix is our best chance at finding a way out of this place. And if they’re evil? We’ll fight em.”

“But-“ Elsie doesn’t get words out. The other two are already making their way towards Pix. She growls, “No one ever listens to me!!”

They’re already through the door.

Elsie chases after them. “Well don’t leave me here!!”

Then the two suddenly stop by the doorway.

Elsie can’t stop her speed in time to prevent herself from crashing into both of them.

All of them fall through the doorway, falling a story down to a the hall floor.

Said hall is three stories big in size for one room. There’s bars on the ceiling that Pix is using as monkey bars to get across with their tentacle arms.

Pix turns around to see the pile of three bodies on the floor. They’re confused.

“Aren’t Flies supposed to… you know… fly?”

Jake points out, “Yeah, about that…”

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So uh... this was just some random stupid idea I came up with on the fly. Ya know, before surgery turns my brain into mush.

Basically, think 'Power Rangers but it's a cyberspace isekai and they're BUGS'.

Because, ya know, 'This Computer Has Bugs'.

You can see a lot of my interests bleeding in this corniness...

It's PG. It's General Audiences. There's very little 'explicit adult content' in it, the only thing that comes close is some themes that I feel any age could relate to. It's mostly a hybrid format of a story. There is an overarching plot, but it's also tied around an episodic adventure in the cyberspace.

If you're asking "Which of the three Flies is the main protagonist?" The answer is all three of them. They're equals, both in powers and screen time (well I tried to anyway). If you had to choose, I would lean more towards the 'main protagonist' being Pix tbh.

I also made some art so you can see the designs for these guys.

Elsie is the pink fly. She's a known digital artist online with a girlypop style and girlypop persona. She wears that on her sleeve, and unapologetically so. She's a straight A honor roll math and science student and top of her class at fine arts in her high school years. She's a proud weeb and eccentric creative, and love talking about her interests. Despite her persona being what she chooses to appear as, she uses it as a masking for her more anxious nature. She's scared of a lot of things, flying being one of them, and doesn't like being outside of her comfort zone.

Lenora is the yellow fly. She's a local electric guitarist and singer with her own rock style. She wears her confidence on her sleeve and is headstrong in whatever gets thrown her way. She's a very athletic person as well, having done roller skating, skateboarding, and volleyball growing up. She is the only girl in a set of quadruplets, and her family have favored her three brothers, not fully accepting of her career. It's gotten to her, and as such, she has a hard time letting go of her stubbornness and will to be independent. She doesn't like being the one in the wrong.

Jake is the blue fly. He's a passionate gamer and working towards being a video game developer. He's a proud bubbly geek who bonds with people easily through his games. He's kind and optimistic, but also impulsive when it comes to what intrigues him. Despite liking who he is and what he does, he cares about what other people view him as, which is why he clings to the ideals of a hero in a video game. He may be a bit of a klutz at some things, but nevertheless, he wants to do his best.

(The names may change)

For those Fly designs, I wanted it to be tech power armor, but power armor is hard to look good and not look the same. I still tried the challenge to make it clearly power armor but still different from one another to express their personalities and styles. Jake is reminiscent of a dragonfly, Lenora a wasp, and Elsie a butterfly.

They're uniform ENOUGH that they look good together and match, but they also have their own style going on and the power armor aspect doesn't restrict that.

Their colors are also not only for a color coding purposes (I love this trope), but also as a use of design storytelling, as those three colors make black, which is the same color as most Viruses in the cyberspace.

I don't plan on pursuing this story anytime soon. BUT if it's liked enough of an idea, it can be made into either a Tumblr Fic or a WebComic in the future. I can make the full pilot, see how that does, and if it's liked enough, the story can continue. Idk if anyone would be into this ridiculous concept though. I know it's trash.

(BTW, that Windows startup sound is FAKE, and that's the point. The first Windows to ever include sound was Windows 3.1. Look it up.)

