Deceitfully nice

I’m 21 :3

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 143

Null stays silent for a while again.

...

"I suppose it would be rather fascinating... I do believe most people only see a few dead bodies in their life time though, and usually it tends to be people they know."

Null would be referring to funerals...

"... I actually have not seen a dead body. I do not particularly wish to either."

--

They look at Remy when he frowns and pause again.

"Are you okay?"

They don't actually understand why he's frowning--

[deceitanon]

“Hm I guess it’s not for everyone, oh well! I don’t mind the uncanny ability things! Plus I’m literally intrusive thoughts! I practically live in uncanny valley”

{Remus jumps over and on to the couch laying himself along Null’s lap}

——

“I… feel like you avoided my question but I trust you to tell me fully what’s going on when you are able too- or I’m looking to deep into this”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 142

As Remy teleports there's a flicker in everything around him, a feeling of being torn from the plane he was in, and suddenly he's in a... Space. It's hard to put into words what the fuck this is.

... It feels endless, uncanny, and yet familiar. There's items Remy may have felt were important from the distant past, or even the present. Items that feel important, and yet he's never seen. There's segments of these uneven and disorganized rooms that look like the bar, the loft, the cherry grove, the river, the void... There's hints, fragments, of everything Remy has ever seen. Everything feels... Wrong. Soso wrong.

They look like what Remy has seem, but they have an extreme feel of them still not being accurate. Like this space disorderly pulled memories from his mind and threw them around in a desperation to make it feel like home.

...

Lights flicker dully where there is no source, water trickles in the walls that aren't hollow...

Familiar sounds of people Remy knows are in the distant, with no obvious direction, but they have no realism to them. Parrots and echos of memories put into here wrong.

...

There is a sound that is real, but still uncanny. A voice. Humming. Their voice sounds like a person stuck behind a broken tv playing static, a crackling stinging hum with a broken melody.

[deceitanon]

“Hm…. honestly- ain’t the worst place I’ve been in”

{Remy picks up a ball and chucks it over to where he hears the humming}

“Eddie? Babes? Why’d you summon me here?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie is no where to be smelled even though a quiet hint of his voice echos from no where.

When Remy chucks the ball to the humming it suddenly stops. Deafening silence fills the space immediately.

...

"HelL-o?" The voice is broken, muffled and stuffed with static.

Slow someone peaks around the corner. A extremely tall lanky figure, only their head visible right now. A thin hand gloves in black velvet holds the wall near them.

Their head is a small black tv box, a very only one. It glows dully with flickers of visual static, and a subtle ringing of static piercings the air. Ever so slightly glowing white eyes that flicker like screen tearing are visible behind the screen. Those eyes are barely visible, yet so unsettling piercing.

... No heart beat. No warmth. No breathing. Not even any subtle electrical current of nerves, brain, or even a computer. Like they are nothing at all.

"..." The way they tilt their head in confusion feels so incredibly wrong.

[deceitanon]

“Hm? Hello- Have you seen a short but handsome man with wired hair? I seem to be lost, wouldn’t be the first”

{Remy says like meeting someone like him is normal}

“Where even am I? It’s creepy but cool as fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The figure stays silent for a while before fully rounding the corner.

They stand at 7'9. They are unnaturally slim, limbs just slightly long enough to be uncanny. The way their clothes lay so perfectly and beautifully feels unnatural. They wear a long black layered dress with ruffles, and black velvet gloves covering their whole arms. Black flats with white frilly socks. Adorned on top of their head is a veil made of smooth lightweight black feathers.

They stare for a while.

"... I h-Ave noT..."

"I don-T hAve a nAme fOr thIs place... JuSt minE."

They radiate unease and uncanny feelings. They mean no harm.

"Int-rEstIng... Ho-w A-rE you hEre?"

They speak as if it is supposed to be impossible. They step closer slowly as if uncertain Remy is more than a trick of this space.

[deceitanon]

“Damn you’re tall- hmmmm must have glitched out of reality or something!”

“Oh like the backrooom”

{He said with a snap}

“How are you even alive here?- you’re very uncanny- but that’s hot nowadays”

“I’m Remy, you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"..."

They seem flabbergasted, even with no face that feeling isn't seen but felt from them to Remy.

"nOt alivE..."

"I hAve no NamE..." They pause. "NulL." It's a word meaning nothing afterall.

"HavE n-ot been callEd 'hot' bEfoRe."

They step closer and hesitantly poke Remy from the top of his head. They small touch feel cold, a split second of nausea given too.

"... You arE reAl..." They seem even more confused.

"I s-uppose oUt of reAlity w-Ould be dEcent as a WorDing."

They sit on the ground, now eye level to Remy.

"glItch... WhEre and w-Hen are you fr-Om?... You mUst be retUrned." They say as if returning a book to a library, clearly not used to human contact.

[deceitanon]

{Remy blinks away the nausea and chuckles when he is poked}

“Ouch, it’s like you don’t even want me here! I’m hurt”

{he says with a hand on his chest}

“I mean I got nothing important to do, just came back from altering time itself so.. this is kinda nice”

{Remy doesn’t know why he’s spilling all of this}

“Null? That’s a sick name, why.. are you here though? You look alive to me”

{he says with certainty}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"i dO n-ot mInd cOmpan-y... N-o-one shOulD be here thOugH..."

They stare and tilt their head again. When they do some 'skin' on their neck is visible briefly. It looks less like skin and more like a void made of millions of writhing larva. Constantly moving in a sickly way.

"altEriNg tIme?.."

...

"hErE is Home... My spAce. ConCepT of the liminal... UnCannY ties in-tO it."

"alivE... N-oT alive, bUt stiLl con-scious."

They aren't certain what would count as alive in other senses. "AlivE indiCates being m-Ade of org-anIc matter." They are not.

[deceitanon]

“Then I must be not alive too. I’m a giant dead fox. And you are made out of larva- not gonna lie, that’s kinda icky”

“…:does it hurt?”

{Remy asks very quietly with a frown}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses and looks at themself for a moment. They pause for a moment longer, turning a few dials on their head. There's a sickening squelching and gargling noise as they do. Their voice now sounds smoother and consistent though, but still stuffed with static and muffled by the screen.

"Larva... I suppose it could be comparable to that? They're void maggots. They are unique to this place."

They carefully scoop out a small few of the void maggots. They wiggle around for a moment, small like usual maggots, and then Null puts them back.

"Hurt...?"

They pause at that as well.

"Yes... But not in your sense. I do not feel it that same way. It is a constant feeling, but I am not bothered by it."

...

"Giant dead fox? Could you say more?"

[deceitanon]

“Ah… well, as long as you don’t go talking to the others here”

{he said jokingly}

“Kitsune, my fox form died a long time ago- it gets really complicated… can I show you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The chuckle Null lets out sounds like breaking glass through tv static.

"I do believe there is no one else to tell... Unless you mean the illusions, but I believe they do not count."

They pauses and then nod.

"I would like to see if you wish to show."

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a step back and drops all of his illusions at once… and shows Null his true fox form.. it’s massive… and dead looking}

{armor on top of his dead fur, it looks like it’s been washed recently by Eddie despite it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares, and though no mouth exists, a smile is felt.

"You are beautiful... May I pet y--"

They cut themself off.

"I should not touch... It makes people ill."

They stare regardless. A yearning for touch is blatantly radiating of them now.

"I could show you how I shapeshift?... It is not pretty though."

They wish to show themself too.

[deceitanon]

{Remy judges their hand, their bone armor could protect him if they pet in the right places.. he is so… warm! Despite claiming to be a dead fox}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tenses briefly before noticing Remy is okay.

They run their hands along his bone armor, his head mostly.

"Warm..."

They move closer and lay their tv head onto his. The sound of tv static feels sharp, but not too overburdening.

"I do not wish to leave you now..." This is the first time they've been able to touch anyone, and one of the very few times they've even been around someone visually.

[deceitanon]

{Remy sniffs where he can hear the static, then pauses when he hears them say that}

{he slowly shifts back, but offers his hand for Null to fidget with}

“I.. will try my best to help you, you said I can return, but why haven’t you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at his hand... Hesitantly taking it. They focus on trying to stop the nausea from carrying over.

"..."

"I can return... I do not have much control over how I warp spaces. I do try to not use abilities when I am in the existing planes, but I am unpredictable. I carry unease everywhere I go, I cannot choose a form that is not uncanny, I cannot create spaces that are not uncanny... Emotions are not something I understand, but I do know they contribute to mistaken use of my abilities."

They stare at Remy's hand as they talk. Quiet sparking crying is heard, though it is only black blood that drips from under the screen of their head. Smelling strongly of rot and iron.

"I do not wish to cause trouble. So I do not leave often, and when I do I do not leave with my body... I simply look, and memorize..."

This space is built by disorganized memories.

[deceitanon]

“We have a lot of people like you back at my home, Emotions, Weird lookin’ we even have someone that is the literal meaning of intrusive thoughts”

{Remy Chuckles, before pauses, he tries to summon a cloth, but his whole body glitches- and he falls forward against them, but he gets the cloth

“Imma… just ignore what happened to me for now”

{Remy murmurs to himself before gently cleaning off the rot and iron liquid}



[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null reaches out to catch Remy.

"Be careful in here. Your abilities will not work easily. I do not wish for you to harm yourself."

It leans into Remy wiping off the liquid.

"... Could I go home with you?"

They ask as if they are a stray cat giving boba eyes. Uncanny never leaves anything they do, as if it is a deep rooted curse in their very being.

[deceitanon]

“Of course you can!- wait… I should probably ask Eddie.. I’ve been bring so many people home.. it wouldn’t be okay if I just kept on doing it”

“Is… there a way I can speak to him? Or will I have to leave you first?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Oh-- You cannot leave with my help... And you will not be able to get back most likely."

They pauses to think, and then summon a black rotary phone with blood red rubies chaotically placed.

"Do you come from a time with phones?... This should work if so."

They talk as if they can travel between not just space, but time as well.

[deceitanon]

“Hmmm I- would call him but- I don’t really use a phone- he just kinda talks to me in my head”

“I promise it’s not as crazy as it seems”

“Oh! And I can totally come back, I’ll just recreate what I did, easy peasy”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at the phone and back at Remy.

They speak after a while of silence.

"Okay..."

They don't believe Remy will be able to come back, but they don't argue regardless. Remy has to go back either way.

"I will see you when you return." They say with hidden disbelief.

They don't wait for a response before they poke Remy's chest and in a sickening disorientating blink he's back in the bar.

[deceitanon]

{Remy groans and leans up against the bar}

{he blinks slowly, he feels like he needs to puke}

“Fuckkkk- Eddddiiieeeee”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie quickly appears next to Remy.

"Where-- What happened???" He sounds confused and concerned. "I lost all sense of you for a few minutes."

'Fee minutes' it felt like almost an hour passed down there... How does time work in that space?

"Are you okay??" He brings a trashcan over incase Remy does puke.

[deceitanon]

{Remy does end up puking}

“Got stuck in a weird space when I teleported….. few mins? It felt like I was there for hours”

“No… that’s not what I need to focus on.. there is someone trapped.. they are… uncanny more so than Remus but.. they wish to have a home”

{Remy gave Eddie puppy eyes}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie gently rubs Remy's back for a moment.

"What do you mean 'weird space??'"

He seems utterly confused.

"I--"

He looks at Remy's eyes and sighs after a moment with a lighthearted eye roll.

"Okay... Fine... I'm lucky Starie can create so much space where there shouldn't even be room, you know?"

With the amount of people here, it'd be impossible without Starie's stable space warping.

[deceitanon]

“Don’t worry~ they realllly tall which I know you love”

{Remy nuzzles up against Eddie with a happy purr}

“I… hope I can actually get back there”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie looks away with an embarrassed flush at Remy's comment.

"Oh, fuck off..." He playfully scoffs out without any actually annoyance. He clears his throat after a moment before replying, and nuzzling Remy back.

"Is there a chance you can't?"

He seems confused at that.

[deceitanon]

“Maybe… I just- need to make myself glitch while teleporting..”

“It… hurts to do it but I’ll only need to do it once.. so it won’t be that bad right?”

{Remy murmurs to himself}

{Remy kisses Eddie’s cheek before taking a deep breath, glitching and teleporting at the same time- and he lands back into the space.. but is on his hands and knees groaning, and coughing up more bile}

“Fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie tenses when Remy is gone again, he hates that he can't even senses Remy's existence right now... He paces while he waits.

----

Null startles and squeaks out shrieking static when they see Remy again.

"Remy...?"

They walk over and stare at him and the bile.

"How-- Are you okay?..."

Though Remy was gone for roughly five minutes, it's only been fifteen in here despite a few minutes being hours last time.

[deceitanon]

{Remy curls up and gives him a weak wait gesture… his body glitching again}

“Hurts…”

{His ears folded down- he hates when he glitches..}

“Don’t.. look”

{he hates making new people see him like this- 1) he likes to maintain the cool image he has.. and 2) because it makes him wish Eddie was here to comfort him}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses before nodding and turning around.

They sit nearby with their back to Remy.

"I am sorry that I cannot help... I am not a healing type... Do let me know if you cannot settle your body though, I can understand the glitching. It is one reason I do not leave with my body anymore... It tends to cause some of the void maggots to burst."

That... Sounds incredibly painful for someone who is made of them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tries to get up then lays back down immediately}

“Tel… tell me more… void maggots.. what do they do?”

“I… can control the void.. it’s how I can manipulate dreams”

{Remy murmurs weakly as he just lets his back lax.. he wishes just to listen}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Void maggots are specific to the place as I said... They grow in the walls, squirm their way in the ground, and come to me... I believe I am more of an entity made by this place."

They sound uncertain on what they are.

"They allow me to shapeshift, as they have no solid form either... I am unsure if they would be the same as the void you describe, but you can try manipulating them if you wish to test that? I do not mind."

Null is suggesting Remy manipulate their body itself.

"They have no thought, or organic life... They just exist. Like me... I do believe they are an essence of this place? That may be the best wording I have."

[deceitanon]

{Remy has gone silent}

{He has fallen asleep, he looks so.. human and warm}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turns around when he's silent for too long.

They stare for a while... Look around... They stand up slowly, and with focus to not make Remy ill, they pick him up.

They wander further into the space until it shifts out of Remy's memories and into a space Null made themself.

It's made to be a cottage, but it feels like an uncanny mimic of one, even more so than Remy's memories.

They place him on a bed, pulling a blanket over him, and then move to make coffee... They get a feeling he likes coffee. The bed feels oddly comfortable compared to the rest of this place.

The bedroom isn't all too separate from the living room, which is decently open to the kitchen and the front door. There are windows, but they're just a white light with no details.

[deceitanon]

{After sometime, Remy groans and hugs the blanket closer}

“Eddie?”

{he said sleepy, nuzzling into the blanket before opening his eyes… and sees the uncanny house}

“Where.. am I?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null hears him wake up, and slowly walks over to the bedroom. Floorboards creak under their silent feet.

They look around the corner... Looking around corners before walking past them seems like a habit of theirs.

"Are you okay now, Remy?"

They slowly walk closer, they also tend to walk slowly.

They carry a mug of coffee, setting it on the warped nightstand.

"I made coffee."

[deceitanon]

“Fuck yes… I love coffee.. and yes I’m feeling better.. sorry about passing out on you”

“You were talking about the void things?”

{Remy mutters as he sits up and grabs the coffee to drink it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"You are alright."

The coffee is almost right. Almost how Remy likes it. It's off still. Anything Null makes seems to be off.

"I was..."

They watch Remy drink the coffee for a moment, also staring at the bed... They don't say what they want, and it is difficult to tell without a face to show it.

"The void maggots are more of an essence of this space... I believe..."

They think for a moment.

"You mentioned dreamscapes being voids. I believe the void maggots grow up into them. Though they form in here, and make me, I would guess they grow up into something?"

They are larva after all.

"Perhaps that is what they grow into?"

There was a vague familiarity to the maggots, but it was hard to place, easy to dismiss as the space.

[deceitanon]

“You think I can control them? What do you think I can do with them?”

{Remy purrs at the taste of his coffee, his tails wag slowly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently watches Remy's tails wag for a moment.

...

"I believe you could, yes... I am unsure what you could do with them though."

They think for a moment, still staring at Remy. The longer they stare the more unsettling it feels...

"Maybe you could have control over what they form into?... I do not always understand where I learn what I do, but I suppose that is part of who I am... I believe they form dreamscapes, but also mindscapes and pocket dimensions."

"If they have multiple paths, maybe there could be more with artificial influence?"

They scoop out of maggots from their neck again and offer them to Remy. They writhe and squirm in their palm.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tilts his head and looks at the maggots, he shudders but takes a deep breath, he hover his hands over the maggots and tries to alter them in anyway he can}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

As he hovers his hand over the maggots he can feel they have a different type of energy. It's more like a potential energy, that would be gone the moment it's used?

As Remy tries to manipulate the maggots they writhe more, then start to bubble, and then they melt into a black goo... Then, suddenly, Remy can feel a new pocket dimension as the maggot goo disappears. It feels different from ones he may have created before.

He can feel that it was made, and that it belongs to him in a way, but it took little no of his energy to do so.

[deceitanon]

“Huh- gross but that took like no energy.. the maggots feel like that have some kind of energy probably stored inside them- UGH where is Logan when I need him”

{Remy groans- he’s not a scientist or a doctor like him}

“I have no idea what this could mean.. hmmm”

“When I altered the lil guys.. they disappeared but I felt a pocket dimension open up, a new one- how is that even possible.. it wasn’t a lot of em”

“Can you tell me more about yourself Null? How’d you get here? How are you made up of these Void Bugs”

{he wants to stop calling them maggots.. it feels rude because Null is made out of these lil buggers}

___

{While Null is explaining, Remy does try to write a note and glitchport (teleport and glitch) the note to Eddie, to tell him he is okay}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Each one of them grows up into a space like that, so you really only need one. Using more strengthens it, and makes it bigger I would guess."

They fall silent for several minutes at being asked about themself.

...

"I... Do not know how I got here. I just remember nothing... And then I was here... Or--"

Their screen glitches violently for a minute before they talk again.

"As for being made of the bugs--" They talk as if that glitching never happened. "I believe I made out of them as... As..."

They fall silent again.

"I don't think about what I am."

They don't know. They don't like that they don't know.

They can't remember how they got here...

"I like creating things... They always come out warped though."

They summon a fox plush, and while it looks like a fox it is unsettling not a fox at the same time.

----

The note ends up slightly clipped into the bar counter near Eddie. It's enough to read at least, but part of the note is in the counter.

"... Okay..." He sighs in shaky relief.

[deceitanon]

“Hmm.. so-“

{Remy pauses when he watches their screen glitch, he frowns in worry, everything about this place looks and feels fine- but it’s more like an uncanny feeling, he looks at the fox with a head tilt}

{Plus the whole time weirdness is throwing him off as well}

{he rubs his head as he thinks}

“I don’t know what to make of you babes, and I’d like to try and understand as much as I can before I introduce you to a whole new realm- or space.. don’t get me wrong- I’ve dealt with crazy stuff so this is just precarious, because who knows what could happen-“

“But- you don’t like these questions so.. maybe you can ask me somethings? And we can bounce off each others questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly, and stares at the bed for a bit again. They've kind of just been standing there, as if unsure what to do with themself.

"... What does it feel like to breathe?... Or... Just... How does your body feel to you?"

Odd first question...

[deceitanon]

“I.. hm I may not feel like the best example because it’s different with everyone.. but my body feels hot, it might seem warm and nice, but I do love the cold weather to help balance myself out, I get a lot of headaches due to my connections back in my world, but honestly it’s something I’m just used to so I’ve learned how to cope healthily..”

“Breathing feels awesome.. definitely something everyone takes for granted”

“Can I ask you the same questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently listens and processes what Remy said.

...

"I... Do not breathe. I always feel cold, I think numb is the other word... I like that you felt warm, I don't feel that often."

They fall silent again before there's a smaller and calmer glitch on their screen.

"... Breathing... I miss that. I took it for granted too it seems."

They remember breathing... There had to be something before they became this then, right?

"..." They pause, asking their next question quietly. "What does fear feel like?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy perks up, they remember something! Seems like this is going somewhere}

“Fear… is the worst thing to feel.. your body your mind all send these signals that you will die, get hurt.. and you can’t do anything about it”

{Remy looks away for a moment} “though there is a scale to how much a person can feel fear.. like it can be something small like a spider and they just avoid spiders.. or it can be a big fear like.. water itself- or loud sounds where it can affect your day to day life”

“… What can you feel?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly and thinks again.

...

"I don't feel... Things in a way I can place."

"Fear... I--"

They look at their hand and fall silent again.

"I do remember fear though... Fear and... And... Pain."

"Most feelings are dull... Now..."

They fidget with their gloves.

...

"... What does it feel like to die?"

That's... A heavy question. Why are they asking?

[deceitanon]

“… that’s a loaded question, it’s really depends on how you die”

“Why.. do you ask?”

{Remy frowns with worry}

“I promise you, it ain’t fun..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"I..."

They lean against the wall and pick at their gloves now.

"I don't know if I died... I"

They slowly slide down the wall to sit on the floor.

"I wasn't this... What was I?"

They're really wracking their mind now.

"I remember feeling tired... Then cool grass and dirt before falling asleep."

...

"Then an endless void. Thought it was a dream... There was a box. Nothing else... So I... Walked over to it."

They take their glove off and stare at all the writhing larva.

"I opened it... They spilled out, couldn't even guess how many..."

...

"Body was gone... Then I was this."

"It hurt... I was scared. I struggle to even remember feelings now."

[deceitanon]

“…”

{Remy frowns as he listens while nodding along}

{Remy slowly gets up and sits next to them}

“You aren’t alone anymore.. I can’t- I don’t want to promise anything that I’m not confident in.. but I’ll try my best to help you.. I know what it’s like.. losing your body.. being thrown into the void”

{Remy lets his hand hover over their arm, offering a warm touch}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at his hand and slowly takes it after putting their glove back on. They try to stop the sickening sensation, but it seems to be easier now.

"..."

They stay silent for a while longer.

"I don't... Mind what I am now. I think I was human... I can feel things coming back to me too. I don't think I was from your dimension or time period..."

...

"Is it weird... That I like being this?"

They don't like how unsettling they always are, but they still like what they are.

"I just... I just don't want to be alone anymore."

[deceitanon]

“If you liked being like this then I won’t stop you, you aren’t alone anymore. Okay? Not if I can help it”

{Remy smiles as he holds their hand}

“How do we get you over to my side?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null slowly nods and stares at Remy for a moment again.

"... Hard to explain... But it's not difficult for me."

They've just always been too scared to leave, being able to isn't a problem.

In another disorientating, nauseating blink they're back in the bar. It doesn't seem as bad with Null active in the process.

Though as Null teleports them back there's a dull wet popping sound of several of the larva in their body. Some black goo drips from them, but is quick to disappear.

They stumble a little and sit on the ground as their tv head glitches for a moment. It seems similar to a headache for them.

"... Hngg just a moment..."

----

Eddie startles when they are suddenly back and stares at them, more so towards Null. He gets a heavy uneasiness from them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy’s tails wagging quickly as he stands in front of Null and looks at Eddie, like a happy dog that just succeeded in a game of fetch}

“This is Null, he reminds me of Remus.. if that helps with the uneasiness..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie stares at Remy and then chuckles with a sign as he walks over.

He brings him into a hug.

"It does..."

He stares at Null behind Remy as they slowly stand back up.

"This era makes sense..." They mumble to themself as they look around and then at Eddie.

"... Ah, greetings... You must be Eddie?"

Their wording is similar to Logan's, but their voice has that static muffled through a tv feel... And the general uncanny nature of them.

"I am... It's nice to meet you, Null."

This is the second time Remy has mentioned Remus and how they're rather curious about him.

"It is nice to meet you as well..."

They also seem unsure what to do with themself in new area.

[deceitanon]

{Remys drapes himself behind Eddie’s back with a loving purr, nuzzling him}

“Welcome to our home! How are you feeling”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie purrs happily, nuzzling Remy back as he wraps a tail around his waist.

Null looks around before answering.

"I am..." They pause, unsure. "Fine I believe."

They walk closer to Eddie now, looking down at him. They are well over two feet taller than him.

"... Would you like to go upstairs? Everyone is typically up there."

He smiles softly, though still getting used to the uneasiness. He does pause and warn Virgil with a text, knowing he might not handle it well.

Null nods slowly and looks around more.

[deceitanon]

{Virgil gets the text and goes to his room, thanking Eddie}

——

{Upstairs, Logan is talking to Remus on the touch.. Patton is making lunch for everyone, Ethos is reading a book as best he can on the love seat}

{Logan pauses, invisible to Null}

“Eddie? Remy? Who is that?”

—

{Remus turns and perks up with a wicked smile}

“Well look at you! Tall and Mysterious~”

{Remus doesn’t seem to be effected but Null’s Unease presence}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Logan.

"This is Null... Oh-- They can't see you right now..."

--

Ella is sitting with Ethos if he doesn't mind right now.

--

Null stares at Remus and tilts their head slightly. They actually stay silent as they slowly walk over.

...

"Hello..." They almost seem to be analyzing Remus.

...

"You have a familiarity."

Concept of the liminal and uncanny... Concept of intrusive thoughts... Could be something with that, but Null doesn't seem to understand.

They just... Stare. Far more than they did with Remy earlier.

[deceitanon]

{Ethos didn’t mind, he also wasn’t surprised by the new person either, he’s been here since day one, he’s used to this}

——

{Remus stares back and giggles}

“Well I used to look slightly different and yknow been around”

“Oooo Maggots! I love the look”

“I’m Remus! Dark creativity, Intrusive Thoughts, Doctor- you.. look familiar too! But where do I know you from hmmm”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Ella looks over briefly, bur she rather relax with Ethos right now. She leans against him, purring contently.

----

"It is nice to meet you, Remus."

They pause again.

"I... Do not believe I was from this dimension or era... My space exists between all that, but I am never sure."

They move around the couch to sit next to him.

...

They just stare more. Then they offer their hand with no explantion.

Given Remus probably would take their hand without questioning...

He gets no nausea either. Something about who Null was before is what is familiar, hidden what they are now.

