#ya boi has been working ten hour shifts for the last week and I’m. tired

[friendliestanon]

A quick little sneak peak into the beginnings of “A humans touch”. My tadc au fanfic I’m working on. It’s the same au as Boss Fight so it totally counts as work being done for both projects right?

The game is broken. Humans are stuck. Glitches and broken physics rule in the dusty corners unseen by player eyes. The horrid abstractions lurk in the black of the cellar and wait. And at the secret of it all is Caine. The failing ringmaster.

He wasn’t always like this. Fun and eccentric sure. But he was never supposed to be quite this, insane? He wasn’t programmed to be anyways. At least he didn’t think he was. The code that took up his memory files was slowly being eaten away at by some unseen force. Not just the clearing of unused data and unimportant copy pasted files. There was something else in the back of his mind slowly taking what little pieces of what he knew as himself there was left. Had he always been this way?

Had he always been alone? He didn’t think so. Sure he had Bubble. But Bubble wasn’t always like this either right? He could vaguely remember a time when the adventures were longer, larger and more thought out. When Bubble had been a helpful guide to the humans as they survived in faraway lands and the outer reaches of space its self. He had had help then, he thinks. He couldn’t have done it all on his own. Not to that degree and scale. But whatever it was that was missing eluded him. But he was still alone. He wasn’t supposed to be alone. He knew that. And yet he couldn’t remember who else was supposed to be there. Who was he supposed to remember? Why couldn’t he remember? Dear makers above why was he alone??

Trying to remember felt like drowning. How did he know what that was like? He didn’t know, but he did. He could feel it sinking into him like a stone. The feeling of dread, of forgetting something that plagued him never really went away. It was simply written over by another line of code. It couldn’t be so important if he couldn’t remember right? The game, his makers, his own brain wouldn’t betray him like that. Right?