#creative writing #writing #writers on tumblr #writeblr #writerscommunity #my writing #writing community #writing prompt #flies #cyberspace #geekstyle #geeks #superheroes

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plumsaffron · 9 months ago

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Miracutwats roast pt. 13:

Well well well! More criminal behaviors and charges are coming in by the writers’ versions of the characters! I’m referring to the glazed and hated characters used so far! If you know you know!

Recklessness (writers that don’t properly tag their shit or give warnings leading to their asses getting blocked and characters making errors leading to their downfall)

Refusing to take responsibility or see reason

Public Disturbance aka causing a scene

Racism and Prejudice (a few salters write Lila as anti-Asian in their fics?)

Close mindedness aka tunnelvision

Stupidity

Verbal and Physical Bullying

Intent to cause harm/injury

Social Isolation

Conspiracies to drive someone to off themselves

Embezzlement of funds and financial crimes (Lila is the culprit, often painted as this gold digging monster who only cares about latching onto rich men, also manipulating ppl into giving her money by claiming she works or a charity)

Hacking

Sending Viruses to computers

Doxxing

Harassment

Stalking

Homicide

Attempted S’A or S’A that already happened (yea some writers rly took it to that low low level on the characters... most likely for shock value and/or just to make those ppl look worse in their eyes)

Anti Asian Lila? Well that’s something new I learned today of Miraculous Fanfic Writers With The Plague.

Ah yes. Gold Digging Thirst they like assigning specifically to Lila. Just another form of that Lila only wants fame and fortune and Adrien as a trophy people came up with from like nowhere spread it around and took as divine/permanent truth and latched onto it.

Them miracutwats do love being egregious scabbies. Miracusturbances scared of removing their tunnel vision to take responsibility. Maybe they don’t want to see their ugly faces in the mirror because they don’t want to accept their collective worthless discourse.

Perhaps they want deny that they became, are rivaling, or are far worse than whatever they hated and went out their ways against and continued or still continue. Could be that they secretly want to be who they strongly loathe but don’t see they already surpassed them long ago or they truly believe they are doing a noble deed.

Sometimes I wonder how do people just do this to themselves, from start to finish?

#demi4ngel #Roasting the miracusalters as much as I can #reckless miraculers #miracusturbances #miracutwats #miraculous tunnelvision #anti miraculous salt fics #anti ml salt fic writers #their projections and thirst #anti ml salters #anti miraculous ladyplaguedom #anti ml fandom #anti miraculous ladybug fandom #Lila Rossi #plumsaffron

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ridiasfangirlings · 2 years ago

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fushimi casually doxxing yata haters on kingbook anonymously

Fushimi being like ‘nobody gets to hate on Misaki on this site except me’ XD Imagine as Kingbook opens to more people Yata does get the occasional hater that’s not one of Fushimi’s alts (Yata usually assumes they’re all Fushimi’s sockpuppets though, I imagine him responding even to random people with ‘shut up Saruhiko’ fairly often). Yata’s pretty loud even on social media after all, he thinks this is his chance to spread the word about how cool Mikoto-san is and he wants to get noticed for posting stuff so that Mikoto will be impressed with him. That annoys other people, especially some of the rank and file of S4 as well as just normal users who want someone to troll and think Yata looks like an easy target.

Of course Fushimi being administrator only uses his power for evil when it involves Misaki, he has a vast network of bots and alt accounts for the purpose of teasing Misaki. When someone else steps on his territory he is perhaps slightly irritated and so imagine he has a couple anonymous side accounts just for the purpose of doxxing anyone who gets a little too comfortable with teasing Misaki. S4 members probably learn pretty quickly to not even bother with Homra’s Yata Misaki because if you do somehow Fushimi-san will find out and bury you under mountains of paperwork. The random other people aren’t so quick to figure it out, until their computers start getting infected with various viruses and then they’re too busy trying to douse fires to keep bugging Yata. For his part Yata isn’t even aware of any of this though, since he’s mostly focusing all his attention on Fushimi and that’s exactly how Fushimi would like it to stay.