...

They were a scientist at the same lab-- They vanished around the same time Remus got the radiation poisoning. Null does not remember much though.

"..." They don't say anything, just analyzing what any of that means.

... If Remus may recall, they used to be called "Dr. Rhinestone." She was well known in her field back then.

[deceitanon]

{Remus stares}

{then blinks}

{stares}

“Dr…Rhinestone- no”

“That’s not possible- the lab was empty when-“

“What happened?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tilts their head and stares back in confusion. When the name Remus says actually registers their screen glitches again and they head a headache like pain.

Though they gather themself well enough.

"Apologies... Dr. Rhinestone?-- I--"

They stare at Remus more.

"... What happened?"

They don't know the answer themself.

"..."

They pick at their gloves again, seeming to be a stressed habit.

"... The lab-- Wait--" They look directly st Remus now, white eyes behind the screen more visible now.

"Dr. Eckhard."

They remember more.

"Shit." They don't like what they remember.

"Fuck. I--"

...

"I worked in a lab near yours. I was supposed to be monitoring the radiation--"

They messed that up. They know they did.

"I didn't-- I got it wrong-- I-I... What happened to me..."

They look at their hands again, their speech sounding more coherent in wording, more tone coming through.

"I just... I remember passing out. I felt dizzy, fell, and I hit my head... Hard... I felt so cold."

They swear they feel the pain again.

"Woke up in a field of grass... Just one peach tree. I was so tired... I felt like I shouldn't sleep, but I did... Then the void, the box-- the maggots."

They pick at their gloves more harshly. Did they pass out from radiation poisoning? How did they just vanish though?

[deceitanon]

{Remus takes a slow step back.. he tugs on his hair}

“Holy…holy shit”

{he stares and starts laughing.. his form glitches- as if almost returning back to how Remus was before.. maybe the death of Dr. Rhinestone is what made him go insane faster- the puzzle piece is bending again}

“It was my fault- you-“

{He starts crying while laughing}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null quickly gets up and shakes their head.

"No. No! I-I was supposed to be monitoring it! I... Fuck. I miscalculated things. If I just-- Fuck."

They are shown genuine visible stress by now. Their uneasiness affect gets stronger with this.

"God I was a fucking idiot!"

They remembered something again.

"Fuck. Why..."

"It was my fault!! Fuck-- Remus--"

They force themself to say the words stuck in their non existent throat.

"I fucked up because I was-- I-I was-- high... I was a fucking idiot!"

They grab the sides of their head, self loathing.

"What the fuck was wrong with me?!"

...

"I was a well regarded scientist, I had access to pretty much anything I wanted, and i fucking abused that?!"

They tear up too, that rot and iron leaking through the screen.

"If I wasn't busy getting high off my ass I would have realized things were going wrong!"

[deceitanon]

“I…I knew”

{Remus whispered}

“I knew about the radiation and still decided to take the risk to study it…”

“I’m so sorry this happened to you Dr. Rhinestone..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null falls back onto the couch to try and calm down.

"I knew the risk too... I was suppose to be helping minimize the risk, and be the first to know when it was becoming too high of a risk."

...

"Please don't be sorry... I probably would have been fired or worse even if I did live..."

They look back up at him after a moment.

"But... Still here now, y-yeah?... Suppose you still can't get r-rid of me that easily?"

They try to make a joke to lighten the mood, though their words are still choked.

"Don't beat yourself up about it... Would say I'm not the same person, and I think I gather why I wouldn't want to be now."

They offer their hand again.

"I don't hold anything against you..."

Though no mouth is there, Null does smile softly.

[deceitanon]

“Mghh”

{Remus laughs before nodding}

“I don’t hold anything against you either…”

——-

{Remy blinks slowly and stares at Eddie}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remus for a moment before pulling him into a hug if he lets them.

"... Thank you."

Their head feels all buzzy right now... They aren't sure why, but thinking of themself as human causes their entire body to ache. Like they aren't allowed to feel that.

"..."

"Please only call me Null as well..." Their human tone retreats a little now. Tone returning to more uncanny.

----

Eddie looks over at Remy as well. He seems very confused.

"I... Do not remember there being a Dr. Rhinestone...?"

Though with the nature of what Null is it may be impossible to see them in the past. Ethos wouldn't have detected any lies either.

Eddie does not know what Null is as of right now.

[deceitanon]

{Remus touches Null’s tv screen and smiles}

“Looks like we both were changed heavily after the accident..”

——

{Remy nods in agreement}

“I don’t remember if this is because of the time stuff we did either”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null's screen has a electrical buzzing feel to it despite no electricity actually existing in them.

"I suppose so, yes... I became the concept of the liminal and uncanny feeling. Does not make people particularly enjoy being around me."

The eyes behind their screen shift slightly to look at Remus past his hand.

"How were you changed?"

----

Eddie sighs and thinks for a moment. He catches what Null says about their concept--

"Ah, I uh I do not think it is..."

... Why does he say it like he knows something...?

"I was wondering when they would show up." He mumbles very quietly--

He implies he already knew about Null in a way?!

[deceitanon]

“I became intrusive thoughts , got a bad cancer, drank a experimental drug and now I have a Symbiot inside me-“

“I wasn’t all this sane, but thanks to everyone here I’m semi back to normal… now I’m growing plants thanks to the basement downstairs- I swear I feel like it’s alive sometimes”

——

{Remy blinks slowly}

“Huh?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null goes to respond, but pauses at the mention of the basement--

"... Alive... How?"

They ask as if they know something.

----

Eddie pauses briefly.

"I uh... You know how the basement is always shifting and responding to what living things need, but it isn't technically alive?"

He looks at Remy with a look of "please don't be mad"

... What did he do?

[deceitanon]

{Remy stares at Eddie}

“Babes….. what did you do?”

{he gives him a stern look but one that says he won’t be fully mad}

——

“I dunno.. it just responded to me in ways that I didn’t even know I needed.. it learned- I swore it was teasing and sarcastic to me at one point”

{Remus shrugs}

“Why?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Uhhh... That basement is technically part of Null's domain and I didn't remember how I did that until recently... I uh I still don't understand the technicality of how I did it."

...

"I may have stolen a part of their domain somehow--"

How the actual fuck does someone steal part of someone else's domain?!

----

Null pauses in thought...

"How the..."

They look at Eddie.

They stare.

"You... You stole part of my domain?!"

Eddie chuckles nervously and looks away.

"I was wondering what that went!! You ass!! I was working on that for so long!"

Oh dear--

They aren't properly angry, but they are upset.

[deceitanon]

“Whoa whoa- no need for name calling Null”

{Remy glares at Null as he steps in front of Eddie, the chill and soft look is gone once the room became tense}

“Eddie did you know that the domain belonged to someone?”

{he asked with patience}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null backs up at the look Remy gives and picks at their gloves again. Their screen is also dimmer.

"Apologies..."

Eddie speaks up after.

"I did not until it was there, and I didn't know how to return it... I also forgot all recollection of obtaining it briefly after."

He looks over at Null.

"I am sorry-- I-I didn't know what I was doing..."

There's silence for a while before Null speaks again, their voice quieter now.

"... It's okay-- I... Honestly that project was frustrating me a lot."

...

"Can I see it?"

They still don't step closer right now.

"... Maybe you had better luck getting it to work?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a deep breath and his glare drops, tension gone}

——

{Remus perks up}

“Wait! No you can go in there Eddie.. remember the mushrooms?!”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null relaxes after a moment as well.

"I am sorry for getting upset..."

They speak quietly still... If Remy looks at the floor below when Null was standing when they got upset; the carpet is warped now. The pattern on it looks unsettling yet eerily similar to how it was before.

They did mention they have a harder time controlling their abilities with emotions.

----

Eddie looks over at Remus.

"I... I do remember. They were triggered by an electrical shock though. They are dormant otherwise."

He tries to reassure Remus, also walking over to him.

"I'll be fine... I'll avoid that room too. Is that okay?"

Despite Eddie being certain about it being okay he would still listen to Remus if he said no.

[deceitanon]

{Remy nods and offers to hug Null as an apology for snapping and a forgiveness gesture}

——

“I.. okay, I will make sure the room will close the area off before you get in there”

{Remus said before taking a deep breath- Eddie hasn’t seen him worried about others so openly before.. only frustrated at the person}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks up for a moment before accepting the hug.

"I do understand your reaction... I apologize as well."

They do seem lost in thought for a moment.

...

"... I do not think I have expressed emotions that blatantly in a long time."

They are a little unsure on how to handle them, but also unsure what to do when emotions not only cause issues with control, but also body aches. They don't mention the last part.

It's not just conflicting in letting themself express them, but also conflicting in getting their curse to let them.

--

Eddie looks up at Remus and gently takes his hands.

"It'll be okay... Thank you for being concerned, and I will leave if anything goes wrong, okay?"

He smiles softly and offers a hug. He does want to kiss him, but that's hard to gesture with the height difference--

[deceitanon]

“Oh? Are emotions hard to control sometimes? It’s okay if they are, we are kinda experts in that field”

{Remy chuckles}

——

{Remus pulls Eddie in to a hug, leaning down to kiss him if he wanted too}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null chuckles lightly and quietly.

"I seem to struggle feeling them, and controlling them when I do... I suppose I perhaps forgot my own curse after so long of being alone."

Null pulls away from the hug after a moment more.

"Are you planning to come to the basement with Eddie and I?"

Their tone is now neutral again, back to the uncanny feeling it was before the emotions talking to Remus and then the blow up.

----

Eddie smiles softly and pulls himself up a little to kiss Remus with a purr.

"I love you..."

He takes a deep breath and sighs contently.

"I would assume you're coming down to the basement too, spark?"

[deceitanon]

“I do, if you wish to have me?”

{Remy smiles}

“I’m far to interested in all of this to quit now”

——

“Duh! I’m not letting your wires get too curious. If you wanna get shocky. Shock me”

{Remus huffs}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly in response.

"I would like for you to come with, yes."

They look back over at Eddie and Remus.

--

Eddie chuckles slightly and rests his face into Remus's chest briefly.

"I'll take note of that, though I don't think Strife appreciates electricity... I'll be careful though, I promise."

After a moment he looks back over at Null and Remy.

"You two ready?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy nods with a smile}

“Ready as always babes~”

____

{Remus holds Eddie closely and lovingly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Remy as he leans into Remus for a moment.

"Sounds good, spark~"

He looks over at Null as well, who is fidgeting with their gloves slightly. They don't really remember much about their project... Just that they wanted something normal for once.

"Null? You coming?" They had zoned out briefly and didn't notice Eddie started leading them to the basement.

"Oh... Yes, I am coming."

Eddie stares for a moment before continuing down the basement. Null follows slowly and silently.

It's the same cozy house appearance as usually, but there's almost a sort of rumbling noise in the walls when Null enters; them being the last down the ladder.

[deceitanon]

{Remy walks next to Null for encouragement, he offers his hand for Null to hold}

——

{When they get into the basement, Remus does move faster, past Eddie to close the door that leads to the mushrooms, he huffs playfully}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remy's hand for a moment before taking it. They just stare for a moment before taking their focus back on the basement.

The basement does start to change a bit... Items start to have that uncanny feel they did in Null's space, as if Null's presence is messing up their own project... And Null does immediately notice.

They stay silent and begin to run one of their hands along the wall, doing... Something. They've seem to have made a decision with something.

----

Eddie chuckles a little, watching Remus run ahead.

He looks around, noticing the change in feeling too... He stays close to Remus right now.

[deceitanon]

“Are you alright?”

{Remy whispers softly to Null}

___

{Remus pulls Eddie in closer with a broken purr}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null replies quietly, and neutrally.

"Yes."

They continue running their hand on the walls before they stop at a certain part of the house like space. It'd feel more like the center of the space now.

They hum softly as they took around and then walk over towards the living room area. They run their hand along the texture of the couch and stare at the tv.

They tap their foot on the floor once, and then all of the uncanny feelings that had formed when Null entered leave completely. It feels surprisingly normal now. Even more so than before Null was here.

If Remy can tell; Null disregarded any of their attachment to the basement and gave it to Eddie.

----

Eddie watches Null curiously as he relaxes into Remus's hold, his own purring following.

He wraps one of his tails around Remus and sighs contently.

When Null taps their foot Eddie perks up and shivers slightly. That's a weird feeling to him, but he doesn't really understand what Null did yet.

[deceitanon]

“What did you just do? Eddie you okay?”

{Remy looks confused and worried}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turms to Remy and replies matter of factly.

"Gave Eddie ownership of this space. I realized that me being here with owning it was causing the uncanny effect of it all... Which explains why I was never able to get it to work; I was the problem."

They move to sit on the couch now... They really can't make anything that feels human, can they?

--

Eddie shakes off the feeling, turning to Remy and nodding.

He overhears what Null says, furrows his brows, and tries something. He summons a cup of his favorite tea. It seems to work similar to a mindscape with the combination of Null making it, and a more normal person owning it.

"Oh... Huh..." He sips it, it's normal.

"Wha...?"

He stares at Remy and blinks in confusion. This place is so weird...

[deceitanon]

｛Remy watches Eddie and blinks slowly before turning back to Null}

“Are… you okay with that? I didn’t wish for you to lose a part of your domain when I brought you here”

{Remy sits next to Null}

——

{Remus drapes himself over the back of the couch}

“Well I like the uncanny ability thingy! Normal stuff is boringgggg”

{he giggles}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stays silent for a while before looking at Remy.

"It has been gone for a while, and it seems I was not going to be able to create what I wanted with it... I believe it would be of better use to Eddie."

They... Don't actually answer the question.

--

Null slowly turns to look at Remus when he says that.

"..."

"How would one like that? It's a type of feeling in people meant to cause fear. It isn't completely understood why the uncanny valley feeling evolved, but the most likely explanation is to make people weary of dead bodies... So it tends to be an instinctual fear."

They seem confused now...

[deceitanon]

{Remus giggles}

“Because it cool! It’s evolution! It’s an unsolved concept and feeling that just itches my brain the right way!”

{Remus seems excited by the thought} “plus who hasn’t seen a few dead bodies here and there”

——-

{Remy frowns at Null but doesn’t push}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 142

As Remy teleports there's a flicker in everything around him, a feeling of being torn from the plane he was in, and suddenly he's in a... Space. It's hard to put into words what the fuck this is.

... It feels endless, uncanny, and yet familiar. There's items Remy may have felt were important from the distant past, or even the present. Items that feel important, and yet he's never seen. There's segments of these uneven and disorganized rooms that look like the bar, the loft, the cherry grove, the river, the void... There's hints, fragments, of everything Remy has ever seen. Everything feels... Wrong. Soso wrong.

They look like what Remy has seem, but they have an extreme feel of them still not being accurate. Like this space disorderly pulled memories from his mind and threw them around in a desperation to make it feel like home.

...

Lights flicker dully where there is no source, water trickles in the walls that aren't hollow...

Familiar sounds of people Remy knows are in the distant, with no obvious direction, but they have no realism to them. Parrots and echos of memories put into here wrong.

...

There is a sound that is real, but still uncanny. A voice. Humming. Their voice sounds like a person stuck behind a broken tv playing static, a crackling stinging hum with a broken melody.

[deceitanon]

“Hm…. honestly- ain’t the worst place I’ve been in”

{Remy picks up a ball and chucks it over to where he hears the humming}

“Eddie? Babes? Why’d you summon me here?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie is no where to be smelled even though a quiet hint of his voice echos from no where.

When Remy chucks the ball to the humming it suddenly stops. Deafening silence fills the space immediately.

...

"HelL-o?" The voice is broken, muffled and stuffed with static.

Slow someone peaks around the corner. A extremely tall lanky figure, only their head visible right now. A thin hand gloves in black velvet holds the wall near them.

Their head is a small black tv box, a very only one. It glows dully with flickers of visual static, and a subtle ringing of static piercings the air. Ever so slightly glowing white eyes that flicker like screen tearing are visible behind the screen. Those eyes are barely visible, yet so unsettling piercing.

... No heart beat. No warmth. No breathing. Not even any subtle electrical current of nerves, brain, or even a computer. Like they are nothing at all.

"..." The way they tilt their head in confusion feels so incredibly wrong.

[deceitanon]

“Hm? Hello- Have you seen a short but handsome man with wired hair? I seem to be lost, wouldn’t be the first”

{Remy says like meeting someone like him is normal}

“Where even am I? It’s creepy but cool as fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The figure stays silent for a while before fully rounding the corner.

They stand at 7'9. They are unnaturally slim, limbs just slightly long enough to be uncanny. The way their clothes lay so perfectly and beautifully feels unnatural. They wear a long black layered dress with ruffles, and black velvet gloves covering their whole arms. Black flats with white frilly socks. Adorned on top of their head is a veil made of smooth lightweight black feathers.

They stare for a while.

"... I h-Ave noT..."

"I don-T hAve a nAme fOr thIs place... JuSt minE."

They radiate unease and uncanny feelings. They mean no harm.

"Int-rEstIng... Ho-w A-rE you hEre?"

They speak as if it is supposed to be impossible. They step closer slowly as if uncertain Remy is more than a trick of this space.

[deceitanon]

“Damn you’re tall- hmmmm must have glitched out of reality or something!”

“Oh like the backrooom”

{He said with a snap}

“How are you even alive here?- you’re very uncanny- but that’s hot nowadays”

“I’m Remy, you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"..."

They seem flabbergasted, even with no face that feeling isn't seen but felt from them to Remy.

"nOt alivE..."

"I hAve no NamE..." They pause. "NulL." It's a word meaning nothing afterall.

"HavE n-ot been callEd 'hot' bEfoRe."

They step closer and hesitantly poke Remy from the top of his head. They small touch feel cold, a split second of nausea given too.

"... You arE reAl..." They seem even more confused.

"I s-uppose oUt of reAlity w-Ould be dEcent as a WorDing."

They sit on the ground, now eye level to Remy.

"glItch... WhEre and w-Hen are you fr-Om?... You mUst be retUrned." They say as if returning a book to a library, clearly not used to human contact.

[deceitanon]

{Remy blinks away the nausea and chuckles when he is poked}

“Ouch, it’s like you don’t even want me here! I’m hurt”

{he says with a hand on his chest}

“I mean I got nothing important to do, just came back from altering time itself so.. this is kinda nice”

{Remy doesn’t know why he’s spilling all of this}

“Null? That’s a sick name, why.. are you here though? You look alive to me”

{he says with certainty}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"i dO n-ot mInd cOmpan-y... N-o-one shOulD be here thOugH..."

They stare and tilt their head again. When they do some 'skin' on their neck is visible briefly. It looks less like skin and more like a void made of millions of writhing larva. Constantly moving in a sickly way.

"altEriNg tIme?.."

...

"hErE is Home... My spAce. ConCepT of the liminal... UnCannY ties in-tO it."

"alivE... N-oT alive, bUt stiLl con-scious."

They aren't certain what would count as alive in other senses. "AlivE indiCates being m-Ade of org-anIc matter." They are not.

[deceitanon]

“Then I must be not alive too. I’m a giant dead fox. And you are made out of larva- not gonna lie, that’s kinda icky”

“…:does it hurt?”

{Remy asks very quietly with a frown}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses and looks at themself for a moment. They pause for a moment longer, turning a few dials on their head. There's a sickening squelching and gargling noise as they do. Their voice now sounds smoother and consistent though, but still stuffed with static and muffled by the screen.

"Larva... I suppose it could be comparable to that? They're void maggots. They are unique to this place."

They carefully scoop out a small few of the void maggots. They wiggle around for a moment, small like usual maggots, and then Null puts them back.

"Hurt...?"

They pause at that as well.

"Yes... But not in your sense. I do not feel it that same way. It is a constant feeling, but I am not bothered by it."

...

"Giant dead fox? Could you say more?"

[deceitanon]

“Ah… well, as long as you don’t go talking to the others here”

{he said jokingly}

“Kitsune, my fox form died a long time ago- it gets really complicated… can I show you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The chuckle Null lets out sounds like breaking glass through tv static.

"I do believe there is no one else to tell... Unless you mean the illusions, but I believe they do not count."

They pauses and then nod.

"I would like to see if you wish to show."

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a step back and drops all of his illusions at once… and shows Null his true fox form.. it’s massive… and dead looking}

{armor on top of his dead fur, it looks like it’s been washed recently by Eddie despite it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares, and though no mouth exists, a smile is felt.

"You are beautiful... May I pet y--"

They cut themself off.

"I should not touch... It makes people ill."

They stare regardless. A yearning for touch is blatantly radiating of them now.

"I could show you how I shapeshift?... It is not pretty though."

They wish to show themself too.

[deceitanon]

{Remy judges their hand, their bone armor could protect him if they pet in the right places.. he is so… warm! Despite claiming to be a dead fox}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tenses briefly before noticing Remy is okay.

They run their hands along his bone armor, his head mostly.

"Warm..."

They move closer and lay their tv head onto his. The sound of tv static feels sharp, but not too overburdening.

"I do not wish to leave you now..." This is the first time they've been able to touch anyone, and one of the very few times they've even been around someone visually.

[deceitanon]

{Remy sniffs where he can hear the static, then pauses when he hears them say that}

{he slowly shifts back, but offers his hand for Null to fidget with}

“I.. will try my best to help you, you said I can return, but why haven’t you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at his hand... Hesitantly taking it. They focus on trying to stop the nausea from carrying over.

"..."

"I can return... I do not have much control over how I warp spaces. I do try to not use abilities when I am in the existing planes, but I am unpredictable. I carry unease everywhere I go, I cannot choose a form that is not uncanny, I cannot create spaces that are not uncanny... Emotions are not something I understand, but I do know they contribute to mistaken use of my abilities."

They stare at Remy's hand as they talk. Quiet sparking crying is heard, though it is only black blood that drips from under the screen of their head. Smelling strongly of rot and iron.

"I do not wish to cause trouble. So I do not leave often, and when I do I do not leave with my body... I simply look, and memorize..."

This space is built by disorganized memories.

[deceitanon]

“We have a lot of people like you back at my home, Emotions, Weird lookin’ we even have someone that is the literal meaning of intrusive thoughts”

{Remy Chuckles, before pauses, he tries to summon a cloth, but his whole body glitches- and he falls forward against them, but he gets the cloth

“Imma… just ignore what happened to me for now”

{Remy murmurs to himself before gently cleaning off the rot and iron liquid}



[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null reaches out to catch Remy.

"Be careful in here. Your abilities will not work easily. I do not wish for you to harm yourself."

It leans into Remy wiping off the liquid.

"... Could I go home with you?"

They ask as if they are a stray cat giving boba eyes. Uncanny never leaves anything they do, as if it is a deep rooted curse in their very being.

[deceitanon]

“Of course you can!- wait… I should probably ask Eddie.. I’ve been bring so many people home.. it wouldn’t be okay if I just kept on doing it”

“Is… there a way I can speak to him? Or will I have to leave you first?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Oh-- You cannot leave with my help... And you will not be able to get back most likely."

They pauses to think, and then summon a black rotary phone with blood red rubies chaotically placed.

"Do you come from a time with phones?... This should work if so."

They talk as if they can travel between not just space, but time as well.

[deceitanon]

“Hmmm I- would call him but- I don’t really use a phone- he just kinda talks to me in my head”

“I promise it’s not as crazy as it seems”

“Oh! And I can totally come back, I’ll just recreate what I did, easy peasy”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at the phone and back at Remy.

They speak after a while of silence.

"Okay..."

They don't believe Remy will be able to come back, but they don't argue regardless. Remy has to go back either way.

"I will see you when you return." They say with hidden disbelief.

They don't wait for a response before they poke Remy's chest and in a sickening disorientating blink he's back in the bar.

[deceitanon]

{Remy groans and leans up against the bar}

{he blinks slowly, he feels like he needs to puke}

“Fuckkkk- Eddddiiieeeee”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie quickly appears next to Remy.

"Where-- What happened???" He sounds confused and concerned. "I lost all sense of you for a few minutes."

'Fee minutes' it felt like almost an hour passed down there... How does time work in that space?

"Are you okay??" He brings a trashcan over incase Remy does puke.

[deceitanon]

{Remy does end up puking}

“Got stuck in a weird space when I teleported….. few mins? It felt like I was there for hours”

“No… that’s not what I need to focus on.. there is someone trapped.. they are… uncanny more so than Remus but.. they wish to have a home”

{Remy gave Eddie puppy eyes}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie gently rubs Remy's back for a moment.

"What do you mean 'weird space??'"

He seems utterly confused.

"I--"

He looks at Remy's eyes and sighs after a moment with a lighthearted eye roll.

"Okay... Fine... I'm lucky Starie can create so much space where there shouldn't even be room, you know?"

With the amount of people here, it'd be impossible without Starie's stable space warping.

[deceitanon]

“Don’t worry~ they realllly tall which I know you love”

{Remy nuzzles up against Eddie with a happy purr}

“I… hope I can actually get back there”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie looks away with an embarrassed flush at Remy's comment.

"Oh, fuck off..." He playfully scoffs out without any actually annoyance. He clears his throat after a moment before replying, and nuzzling Remy back.

"Is there a chance you can't?"

He seems confused at that.

[deceitanon]

“Maybe… I just- need to make myself glitch while teleporting..”

“It… hurts to do it but I’ll only need to do it once.. so it won’t be that bad right?”

{Remy murmurs to himself}

{Remy kisses Eddie’s cheek before taking a deep breath, glitching and teleporting at the same time- and he lands back into the space.. but is on his hands and knees groaning, and coughing up more bile}

“Fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie tenses when Remy is gone again, he hates that he can't even senses Remy's existence right now... He paces while he waits.

----

Null startles and squeaks out shrieking static when they see Remy again.

"Remy...?"

They walk over and stare at him and the bile.

"How-- Are you okay?..."

Though Remy was gone for roughly five minutes, it's only been fifteen in here despite a few minutes being hours last time.

[deceitanon]

{Remy curls up and gives him a weak wait gesture… his body glitching again}

“Hurts…”

{His ears folded down- he hates when he glitches..}

“Don’t.. look”

{he hates making new people see him like this- 1) he likes to maintain the cool image he has.. and 2) because it makes him wish Eddie was here to comfort him}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses before nodding and turning around.

