#hi I 100%ed side order and this spawned into my brain

[formerlycookierunauprompts]

AU Prompt #19 - ✦

" ....ey........k....p!....." There's a discordant swell of sound drifting into his ears, it's chaos made into sound waves that could have been made to torture him specifically. It's all noise, he can't make anything of it. Not a song, nor anything spoken, nor a single damn clue as to where he is. " ....om...on! ....t up.....dy!....." He cracks open a single eye, everything is blurry but he can make out dark shades and quite a bit of blue. One of the blue things is moving, it seems close? Is it alive? It doesn't seem like it's a regular person... " GET UP!!!" A voice screeches, causing him to jolt to suddenly being conscious. He takes a sharp breath as he looks at the floating... thing??? that's in front of him? It looks like a gem, one with a pupil in it's center. It's also shaped like an inverted club except thin at the bottom( or well, the top?). " Finally! I thought you'd never wake up!" Oh, that's the voice he heard. So it's coming from this thing then? Weird, super weird. " ... What... are you?" He asks, god his voice sounds rough. It feels like it hasn't been used in thousands of years. " What am I? The real question here is what are you!" The gem? creature? questions him in a curious manner, floating around him in a circle. " Or maybe who are you would be better." " Who I am?" He asks, searching for a name, anything that could come to mind. Yet there were only fragments, fragments he could piece together to form an identity. Was it his own? Perhaps only partially, but it would do for now. " I'm... I'm Blu', and you...?" " Oh! This is funny, see, I don't think I actually have a name!" The being chirped, almost too gleefully in his opinion. " Buuuut! You can call me 'Shadow' if you want!" The thing- er, Shadow cheered. " Right..." He hesitated before he asked his next question. " Shadow? Do you have any clue on what this place is?" He asks, turning towards the club-shaped being floating near him. " Hm... Well, I've heard a few people call it the Spire of Truth, and some others calling it the Spire of Deceit, so let's call this place the Spire of Deceit and Truth!" Shadow chirped.

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Or, a 'Splatoon 3 Side Order' inspired au where Shadow Milk is split in half and has to ascend his own fuckass tower of bullshit. there's Blu', the body, and Shadow, essentially Shadow Milk's soul. Shadow has his memories in tact, meanwhile Blu seems to have amnesia.

And yet, how long had they been split? It certainly happened before Blu was dragged into the tower.