#sarumi #Talking K #social media of kings #Fushimi isn't doing this for Yata's sake of course #it's just only he gets to hate on Misaki #like what if Misaki started hating someone else we can't have that

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vermillion-bloodmoon · 1 year ago

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(TSAMS Continuity AU) The Dark Star

[Location: Superstar Daycare Basement]

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[Teek can be seen at one of their computers that they built deep down below using Moon's old computer parts. Their eyes darted across the screen, an ominous and maniacal grin spread across their face.]

Teek: Computer...how much longer until it's finally complete?

[The computer speaks in a rather feminine sounding voice.]

Mila(The name of the computer's voice): Two hours....are you...sure you can handle the power of it?

Teek: The dark star's power was meant to be handled by someone with a high proficiency for dark magic, my dearest computer...

[Teek's grin becomes wider, their eye glitching heavily and emitting a deep red glow.]

Teek: You mustn't forget, I've been preparing for this for so...so long!

[Teek growls, grabbing the side of their head.]

Teek: Let's see them try and scrap me after I take over their pathetic world! And maybe, just maybe I can finally fix myself fully, ahahaha!!

[The computer grows concerned, being sentient enough to understand that Teek seems to have lost their true self under all the viruses, glitches, and bugs in their body...]

Teek: ...Computer...do make sure that the endos are still coded to not attack my little siblings...I'd hate to see them destroyed by the new world.

[Teek's voice sounds quiet and soft for a moment, their eyes going to a ruby pink color for a brief moment and a frown adoring their face. The computer records this moment and locks it away in their files. There seemed to still be a small sliver of Teek's old self buried away.]

Mila: They still are indeed coded not to attack them....are you really sure you truly want to go through with this? You may end up....dead.

Teek: I...I'm sure! I've prepared for everything, even if they do take the fight directly to me, the Dark Star will be finished and its power....it'll enhance my own dark magic! It will be their final battle!

[Their eyes had gone back to glowing that deep red color, the maniacal and eerie grin returning to their face.]

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Two Hours Later, Same Location

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Mila: Dark Star Complete.

Teek: Perfect timing, I've just finished the touching up the last endo's reinforced armor! Oh this will be so much fun!

[Teek steps up to the platform where the Dark Star was being contained in a glass tube.]

Teek: Computer...lift up the glass.

Mila: Lifting....

[The glass is lifted, the Dark Star pulsating with a massive amount of concentrated dark power.]

Teek: Yes....yes!

[Teek grabs onto the Dark Star, letting out a scream of pain as the Dark Star absorbed itself into their body.]

Mila: Teek?!

[Teek has fallen to their knees, a much darker aura enveloping them and parts of their body transforming into a sort of void like coloration. Slowly after a few minutes they get back up, snapping their neck to turn back to look at the room overall. Their eyes are purely that deep red color and glowing brightly, half of their face looking nearly split and cracked with how the void coloration was on their face.]

Teek: I'm...more than okay....computer...

[Teek's neck snaps again as they swivel their body around.]

Teek: I feel....powerful!

[Teek's grin somehow grows wider. They start summoning dark magic orbs in their hands.]

Teek: I believe it's showtime!

[Teek makes the dark magic orbs go into two specific reinforced endos, the first two they had ever made for their army. They then started tapping at a panel in their arm, activating the whole endo army at once.]

Teek: Go, go and take over the pizzaplex, make sure that the areas you conquer gets swallowed whole by the darkness! I will be here training and harnessing my new power...

[The reinforced endo army go and follow the orders that they had been given, Teek going into the room in the basement that they had converted into their training room.]

[The computer, Mila, decides that now is the time to transfer her consciousness and data into Moon's current computer, doing so via the cables plugged into the wall. Spaniard feels Mila transfer inside, an alert going off.]

Spaniard: New data and consciousness received??

Mila: I am...sorry, I would've transferred sooner. I'm Mila, formerly Teek's computer voice.

Spaniard: What??