They sit nearby with their back to Remy.

"I am sorry that I cannot help... I am not a healing type... Do let me know if you cannot settle your body though, I can understand the glitching. It is one reason I do not leave with my body anymore... It tends to cause some of the void maggots to burst."

That... Sounds incredibly painful for someone who is made of them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tries to get up then lays back down immediately}

“Tel… tell me more… void maggots.. what do they do?”

“I… can control the void.. it’s how I can manipulate dreams”

{Remy murmurs weakly as he just lets his back lax.. he wishes just to listen}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Void maggots are specific to the place as I said... They grow in the walls, squirm their way in the ground, and come to me... I believe I am more of an entity made by this place."

They sound uncertain on what they are.

"They allow me to shapeshift, as they have no solid form either... I am unsure if they would be the same as the void you describe, but you can try manipulating them if you wish to test that? I do not mind."

Null is suggesting Remy manipulate their body itself.

"They have no thought, or organic life... They just exist. Like me... I do believe they are an essence of this place? That may be the best wording I have."

[deceitanon]

{Remy has gone silent}

{He has fallen asleep, he looks so.. human and warm}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turns around when he's silent for too long.

They stare for a while... Look around... They stand up slowly, and with focus to not make Remy ill, they pick him up.

They wander further into the space until it shifts out of Remy's memories and into a space Null made themself.

It's made to be a cottage, but it feels like an uncanny mimic of one, even more so than Remy's memories.

They place him on a bed, pulling a blanket over him, and then move to make coffee... They get a feeling he likes coffee. The bed feels oddly comfortable compared to the rest of this place.

The bedroom isn't all too separate from the living room, which is decently open to the kitchen and the front door. There are windows, but they're just a white light with no details.

[deceitanon]

{After sometime, Remy groans and hugs the blanket closer}

“Eddie?”

{he said sleepy, nuzzling into the blanket before opening his eyes… and sees the uncanny house}

“Where.. am I?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null hears him wake up, and slowly walks over to the bedroom. Floorboards creak under their silent feet.

They look around the corner... Looking around corners before walking past them seems like a habit of theirs.

"Are you okay now, Remy?"

They slowly walk closer, they also tend to walk slowly.

They carry a mug of coffee, setting it on the warped nightstand.

"I made coffee."

[deceitanon]

“Fuck yes… I love coffee.. and yes I’m feeling better.. sorry about passing out on you”

“You were talking about the void things?”

{Remy mutters as he sits up and grabs the coffee to drink it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"You are alright."

The coffee is almost right. Almost how Remy likes it. It's off still. Anything Null makes seems to be off.

"I was..."

They watch Remy drink the coffee for a moment, also staring at the bed... They don't say what they want, and it is difficult to tell without a face to show it.

"The void maggots are more of an essence of this space... I believe..."

They think for a moment.

"You mentioned dreamscapes being voids. I believe the void maggots grow up into them. Though they form in here, and make me, I would guess they grow up into something?"

They are larva after all.

"Perhaps that is what they grow into?"

There was a vague familiarity to the maggots, but it was hard to place, easy to dismiss as the space.

[deceitanon]

“You think I can control them? What do you think I can do with them?”

{Remy purrs at the taste of his coffee, his tails wag slowly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently watches Remy's tails wag for a moment.

...

"I believe you could, yes... I am unsure what you could do with them though."

They think for a moment, still staring at Remy. The longer they stare the more unsettling it feels...

"Maybe you could have control over what they form into?... I do not always understand where I learn what I do, but I suppose that is part of who I am... I believe they form dreamscapes, but also mindscapes and pocket dimensions."

"If they have multiple paths, maybe there could be more with artificial influence?"

They scoop out of maggots from their neck again and offer them to Remy. They writhe and squirm in their palm.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tilts his head and looks at the maggots, he shudders but takes a deep breath, he hover his hands over the maggots and tries to alter them in anyway he can}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

As he hovers his hand over the maggots he can feel they have a different type of energy. It's more like a potential energy, that would be gone the moment it's used?

As Remy tries to manipulate the maggots they writhe more, then start to bubble, and then they melt into a black goo... Then, suddenly, Remy can feel a new pocket dimension as the maggot goo disappears. It feels different from ones he may have created before.

He can feel that it was made, and that it belongs to him in a way, but it took little no of his energy to do so.

[deceitanon]

“Huh- gross but that took like no energy.. the maggots feel like that have some kind of energy probably stored inside them- UGH where is Logan when I need him”

{Remy groans- he’s not a scientist or a doctor like him}

“I have no idea what this could mean.. hmmm”

“When I altered the lil guys.. they disappeared but I felt a pocket dimension open up, a new one- how is that even possible.. it wasn’t a lot of em”

“Can you tell me more about yourself Null? How’d you get here? How are you made up of these Void Bugs”

{he wants to stop calling them maggots.. it feels rude because Null is made out of these lil buggers}

___

{While Null is explaining, Remy does try to write a note and glitchport (teleport and glitch) the note to Eddie, to tell him he is okay}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Each one of them grows up into a space like that, so you really only need one. Using more strengthens it, and makes it bigger I would guess."

They fall silent for several minutes at being asked about themself.

...

"I... Do not know how I got here. I just remember nothing... And then I was here... Or--"

Their screen glitches violently for a minute before they talk again.

"As for being made of the bugs--" They talk as if that glitching never happened. "I believe I made out of them as... As..."

They fall silent again.

"I don't think about what I am."

They don't know. They don't like that they don't know.

They can't remember how they got here...

"I like creating things... They always come out warped though."

They summon a fox plush, and while it looks like a fox it is unsettling not a fox at the same time.

----

The note ends up slightly clipped into the bar counter near Eddie. It's enough to read at least, but part of the note is in the counter.

"... Okay..." He sighs in shaky relief.

[deceitanon]

“Hmm.. so-“

{Remy pauses when he watches their screen glitch, he frowns in worry, everything about this place looks and feels fine- but it’s more like an uncanny feeling, he looks at the fox with a head tilt}

{Plus the whole time weirdness is throwing him off as well}

{he rubs his head as he thinks}

“I don’t know what to make of you babes, and I’d like to try and understand as much as I can before I introduce you to a whole new realm- or space.. don’t get me wrong- I’ve dealt with crazy stuff so this is just precarious, because who knows what could happen-“

“But- you don’t like these questions so.. maybe you can ask me somethings? And we can bounce off each others questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly, and stares at the bed for a bit again. They've kind of just been standing there, as if unsure what to do with themself.

"... What does it feel like to breathe?... Or... Just... How does your body feel to you?"

Odd first question...

[deceitanon]

“I.. hm I may not feel like the best example because it’s different with everyone.. but my body feels hot, it might seem warm and nice, but I do love the cold weather to help balance myself out, I get a lot of headaches due to my connections back in my world, but honestly it’s something I’m just used to so I’ve learned how to cope healthily..”

“Breathing feels awesome.. definitely something everyone takes for granted”

“Can I ask you the same questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently listens and processes what Remy said.

...

"I... Do not breathe. I always feel cold, I think numb is the other word... I like that you felt warm, I don't feel that often."

They fall silent again before there's a smaller and calmer glitch on their screen.

"... Breathing... I miss that. I took it for granted too it seems."

They remember breathing... There had to be something before they became this then, right?

"..." They pause, asking their next question quietly. "What does fear feel like?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy perks up, they remember something! Seems like this is going somewhere}

“Fear… is the worst thing to feel.. your body your mind all send these signals that you will die, get hurt.. and you can’t do anything about it”

{Remy looks away for a moment} “though there is a scale to how much a person can feel fear.. like it can be something small like a spider and they just avoid spiders.. or it can be a big fear like.. water itself- or loud sounds where it can affect your day to day life”

“… What can you feel?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly and thinks again.

...

"I don't feel... Things in a way I can place."

"Fear... I--"

They look at their hand and fall silent again.

"I do remember fear though... Fear and... And... Pain."

"Most feelings are dull... Now..."

They fidget with their gloves.

...

"... What does it feel like to die?"

That's... A heavy question. Why are they asking?

[deceitanon]

“… that’s a loaded question, it’s really depends on how you die”

“Why.. do you ask?”

{Remy frowns with worry}

“I promise you, it ain’t fun..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"I..."

They lean against the wall and pick at their gloves now.

"I don't know if I died... I"

They slowly slide down the wall to sit on the floor.

"I wasn't this... What was I?"

They're really wracking their mind now.

"I remember feeling tired... Then cool grass and dirt before falling asleep."

...

"Then an endless void. Thought it was a dream... There was a box. Nothing else... So I... Walked over to it."

They take their glove off and stare at all the writhing larva.

"I opened it... They spilled out, couldn't even guess how many..."

...

"Body was gone... Then I was this."

"It hurt... I was scared. I struggle to even remember feelings now."

[deceitanon]

“…”

{Remy frowns as he listens while nodding along}

{Remy slowly gets up and sits next to them}

“You aren’t alone anymore.. I can’t- I don’t want to promise anything that I’m not confident in.. but I’ll try my best to help you.. I know what it’s like.. losing your body.. being thrown into the void”

{Remy lets his hand hover over their arm, offering a warm touch}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at his hand and slowly takes it after putting their glove back on. They try to stop the sickening sensation, but it seems to be easier now.

"..."

They stay silent for a while longer.

"I don't... Mind what I am now. I think I was human... I can feel things coming back to me too. I don't think I was from your dimension or time period..."

...

"Is it weird... That I like being this?"

They don't like how unsettling they always are, but they still like what they are.

"I just... I just don't want to be alone anymore."

[deceitanon]

“If you liked being like this then I won’t stop you, you aren’t alone anymore. Okay? Not if I can help it”

{Remy smiles as he holds their hand}

“How do we get you over to my side?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null slowly nods and stares at Remy for a moment again.

"... Hard to explain... But it's not difficult for me."

They've just always been too scared to leave, being able to isn't a problem.

In another disorientating, nauseating blink they're back in the bar. It doesn't seem as bad with Null active in the process.

Though as Null teleports them back there's a dull wet popping sound of several of the larva in their body. Some black goo drips from them, but is quick to disappear.

They stumble a little and sit on the ground as their tv head glitches for a moment. It seems similar to a headache for them.

"... Hngg just a moment..."

----

Eddie startles when they are suddenly back and stares at them, more so towards Null. He gets a heavy uneasiness from them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy’s tails wagging quickly as he stands in front of Null and looks at Eddie, like a happy dog that just succeeded in a game of fetch}

“This is Null, he reminds me of Remus.. if that helps with the uneasiness..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie stares at Remy and then chuckles with a sign as he walks over.

He brings him into a hug.

"It does..."

He stares at Null behind Remy as they slowly stand back up.

"This era makes sense..." They mumble to themself as they look around and then at Eddie.

"... Ah, greetings... You must be Eddie?"

Their wording is similar to Logan's, but their voice has that static muffled through a tv feel... And the general uncanny nature of them.

"I am... It's nice to meet you, Null."

This is the second time Remy has mentioned Remus and how they're rather curious about him.

"It is nice to meet you as well..."

They also seem unsure what to do with themself in new area.

[deceitanon]

{Remys drapes himself behind Eddie’s back with a loving purr, nuzzling him}

“Welcome to our home! How are you feeling”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie purrs happily, nuzzling Remy back as he wraps a tail around his waist.

Null looks around before answering.

"I am..." They pause, unsure. "Fine I believe."

They walk closer to Eddie now, looking down at him. They are well over two feet taller than him.

"... Would you like to go upstairs? Everyone is typically up there."

He smiles softly, though still getting used to the uneasiness. He does pause and warn Virgil with a text, knowing he might not handle it well.

Null nods slowly and looks around more.

[deceitanon]

{Virgil gets the text and goes to his room, thanking Eddie}

——

{Upstairs, Logan is talking to Remus on the touch.. Patton is making lunch for everyone, Ethos is reading a book as best he can on the love seat}

{Logan pauses, invisible to Null}

“Eddie? Remy? Who is that?”

—

{Remus turns and perks up with a wicked smile}

“Well look at you! Tall and Mysterious~”

{Remus doesn’t seem to be effected but Null’s Unease presence}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Logan.

"This is Null... Oh-- They can't see you right now..."

--

Ella is sitting with Ethos if he doesn't mind right now.

--

Null stares at Remus and tilts their head slightly. They actually stay silent as they slowly walk over.

...

"Hello..." They almost seem to be analyzing Remus.

...

"You have a familiarity."

Concept of the liminal and uncanny... Concept of intrusive thoughts... Could be something with that, but Null doesn't seem to understand.

They just... Stare. Far more than they did with Remy earlier.

[deceitanon]

{Ethos didn’t mind, he also wasn’t surprised by the new person either, he’s been here since day one, he’s used to this}

——

{Remus stares back and giggles}

“Well I used to look slightly different and yknow been around”

“Oooo Maggots! I love the look”

“I’m Remus! Dark creativity, Intrusive Thoughts, Doctor- you.. look familiar too! But where do I know you from hmmm”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Ella looks over briefly, bur she rather relax with Ethos right now. She leans against him, purring contently.

----

"It is nice to meet you, Remus."

They pause again.

"I... Do not believe I was from this dimension or era... My space exists between all that, but I am never sure."

They move around the couch to sit next to him.

...

They just stare more. Then they offer their hand with no explantion.

Given Remus probably would take their hand without questioning...

He gets no nausea either. Something about who Null was before is what is familiar, hidden what they are now.

...

They were a scientist at the same lab-- They vanished around the same time Remus got the radiation poisoning. Null does not remember much though.

"..." They don't say anything, just analyzing what any of that means.

... If Remus may recall, they used to be called "Dr. Rhinestone." She was well known in her field back then.

[deceitanon]

{Remus stares}

{then blinks}

{stares}

“Dr…Rhinestone- no”

“That’s not possible- the lab was empty when-“

“What happened?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tilts their head and stares back in confusion. When the name Remus says actually registers their screen glitches again and they head a headache like pain.

Though they gather themself well enough.

"Apologies... Dr. Rhinestone?-- I--"

They stare at Remus more.

"... What happened?"

They don't know the answer themself.

"..."

They pick at their gloves again, seeming to be a stressed habit.

"... The lab-- Wait--" They look directly st Remus now, white eyes behind the screen more visible now.

"Dr. Eckhard."

They remember more.

"Shit." They don't like what they remember.

"Fuck. I--"

...

"I worked in a lab near yours. I was supposed to be monitoring the radiation--"

They messed that up. They know they did.

"I didn't-- I got it wrong-- I-I... What happened to me..."

They look at their hands again, their speech sounding more coherent in wording, more tone coming through.

"I just... I remember passing out. I felt dizzy, fell, and I hit my head... Hard... I felt so cold."

They swear they feel the pain again.

"Woke up in a field of grass... Just one peach tree. I was so tired... I felt like I shouldn't sleep, but I did... Then the void, the box-- the maggots."

They pick at their gloves more harshly. Did they pass out from radiation poisoning? How did they just vanish though?

[deceitanon]

{Remus takes a slow step back.. he tugs on his hair}

“Holy…holy shit”

{he stares and starts laughing.. his form glitches- as if almost returning back to how Remus was before.. maybe the death of Dr. Rhinestone is what made him go insane faster- the puzzle piece is bending again}

“It was my fault- you-“

{He starts crying while laughing}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null quickly gets up and shakes their head.

"No. No! I-I was supposed to be monitoring it! I... Fuck. I miscalculated things. If I just-- Fuck."

They are shown genuine visible stress by now. Their uneasiness affect gets stronger with this.

"God I was a fucking idiot!"

They remembered something again.

"Fuck. Why..."

"It was my fault!! Fuck-- Remus--"

They force themself to say the words stuck in their non existent throat.

"I fucked up because I was-- I-I was-- high... I was a fucking idiot!"

They grab the sides of their head, self loathing.

"What the fuck was wrong with me?!"

...

"I was a well regarded scientist, I had access to pretty much anything I wanted, and i fucking abused that?!"

They tear up too, that rot and iron leaking through the screen.

"If I wasn't busy getting high off my ass I would have realized things were going wrong!"

[deceitanon]

“I…I knew”

{Remus whispered}

“I knew about the radiation and still decided to take the risk to study it…”

“I’m so sorry this happened to you Dr. Rhinestone..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null falls back onto the couch to try and calm down.

"I knew the risk too... I was suppose to be helping minimize the risk, and be the first to know when it was becoming too high of a risk."

...

"Please don't be sorry... I probably would have been fired or worse even if I did live..."

They look back up at him after a moment.

"But... Still here now, y-yeah?... Suppose you still can't get r-rid of me that easily?"

They try to make a joke to lighten the mood, though their words are still choked.

"Don't beat yourself up about it... Would say I'm not the same person, and I think I gather why I wouldn't want to be now."

They offer their hand again.

"I don't hold anything against you..."

Though no mouth is there, Null does smile softly.

[deceitanon]

“Mghh”

{Remus laughs before nodding}

“I don’t hold anything against you either…”

——-

{Remy blinks slowly and stares at Eddie}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remus for a moment before pulling him into a hug if he lets them.

"... Thank you."

Their head feels all buzzy right now... They aren't sure why, but thinking of themself as human causes their entire body to ache. Like they aren't allowed to feel that.

"..."

"Please only call me Null as well..." Their human tone retreats a little now. Tone returning to more uncanny.

----

Eddie looks over at Remy as well. He seems very confused.

"I... Do not remember there being a Dr. Rhinestone...?"

Though with the nature of what Null is it may be impossible to see them in the past. Ethos wouldn't have detected any lies either.

Eddie does not know what Null is as of right now.

[deceitanon]

{Remus touches Null’s tv screen and smiles}

“Looks like we both were changed heavily after the accident..”

——

{Remy nods in agreement}

“I don’t remember if this is because of the time stuff we did either”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null's screen has a electrical buzzing feel to it despite no electricity actually existing in them.

"I suppose so, yes... I became the concept of the liminal and uncanny feeling. Does not make people particularly enjoy being around me."

The eyes behind their screen shift slightly to look at Remus past his hand.

"How were you changed?"

----

Eddie sighs and thinks for a moment. He catches what Null says about their concept--

"Ah, I uh I do not think it is..."

... Why does he say it like he knows something...?

"I was wondering when they would show up." He mumbles very quietly--

He implies he already knew about Null in a way?!

[deceitanon]

“I became intrusive thoughts , got a bad cancer, drank a experimental drug and now I have a Symbiot inside me-“

“I wasn’t all this sane, but thanks to everyone here I’m semi back to normal… now I’m growing plants thanks to the basement downstairs- I swear I feel like it’s alive sometimes”

——

{Remy blinks slowly}

“Huh?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null goes to respond, but pauses at the mention of the basement--

"... Alive... How?"

They ask as if they know something.

----

Eddie pauses briefly.

"I uh... You know how the basement is always shifting and responding to what living things need, but it isn't technically alive?"

He looks at Remy with a look of "please don't be mad"

... What did he do?

[deceitanon]

{Remy stares at Eddie}

“Babes….. what did you do?”

{he gives him a stern look but one that says he won’t be fully mad}

——

“I dunno.. it just responded to me in ways that I didn’t even know I needed.. it learned- I swore it was teasing and sarcastic to me at one point”

{Remus shrugs}

“Why?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Uhhh... That basement is technically part of Null's domain and I didn't remember how I did that until recently... I uh I still don't understand the technicality of how I did it."

...

"I may have stolen a part of their domain somehow--"

How the actual fuck does someone steal part of someone else's domain?!

----

Null pauses in thought...

"How the..."

They look at Eddie.

They stare.

"You... You stole part of my domain?!"

Eddie chuckles nervously and looks away.

"I was wondering what that went!! You ass!! I was working on that for so long!"

Oh dear--

They aren't properly angry, but they are upset.

[deceitanon]

“Whoa whoa- no need for name calling Null”

{Remy glares at Null as he steps in front of Eddie, the chill and soft look is gone once the room became tense}

“Eddie did you know that the domain belonged to someone?”

{he asked with patience}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null backs up at the look Remy gives and picks at their gloves again. Their screen is also dimmer.

"Apologies..."

Eddie speaks up after.

"I did not until it was there, and I didn't know how to return it... I also forgot all recollection of obtaining it briefly after."

He looks over at Null.

"I am sorry-- I-I didn't know what I was doing..."

There's silence for a while before Null speaks again, their voice quieter now.

"... It's okay-- I... Honestly that project was frustrating me a lot."

...

"Can I see it?"

They still don't step closer right now.

"... Maybe you had better luck getting it to work?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a deep breath and his glare drops, tension gone}

——

{Remus perks up}

“Wait! No you can go in there Eddie.. remember the mushrooms?!”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null relaxes after a moment as well.

"I am sorry for getting upset..."

They speak quietly still... If Remy looks at the floor below when Null was standing when they got upset; the carpet is warped now. The pattern on it looks unsettling yet eerily similar to how it was before.

They did mention they have a harder time controlling their abilities with emotions.

----

Eddie looks over at Remus.

"I... I do remember. They were triggered by an electrical shock though. They are dormant otherwise."

He tries to reassure Remus, also walking over to him.

"I'll be fine... I'll avoid that room too. Is that okay?"

Despite Eddie being certain about it being okay he would still listen to Remus if he said no.

[deceitanon]

{Remy nods and offers to hug Null as an apology for snapping and a forgiveness gesture}

——

“I.. okay, I will make sure the room will close the area off before you get in there”

{Remus said before taking a deep breath- Eddie hasn’t seen him worried about others so openly before.. only frustrated at the person}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks up for a moment before accepting the hug.

"I do understand your reaction... I apologize as well."

They do seem lost in thought for a moment.

...

"... I do not think I have expressed emotions that blatantly in a long time."

They are a little unsure on how to handle them, but also unsure what to do when emotions not only cause issues with control, but also body aches. They don't mention the last part.

It's not just conflicting in letting themself express them, but also conflicting in getting their curse to let them.

--

Eddie looks up at Remus and gently takes his hands.

"It'll be okay... Thank you for being concerned, and I will leave if anything goes wrong, okay?"

He smiles softly and offers a hug. He does want to kiss him, but that's hard to gesture with the height difference--

[deceitanon]

“Oh? Are emotions hard to control sometimes? It’s okay if they are, we are kinda experts in that field”

{Remy chuckles}

——

{Remus pulls Eddie in to a hug, leaning down to kiss him if he wanted too}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null chuckles lightly and quietly.

"I seem to struggle feeling them, and controlling them when I do... I suppose I perhaps forgot my own curse after so long of being alone."

Null pulls away from the hug after a moment more.

"Are you planning to come to the basement with Eddie and I?"

Their tone is now neutral again, back to the uncanny feeling it was before the emotions talking to Remus and then the blow up.

----

Eddie smiles softly and pulls himself up a little to kiss Remus with a purr.

"I love you..."

He takes a deep breath and sighs contently.

"I would assume you're coming down to the basement too, spark?"

[deceitanon]

“I do, if you wish to have me?”

{Remy smiles}

“I’m far to interested in all of this to quit now”

——

“Duh! I’m not letting your wires get too curious. If you wanna get shocky. Shock me”

{Remus huffs}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly in response.

"I would like for you to come with, yes."

They look back over at Eddie and Remus.

--

Eddie chuckles slightly and rests his face into Remus's chest briefly.

"I'll take note of that, though I don't think Strife appreciates electricity... I'll be careful though, I promise."

After a moment he looks back over at Null and Remy.

"You two ready?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy nods with a smile}

“Ready as always babes~”

____

{Remus holds Eddie closely and lovingly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Remy as he leans into Remus for a moment.

"Sounds good, spark~"

He looks over at Null as well, who is fidgeting with their gloves slightly. They don't really remember much about their project... Just that they wanted something normal for once.

"Null? You coming?" They had zoned out briefly and didn't notice Eddie started leading them to the basement.

"Oh... Yes, I am coming."

Eddie stares for a moment before continuing down the basement. Null follows slowly and silently.

It's the same cozy house appearance as usually, but there's almost a sort of rumbling noise in the walls when Null enters; them being the last down the ladder.

[deceitanon]

{Remy walks next to Null for encouragement, he offers his hand for Null to hold}

——

{When they get into the basement, Remus does move faster, past Eddie to close the door that leads to the mushrooms, he huffs playfully}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remy's hand for a moment before taking it. They just stare for a moment before taking their focus back on the basement.

The basement does start to change a bit... Items start to have that uncanny feel they did in Null's space, as if Null's presence is messing up their own project... And Null does immediately notice.

They stay silent and begin to run one of their hands along the wall, doing... Something. They've seem to have made a decision with something.

----

Eddie chuckles a little, watching Remus run ahead.

He looks around, noticing the change in feeling too... He stays close to Remus right now.

[deceitanon]

“Are you alright?”

{Remy whispers softly to Null}

___

{Remus pulls Eddie in closer with a broken purr}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null replies quietly, and neutrally.

"Yes."

They continue running their hand on the walls before they stop at a certain part of the house like space. It'd feel more like the center of the space now.

They hum softly as they took around and then walk over towards the living room area. They run their hand along the texture of the couch and stare at the tv.

They tap their foot on the floor once, and then all of the uncanny feelings that had formed when Null entered leave completely. It feels surprisingly normal now. Even more so than before Null was here.

If Remy can tell; Null disregarded any of their attachment to the basement and gave it to Eddie.

----

Eddie watches Null curiously as he relaxes into Remus's hold, his own purring following.

He wraps one of his tails around Remus and sighs contently.

When Null taps their foot Eddie perks up and shivers slightly. That's a weird feeling to him, but he doesn't really understand what Null did yet.

[deceitanon]

“What did you just do? Eddie you okay?”

{Remy looks confused and worried}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turms to Remy and replies matter of factly.

"Gave Eddie ownership of this space. I realized that me being here with owning it was causing the uncanny effect of it all... Which explains why I was never able to get it to work; I was the problem."

They move to sit on the couch now... They really can't make anything that feels human, can they?

--

Eddie shakes off the feeling, turning to Remy and nodding.

He overhears what Null says, furrows his brows, and tries something. He summons a cup of his favorite tea. It seems to work similar to a mindscape with the combination of Null making it, and a more normal person owning it.

"Oh... Huh..." He sips it, it's normal.

"Wha...?"

He stares at Remy and blinks in confusion. This place is so weird...

[deceitanon]

｛Remy watches Eddie and blinks slowly before turning back to Null}

“Are… you okay with that? I didn’t wish for you to lose a part of your domain when I brought you here”

{Remy sits next to Null}

——

{Remus drapes himself over the back of the couch}

“Well I like the uncanny ability thingy! Normal stuff is boringgggg”

{he giggles}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 142

As Remy teleports there's a flicker in everything around him, a feeling of being torn from the plane he was in, and suddenly he's in a... Space. It's hard to put into words what the fuck this is.

... It feels endless, uncanny, and yet familiar. There's items Remy may have felt were important from the distant past, or even the present. Items that feel important, and yet he's never seen. There's segments of these uneven and disorganized rooms that look like the bar, the loft, the cherry grove, the river, the void... There's hints, fragments, of everything Remy has ever seen. Everything feels... Wrong. Soso wrong.

They look like what Remy has seem, but they have an extreme feel of them still not being accurate. Like this space disorderly pulled memories from his mind and threw them around in a desperation to make it feel like home.

...

Lights flicker dully where there is no source, water trickles in the walls that aren't hollow...

Familiar sounds of people Remy knows are in the distant, with no obvious direction, but they have no realism to them. Parrots and echos of memories put into here wrong.

...

There is a sound that is real, but still uncanny. A voice. Humming. Their voice sounds like a person stuck behind a broken tv playing static, a crackling stinging hum with a broken melody.

[deceitanon]

“Hm…. honestly- ain’t the worst place I’ve been in”

{Remy picks up a ball and chucks it over to where he hears the humming}

“Eddie? Babes? Why’d you summon me here?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie is no where to be smelled even though a quiet hint of his voice echos from no where.

When Remy chucks the ball to the humming it suddenly stops. Deafening silence fills the space immediately.

...

"HelL-o?" The voice is broken, muffled and stuffed with static.

Slow someone peaks around the corner. A extremely tall lanky figure, only their head visible right now. A thin hand gloves in black velvet holds the wall near them.

Their head is a small black tv box, a very only one. It glows dully with flickers of visual static, and a subtle ringing of static piercings the air. Ever so slightly glowing white eyes that flicker like screen tearing are visible behind the screen. Those eyes are barely visible, yet so unsettling piercing.

... No heart beat. No warmth. No breathing. Not even any subtle electrical current of nerves, brain, or even a computer. Like they are nothing at all.

"..." The way they tilt their head in confusion feels so incredibly wrong.

[deceitanon]

“Hm? Hello- Have you seen a short but handsome man with wired hair? I seem to be lost, wouldn’t be the first”

{Remy says like meeting someone like him is normal}

“Where even am I? It’s creepy but cool as fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The figure stays silent for a while before fully rounding the corner.

They stand at 7'9. They are unnaturally slim, limbs just slightly long enough to be uncanny. The way their clothes lay so perfectly and beautifully feels unnatural. They wear a long black layered dress with ruffles, and black velvet gloves covering their whole arms. Black flats with white frilly socks. Adorned on top of their head is a veil made of smooth lightweight black feathers.

They stare for a while.

"... I h-Ave noT..."

"I don-T hAve a nAme fOr thIs place... JuSt minE."

They radiate unease and uncanny feelings. They mean no harm.

"Int-rEstIng... Ho-w A-rE you hEre?"

They speak as if it is supposed to be impossible. They step closer slowly as if uncertain Remy is more than a trick of this space.

[deceitanon]

“Damn you’re tall- hmmmm must have glitched out of reality or something!”

“Oh like the backrooom”

{He said with a snap}

“How are you even alive here?- you’re very uncanny- but that’s hot nowadays”

“I’m Remy, you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"..."

They seem flabbergasted, even with no face that feeling isn't seen but felt from them to Remy.

"nOt alivE..."

"I hAve no NamE..." They pause. "NulL." It's a word meaning nothing afterall.

"HavE n-ot been callEd 'hot' bEfoRe."

They step closer and hesitantly poke Remy from the top of his head. They small touch feel cold, a split second of nausea given too.

"... You arE reAl..." They seem even more confused.

"I s-uppose oUt of reAlity w-Ould be dEcent as a WorDing."

They sit on the ground, now eye level to Remy.

"glItch... WhEre and w-Hen are you fr-Om?... You mUst be retUrned." They say as if returning a book to a library, clearly not used to human contact.

[deceitanon]

{Remy blinks away the nausea and chuckles when he is poked}

“Ouch, it’s like you don’t even want me here! I’m hurt”

{he says with a hand on his chest}

“I mean I got nothing important to do, just came back from altering time itself so.. this is kinda nice”

{Remy doesn’t know why he’s spilling all of this}

“Null? That’s a sick name, why.. are you here though? You look alive to me”

{he says with certainty}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"i dO n-ot mInd cOmpan-y... N-o-one shOulD be here thOugH..."

They stare and tilt their head again. When they do some 'skin' on their neck is visible briefly. It looks less like skin and more like a void made of millions of writhing larva. Constantly moving in a sickly way.

"altEriNg tIme?.."

...

"hErE is Home... My spAce. ConCepT of the liminal... UnCannY ties in-tO it."

"alivE... N-oT alive, bUt stiLl con-scious."

They aren't certain what would count as alive in other senses. "AlivE indiCates being m-Ade of org-anIc matter." They are not.

[deceitanon]

“Then I must be not alive too. I’m a giant dead fox. And you are made out of larva- not gonna lie, that’s kinda icky”

“…:does it hurt?”

{Remy asks very quietly with a frown}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses and looks at themself for a moment. They pause for a moment longer, turning a few dials on their head. There's a sickening squelching and gargling noise as they do. Their voice now sounds smoother and consistent though, but still stuffed with static and muffled by the screen.

"Larva... I suppose it could be comparable to that? They're void maggots. They are unique to this place."

They carefully scoop out a small few of the void maggots. They wiggle around for a moment, small like usual maggots, and then Null puts them back.

"Hurt...?"

They pause at that as well.

"Yes... But not in your sense. I do not feel it that same way. It is a constant feeling, but I am not bothered by it."

...

"Giant dead fox? Could you say more?"

[deceitanon]

“Ah… well, as long as you don’t go talking to the others here”

{he said jokingly}

“Kitsune, my fox form died a long time ago- it gets really complicated… can I show you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The chuckle Null lets out sounds like breaking glass through tv static.

"I do believe there is no one else to tell... Unless you mean the illusions, but I believe they do not count."

They pauses and then nod.

"I would like to see if you wish to show."

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a step back and drops all of his illusions at once… and shows Null his true fox form.. it’s massive… and dead looking}

{armor on top of his dead fur, it looks like it’s been washed recently by Eddie despite it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares, and though no mouth exists, a smile is felt.

"You are beautiful... May I pet y--"

They cut themself off.

"I should not touch... It makes people ill."

They stare regardless. A yearning for touch is blatantly radiating of them now.

"I could show you how I shapeshift?... It is not pretty though."

They wish to show themself too.

[deceitanon]

{Remy judges their hand, their bone armor could protect him if they pet in the right places.. he is so… warm! Despite claiming to be a dead fox}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tenses briefly before noticing Remy is okay.

They run their hands along his bone armor, his head mostly.

"Warm..."

They move closer and lay their tv head onto his. The sound of tv static feels sharp, but not too overburdening.

"I do not wish to leave you now..." This is the first time they've been able to touch anyone, and one of the very few times they've even been around someone visually.

[deceitanon]

{Remy sniffs where he can hear the static, then pauses when he hears them say that}

{he slowly shifts back, but offers his hand for Null to fidget with}

“I.. will try my best to help you, you said I can return, but why haven’t you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at his hand... Hesitantly taking it. They focus on trying to stop the nausea from carrying over.

"..."

"I can return... I do not have much control over how I warp spaces. I do try to not use abilities when I am in the existing planes, but I am unpredictable. I carry unease everywhere I go, I cannot choose a form that is not uncanny, I cannot create spaces that are not uncanny... Emotions are not something I understand, but I do know they contribute to mistaken use of my abilities."

They stare at Remy's hand as they talk. Quiet sparking crying is heard, though it is only black blood that drips from under the screen of their head. Smelling strongly of rot and iron.

"I do not wish to cause trouble. So I do not leave often, and when I do I do not leave with my body... I simply look, and memorize..."

This space is built by disorganized memories.

[deceitanon]

“We have a lot of people like you back at my home, Emotions, Weird lookin’ we even have someone that is the literal meaning of intrusive thoughts”

{Remy Chuckles, before pauses, he tries to summon a cloth, but his whole body glitches- and he falls forward against them, but he gets the cloth

“Imma… just ignore what happened to me for now”

{Remy murmurs to himself before gently cleaning off the rot and iron liquid}



[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null reaches out to catch Remy.

"Be careful in here. Your abilities will not work easily. I do not wish for you to harm yourself."

It leans into Remy wiping off the liquid.

"... Could I go home with you?"

They ask as if they are a stray cat giving boba eyes. Uncanny never leaves anything they do, as if it is a deep rooted curse in their very being.

[deceitanon]

“Of course you can!- wait… I should probably ask Eddie.. I’ve been bring so many people home.. it wouldn’t be okay if I just kept on doing it”

“Is… there a way I can speak to him? Or will I have to leave you first?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Oh-- You cannot leave with my help... And you will not be able to get back most likely."

They pauses to think, and then summon a black rotary phone with blood red rubies chaotically placed.

"Do you come from a time with phones?... This should work if so."

They talk as if they can travel between not just space, but time as well.

[deceitanon]

“Hmmm I- would call him but- I don’t really use a phone- he just kinda talks to me in my head”

“I promise it’s not as crazy as it seems”

“Oh! And I can totally come back, I’ll just recreate what I did, easy peasy”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at the phone and back at Remy.

They speak after a while of silence.

"Okay..."

They don't believe Remy will be able to come back, but they don't argue regardless. Remy has to go back either way.

"I will see you when you return." They say with hidden disbelief.

They don't wait for a response before they poke Remy's chest and in a sickening disorientating blink he's back in the bar.

[deceitanon]

{Remy groans and leans up against the bar}

{he blinks slowly, he feels like he needs to puke}

“Fuckkkk- Eddddiiieeeee”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie quickly appears next to Remy.

"Where-- What happened???" He sounds confused and concerned. "I lost all sense of you for a few minutes."

'Fee minutes' it felt like almost an hour passed down there... How does time work in that space?

"Are you okay??" He brings a trashcan over incase Remy does puke.

[deceitanon]

{Remy does end up puking}

“Got stuck in a weird space when I teleported….. few mins? It felt like I was there for hours”

“No… that’s not what I need to focus on.. there is someone trapped.. they are… uncanny more so than Remus but.. they wish to have a home”

{Remy gave Eddie puppy eyes}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie gently rubs Remy's back for a moment.

"What do you mean 'weird space??'"

He seems utterly confused.

"I--"

He looks at Remy's eyes and sighs after a moment with a lighthearted eye roll.

"Okay... Fine... I'm lucky Starie can create so much space where there shouldn't even be room, you know?"

With the amount of people here, it'd be impossible without Starie's stable space warping.

[deceitanon]

“Don’t worry~ they realllly tall which I know you love”

{Remy nuzzles up against Eddie with a happy purr}

“I… hope I can actually get back there”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie looks away with an embarrassed flush at Remy's comment.

"Oh, fuck off..." He playfully scoffs out without any actually annoyance. He clears his throat after a moment before replying, and nuzzling Remy back.

"Is there a chance you can't?"

He seems confused at that.

[deceitanon]

“Maybe… I just- need to make myself glitch while teleporting..”

“It… hurts to do it but I’ll only need to do it once.. so it won’t be that bad right?”

{Remy murmurs to himself}

{Remy kisses Eddie’s cheek before taking a deep breath, glitching and teleporting at the same time- and he lands back into the space.. but is on his hands and knees groaning, and coughing up more bile}

“Fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie tenses when Remy is gone again, he hates that he can't even senses Remy's existence right now... He paces while he waits.

----

Null startles and squeaks out shrieking static when they see Remy again.

"Remy...?"

They walk over and stare at him and the bile.

"How-- Are you okay?..."

Though Remy was gone for roughly five minutes, it's only been fifteen in here despite a few minutes being hours last time.

[deceitanon]

{Remy curls up and gives him a weak wait gesture… his body glitching again}

“Hurts…”

{His ears folded down- he hates when he glitches..}

“Don’t.. look”

{he hates making new people see him like this- 1) he likes to maintain the cool image he has.. and 2) because it makes him wish Eddie was here to comfort him}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses before nodding and turning around.

They sit nearby with their back to Remy.

"I am sorry that I cannot help... I am not a healing type... Do let me know if you cannot settle your body though, I can understand the glitching. It is one reason I do not leave with my body anymore... It tends to cause some of the void maggots to burst."

That... Sounds incredibly painful for someone who is made of them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tries to get up then lays back down immediately}

“Tel… tell me more… void maggots.. what do they do?”

“I… can control the void.. it’s how I can manipulate dreams”

{Remy murmurs weakly as he just lets his back lax.. he wishes just to listen}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Void maggots are specific to the place as I said... They grow in the walls, squirm their way in the ground, and come to me... I believe I am more of an entity made by this place."

They sound uncertain on what they are.

"They allow me to shapeshift, as they have no solid form either... I am unsure if they would be the same as the void you describe, but you can try manipulating them if you wish to test that? I do not mind."

Null is suggesting Remy manipulate their body itself.

"They have no thought, or organic life... They just exist. Like me... I do believe they are an essence of this place? That may be the best wording I have."

[deceitanon]

{Remy has gone silent}

{He has fallen asleep, he looks so.. human and warm}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turns around when he's silent for too long.

They stare for a while... Look around... They stand up slowly, and with focus to not make Remy ill, they pick him up.

They wander further into the space until it shifts out of Remy's memories and into a space Null made themself.

It's made to be a cottage, but it feels like an uncanny mimic of one, even more so than Remy's memories.

They place him on a bed, pulling a blanket over him, and then move to make coffee... They get a feeling he likes coffee. The bed feels oddly comfortable compared to the rest of this place.

The bedroom isn't all too separate from the living room, which is decently open to the kitchen and the front door. There are windows, but they're just a white light with no details.

[deceitanon]

{After sometime, Remy groans and hugs the blanket closer}

“Eddie?”

{he said sleepy, nuzzling into the blanket before opening his eyes… and sees the uncanny house}

“Where.. am I?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null hears him wake up, and slowly walks over to the bedroom. Floorboards creak under their silent feet.

They look around the corner... Looking around corners before walking past them seems like a habit of theirs.

"Are you okay now, Remy?"

They slowly walk closer, they also tend to walk slowly.

They carry a mug of coffee, setting it on the warped nightstand.

"I made coffee."

[deceitanon]

“Fuck yes… I love coffee.. and yes I’m feeling better.. sorry about passing out on you”

“You were talking about the void things?”

{Remy mutters as he sits up and grabs the coffee to drink it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"You are alright."

The coffee is almost right. Almost how Remy likes it. It's off still. Anything Null makes seems to be off.

"I was..."

They watch Remy drink the coffee for a moment, also staring at the bed... They don't say what they want, and it is difficult to tell without a face to show it.

"The void maggots are more of an essence of this space... I believe..."

They think for a moment.

"You mentioned dreamscapes being voids. I believe the void maggots grow up into them. Though they form in here, and make me, I would guess they grow up into something?"

They are larva after all.

"Perhaps that is what they grow into?"

There was a vague familiarity to the maggots, but it was hard to place, easy to dismiss as the space.

[deceitanon]

“You think I can control them? What do you think I can do with them?”

{Remy purrs at the taste of his coffee, his tails wag slowly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently watches Remy's tails wag for a moment.

...

"I believe you could, yes... I am unsure what you could do with them though."

They think for a moment, still staring at Remy. The longer they stare the more unsettling it feels...

"Maybe you could have control over what they form into?... I do not always understand where I learn what I do, but I suppose that is part of who I am... I believe they form dreamscapes, but also mindscapes and pocket dimensions."

"If they have multiple paths, maybe there could be more with artificial influence?"

They scoop out of maggots from their neck again and offer them to Remy. They writhe and squirm in their palm.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tilts his head and looks at the maggots, he shudders but takes a deep breath, he hover his hands over the maggots and tries to alter them in anyway he can}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

As he hovers his hand over the maggots he can feel they have a different type of energy. It's more like a potential energy, that would be gone the moment it's used?

As Remy tries to manipulate the maggots they writhe more, then start to bubble, and then they melt into a black goo... Then, suddenly, Remy can feel a new pocket dimension as the maggot goo disappears. It feels different from ones he may have created before.

He can feel that it was made, and that it belongs to him in a way, but it took little no of his energy to do so.

[deceitanon]

“Huh- gross but that took like no energy.. the maggots feel like that have some kind of energy probably stored inside them- UGH where is Logan when I need him”

{Remy groans- he’s not a scientist or a doctor like him}

“I have no idea what this could mean.. hmmm”

“When I altered the lil guys.. they disappeared but I felt a pocket dimension open up, a new one- how is that even possible.. it wasn’t a lot of em”

“Can you tell me more about yourself Null? How’d you get here? How are you made up of these Void Bugs”

{he wants to stop calling them maggots.. it feels rude because Null is made out of these lil buggers}

___

{While Null is explaining, Remy does try to write a note and glitchport (teleport and glitch) the note to Eddie, to tell him he is okay}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Each one of them grows up into a space like that, so you really only need one. Using more strengthens it, and makes it bigger I would guess."

They fall silent for several minutes at being asked about themself.

...

"I... Do not know how I got here. I just remember nothing... And then I was here... Or--"

Their screen glitches violently for a minute before they talk again.

"As for being made of the bugs--" They talk as if that glitching never happened. "I believe I made out of them as... As..."

They fall silent again.

"I don't think about what I am."

They don't know. They don't like that they don't know.

They can't remember how they got here...

"I like creating things... They always come out warped though."

They summon a fox plush, and while it looks like a fox it is unsettling not a fox at the same time.

----

The note ends up slightly clipped into the bar counter near Eddie. It's enough to read at least, but part of the note is in the counter.

"... Okay..." He sighs in shaky relief.

[deceitanon]

“Hmm.. so-“

{Remy pauses when he watches their screen glitch, he frowns in worry, everything about this place looks and feels fine- but it’s more like an uncanny feeling, he looks at the fox with a head tilt}

{Plus the whole time weirdness is throwing him off as well}

{he rubs his head as he thinks}

“I don’t know what to make of you babes, and I’d like to try and understand as much as I can before I introduce you to a whole new realm- or space.. don’t get me wrong- I’ve dealt with crazy stuff so this is just precarious, because who knows what could happen-“

“But- you don’t like these questions so.. maybe you can ask me somethings? And we can bounce off each others questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly, and stares at the bed for a bit again. They've kind of just been standing there, as if unsure what to do with themself.

"... What does it feel like to breathe?... Or... Just... How does your body feel to you?"

Odd first question...

[deceitanon]

“I.. hm I may not feel like the best example because it’s different with everyone.. but my body feels hot, it might seem warm and nice, but I do love the cold weather to help balance myself out, I get a lot of headaches due to my connections back in my world, but honestly it’s something I’m just used to so I’ve learned how to cope healthily..”

“Breathing feels awesome.. definitely something everyone takes for granted”

“Can I ask you the same questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently listens and processes what Remy said.

...

"I... Do not breathe. I always feel cold, I think numb is the other word... I like that you felt warm, I don't feel that often."

They fall silent again before there's a smaller and calmer glitch on their screen.

"... Breathing... I miss that. I took it for granted too it seems."

They remember breathing... There had to be something before they became this then, right?

"..." They pause, asking their next question quietly. "What does fear feel like?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy perks up, they remember something! Seems like this is going somewhere}

“Fear… is the worst thing to feel.. your body your mind all send these signals that you will die, get hurt.. and you can’t do anything about it”

{Remy looks away for a moment} “though there is a scale to how much a person can feel fear.. like it can be something small like a spider and they just avoid spiders.. or it can be a big fear like.. water itself- or loud sounds where it can affect your day to day life”

“… What can you feel?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly and thinks again.

...

"I don't feel... Things in a way I can place."

"Fear... I--"

They look at their hand and fall silent again.

"I do remember fear though... Fear and... And... Pain."

"Most feelings are dull... Now..."

They fidget with their gloves.

...

"... What does it feel like to die?"

That's... A heavy question. Why are they asking?

[deceitanon]

“… that’s a loaded question, it’s really depends on how you die”

“Why.. do you ask?”

{Remy frowns with worry}

“I promise you, it ain’t fun..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"I..."

They lean against the wall and pick at their gloves now.

"I don't know if I died... I"

They slowly slide down the wall to sit on the floor.

"I wasn't this... What was I?"

They're really wracking their mind now.

"I remember feeling tired... Then cool grass and dirt before falling asleep."

...

"Then an endless void. Thought it was a dream... There was a box. Nothing else... So I... Walked over to it."

They take their glove off and stare at all the writhing larva.

"I opened it... They spilled out, couldn't even guess how many..."

...

"Body was gone... Then I was this."

"It hurt... I was scared. I struggle to even remember feelings now."

[deceitanon]

“…”

{Remy frowns as he listens while nodding along}

{Remy slowly gets up and sits next to them}

“You aren’t alone anymore.. I can’t- I don’t want to promise anything that I’m not confident in.. but I’ll try my best to help you.. I know what it’s like.. losing your body.. being thrown into the void”

{Remy lets his hand hover over their arm, offering a warm touch}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at his hand and slowly takes it after putting their glove back on. They try to stop the sickening sensation, but it seems to be easier now.

"..."

They stay silent for a while longer.

"I don't... Mind what I am now. I think I was human... I can feel things coming back to me too. I don't think I was from your dimension or time period..."

...

"Is it weird... That I like being this?"

They don't like how unsettling they always are, but they still like what they are.

"I just... I just don't want to be alone anymore."

[deceitanon]

“If you liked being like this then I won’t stop you, you aren’t alone anymore. Okay? Not if I can help it”

{Remy smiles as he holds their hand}

“How do we get you over to my side?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null slowly nods and stares at Remy for a moment again.

"... Hard to explain... But it's not difficult for me."

They've just always been too scared to leave, being able to isn't a problem.

In another disorientating, nauseating blink they're back in the bar. It doesn't seem as bad with Null active in the process.

Though as Null teleports them back there's a dull wet popping sound of several of the larva in their body. Some black goo drips from them, but is quick to disappear.

They stumble a little and sit on the ground as their tv head glitches for a moment. It seems similar to a headache for them.

"... Hngg just a moment..."

----

Eddie startles when they are suddenly back and stares at them, more so towards Null. He gets a heavy uneasiness from them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy’s tails wagging quickly as he stands in front of Null and looks at Eddie, like a happy dog that just succeeded in a game of fetch}

“This is Null, he reminds me of Remus.. if that helps with the uneasiness..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie stares at Remy and then chuckles with a sign as he walks over.

He brings him into a hug.

"It does..."

He stares at Null behind Remy as they slowly stand back up.

"This era makes sense..." They mumble to themself as they look around and then at Eddie.

"... Ah, greetings... You must be Eddie?"

Their wording is similar to Logan's, but their voice has that static muffled through a tv feel... And the general uncanny nature of them.

"I am... It's nice to meet you, Null."

This is the second time Remy has mentioned Remus and how they're rather curious about him.

"It is nice to meet you as well..."

They also seem unsure what to do with themself in new area.

[deceitanon]

{Remys drapes himself behind Eddie’s back with a loving purr, nuzzling him}

“Welcome to our home! How are you feeling”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie purrs happily, nuzzling Remy back as he wraps a tail around his waist.

Null looks around before answering.

"I am..." They pause, unsure. "Fine I believe."

They walk closer to Eddie now, looking down at him. They are well over two feet taller than him.

"... Would you like to go upstairs? Everyone is typically up there."

He smiles softly, though still getting used to the uneasiness. He does pause and warn Virgil with a text, knowing he might not handle it well.

Null nods slowly and looks around more.

[deceitanon]

{Virgil gets the text and goes to his room, thanking Eddie}

——

{Upstairs, Logan is talking to Remus on the touch.. Patton is making lunch for everyone, Ethos is reading a book as best he can on the love seat}

{Logan pauses, invisible to Null}

“Eddie? Remy? Who is that?”

—

{Remus turns and perks up with a wicked smile}

“Well look at you! Tall and Mysterious~”

{Remus doesn’t seem to be effected but Null’s Unease presence}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Logan.

"This is Null... Oh-- They can't see you right now..."

--

Ella is sitting with Ethos if he doesn't mind right now.

--

Null stares at Remus and tilts their head slightly. They actually stay silent as they slowly walk over.

...

"Hello..." They almost seem to be analyzing Remus.

...

"You have a familiarity."

Concept of the liminal and uncanny... Concept of intrusive thoughts... Could be something with that, but Null doesn't seem to understand.

They just... Stare. Far more than they did with Remy earlier.

[deceitanon]

{Ethos didn’t mind, he also wasn’t surprised by the new person either, he’s been here since day one, he’s used to this}

——

{Remus stares back and giggles}

“Well I used to look slightly different and yknow been around”

“Oooo Maggots! I love the look”

“I’m Remus! Dark creativity, Intrusive Thoughts, Doctor- you.. look familiar too! But where do I know you from hmmm”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Ella looks over briefly, bur she rather relax with Ethos right now. She leans against him, purring contently.

----

"It is nice to meet you, Remus."

They pause again.

"I... Do not believe I was from this dimension or era... My space exists between all that, but I am never sure."

They move around the couch to sit next to him.

...

They just stare more. Then they offer their hand with no explantion.

Given Remus probably would take their hand without questioning...

He gets no nausea either. Something about who Null was before is what is familiar, hidden what they are now.

...

They were a scientist at the same lab-- They vanished around the same time Remus got the radiation poisoning. Null does not remember much though.

"..." They don't say anything, just analyzing what any of that means.

... If Remus may recall, they used to be called "Dr. Rhinestone." She was well known in her field back then.