[Meanwhile in the Daycare, Sun, Moon, Ruin, and Lunar are fighting off some of the reinforced endos trying to take it over, Sun being the first to notice Spaniard and Mila talking.]

Sun: Uh, Moon, did you install a new voice into the computer??

Moon: No...

Sun: Then who's the new voice-?

Mila: I am...sorry, I only just transferred my consciousness and data into this computer. I was Teek's computer voice. I am Mila.

Lunar: So big question, do you know why these endos are trying to get in and do they have anything to do with that Teek person??

Mila: Gator but yes. Teek built an entire army of them for years.

Ruin: Well that's not comforting at AH-!

[Ruin gets grabbed by one of the endos, struggling against it before Moon throws another one right into it. All four of the animatronics' faces shift to ones of slight fear.]

Sun: Why is it getting back up?? WHY IS IT GETTING BACK UP?! MILA-?!

Mila: They are reinforced endos, bozo, you should've figured that out by how hard it is to fight them.

Spaniard: ...I like this one. I'm keeping them.

Moon: My computer just got a little sister okay-

[Lunar, despite having been warned not to use his powers by Gemini, uses some of it against the endos, which breaks down their reinforcements, short-circuiting them from the inside out.]

Lunar: I'm sorry, I'm pretty sure these things are a massive threat!

Mila: Not as much as Teek is now. There is hope to defeat them, but it is a sliver of a possibility.

Moon: ...What do you mean?

Mila: They...have created and absorbed the Dark Star.

Sun: ....Oh no, no no! Not this again!

Moon: Yeah but this one's apparently more of a threat than the last one!

Ruin: A-A-Ah, maybe we should calm down a little?

Mila: I'm sorry to say, but they already had very powerful dark magic that the Dark Star enhanced.

Ruin: Ah...

Lunar: Oh that's just lovely-

Mila: I did mention there was a sliver of a chance to defeat them...there is also a limit that Teek has imposed on the endos.

Moon: What limit, they already passed that limit with what you told us!

Mila: They are not allowed to harm Monty, Millie, nor Terry.

Lunar: You mean the kid who's kinda similar to FC but not really in terms of their power since he's unaffected by the StitchWraith's core?

Moon: Lunar when did you find that out?

Lunar: I'll tell ya later, kind of a long story.

Mila: That is correct...I also have some footage here I'd like you to see, pay attention to their eye color.

Moon: I guess I have to trust it....

[Sun, Moon, Ruin, and Lunar gather around the security desk computers, Mila's footage being shown of Teek's eyes changing from that deep red color back to their real eye color, ruby pink, when they spoke about their younger siblings.]

Sun: ...So...Dazzle was right, it's them being infected by a bunch of viruses, bugs, and glitches that's making them like that!

Mila: Dazzle listed as [Best Friend] in data.

Ruin: That's sweet...in a kind of...um, sad way?

Lunar: Yeah no that is kind of sad....feel bad for Dazzle now.

Moon: Yeah but you know what this means right? I could probably get them fixed down in parts and services if we defeat them.

Sun: You're not going to reset their memories to fix them, are you?

Moon: That's the last thing I'm gonna do, I plan on flushing all the viruses out, getting rid of those bugs and glitches in the process. That's if we even get into that small percentage of defeating them.

Ruin: Well you defeated my infected self despite the small percentage as well, so I bet you can.

Lunar: But you know what this means, right? We have to go kill off their army then bring the fight to them...kinda reminds me of one of the Mario and Luigi RPGs with Dark Bowser and stuff.

Sun: Oh my god it is exactly like that this is gonna be a long journey oh boy....

Moon: Let's go recruit Monty and Terry first, we're gonna need those two.

Ruin: Oh are we going to be using them as shields?

Moon: Pretty much...also as our secret weapons.

Ruin: Cool!

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To be continued.....

#fnaf sb au #fnaf sb oc #sams au #tsams au #monty gator #tsams lunar #tsams monty #tsams moon #tsams ruin #tsams sun

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