[deceitanon]

{Remus stares}

{then blinks}

{stares}

“Dr…Rhinestone- no”

“That’s not possible- the lab was empty when-“

“What happened?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tilts their head and stares back in confusion. When the name Remus says actually registers their screen glitches again and they head a headache like pain.

Though they gather themself well enough.

"Apologies... Dr. Rhinestone?-- I--"

They stare at Remus more.

"... What happened?"

They don't know the answer themself.

"..."

They pick at their gloves again, seeming to be a stressed habit.

"... The lab-- Wait--" They look directly st Remus now, white eyes behind the screen more visible now.

"Dr. Eckhard."

They remember more.

"Shit." They don't like what they remember.

"Fuck. I--"

...

"I worked in a lab near yours. I was supposed to be monitoring the radiation--"

They messed that up. They know they did.

"I didn't-- I got it wrong-- I-I... What happened to me..."

They look at their hands again, their speech sounding more coherent in wording, more tone coming through.

"I just... I remember passing out. I felt dizzy, fell, and I hit my head... Hard... I felt so cold."

They swear they feel the pain again.

"Woke up in a field of grass... Just one peach tree. I was so tired... I felt like I shouldn't sleep, but I did... Then the void, the box-- the maggots."

They pick at their gloves more harshly. Did they pass out from radiation poisoning? How did they just vanish though?

[deceitanon]

{Remus takes a slow step back.. he tugs on his hair}

“Holy…holy shit”

{he stares and starts laughing.. his form glitches- as if almost returning back to how Remus was before.. maybe the death of Dr. Rhinestone is what made him go insane faster- the puzzle piece is bending again}

“It was my fault- you-“

{He starts crying while laughing}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null quickly gets up and shakes their head.

"No. No! I-I was supposed to be monitoring it! I... Fuck. I miscalculated things. If I just-- Fuck."

They are shown genuine visible stress by now. Their uneasiness affect gets stronger with this.

"God I was a fucking idiot!"

They remembered something again.

"Fuck. Why..."

"It was my fault!! Fuck-- Remus--"

They force themself to say the words stuck in their non existent throat.

"I fucked up because I was-- I-I was-- high... I was a fucking idiot!"

They grab the sides of their head, self loathing.

"What the fuck was wrong with me?!"

...

"I was a well regarded scientist, I had access to pretty much anything I wanted, and i fucking abused that?!"

They tear up too, that rot and iron leaking through the screen.

"If I wasn't busy getting high off my ass I would have realized things were going wrong!"

[deceitanon]

“I…I knew”

{Remus whispered}

“I knew about the radiation and still decided to take the risk to study it…”

“I’m so sorry this happened to you Dr. Rhinestone..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null falls back onto the couch to try and calm down.

"I knew the risk too... I was suppose to be helping minimize the risk, and be the first to know when it was becoming too high of a risk."

...

"Please don't be sorry... I probably would have been fired or worse even if I did live..."

They look back up at him after a moment.

"But... Still here now, y-yeah?... Suppose you still can't get r-rid of me that easily?"

They try to make a joke to lighten the mood, though their words are still choked.

"Don't beat yourself up about it... Would say I'm not the same person, and I think I gather why I wouldn't want to be now."

They offer their hand again.

"I don't hold anything against you..."

Though no mouth is there, Null does smile softly.

[deceitanon]

“Mghh”

{Remus laughs before nodding}

“I don’t hold anything against you either…”

——-

{Remy blinks slowly and stares at Eddie}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remus for a moment before pulling him into a hug if he lets them.

"... Thank you."

Their head feels all buzzy right now... They aren't sure why, but thinking of themself as human causes their entire body to ache. Like they aren't allowed to feel that.

"..."

"Please only call me Null as well..." Their human tone retreats a little now. Tone returning to more uncanny.

----

Eddie looks over at Remy as well. He seems very confused.

"I... Do not remember there being a Dr. Rhinestone...?"

Though with the nature of what Null is it may be impossible to see them in the past. Ethos wouldn't have detected any lies either.

Eddie does not know what Null is as of right now.

[deceitanon]

{Remus touches Null’s tv screen and smiles}

“Looks like we both were changed heavily after the accident..”

——

{Remy nods in agreement}

“I don’t remember if this is because of the time stuff we did either”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null's screen has a electrical buzzing feel to it despite no electricity actually existing in them.

"I suppose so, yes... I became the concept of the liminal and uncanny feeling. Does not make people particularly enjoy being around me."

The eyes behind their screen shift slightly to look at Remus past his hand.

"How were you changed?"

----

Eddie sighs and thinks for a moment. He catches what Null says about their concept--

"Ah, I uh I do not think it is..."

... Why does he say it like he knows something...?

"I was wondering when they would show up." He mumbles very quietly--

He implies he already knew about Null in a way?!

[deceitanon]

“I became intrusive thoughts , got a bad cancer, drank a experimental drug and now I have a Symbiot inside me-“

“I wasn’t all this sane, but thanks to everyone here I’m semi back to normal… now I’m growing plants thanks to the basement downstairs- I swear I feel like it’s alive sometimes”

——

{Remy blinks slowly}

“Huh?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null goes to respond, but pauses at the mention of the basement--

"... Alive... How?"

They ask as if they know something.

----

Eddie pauses briefly.

"I uh... You know how the basement is always shifting and responding to what living things need, but it isn't technically alive?"

He looks at Remy with a look of "please don't be mad"

... What did he do?

[deceitanon]

{Remy stares at Eddie}

“Babes….. what did you do?”

{he gives him a stern look but one that says he won’t be fully mad}

——

“I dunno.. it just responded to me in ways that I didn’t even know I needed.. it learned- I swore it was teasing and sarcastic to me at one point”

{Remus shrugs}

“Why?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Uhhh... That basement is technically part of Null's domain and I didn't remember how I did that until recently... I uh I still don't understand the technicality of how I did it."

...

"I may have stolen a part of their domain somehow--"

How the actual fuck does someone steal part of someone else's domain?!

----

Null pauses in thought...

"How the..."

They look at Eddie.

They stare.

"You... You stole part of my domain?!"

Eddie chuckles nervously and looks away.

"I was wondering what that went!! You ass!! I was working on that for so long!"

Oh dear--

They aren't properly angry, but they are upset.

[deceitanon]

“Whoa whoa- no need for name calling Null”

{Remy glares at Null as he steps in front of Eddie, the chill and soft look is gone once the room became tense}

“Eddie did you know that the domain belonged to someone?”

{he asked with patience}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null backs up at the look Remy gives and picks at their gloves again. Their screen is also dimmer.

"Apologies..."

Eddie speaks up after.

"I did not until it was there, and I didn't know how to return it... I also forgot all recollection of obtaining it briefly after."

He looks over at Null.

"I am sorry-- I-I didn't know what I was doing..."

There's silence for a while before Null speaks again, their voice quieter now.

"... It's okay-- I... Honestly that project was frustrating me a lot."

...

"Can I see it?"

They still don't step closer right now.

"... Maybe you had better luck getting it to work?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a deep breath and his glare drops, tension gone}

——

{Remus perks up}

“Wait! No you can go in there Eddie.. remember the mushrooms?!”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null relaxes after a moment as well.

"I am sorry for getting upset..."

They speak quietly still... If Remy looks at the floor below when Null was standing when they got upset; the carpet is warped now. The pattern on it looks unsettling yet eerily similar to how it was before.

They did mention they have a harder time controlling their abilities with emotions.

----

Eddie looks over at Remus.

"I... I do remember. They were triggered by an electrical shock though. They are dormant otherwise."

He tries to reassure Remus, also walking over to him.

"I'll be fine... I'll avoid that room too. Is that okay?"

Despite Eddie being certain about it being okay he would still listen to Remus if he said no.

[deceitanon]

{Remy nods and offers to hug Null as an apology for snapping and a forgiveness gesture}

——

“I.. okay, I will make sure the room will close the area off before you get in there”

{Remus said before taking a deep breath- Eddie hasn’t seen him worried about others so openly before.. only frustrated at the person}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks up for a moment before accepting the hug.

"I do understand your reaction... I apologize as well."

They do seem lost in thought for a moment.

...

"... I do not think I have expressed emotions that blatantly in a long time."

They are a little unsure on how to handle them, but also unsure what to do when emotions not only cause issues with control, but also body aches. They don't mention the last part.

It's not just conflicting in letting themself express them, but also conflicting in getting their curse to let them.

--

Eddie looks up at Remus and gently takes his hands.

"It'll be okay... Thank you for being concerned, and I will leave if anything goes wrong, okay?"

He smiles softly and offers a hug. He does want to kiss him, but that's hard to gesture with the height difference--

[deceitanon]

“Oh? Are emotions hard to control sometimes? It’s okay if they are, we are kinda experts in that field”

{Remy chuckles}

——

{Remus pulls Eddie in to a hug, leaning down to kiss him if he wanted too}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null chuckles lightly and quietly.

"I seem to struggle feeling them, and controlling them when I do... I suppose I perhaps forgot my own curse after so long of being alone."

Null pulls away from the hug after a moment more.

"Are you planning to come to the basement with Eddie and I?"

Their tone is now neutral again, back to the uncanny feeling it was before the emotions talking to Remus and then the blow up.

----

Eddie smiles softly and pulls himself up a little to kiss Remus with a purr.

"I love you..."

He takes a deep breath and sighs contently.

"I would assume you're coming down to the basement too, spark?"

[deceitanon]

“I do, if you wish to have me?”

{Remy smiles}

“I’m far to interested in all of this to quit now”

——

“Duh! I’m not letting your wires get too curious. If you wanna get shocky. Shock me”

{Remus huffs}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly in response.

"I would like for you to come with, yes."

They look back over at Eddie and Remus.

--

Eddie chuckles slightly and rests his face into Remus's chest briefly.

"I'll take note of that, though I don't think Strife appreciates electricity... I'll be careful though, I promise."

After a moment he looks back over at Null and Remy.

"You two ready?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy nods with a smile}

“Ready as always babes~”

____

{Remus holds Eddie closely and lovingly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Remy as he leans into Remus for a moment.

"Sounds good, spark~"

He looks over at Null as well, who is fidgeting with their gloves slightly. They don't really remember much about their project... Just that they wanted something normal for once.

"Null? You coming?" They had zoned out briefly and didn't notice Eddie started leading them to the basement.

"Oh... Yes, I am coming."

Eddie stares for a moment before continuing down the basement. Null follows slowly and silently.

It's the same cozy house appearance as usually, but there's almost a sort of rumbling noise in the walls when Null enters; them being the last down the ladder.

[deceitanon]

{Remy walks next to Null for encouragement, he offers his hand for Null to hold}

——

{When they get into the basement, Remus does move faster, past Eddie to close the door that leads to the mushrooms, he huffs playfully}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remy's hand for a moment before taking it. They just stare for a moment before taking their focus back on the basement.

The basement does start to change a bit... Items start to have that uncanny feel they did in Null's space, as if Null's presence is messing up their own project... And Null does immediately notice.

They stay silent and begin to run one of their hands along the wall, doing... Something. They've seem to have made a decision with something.

----

Eddie chuckles a little, watching Remus run ahead.

He looks around, noticing the change in feeling too... He stays close to Remus right now.

[deceitanon]

“Are you alright?”

{Remy whispers softly to Null}

___

{Remus pulls Eddie in closer with a broken purr}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null replies quietly, and neutrally.

"Yes."

They continue running their hand on the walls before they stop at a certain part of the house like space. It'd feel more like the center of the space now.

They hum softly as they took around and then walk over towards the living room area. They run their hand along the texture of the couch and stare at the tv.

They tap their foot on the floor once, and then all of the uncanny feelings that had formed when Null entered leave completely. It feels surprisingly normal now. Even more so than before Null was here.

If Remy can tell; Null disregarded any of their attachment to the basement and gave it to Eddie.

----

Eddie watches Null curiously as he relaxes into Remus's hold, his own purring following.

He wraps one of his tails around Remus and sighs contently.

When Null taps their foot Eddie perks up and shivers slightly. That's a weird feeling to him, but he doesn't really understand what Null did yet.

[deceitanon]

“What did you just do? Eddie you okay?”

{Remy looks confused and worried}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 142

As Remy teleports there's a flicker in everything around him, a feeling of being torn from the plane he was in, and suddenly he's in a... Space. It's hard to put into words what the fuck this is.

... It feels endless, uncanny, and yet familiar. There's items Remy may have felt were important from the distant past, or even the present. Items that feel important, and yet he's never seen. There's segments of these uneven and disorganized rooms that look like the bar, the loft, the cherry grove, the river, the void... There's hints, fragments, of everything Remy has ever seen. Everything feels... Wrong. Soso wrong.

They look like what Remy has seem, but they have an extreme feel of them still not being accurate. Like this space disorderly pulled memories from his mind and threw them around in a desperation to make it feel like home.

...

Lights flicker dully where there is no source, water trickles in the walls that aren't hollow...

Familiar sounds of people Remy knows are in the distant, with no obvious direction, but they have no realism to them. Parrots and echos of memories put into here wrong.

...

There is a sound that is real, but still uncanny. A voice. Humming. Their voice sounds like a person stuck behind a broken tv playing static, a crackling stinging hum with a broken melody.

[deceitanon]

“Hm…. honestly- ain’t the worst place I’ve been in”

{Remy picks up a ball and chucks it over to where he hears the humming}

“Eddie? Babes? Why’d you summon me here?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie is no where to be smelled even though a quiet hint of his voice echos from no where.

When Remy chucks the ball to the humming it suddenly stops. Deafening silence fills the space immediately.

...

"HelL-o?" The voice is broken, muffled and stuffed with static.

Slow someone peaks around the corner. A extremely tall lanky figure, only their head visible right now. A thin hand gloves in black velvet holds the wall near them.

Their head is a small black tv box, a very only one. It glows dully with flickers of visual static, and a subtle ringing of static piercings the air. Ever so slightly glowing white eyes that flicker like screen tearing are visible behind the screen. Those eyes are barely visible, yet so unsettling piercing.

... No heart beat. No warmth. No breathing. Not even any subtle electrical current of nerves, brain, or even a computer. Like they are nothing at all.

"..." The way they tilt their head in confusion feels so incredibly wrong.

[deceitanon]

“Hm? Hello- Have you seen a short but handsome man with wired hair? I seem to be lost, wouldn’t be the first”

{Remy says like meeting someone like him is normal}

“Where even am I? It’s creepy but cool as fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The figure stays silent for a while before fully rounding the corner.

They stand at 7'9. They are unnaturally slim, limbs just slightly long enough to be uncanny. The way their clothes lay so perfectly and beautifully feels unnatural. They wear a long black layered dress with ruffles, and black velvet gloves covering their whole arms. Black flats with white frilly socks. Adorned on top of their head is a veil made of smooth lightweight black feathers.

They stare for a while.

"... I h-Ave noT..."

"I don-T hAve a nAme fOr thIs place... JuSt minE."

They radiate unease and uncanny feelings. They mean no harm.

"Int-rEstIng... Ho-w A-rE you hEre?"

They speak as if it is supposed to be impossible. They step closer slowly as if uncertain Remy is more than a trick of this space.

[deceitanon]

“Damn you’re tall- hmmmm must have glitched out of reality or something!”

“Oh like the backrooom”

{He said with a snap}

“How are you even alive here?- you’re very uncanny- but that’s hot nowadays”

“I’m Remy, you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"..."

They seem flabbergasted, even with no face that feeling isn't seen but felt from them to Remy.

"nOt alivE..."

"I hAve no NamE..." They pause. "NulL." It's a word meaning nothing afterall.

"HavE n-ot been callEd 'hot' bEfoRe."

They step closer and hesitantly poke Remy from the top of his head. They small touch feel cold, a split second of nausea given too.

"... You arE reAl..." They seem even more confused.

"I s-uppose oUt of reAlity w-Ould be dEcent as a WorDing."

They sit on the ground, now eye level to Remy.

"glItch... WhEre and w-Hen are you fr-Om?... You mUst be retUrned." They say as if returning a book to a library, clearly not used to human contact.

[deceitanon]

{Remy blinks away the nausea and chuckles when he is poked}

“Ouch, it’s like you don’t even want me here! I’m hurt”

{he says with a hand on his chest}

“I mean I got nothing important to do, just came back from altering time itself so.. this is kinda nice”

{Remy doesn’t know why he’s spilling all of this}

“Null? That’s a sick name, why.. are you here though? You look alive to me”

{he says with certainty}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"i dO n-ot mInd cOmpan-y... N-o-one shOulD be here thOugH..."

They stare and tilt their head again. When they do some 'skin' on their neck is visible briefly. It looks less like skin and more like a void made of millions of writhing larva. Constantly moving in a sickly way.

"altEriNg tIme?.."

...

"hErE is Home... My spAce. ConCepT of the liminal... UnCannY ties in-tO it."

"alivE... N-oT alive, bUt stiLl con-scious."

They aren't certain what would count as alive in other senses. "AlivE indiCates being m-Ade of org-anIc matter." They are not.

[deceitanon]

“Then I must be not alive too. I’m a giant dead fox. And you are made out of larva- not gonna lie, that’s kinda icky”

“…:does it hurt?”

{Remy asks very quietly with a frown}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses and looks at themself for a moment. They pause for a moment longer, turning a few dials on their head. There's a sickening squelching and gargling noise as they do. Their voice now sounds smoother and consistent though, but still stuffed with static and muffled by the screen.

"Larva... I suppose it could be comparable to that? They're void maggots. They are unique to this place."

They carefully scoop out a small few of the void maggots. They wiggle around for a moment, small like usual maggots, and then Null puts them back.

"Hurt...?"

They pause at that as well.

"Yes... But not in your sense. I do not feel it that same way. It is a constant feeling, but I am not bothered by it."

...

"Giant dead fox? Could you say more?"

[deceitanon]

“Ah… well, as long as you don’t go talking to the others here”

{he said jokingly}

“Kitsune, my fox form died a long time ago- it gets really complicated… can I show you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The chuckle Null lets out sounds like breaking glass through tv static.

"I do believe there is no one else to tell... Unless you mean the illusions, but I believe they do not count."

They pauses and then nod.

"I would like to see if you wish to show."

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a step back and drops all of his illusions at once… and shows Null his true fox form.. it’s massive… and dead looking}

{armor on top of his dead fur, it looks like it’s been washed recently by Eddie despite it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares, and though no mouth exists, a smile is felt.

"You are beautiful... May I pet y--"

They cut themself off.

"I should not touch... It makes people ill."

They stare regardless. A yearning for touch is blatantly radiating of them now.

"I could show you how I shapeshift?... It is not pretty though."

They wish to show themself too.

[deceitanon]

{Remy judges their hand, their bone armor could protect him if they pet in the right places.. he is so… warm! Despite claiming to be a dead fox}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tenses briefly before noticing Remy is okay.

They run their hands along his bone armor, his head mostly.

"Warm..."

They move closer and lay their tv head onto his. The sound of tv static feels sharp, but not too overburdening.

"I do not wish to leave you now..." This is the first time they've been able to touch anyone, and one of the very few times they've even been around someone visually.

[deceitanon]

{Remy sniffs where he can hear the static, then pauses when he hears them say that}

{he slowly shifts back, but offers his hand for Null to fidget with}

“I.. will try my best to help you, you said I can return, but why haven’t you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at his hand... Hesitantly taking it. They focus on trying to stop the nausea from carrying over.

"..."

"I can return... I do not have much control over how I warp spaces. I do try to not use abilities when I am in the existing planes, but I am unpredictable. I carry unease everywhere I go, I cannot choose a form that is not uncanny, I cannot create spaces that are not uncanny... Emotions are not something I understand, but I do know they contribute to mistaken use of my abilities."

They stare at Remy's hand as they talk. Quiet sparking crying is heard, though it is only black blood that drips from under the screen of their head. Smelling strongly of rot and iron.

"I do not wish to cause trouble. So I do not leave often, and when I do I do not leave with my body... I simply look, and memorize..."

This space is built by disorganized memories.

[deceitanon]

“We have a lot of people like you back at my home, Emotions, Weird lookin’ we even have someone that is the literal meaning of intrusive thoughts”

{Remy Chuckles, before pauses, he tries to summon a cloth, but his whole body glitches- and he falls forward against them, but he gets the cloth

“Imma… just ignore what happened to me for now”

{Remy murmurs to himself before gently cleaning off the rot and iron liquid}



[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null reaches out to catch Remy.

"Be careful in here. Your abilities will not work easily. I do not wish for you to harm yourself."

It leans into Remy wiping off the liquid.

"... Could I go home with you?"

They ask as if they are a stray cat giving boba eyes. Uncanny never leaves anything they do, as if it is a deep rooted curse in their very being.

[deceitanon]

“Of course you can!- wait… I should probably ask Eddie.. I’ve been bring so many people home.. it wouldn’t be okay if I just kept on doing it”

“Is… there a way I can speak to him? Or will I have to leave you first?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Oh-- You cannot leave with my help... And you will not be able to get back most likely."

They pauses to think, and then summon a black rotary phone with blood red rubies chaotically placed.

"Do you come from a time with phones?... This should work if so."

They talk as if they can travel between not just space, but time as well.

[deceitanon]

“Hmmm I- would call him but- I don’t really use a phone- he just kinda talks to me in my head”

“I promise it’s not as crazy as it seems”

“Oh! And I can totally come back, I’ll just recreate what I did, easy peasy”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at the phone and back at Remy.

They speak after a while of silence.

"Okay..."

They don't believe Remy will be able to come back, but they don't argue regardless. Remy has to go back either way.

"I will see you when you return." They say with hidden disbelief.

They don't wait for a response before they poke Remy's chest and in a sickening disorientating blink he's back in the bar.

[deceitanon]

{Remy groans and leans up against the bar}

{he blinks slowly, he feels like he needs to puke}

“Fuckkkk- Eddddiiieeeee”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie quickly appears next to Remy.

"Where-- What happened???" He sounds confused and concerned. "I lost all sense of you for a few minutes."

'Fee minutes' it felt like almost an hour passed down there... How does time work in that space?

"Are you okay??" He brings a trashcan over incase Remy does puke.

[deceitanon]

{Remy does end up puking}

“Got stuck in a weird space when I teleported….. few mins? It felt like I was there for hours”

“No… that’s not what I need to focus on.. there is someone trapped.. they are… uncanny more so than Remus but.. they wish to have a home”

{Remy gave Eddie puppy eyes}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie gently rubs Remy's back for a moment.

"What do you mean 'weird space??'"

He seems utterly confused.

"I--"

He looks at Remy's eyes and sighs after a moment with a lighthearted eye roll.

"Okay... Fine... I'm lucky Starie can create so much space where there shouldn't even be room, you know?"

With the amount of people here, it'd be impossible without Starie's stable space warping.

[deceitanon]

“Don’t worry~ they realllly tall which I know you love”

{Remy nuzzles up against Eddie with a happy purr}

“I… hope I can actually get back there”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie looks away with an embarrassed flush at Remy's comment.

"Oh, fuck off..." He playfully scoffs out without any actually annoyance. He clears his throat after a moment before replying, and nuzzling Remy back.

"Is there a chance you can't?"

He seems confused at that.

[deceitanon]

“Maybe… I just- need to make myself glitch while teleporting..”

“It… hurts to do it but I’ll only need to do it once.. so it won’t be that bad right?”

{Remy murmurs to himself}

{Remy kisses Eddie’s cheek before taking a deep breath, glitching and teleporting at the same time- and he lands back into the space.. but is on his hands and knees groaning, and coughing up more bile}

“Fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie tenses when Remy is gone again, he hates that he can't even senses Remy's existence right now... He paces while he waits.

----

Null startles and squeaks out shrieking static when they see Remy again.

"Remy...?"

They walk over and stare at him and the bile.

"How-- Are you okay?..."

Though Remy was gone for roughly five minutes, it's only been fifteen in here despite a few minutes being hours last time.

[deceitanon]

{Remy curls up and gives him a weak wait gesture… his body glitching again}

“Hurts…”

{His ears folded down- he hates when he glitches..}

“Don’t.. look”

{he hates making new people see him like this- 1) he likes to maintain the cool image he has.. and 2) because it makes him wish Eddie was here to comfort him}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses before nodding and turning around.

They sit nearby with their back to Remy.

"I am sorry that I cannot help... I am not a healing type... Do let me know if you cannot settle your body though, I can understand the glitching. It is one reason I do not leave with my body anymore... It tends to cause some of the void maggots to burst."

That... Sounds incredibly painful for someone who is made of them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tries to get up then lays back down immediately}

“Tel… tell me more… void maggots.. what do they do?”

“I… can control the void.. it’s how I can manipulate dreams”

{Remy murmurs weakly as he just lets his back lax.. he wishes just to listen}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Void maggots are specific to the place as I said... They grow in the walls, squirm their way in the ground, and come to me... I believe I am more of an entity made by this place."

They sound uncertain on what they are.

"They allow me to shapeshift, as they have no solid form either... I am unsure if they would be the same as the void you describe, but you can try manipulating them if you wish to test that? I do not mind."

Null is suggesting Remy manipulate their body itself.

"They have no thought, or organic life... They just exist. Like me... I do believe they are an essence of this place? That may be the best wording I have."

[deceitanon]

{Remy has gone silent}

{He has fallen asleep, he looks so.. human and warm}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turns around when he's silent for too long.

They stare for a while... Look around... They stand up slowly, and with focus to not make Remy ill, they pick him up.

They wander further into the space until it shifts out of Remy's memories and into a space Null made themself.

It's made to be a cottage, but it feels like an uncanny mimic of one, even more so than Remy's memories.

They place him on a bed, pulling a blanket over him, and then move to make coffee... They get a feeling he likes coffee. The bed feels oddly comfortable compared to the rest of this place.

The bedroom isn't all too separate from the living room, which is decently open to the kitchen and the front door. There are windows, but they're just a white light with no details.

[deceitanon]

{After sometime, Remy groans and hugs the blanket closer}

“Eddie?”

{he said sleepy, nuzzling into the blanket before opening his eyes… and sees the uncanny house}

“Where.. am I?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null hears him wake up, and slowly walks over to the bedroom. Floorboards creak under their silent feet.

They look around the corner... Looking around corners before walking past them seems like a habit of theirs.

"Are you okay now, Remy?"

They slowly walk closer, they also tend to walk slowly.

They carry a mug of coffee, setting it on the warped nightstand.

"I made coffee."

[deceitanon]

“Fuck yes… I love coffee.. and yes I’m feeling better.. sorry about passing out on you”

“You were talking about the void things?”

{Remy mutters as he sits up and grabs the coffee to drink it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"You are alright."

The coffee is almost right. Almost how Remy likes it. It's off still. Anything Null makes seems to be off.

"I was..."

They watch Remy drink the coffee for a moment, also staring at the bed... They don't say what they want, and it is difficult to tell without a face to show it.

"The void maggots are more of an essence of this space... I believe..."

They think for a moment.

"You mentioned dreamscapes being voids. I believe the void maggots grow up into them. Though they form in here, and make me, I would guess they grow up into something?"

They are larva after all.

"Perhaps that is what they grow into?"

There was a vague familiarity to the maggots, but it was hard to place, easy to dismiss as the space.

[deceitanon]

“You think I can control them? What do you think I can do with them?”

{Remy purrs at the taste of his coffee, his tails wag slowly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently watches Remy's tails wag for a moment.

...

"I believe you could, yes... I am unsure what you could do with them though."

They think for a moment, still staring at Remy. The longer they stare the more unsettling it feels...

"Maybe you could have control over what they form into?... I do not always understand where I learn what I do, but I suppose that is part of who I am... I believe they form dreamscapes, but also mindscapes and pocket dimensions."

"If they have multiple paths, maybe there could be more with artificial influence?"

They scoop out of maggots from their neck again and offer them to Remy. They writhe and squirm in their palm.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tilts his head and looks at the maggots, he shudders but takes a deep breath, he hover his hands over the maggots and tries to alter them in anyway he can}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

As he hovers his hand over the maggots he can feel they have a different type of energy. It's more like a potential energy, that would be gone the moment it's used?

As Remy tries to manipulate the maggots they writhe more, then start to bubble, and then they melt into a black goo... Then, suddenly, Remy can feel a new pocket dimension as the maggot goo disappears. It feels different from ones he may have created before.

He can feel that it was made, and that it belongs to him in a way, but it took little no of his energy to do so.

[deceitanon]

“Huh- gross but that took like no energy.. the maggots feel like that have some kind of energy probably stored inside them- UGH where is Logan when I need him”

{Remy groans- he’s not a scientist or a doctor like him}

“I have no idea what this could mean.. hmmm”

“When I altered the lil guys.. they disappeared but I felt a pocket dimension open up, a new one- how is that even possible.. it wasn’t a lot of em”

“Can you tell me more about yourself Null? How’d you get here? How are you made up of these Void Bugs”

{he wants to stop calling them maggots.. it feels rude because Null is made out of these lil buggers}

___

{While Null is explaining, Remy does try to write a note and glitchport (teleport and glitch) the note to Eddie, to tell him he is okay}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Each one of them grows up into a space like that, so you really only need one. Using more strengthens it, and makes it bigger I would guess."

They fall silent for several minutes at being asked about themself.

...

"I... Do not know how I got here. I just remember nothing... And then I was here... Or--"

Their screen glitches violently for a minute before they talk again.

"As for being made of the bugs--" They talk as if that glitching never happened. "I believe I made out of them as... As..."

They fall silent again.

"I don't think about what I am."

They don't know. They don't like that they don't know.

They can't remember how they got here...

"I like creating things... They always come out warped though."

They summon a fox plush, and while it looks like a fox it is unsettling not a fox at the same time.

----

The note ends up slightly clipped into the bar counter near Eddie. It's enough to read at least, but part of the note is in the counter.

"... Okay..." He sighs in shaky relief.

[deceitanon]

“Hmm.. so-“

{Remy pauses when he watches their screen glitch, he frowns in worry, everything about this place looks and feels fine- but it’s more like an uncanny feeling, he looks at the fox with a head tilt}

{Plus the whole time weirdness is throwing him off as well}

{he rubs his head as he thinks}

“I don’t know what to make of you babes, and I’d like to try and understand as much as I can before I introduce you to a whole new realm- or space.. don’t get me wrong- I’ve dealt with crazy stuff so this is just precarious, because who knows what could happen-“

“But- you don’t like these questions so.. maybe you can ask me somethings? And we can bounce off each others questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly, and stares at the bed for a bit again. They've kind of just been standing there, as if unsure what to do with themself.

"... What does it feel like to breathe?... Or... Just... How does your body feel to you?"

Odd first question...

[deceitanon]

“I.. hm I may not feel like the best example because it’s different with everyone.. but my body feels hot, it might seem warm and nice, but I do love the cold weather to help balance myself out, I get a lot of headaches due to my connections back in my world, but honestly it’s something I’m just used to so I’ve learned how to cope healthily..”

“Breathing feels awesome.. definitely something everyone takes for granted”

“Can I ask you the same questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently listens and processes what Remy said.

...

"I... Do not breathe. I always feel cold, I think numb is the other word... I like that you felt warm, I don't feel that often."

They fall silent again before there's a smaller and calmer glitch on their screen.

"... Breathing... I miss that. I took it for granted too it seems."

They remember breathing... There had to be something before they became this then, right?

"..." They pause, asking their next question quietly. "What does fear feel like?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy perks up, they remember something! Seems like this is going somewhere}

“Fear… is the worst thing to feel.. your body your mind all send these signals that you will die, get hurt.. and you can’t do anything about it”

{Remy looks away for a moment} “though there is a scale to how much a person can feel fear.. like it can be something small like a spider and they just avoid spiders.. or it can be a big fear like.. water itself- or loud sounds where it can affect your day to day life”

“… What can you feel?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly and thinks again.

...

"I don't feel... Things in a way I can place."

"Fear... I--"

They look at their hand and fall silent again.

"I do remember fear though... Fear and... And... Pain."

"Most feelings are dull... Now..."

They fidget with their gloves.

...

"... What does it feel like to die?"

That's... A heavy question. Why are they asking?

[deceitanon]

“… that’s a loaded question, it’s really depends on how you die”

“Why.. do you ask?”

{Remy frowns with worry}

“I promise you, it ain’t fun..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"I..."

They lean against the wall and pick at their gloves now.

"I don't know if I died... I"

They slowly slide down the wall to sit on the floor.

"I wasn't this... What was I?"

They're really wracking their mind now.

"I remember feeling tired... Then cool grass and dirt before falling asleep."

...

"Then an endless void. Thought it was a dream... There was a box. Nothing else... So I... Walked over to it."

They take their glove off and stare at all the writhing larva.

"I opened it... They spilled out, couldn't even guess how many..."

...

"Body was gone... Then I was this."

"It hurt... I was scared. I struggle to even remember feelings now."

[deceitanon]

“…”

{Remy frowns as he listens while nodding along}

{Remy slowly gets up and sits next to them}

“You aren’t alone anymore.. I can’t- I don’t want to promise anything that I’m not confident in.. but I’ll try my best to help you.. I know what it’s like.. losing your body.. being thrown into the void”

{Remy lets his hand hover over their arm, offering a warm touch}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at his hand and slowly takes it after putting their glove back on. They try to stop the sickening sensation, but it seems to be easier now.

"..."

They stay silent for a while longer.

"I don't... Mind what I am now. I think I was human... I can feel things coming back to me too. I don't think I was from your dimension or time period..."

...

"Is it weird... That I like being this?"

They don't like how unsettling they always are, but they still like what they are.

"I just... I just don't want to be alone anymore."

[deceitanon]

“If you liked being like this then I won’t stop you, you aren’t alone anymore. Okay? Not if I can help it”

{Remy smiles as he holds their hand}

“How do we get you over to my side?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null slowly nods and stares at Remy for a moment again.

"... Hard to explain... But it's not difficult for me."

They've just always been too scared to leave, being able to isn't a problem.

In another disorientating, nauseating blink they're back in the bar. It doesn't seem as bad with Null active in the process.

Though as Null teleports them back there's a dull wet popping sound of several of the larva in their body. Some black goo drips from them, but is quick to disappear.

They stumble a little and sit on the ground as their tv head glitches for a moment. It seems similar to a headache for them.

"... Hngg just a moment..."

----

Eddie startles when they are suddenly back and stares at them, more so towards Null. He gets a heavy uneasiness from them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy’s tails wagging quickly as he stands in front of Null and looks at Eddie, like a happy dog that just succeeded in a game of fetch}

“This is Null, he reminds me of Remus.. if that helps with the uneasiness..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie stares at Remy and then chuckles with a sign as he walks over.

He brings him into a hug.

"It does..."

He stares at Null behind Remy as they slowly stand back up.

"This era makes sense..." They mumble to themself as they look around and then at Eddie.

"... Ah, greetings... You must be Eddie?"

Their wording is similar to Logan's, but their voice has that static muffled through a tv feel... And the general uncanny nature of them.

"I am... It's nice to meet you, Null."

This is the second time Remy has mentioned Remus and how they're rather curious about him.

"It is nice to meet you as well..."

They also seem unsure what to do with themself in new area.

[deceitanon]

{Remys drapes himself behind Eddie’s back with a loving purr, nuzzling him}

“Welcome to our home! How are you feeling”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie purrs happily, nuzzling Remy back as he wraps a tail around his waist.

Null looks around before answering.

"I am..." They pause, unsure. "Fine I believe."

They walk closer to Eddie now, looking down at him. They are well over two feet taller than him.

"... Would you like to go upstairs? Everyone is typically up there."

He smiles softly, though still getting used to the uneasiness. He does pause and warn Virgil with a text, knowing he might not handle it well.

Null nods slowly and looks around more.

[deceitanon]

{Virgil gets the text and goes to his room, thanking Eddie}

——

{Upstairs, Logan is talking to Remus on the touch.. Patton is making lunch for everyone, Ethos is reading a book as best he can on the love seat}

{Logan pauses, invisible to Null}

“Eddie? Remy? Who is that?”

—

{Remus turns and perks up with a wicked smile}

“Well look at you! Tall and Mysterious~”

{Remus doesn’t seem to be effected but Null’s Unease presence}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Logan.

"This is Null... Oh-- They can't see you right now..."

--

Ella is sitting with Ethos if he doesn't mind right now.

--

Null stares at Remus and tilts their head slightly. They actually stay silent as they slowly walk over.

...

"Hello..." They almost seem to be analyzing Remus.

...

"You have a familiarity."

Concept of the liminal and uncanny... Concept of intrusive thoughts... Could be something with that, but Null doesn't seem to understand.

They just... Stare. Far more than they did with Remy earlier.

[deceitanon]

{Ethos didn’t mind, he also wasn’t surprised by the new person either, he’s been here since day one, he’s used to this}

——

{Remus stares back and giggles}

“Well I used to look slightly different and yknow been around”

“Oooo Maggots! I love the look”

“I’m Remus! Dark creativity, Intrusive Thoughts, Doctor- you.. look familiar too! But where do I know you from hmmm”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Ella looks over briefly, bur she rather relax with Ethos right now. She leans against him, purring contently.

----

"It is nice to meet you, Remus."

They pause again.

"I... Do not believe I was from this dimension or era... My space exists between all that, but I am never sure."

They move around the couch to sit next to him.

...

They just stare more. Then they offer their hand with no explantion.

Given Remus probably would take their hand without questioning...

He gets no nausea either. Something about who Null was before is what is familiar, hidden what they are now.

...

They were a scientist at the same lab-- They vanished around the same time Remus got the radiation poisoning. Null does not remember much though.

"..." They don't say anything, just analyzing what any of that means.

... If Remus may recall, they used to be called "Dr. Rhinestone." She was well known in her field back then.

[deceitanon]

{Remus stares}

{then blinks}

{stares}

“Dr…Rhinestone- no”

“That’s not possible- the lab was empty when-“

“What happened?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tilts their head and stares back in confusion. When the name Remus says actually registers their screen glitches again and they head a headache like pain.

Though they gather themself well enough.

"Apologies... Dr. Rhinestone?-- I--"

They stare at Remus more.

"... What happened?"

They don't know the answer themself.

"..."

They pick at their gloves again, seeming to be a stressed habit.

"... The lab-- Wait--" They look directly st Remus now, white eyes behind the screen more visible now.

"Dr. Eckhard."

They remember more.

"Shit." They don't like what they remember.

"Fuck. I--"

...

"I worked in a lab near yours. I was supposed to be monitoring the radiation--"

They messed that up. They know they did.

"I didn't-- I got it wrong-- I-I... What happened to me..."

They look at their hands again, their speech sounding more coherent in wording, more tone coming through.

"I just... I remember passing out. I felt dizzy, fell, and I hit my head... Hard... I felt so cold."

They swear they feel the pain again.

"Woke up in a field of grass... Just one peach tree. I was so tired... I felt like I shouldn't sleep, but I did... Then the void, the box-- the maggots."

They pick at their gloves more harshly. Did they pass out from radiation poisoning? How did they just vanish though?

[deceitanon]

{Remus takes a slow step back.. he tugs on his hair}

“Holy…holy shit”

{he stares and starts laughing.. his form glitches- as if almost returning back to how Remus was before.. maybe the death of Dr. Rhinestone is what made him go insane faster- the puzzle piece is bending again}

“It was my fault- you-“

{He starts crying while laughing}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null quickly gets up and shakes their head.

"No. No! I-I was supposed to be monitoring it! I... Fuck. I miscalculated things. If I just-- Fuck."

They are shown genuine visible stress by now. Their uneasiness affect gets stronger with this.

"God I was a fucking idiot!"

They remembered something again.

"Fuck. Why..."

"It was my fault!! Fuck-- Remus--"

They force themself to say the words stuck in their non existent throat.

"I fucked up because I was-- I-I was-- high... I was a fucking idiot!"

They grab the sides of their head, self loathing.

"What the fuck was wrong with me?!"

...

"I was a well regarded scientist, I had access to pretty much anything I wanted, and i fucking abused that?!"

They tear up too, that rot and iron leaking through the screen.

"If I wasn't busy getting high off my ass I would have realized things were going wrong!"

[deceitanon]

“I…I knew”

{Remus whispered}

“I knew about the radiation and still decided to take the risk to study it…”

“I’m so sorry this happened to you Dr. Rhinestone..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null falls back onto the couch to try and calm down.

"I knew the risk too... I was suppose to be helping minimize the risk, and be the first to know when it was becoming too high of a risk."

...

"Please don't be sorry... I probably would have been fired or worse even if I did live..."

They look back up at him after a moment.

"But... Still here now, y-yeah?... Suppose you still can't get r-rid of me that easily?"

They try to make a joke to lighten the mood, though their words are still choked.

"Don't beat yourself up about it... Would say I'm not the same person, and I think I gather why I wouldn't want to be now."

They offer their hand again.

"I don't hold anything against you..."

Though no mouth is there, Null does smile softly.

[deceitanon]

“Mghh”

{Remus laughs before nodding}

“I don’t hold anything against you either…”

——-

{Remy blinks slowly and stares at Eddie}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remus for a moment before pulling him into a hug if he lets them.

"... Thank you."

Their head feels all buzzy right now... They aren't sure why, but thinking of themself as human causes their entire body to ache. Like they aren't allowed to feel that.

"..."

"Please only call me Null as well..." Their human tone retreats a little now. Tone returning to more uncanny.

----

Eddie looks over at Remy as well. He seems very confused.

"I... Do not remember there being a Dr. Rhinestone...?"

Though with the nature of what Null is it may be impossible to see them in the past. Ethos wouldn't have detected any lies either.

Eddie does not know what Null is as of right now.

[deceitanon]

{Remus touches Null’s tv screen and smiles}

“Looks like we both were changed heavily after the accident..”

——

{Remy nods in agreement}

“I don’t remember if this is because of the time stuff we did either”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null's screen has a electrical buzzing feel to it despite no electricity actually existing in them.

"I suppose so, yes... I became the concept of the liminal and uncanny feeling. Does not make people particularly enjoy being around me."

The eyes behind their screen shift slightly to look at Remus past his hand.

"How were you changed?"

----

Eddie sighs and thinks for a moment. He catches what Null says about their concept--

"Ah, I uh I do not think it is..."

... Why does he say it like he knows something...?

"I was wondering when they would show up." He mumbles very quietly--

He implies he already knew about Null in a way?!

[deceitanon]

“I became intrusive thoughts , got a bad cancer, drank a experimental drug and now I have a Symbiot inside me-“

“I wasn’t all this sane, but thanks to everyone here I’m semi back to normal… now I’m growing plants thanks to the basement downstairs- I swear I feel like it’s alive sometimes”

——

{Remy blinks slowly}

“Huh?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null goes to respond, but pauses at the mention of the basement--

"... Alive... How?"

They ask as if they know something.

----

Eddie pauses briefly.

"I uh... You know how the basement is always shifting and responding to what living things need, but it isn't technically alive?"

He looks at Remy with a look of "please don't be mad"

... What did he do?

[deceitanon]

{Remy stares at Eddie}

“Babes….. what did you do?”

{he gives him a stern look but one that says he won’t be fully mad}

——

“I dunno.. it just responded to me in ways that I didn’t even know I needed.. it learned- I swore it was teasing and sarcastic to me at one point”

{Remus shrugs}

“Why?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Uhhh... That basement is technically part of Null's domain and I didn't remember how I did that until recently... I uh I still don't understand the technicality of how I did it."

...

"I may have stolen a part of their domain somehow--"

How the actual fuck does someone steal part of someone else's domain?!

----

Null pauses in thought...

"How the..."

They look at Eddie.

They stare.

"You... You stole part of my domain?!"

Eddie chuckles nervously and looks away.

"I was wondering what that went!! You ass!! I was working on that for so long!"

Oh dear--

They aren't properly angry, but they are upset.

[deceitanon]

“Whoa whoa- no need for name calling Null”

{Remy glares at Null as he steps in front of Eddie, the chill and soft look is gone once the room became tense}

“Eddie did you know that the domain belonged to someone?”

{he asked with patience}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null backs up at the look Remy gives and picks at their gloves again. Their screen is also dimmer.

"Apologies..."

Eddie speaks up after.

"I did not until it was there, and I didn't know how to return it... I also forgot all recollection of obtaining it briefly after."

He looks over at Null.

"I am sorry-- I-I didn't know what I was doing..."

There's silence for a while before Null speaks again, their voice quieter now.

"... It's okay-- I... Honestly that project was frustrating me a lot."

...

"Can I see it?"

They still don't step closer right now.

"... Maybe you had better luck getting it to work?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a deep breath and his glare drops, tension gone}

——

{Remus perks up}

“Wait! No you can go in there Eddie.. remember the mushrooms?!”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null relaxes after a moment as well.

"I am sorry for getting upset..."

They speak quietly still... If Remy looks at the floor below when Null was standing when they got upset; the carpet is warped now. The pattern on it looks unsettling yet eerily similar to how it was before.

They did mention they have a harder time controlling their abilities with emotions.

----

Eddie looks over at Remus.

"I... I do remember. They were triggered by an electrical shock though. They are dormant otherwise."

He tries to reassure Remus, also walking over to him.

"I'll be fine... I'll avoid that room too. Is that okay?"

Despite Eddie being certain about it being okay he would still listen to Remus if he said no.

[deceitanon]

{Remy nods and offers to hug Null as an apology for snapping and a forgiveness gesture}

——

“I.. okay, I will make sure the room will close the area off before you get in there”

{Remus said before taking a deep breath- Eddie hasn’t seen him worried about others so openly before.. only frustrated at the person}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks up for a moment before accepting the hug.

"I do understand your reaction... I apologize as well."

They do seem lost in thought for a moment.

...

"... I do not think I have expressed emotions that blatantly in a long time."

They are a little unsure on how to handle them, but also unsure what to do when emotions not only cause issues with control, but also body aches. They don't mention the last part.

It's not just conflicting in letting themself express them, but also conflicting in getting their curse to let them.

--

Eddie looks up at Remus and gently takes his hands.

"It'll be okay... Thank you for being concerned, and I will leave if anything goes wrong, okay?"

He smiles softly and offers a hug. He does want to kiss him, but that's hard to gesture with the height difference--

[deceitanon]

“Oh? Are emotions hard to control sometimes? It’s okay if they are, we are kinda experts in that field”

{Remy chuckles}

——

{Remus pulls Eddie in to a hug, leaning down to kiss him if he wanted too}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null chuckles lightly and quietly.

"I seem to struggle feeling them, and controlling them when I do... I suppose I perhaps forgot my own curse after so long of being alone."

Null pulls away from the hug after a moment more.

"Are you planning to come to the basement with Eddie and I?"

Their tone is now neutral again, back to the uncanny feeling it was before the emotions talking to Remus and then the blow up.

----

Eddie smiles softly and pulls himself up a little to kiss Remus with a purr.

"I love you..."

He takes a deep breath and sighs contently.

"I would assume you're coming down to the basement too, spark?"

[deceitanon]

“I do, if you wish to have me?”

{Remy smiles}

“I’m far to interested in all of this to quit now”

——

“Duh! I’m not letting your wires get too curious. If you wanna get shocky. Shock me”

{Remus huffs}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly in response.

"I would like for you to come with, yes."

They look back over at Eddie and Remus.

--

Eddie chuckles slightly and rests his face into Remus's chest briefly.

"I'll take note of that, though I don't think Strife appreciates electricity... I'll be careful though, I promise."

After a moment he looks back over at Null and Remy.

"You two ready?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy nods with a smile}

“Ready as always babes~”

____

{Remus holds Eddie closely and lovingly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Remy as he leans into Remus for a moment.

"Sounds good, spark~"

He looks over at Null as well, who is fidgeting with their gloves slightly. They don't really remember much about their project... Just that they wanted something normal for once.

"Null? You coming?" They had zoned out briefly and didn't notice Eddie started leading them to the basement.

"Oh... Yes, I am coming."

Eddie stares for a moment before continuing down the basement. Null follows slowly and silently.

It's the same cozy house appearance as usually, but there's almost a sort of rumbling noise in the walls when Null enters; them being the last down the ladder.

[deceitanon]

{Remy walks next to Null for encouragement, he offers his hand for Null to hold}

——

{When they get into the basement, Remus does move faster, past Eddie to close the door that leads to the mushrooms, he huffs playfully}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remy's hand for a moment before taking it. They just stare for a moment before taking their focus back on the basement.

The basement does start to change a bit... Items start to have that uncanny feel they did in Null's space, as if Null's presence is messing up their own project... And Null does immediately notice.

They stay silent and begin to run one of their hands along the wall, doing... Something. They've seem to have made a decision with something.

----

Eddie chuckles a little, watching Remus run ahead.

He looks around, noticing the change in feeling too... He stays close to Remus right now.

[deceitanon]

“Are you alright?”

{Remy whispers softly to Null}

___

{Remus pulls Eddie in closer with a broken purr}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 142

As Remy teleports there's a flicker in everything around him, a feeling of being torn from the plane he was in, and suddenly he's in a... Space. It's hard to put into words what the fuck this is.

... It feels endless, uncanny, and yet familiar. There's items Remy may have felt were important from the distant past, or even the present. Items that feel important, and yet he's never seen. There's segments of these uneven and disorganized rooms that look like the bar, the loft, the cherry grove, the river, the void... There's hints, fragments, of everything Remy has ever seen. Everything feels... Wrong. Soso wrong.

They look like what Remy has seem, but they have an extreme feel of them still not being accurate. Like this space disorderly pulled memories from his mind and threw them around in a desperation to make it feel like home.

...

Lights flicker dully where there is no source, water trickles in the walls that aren't hollow...

Familiar sounds of people Remy knows are in the distant, with no obvious direction, but they have no realism to them. Parrots and echos of memories put into here wrong.

...

There is a sound that is real, but still uncanny. A voice. Humming. Their voice sounds like a person stuck behind a broken tv playing static, a crackling stinging hum with a broken melody.

[deceitanon]

“Hm…. honestly- ain’t the worst place I’ve been in”

{Remy picks up a ball and chucks it over to where he hears the humming}

“Eddie? Babes? Why’d you summon me here?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie is no where to be smelled even though a quiet hint of his voice echos from no where.

When Remy chucks the ball to the humming it suddenly stops. Deafening silence fills the space immediately.

...

"HelL-o?" The voice is broken, muffled and stuffed with static.

Slow someone peaks around the corner. A extremely tall lanky figure, only their head visible right now. A thin hand gloves in black velvet holds the wall near them.

Their head is a small black tv box, a very only one. It glows dully with flickers of visual static, and a subtle ringing of static piercings the air. Ever so slightly glowing white eyes that flicker like screen tearing are visible behind the screen. Those eyes are barely visible, yet so unsettling piercing.

... No heart beat. No warmth. No breathing. Not even any subtle electrical current of nerves, brain, or even a computer. Like they are nothing at all.

"..." The way they tilt their head in confusion feels so incredibly wrong.

[deceitanon]

“Hm? Hello- Have you seen a short but handsome man with wired hair? I seem to be lost, wouldn’t be the first”

{Remy says like meeting someone like him is normal}

“Where even am I? It’s creepy but cool as fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The figure stays silent for a while before fully rounding the corner.

They stand at 7'9. They are unnaturally slim, limbs just slightly long enough to be uncanny. The way their clothes lay so perfectly and beautifully feels unnatural. They wear a long black layered dress with ruffles, and black velvet gloves covering their whole arms. Black flats with white frilly socks. Adorned on top of their head is a veil made of smooth lightweight black feathers.

They stare for a while.

"... I h-Ave noT..."

"I don-T hAve a nAme fOr thIs place... JuSt minE."

They radiate unease and uncanny feelings. They mean no harm.

"Int-rEstIng... Ho-w A-rE you hEre?"

They speak as if it is supposed to be impossible. They step closer slowly as if uncertain Remy is more than a trick of this space.

[deceitanon]

“Damn you’re tall- hmmmm must have glitched out of reality or something!”

“Oh like the backrooom”

{He said with a snap}

“How are you even alive here?- you’re very uncanny- but that’s hot nowadays”

“I’m Remy, you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"..."

They seem flabbergasted, even with no face that feeling isn't seen but felt from them to Remy.

"nOt alivE..."

"I hAve no NamE..." They pause. "NulL." It's a word meaning nothing afterall.

"HavE n-ot been callEd 'hot' bEfoRe."

They step closer and hesitantly poke Remy from the top of his head. They small touch feel cold, a split second of nausea given too.

"... You arE reAl..." They seem even more confused.

"I s-uppose oUt of reAlity w-Ould be dEcent as a WorDing."

They sit on the ground, now eye level to Remy.

"glItch... WhEre and w-Hen are you fr-Om?... You mUst be retUrned." They say as if returning a book to a library, clearly not used to human contact.

[deceitanon]

{Remy blinks away the nausea and chuckles when he is poked}

“Ouch, it’s like you don’t even want me here! I’m hurt”

{he says with a hand on his chest}

“I mean I got nothing important to do, just came back from altering time itself so.. this is kinda nice”

{Remy doesn’t know why he’s spilling all of this}

“Null? That’s a sick name, why.. are you here though? You look alive to me”

{he says with certainty}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"i dO n-ot mInd cOmpan-y... N-o-one shOulD be here thOugH..."

They stare and tilt their head again. When they do some 'skin' on their neck is visible briefly. It looks less like skin and more like a void made of millions of writhing larva. Constantly moving in a sickly way.

"altEriNg tIme?.."

...

"hErE is Home... My spAce. ConCepT of the liminal... UnCannY ties in-tO it."

"alivE... N-oT alive, bUt stiLl con-scious."

They aren't certain what would count as alive in other senses. "AlivE indiCates being m-Ade of org-anIc matter." They are not.

[deceitanon]

“Then I must be not alive too. I’m a giant dead fox. And you are made out of larva- not gonna lie, that’s kinda icky”

“…:does it hurt?”

{Remy asks very quietly with a frown}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses and looks at themself for a moment. They pause for a moment longer, turning a few dials on their head. There's a sickening squelching and gargling noise as they do. Their voice now sounds smoother and consistent though, but still stuffed with static and muffled by the screen.

"Larva... I suppose it could be comparable to that? They're void maggots. They are unique to this place."

They carefully scoop out a small few of the void maggots. They wiggle around for a moment, small like usual maggots, and then Null puts them back.

"Hurt...?"

They pause at that as well.

"Yes... But not in your sense. I do not feel it that same way. It is a constant feeling, but I am not bothered by it."

...

"Giant dead fox? Could you say more?"

[deceitanon]

“Ah… well, as long as you don’t go talking to the others here”

{he said jokingly}

“Kitsune, my fox form died a long time ago- it gets really complicated… can I show you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The chuckle Null lets out sounds like breaking glass through tv static.

"I do believe there is no one else to tell... Unless you mean the illusions, but I believe they do not count."

They pauses and then nod.

"I would like to see if you wish to show."

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a step back and drops all of his illusions at once… and shows Null his true fox form.. it’s massive… and dead looking}

{armor on top of his dead fur, it looks like it’s been washed recently by Eddie despite it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares, and though no mouth exists, a smile is felt.

"You are beautiful... May I pet y--"

They cut themself off.

"I should not touch... It makes people ill."

They stare regardless. A yearning for touch is blatantly radiating of them now.

"I could show you how I shapeshift?... It is not pretty though."

They wish to show themself too.

[deceitanon]

{Remy judges their hand, their bone armor could protect him if they pet in the right places.. he is so… warm! Despite claiming to be a dead fox}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tenses briefly before noticing Remy is okay.

They run their hands along his bone armor, his head mostly.

"Warm..."

They move closer and lay their tv head onto his. The sound of tv static feels sharp, but not too overburdening.

"I do not wish to leave you now..." This is the first time they've been able to touch anyone, and one of the very few times they've even been around someone visually.

[deceitanon]

{Remy sniffs where he can hear the static, then pauses when he hears them say that}

{he slowly shifts back, but offers his hand for Null to fidget with}

“I.. will try my best to help you, you said I can return, but why haven’t you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at his hand... Hesitantly taking it. They focus on trying to stop the nausea from carrying over.

"..."

"I can return... I do not have much control over how I warp spaces. I do try to not use abilities when I am in the existing planes, but I am unpredictable. I carry unease everywhere I go, I cannot choose a form that is not uncanny, I cannot create spaces that are not uncanny... Emotions are not something I understand, but I do know they contribute to mistaken use of my abilities."

They stare at Remy's hand as they talk. Quiet sparking crying is heard, though it is only black blood that drips from under the screen of their head. Smelling strongly of rot and iron.

"I do not wish to cause trouble. So I do not leave often, and when I do I do not leave with my body... I simply look, and memorize..."

This space is built by disorganized memories.

[deceitanon]

“We have a lot of people like you back at my home, Emotions, Weird lookin’ we even have someone that is the literal meaning of intrusive thoughts”

{Remy Chuckles, before pauses, he tries to summon a cloth, but his whole body glitches- and he falls forward against them, but he gets the cloth

“Imma… just ignore what happened to me for now”

{Remy murmurs to himself before gently cleaning off the rot and iron liquid}



[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null reaches out to catch Remy.

"Be careful in here. Your abilities will not work easily. I do not wish for you to harm yourself."

It leans into Remy wiping off the liquid.

"... Could I go home with you?"

They ask as if they are a stray cat giving boba eyes. Uncanny never leaves anything they do, as if it is a deep rooted curse in their very being.

[deceitanon]

“Of course you can!- wait… I should probably ask Eddie.. I’ve been bring so many people home.. it wouldn’t be okay if I just kept on doing it”

“Is… there a way I can speak to him? Or will I have to leave you first?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Oh-- You cannot leave with my help... And you will not be able to get back most likely."

They pauses to think, and then summon a black rotary phone with blood red rubies chaotically placed.

"Do you come from a time with phones?... This should work if so."

They talk as if they can travel between not just space, but time as well.

[deceitanon]

“Hmmm I- would call him but- I don’t really use a phone- he just kinda talks to me in my head”

“I promise it’s not as crazy as it seems”

“Oh! And I can totally come back, I’ll just recreate what I did, easy peasy”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at the phone and back at Remy.

They speak after a while of silence.

"Okay..."

They don't believe Remy will be able to come back, but they don't argue regardless. Remy has to go back either way.

"I will see you when you return." They say with hidden disbelief.

They don't wait for a response before they poke Remy's chest and in a sickening disorientating blink he's back in the bar.

[deceitanon]

{Remy groans and leans up against the bar}

{he blinks slowly, he feels like he needs to puke}

“Fuckkkk- Eddddiiieeeee”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie quickly appears next to Remy.

"Where-- What happened???" He sounds confused and concerned. "I lost all sense of you for a few minutes."

'Fee minutes' it felt like almost an hour passed down there... How does time work in that space?

"Are you okay??" He brings a trashcan over incase Remy does puke.

[deceitanon]

{Remy does end up puking}

“Got stuck in a weird space when I teleported….. few mins? It felt like I was there for hours”

“No… that’s not what I need to focus on.. there is someone trapped.. they are… uncanny more so than Remus but.. they wish to have a home”

{Remy gave Eddie puppy eyes}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie gently rubs Remy's back for a moment.

"What do you mean 'weird space??'"

He seems utterly confused.

"I--"

He looks at Remy's eyes and sighs after a moment with a lighthearted eye roll.

"Okay... Fine... I'm lucky Starie can create so much space where there shouldn't even be room, you know?"

With the amount of people here, it'd be impossible without Starie's stable space warping.

[deceitanon]

“Don’t worry~ they realllly tall which I know you love”

{Remy nuzzles up against Eddie with a happy purr}

“I… hope I can actually get back there”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie looks away with an embarrassed flush at Remy's comment.

"Oh, fuck off..." He playfully scoffs out without any actually annoyance. He clears his throat after a moment before replying, and nuzzling Remy back.

"Is there a chance you can't?"

He seems confused at that.

[deceitanon]

“Maybe… I just- need to make myself glitch while teleporting..”

“It… hurts to do it but I’ll only need to do it once.. so it won’t be that bad right?”

{Remy murmurs to himself}

{Remy kisses Eddie’s cheek before taking a deep breath, glitching and teleporting at the same time- and he lands back into the space.. but is on his hands and knees groaning, and coughing up more bile}

“Fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie tenses when Remy is gone again, he hates that he can't even senses Remy's existence right now... He paces while he waits.

----

Null startles and squeaks out shrieking static when they see Remy again.

"Remy...?"

They walk over and stare at him and the bile.

"How-- Are you okay?..."

Though Remy was gone for roughly five minutes, it's only been fifteen in here despite a few minutes being hours last time.

[deceitanon]

{Remy curls up and gives him a weak wait gesture… his body glitching again}

“Hurts…”

{His ears folded down- he hates when he glitches..}

“Don’t.. look”

{he hates making new people see him like this- 1) he likes to maintain the cool image he has.. and 2) because it makes him wish Eddie was here to comfort him}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses before nodding and turning around.

They sit nearby with their back to Remy.

"I am sorry that I cannot help... I am not a healing type... Do let me know if you cannot settle your body though, I can understand the glitching. It is one reason I do not leave with my body anymore... It tends to cause some of the void maggots to burst."

That... Sounds incredibly painful for someone who is made of them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tries to get up then lays back down immediately}

“Tel… tell me more… void maggots.. what do they do?”

“I… can control the void.. it’s how I can manipulate dreams”

{Remy murmurs weakly as he just lets his back lax.. he wishes just to listen}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Void maggots are specific to the place as I said... They grow in the walls, squirm their way in the ground, and come to me... I believe I am more of an entity made by this place."

They sound uncertain on what they are.

"They allow me to shapeshift, as they have no solid form either... I am unsure if they would be the same as the void you describe, but you can try manipulating them if you wish to test that? I do not mind."

Null is suggesting Remy manipulate their body itself.

"They have no thought, or organic life... They just exist. Like me... I do believe they are an essence of this place? That may be the best wording I have."

[deceitanon]

{Remy has gone silent}

{He has fallen asleep, he looks so.. human and warm}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turns around when he's silent for too long.

They stare for a while... Look around... They stand up slowly, and with focus to not make Remy ill, they pick him up.

They wander further into the space until it shifts out of Remy's memories and into a space Null made themself.

It's made to be a cottage, but it feels like an uncanny mimic of one, even more so than Remy's memories.

They place him on a bed, pulling a blanket over him, and then move to make coffee... They get a feeling he likes coffee. The bed feels oddly comfortable compared to the rest of this place.

The bedroom isn't all too separate from the living room, which is decently open to the kitchen and the front door. There are windows, but they're just a white light with no details.

[deceitanon]

{After sometime, Remy groans and hugs the blanket closer}

“Eddie?”

{he said sleepy, nuzzling into the blanket before opening his eyes… and sees the uncanny house}

“Where.. am I?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null hears him wake up, and slowly walks over to the bedroom. Floorboards creak under their silent feet.

They look around the corner... Looking around corners before walking past them seems like a habit of theirs.

"Are you okay now, Remy?"

They slowly walk closer, they also tend to walk slowly.

They carry a mug of coffee, setting it on the warped nightstand.

"I made coffee."

[deceitanon]

“Fuck yes… I love coffee.. and yes I’m feeling better.. sorry about passing out on you”

“You were talking about the void things?”

{Remy mutters as he sits up and grabs the coffee to drink it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"You are alright."

The coffee is almost right. Almost how Remy likes it. It's off still. Anything Null makes seems to be off.

"I was..."

They watch Remy drink the coffee for a moment, also staring at the bed... They don't say what they want, and it is difficult to tell without a face to show it.

"The void maggots are more of an essence of this space... I believe..."

They think for a moment.

"You mentioned dreamscapes being voids. I believe the void maggots grow up into them. Though they form in here, and make me, I would guess they grow up into something?"

They are larva after all.

"Perhaps that is what they grow into?"

There was a vague familiarity to the maggots, but it was hard to place, easy to dismiss as the space.

[deceitanon]

“You think I can control them? What do you think I can do with them?”

{Remy purrs at the taste of his coffee, his tails wag slowly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently watches Remy's tails wag for a moment.

...

"I believe you could, yes... I am unsure what you could do with them though."

They think for a moment, still staring at Remy. The longer they stare the more unsettling it feels...

"Maybe you could have control over what they form into?... I do not always understand where I learn what I do, but I suppose that is part of who I am... I believe they form dreamscapes, but also mindscapes and pocket dimensions."

"If they have multiple paths, maybe there could be more with artificial influence?"

They scoop out of maggots from their neck again and offer them to Remy. They writhe and squirm in their palm.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tilts his head and looks at the maggots, he shudders but takes a deep breath, he hover his hands over the maggots and tries to alter them in anyway he can}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

As he hovers his hand over the maggots he can feel they have a different type of energy. It's more like a potential energy, that would be gone the moment it's used?

As Remy tries to manipulate the maggots they writhe more, then start to bubble, and then they melt into a black goo... Then, suddenly, Remy can feel a new pocket dimension as the maggot goo disappears. It feels different from ones he may have created before.

He can feel that it was made, and that it belongs to him in a way, but it took little no of his energy to do so.

[deceitanon]

“Huh- gross but that took like no energy.. the maggots feel like that have some kind of energy probably stored inside them- UGH where is Logan when I need him”

{Remy groans- he’s not a scientist or a doctor like him}

“I have no idea what this could mean.. hmmm”

“When I altered the lil guys.. they disappeared but I felt a pocket dimension open up, a new one- how is that even possible.. it wasn’t a lot of em”

“Can you tell me more about yourself Null? How’d you get here? How are you made up of these Void Bugs”

{he wants to stop calling them maggots.. it feels rude because Null is made out of these lil buggers}

___

{While Null is explaining, Remy does try to write a note and glitchport (teleport and glitch) the note to Eddie, to tell him he is okay}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Each one of them grows up into a space like that, so you really only need one. Using more strengthens it, and makes it bigger I would guess."

They fall silent for several minutes at being asked about themself.

...

"I... Do not know how I got here. I just remember nothing... And then I was here... Or--"

Their screen glitches violently for a minute before they talk again.

"As for being made of the bugs--" They talk as if that glitching never happened. "I believe I made out of them as... As..."

They fall silent again.

"I don't think about what I am."

They don't know. They don't like that they don't know.

They can't remember how they got here...

"I like creating things... They always come out warped though."

They summon a fox plush, and while it looks like a fox it is unsettling not a fox at the same time.

----

The note ends up slightly clipped into the bar counter near Eddie. It's enough to read at least, but part of the note is in the counter.

"... Okay..." He sighs in shaky relief.

[deceitanon]

“Hmm.. so-“

{Remy pauses when he watches their screen glitch, he frowns in worry, everything about this place looks and feels fine- but it’s more like an uncanny feeling, he looks at the fox with a head tilt}

{Plus the whole time weirdness is throwing him off as well}

{he rubs his head as he thinks}

“I don’t know what to make of you babes, and I’d like to try and understand as much as I can before I introduce you to a whole new realm- or space.. don’t get me wrong- I’ve dealt with crazy stuff so this is just precarious, because who knows what could happen-“

“But- you don’t like these questions so.. maybe you can ask me somethings? And we can bounce off each others questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly, and stares at the bed for a bit again. They've kind of just been standing there, as if unsure what to do with themself.

"... What does it feel like to breathe?... Or... Just... How does your body feel to you?"

Odd first question...

[deceitanon]

“I.. hm I may not feel like the best example because it’s different with everyone.. but my body feels hot, it might seem warm and nice, but I do love the cold weather to help balance myself out, I get a lot of headaches due to my connections back in my world, but honestly it’s something I’m just used to so I’ve learned how to cope healthily..”

“Breathing feels awesome.. definitely something everyone takes for granted”

“Can I ask you the same questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently listens and processes what Remy said.

...

"I... Do not breathe. I always feel cold, I think numb is the other word... I like that you felt warm, I don't feel that often."

They fall silent again before there's a smaller and calmer glitch on their screen.

"... Breathing... I miss that. I took it for granted too it seems."

They remember breathing... There had to be something before they became this then, right?

"..." They pause, asking their next question quietly. "What does fear feel like?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy perks up, they remember something! Seems like this is going somewhere}

“Fear… is the worst thing to feel.. your body your mind all send these signals that you will die, get hurt.. and you can’t do anything about it”

{Remy looks away for a moment} “though there is a scale to how much a person can feel fear.. like it can be something small like a spider and they just avoid spiders.. or it can be a big fear like.. water itself- or loud sounds where it can affect your day to day life”

“… What can you feel?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly and thinks again.

...

"I don't feel... Things in a way I can place."

"Fear... I--"

They look at their hand and fall silent again.

"I do remember fear though... Fear and... And... Pain."

"Most feelings are dull... Now..."

They fidget with their gloves.

...

"... What does it feel like to die?"

That's... A heavy question. Why are they asking?

[deceitanon]

“… that’s a loaded question, it’s really depends on how you die”

“Why.. do you ask?”

{Remy frowns with worry}

“I promise you, it ain’t fun..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"I..."

They lean against the wall and pick at their gloves now.

"I don't know if I died... I"

They slowly slide down the wall to sit on the floor.

"I wasn't this... What was I?"

They're really wracking their mind now.

"I remember feeling tired... Then cool grass and dirt before falling asleep."

...

"Then an endless void. Thought it was a dream... There was a box. Nothing else... So I... Walked over to it."

They take their glove off and stare at all the writhing larva.

"I opened it... They spilled out, couldn't even guess how many..."

...

"Body was gone... Then I was this."

"It hurt... I was scared. I struggle to even remember feelings now."

[deceitanon]

“…”

{Remy frowns as he listens while nodding along}

{Remy slowly gets up and sits next to them}

“You aren’t alone anymore.. I can’t- I don’t want to promise anything that I’m not confident in.. but I’ll try my best to help you.. I know what it’s like.. losing your body.. being thrown into the void”

{Remy lets his hand hover over their arm, offering a warm touch}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at his hand and slowly takes it after putting their glove back on. They try to stop the sickening sensation, but it seems to be easier now.

"..."

They stay silent for a while longer.

"I don't... Mind what I am now. I think I was human... I can feel things coming back to me too. I don't think I was from your dimension or time period..."

...

"Is it weird... That I like being this?"

They don't like how unsettling they always are, but they still like what they are.

"I just... I just don't want to be alone anymore."

[deceitanon]

“If you liked being like this then I won’t stop you, you aren’t alone anymore. Okay? Not if I can help it”

{Remy smiles as he holds their hand}

“How do we get you over to my side?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null slowly nods and stares at Remy for a moment again.

"... Hard to explain... But it's not difficult for me."

They've just always been too scared to leave, being able to isn't a problem.

In another disorientating, nauseating blink they're back in the bar. It doesn't seem as bad with Null active in the process.

Though as Null teleports them back there's a dull wet popping sound of several of the larva in their body. Some black goo drips from them, but is quick to disappear.

They stumble a little and sit on the ground as their tv head glitches for a moment. It seems similar to a headache for them.

"... Hngg just a moment..."

----

Eddie startles when they are suddenly back and stares at them, more so towards Null. He gets a heavy uneasiness from them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy’s tails wagging quickly as he stands in front of Null and looks at Eddie, like a happy dog that just succeeded in a game of fetch}

“This is Null, he reminds me of Remus.. if that helps with the uneasiness..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie stares at Remy and then chuckles with a sign as he walks over.

He brings him into a hug.

"It does..."

He stares at Null behind Remy as they slowly stand back up.

"This era makes sense..." They mumble to themself as they look around and then at Eddie.

"... Ah, greetings... You must be Eddie?"

Their wording is similar to Logan's, but their voice has that static muffled through a tv feel... And the general uncanny nature of them.

"I am... It's nice to meet you, Null."

This is the second time Remy has mentioned Remus and how they're rather curious about him.

"It is nice to meet you as well..."

They also seem unsure what to do with themself in new area.

[deceitanon]

{Remys drapes himself behind Eddie’s back with a loving purr, nuzzling him}

“Welcome to our home! How are you feeling”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie purrs happily, nuzzling Remy back as he wraps a tail around his waist.

Null looks around before answering.

"I am..." They pause, unsure. "Fine I believe."

They walk closer to Eddie now, looking down at him. They are well over two feet taller than him.

"... Would you like to go upstairs? Everyone is typically up there."

He smiles softly, though still getting used to the uneasiness. He does pause and warn Virgil with a text, knowing he might not handle it well.

Null nods slowly and looks around more.

[deceitanon]

{Virgil gets the text and goes to his room, thanking Eddie}

——

{Upstairs, Logan is talking to Remus on the touch.. Patton is making lunch for everyone, Ethos is reading a book as best he can on the love seat}

{Logan pauses, invisible to Null}

“Eddie? Remy? Who is that?”

—

{Remus turns and perks up with a wicked smile}

“Well look at you! Tall and Mysterious~”

{Remus doesn’t seem to be effected but Null’s Unease presence}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Logan.

"This is Null... Oh-- They can't see you right now..."

--

Ella is sitting with Ethos if he doesn't mind right now.

--

Null stares at Remus and tilts their head slightly. They actually stay silent as they slowly walk over.

...

"Hello..." They almost seem to be analyzing Remus.

...

"You have a familiarity."

Concept of the liminal and uncanny... Concept of intrusive thoughts... Could be something with that, but Null doesn't seem to understand.

They just... Stare. Far more than they did with Remy earlier.

[deceitanon]

{Ethos didn’t mind, he also wasn’t surprised by the new person either, he’s been here since day one, he’s used to this}

——

{Remus stares back and giggles}

“Well I used to look slightly different and yknow been around”

“Oooo Maggots! I love the look”

“I’m Remus! Dark creativity, Intrusive Thoughts, Doctor- you.. look familiar too! But where do I know you from hmmm”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Ella looks over briefly, bur she rather relax with Ethos right now. She leans against him, purring contently.

----

"It is nice to meet you, Remus."

They pause again.

"I... Do not believe I was from this dimension or era... My space exists between all that, but I am never sure."

They move around the couch to sit next to him.

...

They just stare more. Then they offer their hand with no explantion.

Given Remus probably would take their hand without questioning...

He gets no nausea either. Something about who Null was before is what is familiar, hidden what they are now.

...

They were a scientist at the same lab-- They vanished around the same time Remus got the radiation poisoning. Null does not remember much though.

"..." They don't say anything, just analyzing what any of that means.

... If Remus may recall, they used to be called "Dr. Rhinestone." She was well known in her field back then.

[deceitanon]

{Remus stares}

{then blinks}

{stares}

“Dr…Rhinestone- no”

“That’s not possible- the lab was empty when-“

“What happened?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tilts their head and stares back in confusion. When the name Remus says actually registers their screen glitches again and they head a headache like pain.

Though they gather themself well enough.

"Apologies... Dr. Rhinestone?-- I--"

They stare at Remus more.

"... What happened?"

They don't know the answer themself.

"..."

They pick at their gloves again, seeming to be a stressed habit.

"... The lab-- Wait--" They look directly st Remus now, white eyes behind the screen more visible now.

"Dr. Eckhard."

They remember more.

"Shit." They don't like what they remember.

"Fuck. I--"

...

"I worked in a lab near yours. I was supposed to be monitoring the radiation--"

They messed that up. They know they did.

"I didn't-- I got it wrong-- I-I... What happened to me..."

They look at their hands again, their speech sounding more coherent in wording, more tone coming through.

"I just... I remember passing out. I felt dizzy, fell, and I hit my head... Hard... I felt so cold."

They swear they feel the pain again.

"Woke up in a field of grass... Just one peach tree. I was so tired... I felt like I shouldn't sleep, but I did... Then the void, the box-- the maggots."

They pick at their gloves more harshly. Did they pass out from radiation poisoning? How did they just vanish though?

[deceitanon]

{Remus takes a slow step back.. he tugs on his hair}

“Holy…holy shit”

{he stares and starts laughing.. his form glitches- as if almost returning back to how Remus was before.. maybe the death of Dr. Rhinestone is what made him go insane faster- the puzzle piece is bending again}

“It was my fault- you-“

{He starts crying while laughing}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null quickly gets up and shakes their head.

"No. No! I-I was supposed to be monitoring it! I... Fuck. I miscalculated things. If I just-- Fuck."

They are shown genuine visible stress by now. Their uneasiness affect gets stronger with this.

"God I was a fucking idiot!"

They remembered something again.

"Fuck. Why..."

"It was my fault!! Fuck-- Remus--"

They force themself to say the words stuck in their non existent throat.

"I fucked up because I was-- I-I was-- high... I was a fucking idiot!"

They grab the sides of their head, self loathing.

"What the fuck was wrong with me?!"

...

"I was a well regarded scientist, I had access to pretty much anything I wanted, and i fucking abused that?!"

They tear up too, that rot and iron leaking through the screen.

"If I wasn't busy getting high off my ass I would have realized things were going wrong!"

[deceitanon]

“I…I knew”

{Remus whispered}

“I knew about the radiation and still decided to take the risk to study it…”

“I’m so sorry this happened to you Dr. Rhinestone..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null falls back onto the couch to try and calm down.

"I knew the risk too... I was suppose to be helping minimize the risk, and be the first to know when it was becoming too high of a risk."

...

"Please don't be sorry... I probably would have been fired or worse even if I did live..."

They look back up at him after a moment.

"But... Still here now, y-yeah?... Suppose you still can't get r-rid of me that easily?"

They try to make a joke to lighten the mood, though their words are still choked.

"Don't beat yourself up about it... Would say I'm not the same person, and I think I gather why I wouldn't want to be now."

They offer their hand again.

"I don't hold anything against you..."

Though no mouth is there, Null does smile softly.

[deceitanon]

“Mghh”

{Remus laughs before nodding}

“I don’t hold anything against you either…”

——-

{Remy blinks slowly and stares at Eddie}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remus for a moment before pulling him into a hug if he lets them.

"... Thank you."

Their head feels all buzzy right now... They aren't sure why, but thinking of themself as human causes their entire body to ache. Like they aren't allowed to feel that.

"..."

"Please only call me Null as well..." Their human tone retreats a little now. Tone returning to more uncanny.

----

Eddie looks over at Remy as well. He seems very confused.

"I... Do not remember there being a Dr. Rhinestone...?"

Though with the nature of what Null is it may be impossible to see them in the past. Ethos wouldn't have detected any lies either.

Eddie does not know what Null is as of right now.

[deceitanon]

{Remus touches Null’s tv screen and smiles}

“Looks like we both were changed heavily after the accident..”

——

{Remy nods in agreement}

“I don’t remember if this is because of the time stuff we did either”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null's screen has a electrical buzzing feel to it despite no electricity actually existing in them.

"I suppose so, yes... I became the concept of the liminal and uncanny feeling. Does not make people particularly enjoy being around me."

The eyes behind their screen shift slightly to look at Remus past his hand.

"How were you changed?"

----

Eddie sighs and thinks for a moment. He catches what Null says about their concept--

"Ah, I uh I do not think it is..."

... Why does he say it like he knows something...?

"I was wondering when they would show up." He mumbles very quietly--

He implies he already knew about Null in a way?!

[deceitanon]

“I became intrusive thoughts , got a bad cancer, drank a experimental drug and now I have a Symbiot inside me-“

“I wasn’t all this sane, but thanks to everyone here I’m semi back to normal… now I’m growing plants thanks to the basement downstairs- I swear I feel like it’s alive sometimes”

——

{Remy blinks slowly}

“Huh?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null goes to respond, but pauses at the mention of the basement--

"... Alive... How?"

They ask as if they know something.

----

Eddie pauses briefly.

"I uh... You know how the basement is always shifting and responding to what living things need, but it isn't technically alive?"

He looks at Remy with a look of "please don't be mad"

... What did he do?

[deceitanon]

{Remy stares at Eddie}

“Babes….. what did you do?”

{he gives him a stern look but one that says he won’t be fully mad}

——

“I dunno.. it just responded to me in ways that I didn’t even know I needed.. it learned- I swore it was teasing and sarcastic to me at one point”

{Remus shrugs}

“Why?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Uhhh... That basement is technically part of Null's domain and I didn't remember how I did that until recently... I uh I still don't understand the technicality of how I did it."

...

"I may have stolen a part of their domain somehow--"

How the actual fuck does someone steal part of someone else's domain?!

----

Null pauses in thought...

"How the..."

They look at Eddie.

They stare.

"You... You stole part of my domain?!"

Eddie chuckles nervously and looks away.

"I was wondering what that went!! You ass!! I was working on that for so long!"

Oh dear--

They aren't properly angry, but they are upset.

[deceitanon]

“Whoa whoa- no need for name calling Null”

{Remy glares at Null as he steps in front of Eddie, the chill and soft look is gone once the room became tense}

“Eddie did you know that the domain belonged to someone?”

{he asked with patience}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null backs up at the look Remy gives and picks at their gloves again. Their screen is also dimmer.

"Apologies..."

Eddie speaks up after.

"I did not until it was there, and I didn't know how to return it... I also forgot all recollection of obtaining it briefly after."

He looks over at Null.

"I am sorry-- I-I didn't know what I was doing..."

There's silence for a while before Null speaks again, their voice quieter now.

"... It's okay-- I... Honestly that project was frustrating me a lot."

...

"Can I see it?"

They still don't step closer right now.

"... Maybe you had better luck getting it to work?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a deep breath and his glare drops, tension gone}

——

{Remus perks up}

“Wait! No you can go in there Eddie.. remember the mushrooms?!”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null relaxes after a moment as well.

"I am sorry for getting upset..."

They speak quietly still... If Remy looks at the floor below when Null was standing when they got upset; the carpet is warped now. The pattern on it looks unsettling yet eerily similar to how it was before.

They did mention they have a harder time controlling their abilities with emotions.

----

Eddie looks over at Remus.

"I... I do remember. They were triggered by an electrical shock though. They are dormant otherwise."

He tries to reassure Remus, also walking over to him.

"I'll be fine... I'll avoid that room too. Is that okay?"

Despite Eddie being certain about it being okay he would still listen to Remus if he said no.

[deceitanon]

{Remy nods and offers to hug Null as an apology for snapping and a forgiveness gesture}

——

“I.. okay, I will make sure the room will close the area off before you get in there”

{Remus said before taking a deep breath- Eddie hasn’t seen him worried about others so openly before.. only frustrated at the person}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks up for a moment before accepting the hug.

"I do understand your reaction... I apologize as well."

They do seem lost in thought for a moment.

...

"... I do not think I have expressed emotions that blatantly in a long time."

They are a little unsure on how to handle them, but also unsure what to do when emotions not only cause issues with control, but also body aches. They don't mention the last part.

It's not just conflicting in letting themself express them, but also conflicting in getting their curse to let them.

--

Eddie looks up at Remus and gently takes his hands.

"It'll be okay... Thank you for being concerned, and I will leave if anything goes wrong, okay?"

He smiles softly and offers a hug. He does want to kiss him, but that's hard to gesture with the height difference--

[deceitanon]

“Oh? Are emotions hard to control sometimes? It’s okay if they are, we are kinda experts in that field”

{Remy chuckles}

——

{Remus pulls Eddie in to a hug, leaning down to kiss him if he wanted too}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null chuckles lightly and quietly.

"I seem to struggle feeling them, and controlling them when I do... I suppose I perhaps forgot my own curse after so long of being alone."

Null pulls away from the hug after a moment more.

"Are you planning to come to the basement with Eddie and I?"

Their tone is now neutral again, back to the uncanny feeling it was before the emotions talking to Remus and then the blow up.

----

Eddie smiles softly and pulls himself up a little to kiss Remus with a purr.

"I love you..."

He takes a deep breath and sighs contently.

"I would assume you're coming down to the basement too, spark?"

[deceitanon]

“I do, if you wish to have me?”

{Remy smiles}

“I’m far to interested in all of this to quit now”

——

“Duh! I’m not letting your wires get too curious. If you wanna get shocky. Shock me”

{Remus huffs}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly in response.

"I would like for you to come with, yes."

They look back over at Eddie and Remus.

--

Eddie chuckles slightly and rests his face into Remus's chest briefly.

"I'll take note of that, though I don't think Strife appreciates electricity... I'll be careful though, I promise."

After a moment he looks back over at Null and Remy.

"You two ready?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy nods with a smile}

“Ready as always babes~”

____

{Remus holds Eddie closely and lovingly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Remy as he leans into Remus for a moment.

"Sounds good, spark~"

He looks over at Null as well, who is fidgeting with their gloves slightly. They don't really remember much about their project... Just that they wanted something normal for once.

"Null? You coming?" They had zoned out briefly and didn't notice Eddie started leading them to the basement.

"Oh... Yes, I am coming."

Eddie stares for a moment before continuing down the basement. Null follows slowly and silently.

It's the same cozy house appearance as usually, but there's almost a sort of rumbling noise in the walls when Null enters; them being the last down the ladder.

[deceitanon]

{Remy walks next to Null for encouragement, he offers his hand for Null to hold}

——

{When they get into the basement, Remus does move faster, past Eddie to close the door that leads to the mushrooms, he huffs playfully}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 142

As Remy teleports there's a flicker in everything around him, a feeling of being torn from the plane he was in, and suddenly he's in a... Space. It's hard to put into words what the fuck this is.

... It feels endless, uncanny, and yet familiar. There's items Remy may have felt were important from the distant past, or even the present. Items that feel important, and yet he's never seen. There's segments of these uneven and disorganized rooms that look like the bar, the loft, the cherry grove, the river, the void... There's hints, fragments, of everything Remy has ever seen. Everything feels... Wrong. Soso wrong.

They look like what Remy has seem, but they have an extreme feel of them still not being accurate. Like this space disorderly pulled memories from his mind and threw them around in a desperation to make it feel like home.

...

Lights flicker dully where there is no source, water trickles in the walls that aren't hollow...

Familiar sounds of people Remy knows are in the distant, with no obvious direction, but they have no realism to them. Parrots and echos of memories put into here wrong.

...

There is a sound that is real, but still uncanny. A voice. Humming. Their voice sounds like a person stuck behind a broken tv playing static, a crackling stinging hum with a broken melody.

[deceitanon]

“Hm…. honestly- ain’t the worst place I’ve been in”

{Remy picks up a ball and chucks it over to where he hears the humming}

“Eddie? Babes? Why’d you summon me here?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie is no where to be smelled even though a quiet hint of his voice echos from no where.

When Remy chucks the ball to the humming it suddenly stops. Deafening silence fills the space immediately.

...

"HelL-o?" The voice is broken, muffled and stuffed with static.

Slow someone peaks around the corner. A extremely tall lanky figure, only their head visible right now. A thin hand gloves in black velvet holds the wall near them.

Their head is a small black tv box, a very only one. It glows dully with flickers of visual static, and a subtle ringing of static piercings the air. Ever so slightly glowing white eyes that flicker like screen tearing are visible behind the screen. Those eyes are barely visible, yet so unsettling piercing.

... No heart beat. No warmth. No breathing. Not even any subtle electrical current of nerves, brain, or even a computer. Like they are nothing at all.

"..." The way they tilt their head in confusion feels so incredibly wrong.

[deceitanon]

“Hm? Hello- Have you seen a short but handsome man with wired hair? I seem to be lost, wouldn’t be the first”

{Remy says like meeting someone like him is normal}

“Where even am I? It’s creepy but cool as fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The figure stays silent for a while before fully rounding the corner.

They stand at 7'9. They are unnaturally slim, limbs just slightly long enough to be uncanny. The way their clothes lay so perfectly and beautifully feels unnatural. They wear a long black layered dress with ruffles, and black velvet gloves covering their whole arms. Black flats with white frilly socks. Adorned on top of their head is a veil made of smooth lightweight black feathers.

They stare for a while.

"... I h-Ave noT..."

"I don-T hAve a nAme fOr thIs place... JuSt minE."

They radiate unease and uncanny feelings. They mean no harm.

"Int-rEstIng... Ho-w A-rE you hEre?"

They speak as if it is supposed to be impossible. They step closer slowly as if uncertain Remy is more than a trick of this space.

[deceitanon]

“Damn you’re tall- hmmmm must have glitched out of reality or something!”

“Oh like the backrooom”

{He said with a snap}

“How are you even alive here?- you’re very uncanny- but that’s hot nowadays”

“I’m Remy, you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"..."

They seem flabbergasted, even with no face that feeling isn't seen but felt from them to Remy.

"nOt alivE..."

"I hAve no NamE..." They pause. "NulL." It's a word meaning nothing afterall.

"HavE n-ot been callEd 'hot' bEfoRe."

They step closer and hesitantly poke Remy from the top of his head. They small touch feel cold, a split second of nausea given too.

"... You arE reAl..." They seem even more confused.

"I s-uppose oUt of reAlity w-Ould be dEcent as a WorDing."

They sit on the ground, now eye level to Remy.

"glItch... WhEre and w-Hen are you fr-Om?... You mUst be retUrned." They say as if returning a book to a library, clearly not used to human contact.

[deceitanon]

{Remy blinks away the nausea and chuckles when he is poked}

“Ouch, it’s like you don’t even want me here! I’m hurt”

{he says with a hand on his chest}

“I mean I got nothing important to do, just came back from altering time itself so.. this is kinda nice”

{Remy doesn’t know why he’s spilling all of this}

“Null? That’s a sick name, why.. are you here though? You look alive to me”

{he says with certainty}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"i dO n-ot mInd cOmpan-y... N-o-one shOulD be here thOugH..."

They stare and tilt their head again. When they do some 'skin' on their neck is visible briefly. It looks less like skin and more like a void made of millions of writhing larva. Constantly moving in a sickly way.

"altEriNg tIme?.."

...

"hErE is Home... My spAce. ConCepT of the liminal... UnCannY ties in-tO it."

"alivE... N-oT alive, bUt stiLl con-scious."

They aren't certain what would count as alive in other senses. "AlivE indiCates being m-Ade of org-anIc matter." They are not.

[deceitanon]

“Then I must be not alive too. I’m a giant dead fox. And you are made out of larva- not gonna lie, that’s kinda icky”

“…:does it hurt?”

{Remy asks very quietly with a frown}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses and looks at themself for a moment. They pause for a moment longer, turning a few dials on their head. There's a sickening squelching and gargling noise as they do. Their voice now sounds smoother and consistent though, but still stuffed with static and muffled by the screen.

"Larva... I suppose it could be comparable to that? They're void maggots. They are unique to this place."

They carefully scoop out a small few of the void maggots. They wiggle around for a moment, small like usual maggots, and then Null puts them back.

"Hurt...?"

They pause at that as well.

"Yes... But not in your sense. I do not feel it that same way. It is a constant feeling, but I am not bothered by it."

...

"Giant dead fox? Could you say more?"

[deceitanon]

“Ah… well, as long as you don’t go talking to the others here”

{he said jokingly}

“Kitsune, my fox form died a long time ago- it gets really complicated… can I show you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The chuckle Null lets out sounds like breaking glass through tv static.

"I do believe there is no one else to tell... Unless you mean the illusions, but I believe they do not count."

They pauses and then nod.

"I would like to see if you wish to show."

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a step back and drops all of his illusions at once… and shows Null his true fox form.. it’s massive… and dead looking}

{armor on top of his dead fur, it looks like it’s been washed recently by Eddie despite it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares, and though no mouth exists, a smile is felt.

"You are beautiful... May I pet y--"

They cut themself off.

"I should not touch... It makes people ill."

They stare regardless. A yearning for touch is blatantly radiating of them now.

"I could show you how I shapeshift?... It is not pretty though."

They wish to show themself too.

[deceitanon]

{Remy judges their hand, their bone armor could protect him if they pet in the right places.. he is so… warm! Despite claiming to be a dead fox}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tenses briefly before noticing Remy is okay.

They run their hands along his bone armor, his head mostly.

"Warm..."

They move closer and lay their tv head onto his. The sound of tv static feels sharp, but not too overburdening.

"I do not wish to leave you now..." This is the first time they've been able to touch anyone, and one of the very few times they've even been around someone visually.

[deceitanon]

{Remy sniffs where he can hear the static, then pauses when he hears them say that}

{he slowly shifts back, but offers his hand for Null to fidget with}

“I.. will try my best to help you, you said I can return, but why haven’t you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at his hand... Hesitantly taking it. They focus on trying to stop the nausea from carrying over.

"..."

"I can return... I do not have much control over how I warp spaces. I do try to not use abilities when I am in the existing planes, but I am unpredictable. I carry unease everywhere I go, I cannot choose a form that is not uncanny, I cannot create spaces that are not uncanny... Emotions are not something I understand, but I do know they contribute to mistaken use of my abilities."

They stare at Remy's hand as they talk. Quiet sparking crying is heard, though it is only black blood that drips from under the screen of their head. Smelling strongly of rot and iron.

"I do not wish to cause trouble. So I do not leave often, and when I do I do not leave with my body... I simply look, and memorize..."

This space is built by disorganized memories.

[deceitanon]

“We have a lot of people like you back at my home, Emotions, Weird lookin’ we even have someone that is the literal meaning of intrusive thoughts”

{Remy Chuckles, before pauses, he tries to summon a cloth, but his whole body glitches- and he falls forward against them, but he gets the cloth

“Imma… just ignore what happened to me for now”

{Remy murmurs to himself before gently cleaning off the rot and iron liquid}



[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null reaches out to catch Remy.

"Be careful in here. Your abilities will not work easily. I do not wish for you to harm yourself."

It leans into Remy wiping off the liquid.

"... Could I go home with you?"

They ask as if they are a stray cat giving boba eyes. Uncanny never leaves anything they do, as if it is a deep rooted curse in their very being.

[deceitanon]

“Of course you can!- wait… I should probably ask Eddie.. I’ve been bring so many people home.. it wouldn’t be okay if I just kept on doing it”

“Is… there a way I can speak to him? Or will I have to leave you first?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Oh-- You cannot leave with my help... And you will not be able to get back most likely."

They pauses to think, and then summon a black rotary phone with blood red rubies chaotically placed.

"Do you come from a time with phones?... This should work if so."

They talk as if they can travel between not just space, but time as well.

[deceitanon]

“Hmmm I- would call him but- I don’t really use a phone- he just kinda talks to me in my head”

“I promise it’s not as crazy as it seems”

“Oh! And I can totally come back, I’ll just recreate what I did, easy peasy”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at the phone and back at Remy.

They speak after a while of silence.

"Okay..."

They don't believe Remy will be able to come back, but they don't argue regardless. Remy has to go back either way.

"I will see you when you return." They say with hidden disbelief.

They don't wait for a response before they poke Remy's chest and in a sickening disorientating blink he's back in the bar.

[deceitanon]

{Remy groans and leans up against the bar}

{he blinks slowly, he feels like he needs to puke}

“Fuckkkk- Eddddiiieeeee”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie quickly appears next to Remy.

"Where-- What happened???" He sounds confused and concerned. "I lost all sense of you for a few minutes."

'Fee minutes' it felt like almost an hour passed down there... How does time work in that space?

"Are you okay??" He brings a trashcan over incase Remy does puke.

[deceitanon]

{Remy does end up puking}

“Got stuck in a weird space when I teleported….. few mins? It felt like I was there for hours”

“No… that’s not what I need to focus on.. there is someone trapped.. they are… uncanny more so than Remus but.. they wish to have a home”

{Remy gave Eddie puppy eyes}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie gently rubs Remy's back for a moment.

"What do you mean 'weird space??'"

He seems utterly confused.

"I--"

He looks at Remy's eyes and sighs after a moment with a lighthearted eye roll.

"Okay... Fine... I'm lucky Starie can create so much space where there shouldn't even be room, you know?"

With the amount of people here, it'd be impossible without Starie's stable space warping.

[deceitanon]

“Don’t worry~ they realllly tall which I know you love”

{Remy nuzzles up against Eddie with a happy purr}

“I… hope I can actually get back there”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie looks away with an embarrassed flush at Remy's comment.

"Oh, fuck off..." He playfully scoffs out without any actually annoyance. He clears his throat after a moment before replying, and nuzzling Remy back.

"Is there a chance you can't?"

He seems confused at that.

[deceitanon]

“Maybe… I just- need to make myself glitch while teleporting..”

“It… hurts to do it but I’ll only need to do it once.. so it won’t be that bad right?”

{Remy murmurs to himself}

{Remy kisses Eddie’s cheek before taking a deep breath, glitching and teleporting at the same time- and he lands back into the space.. but is on his hands and knees groaning, and coughing up more bile}

“Fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie tenses when Remy is gone again, he hates that he can't even senses Remy's existence right now... He paces while he waits.

----

Null startles and squeaks out shrieking static when they see Remy again.

"Remy...?"

They walk over and stare at him and the bile.

"How-- Are you okay?..."

Though Remy was gone for roughly five minutes, it's only been fifteen in here despite a few minutes being hours last time.

[deceitanon]

{Remy curls up and gives him a weak wait gesture… his body glitching again}

“Hurts…”

{His ears folded down- he hates when he glitches..}

“Don’t.. look”

{he hates making new people see him like this- 1) he likes to maintain the cool image he has.. and 2) because it makes him wish Eddie was here to comfort him}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses before nodding and turning around.

They sit nearby with their back to Remy.

"I am sorry that I cannot help... I am not a healing type... Do let me know if you cannot settle your body though, I can understand the glitching. It is one reason I do not leave with my body anymore... It tends to cause some of the void maggots to burst."

That... Sounds incredibly painful for someone who is made of them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tries to get up then lays back down immediately}

“Tel… tell me more… void maggots.. what do they do?”

“I… can control the void.. it’s how I can manipulate dreams”

{Remy murmurs weakly as he just lets his back lax.. he wishes just to listen}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Void maggots are specific to the place as I said... They grow in the walls, squirm their way in the ground, and come to me... I believe I am more of an entity made by this place."

They sound uncertain on what they are.

"They allow me to shapeshift, as they have no solid form either... I am unsure if they would be the same as the void you describe, but you can try manipulating them if you wish to test that? I do not mind."

Null is suggesting Remy manipulate their body itself.

"They have no thought, or organic life... They just exist. Like me... I do believe they are an essence of this place? That may be the best wording I have."

[deceitanon]

{Remy has gone silent}

{He has fallen asleep, he looks so.. human and warm}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turns around when he's silent for too long.

They stare for a while... Look around... They stand up slowly, and with focus to not make Remy ill, they pick him up.

They wander further into the space until it shifts out of Remy's memories and into a space Null made themself.

It's made to be a cottage, but it feels like an uncanny mimic of one, even more so than Remy's memories.

They place him on a bed, pulling a blanket over him, and then move to make coffee... They get a feeling he likes coffee. The bed feels oddly comfortable compared to the rest of this place.

The bedroom isn't all too separate from the living room, which is decently open to the kitchen and the front door. There are windows, but they're just a white light with no details.

[deceitanon]

{After sometime, Remy groans and hugs the blanket closer}

“Eddie?”

{he said sleepy, nuzzling into the blanket before opening his eyes… and sees the uncanny house}

“Where.. am I?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null hears him wake up, and slowly walks over to the bedroom. Floorboards creak under their silent feet.

They look around the corner... Looking around corners before walking past them seems like a habit of theirs.

"Are you okay now, Remy?"

They slowly walk closer, they also tend to walk slowly.

They carry a mug of coffee, setting it on the warped nightstand.

"I made coffee."

[deceitanon]

“Fuck yes… I love coffee.. and yes I’m feeling better.. sorry about passing out on you”

“You were talking about the void things?”

{Remy mutters as he sits up and grabs the coffee to drink it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"You are alright."

The coffee is almost right. Almost how Remy likes it. It's off still. Anything Null makes seems to be off.

"I was..."

They watch Remy drink the coffee for a moment, also staring at the bed... They don't say what they want, and it is difficult to tell without a face to show it.

"The void maggots are more of an essence of this space... I believe..."

They think for a moment.

"You mentioned dreamscapes being voids. I believe the void maggots grow up into them. Though they form in here, and make me, I would guess they grow up into something?"

They are larva after all.

"Perhaps that is what they grow into?"

There was a vague familiarity to the maggots, but it was hard to place, easy to dismiss as the space.

[deceitanon]

“You think I can control them? What do you think I can do with them?”

{Remy purrs at the taste of his coffee, his tails wag slowly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently watches Remy's tails wag for a moment.

...

"I believe you could, yes... I am unsure what you could do with them though."

They think for a moment, still staring at Remy. The longer they stare the more unsettling it feels...

"Maybe you could have control over what they form into?... I do not always understand where I learn what I do, but I suppose that is part of who I am... I believe they form dreamscapes, but also mindscapes and pocket dimensions."

"If they have multiple paths, maybe there could be more with artificial influence?"

They scoop out of maggots from their neck again and offer them to Remy. They writhe and squirm in their palm.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tilts his head and looks at the maggots, he shudders but takes a deep breath, he hover his hands over the maggots and tries to alter them in anyway he can}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

As he hovers his hand over the maggots he can feel they have a different type of energy. It's more like a potential energy, that would be gone the moment it's used?

As Remy tries to manipulate the maggots they writhe more, then start to bubble, and then they melt into a black goo... Then, suddenly, Remy can feel a new pocket dimension as the maggot goo disappears. It feels different from ones he may have created before.

He can feel that it was made, and that it belongs to him in a way, but it took little no of his energy to do so.

[deceitanon]

“Huh- gross but that took like no energy.. the maggots feel like that have some kind of energy probably stored inside them- UGH where is Logan when I need him”

{Remy groans- he’s not a scientist or a doctor like him}

“I have no idea what this could mean.. hmmm”

“When I altered the lil guys.. they disappeared but I felt a pocket dimension open up, a new one- how is that even possible.. it wasn’t a lot of em”

“Can you tell me more about yourself Null? How’d you get here? How are you made up of these Void Bugs”

{he wants to stop calling them maggots.. it feels rude because Null is made out of these lil buggers}

___

{While Null is explaining, Remy does try to write a note and glitchport (teleport and glitch) the note to Eddie, to tell him he is okay}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Each one of them grows up into a space like that, so you really only need one. Using more strengthens it, and makes it bigger I would guess."

They fall silent for several minutes at being asked about themself.

...

"I... Do not know how I got here. I just remember nothing... And then I was here... Or--"

Their screen glitches violently for a minute before they talk again.

"As for being made of the bugs--" They talk as if that glitching never happened. "I believe I made out of them as... As..."

They fall silent again.

"I don't think about what I am."

They don't know. They don't like that they don't know.

They can't remember how they got here...

"I like creating things... They always come out warped though."

They summon a fox plush, and while it looks like a fox it is unsettling not a fox at the same time.

----

The note ends up slightly clipped into the bar counter near Eddie. It's enough to read at least, but part of the note is in the counter.

"... Okay..." He sighs in shaky relief.

[deceitanon]

“Hmm.. so-“

{Remy pauses when he watches their screen glitch, he frowns in worry, everything about this place looks and feels fine- but it’s more like an uncanny feeling, he looks at the fox with a head tilt}

{Plus the whole time weirdness is throwing him off as well}

{he rubs his head as he thinks}

“I don’t know what to make of you babes, and I’d like to try and understand as much as I can before I introduce you to a whole new realm- or space.. don’t get me wrong- I’ve dealt with crazy stuff so this is just precarious, because who knows what could happen-“

“But- you don’t like these questions so.. maybe you can ask me somethings? And we can bounce off each others questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly, and stares at the bed for a bit again. They've kind of just been standing there, as if unsure what to do with themself.

"... What does it feel like to breathe?... Or... Just... How does your body feel to you?"

Odd first question...

[deceitanon]

“I.. hm I may not feel like the best example because it’s different with everyone.. but my body feels hot, it might seem warm and nice, but I do love the cold weather to help balance myself out, I get a lot of headaches due to my connections back in my world, but honestly it’s something I’m just used to so I’ve learned how to cope healthily..”

“Breathing feels awesome.. definitely something everyone takes for granted”

“Can I ask you the same questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently listens and processes what Remy said.

...

"I... Do not breathe. I always feel cold, I think numb is the other word... I like that you felt warm, I don't feel that often."

They fall silent again before there's a smaller and calmer glitch on their screen.

"... Breathing... I miss that. I took it for granted too it seems."

They remember breathing... There had to be something before they became this then, right?

"..." They pause, asking their next question quietly. "What does fear feel like?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy perks up, they remember something! Seems like this is going somewhere}

“Fear… is the worst thing to feel.. your body your mind all send these signals that you will die, get hurt.. and you can’t do anything about it”

{Remy looks away for a moment} “though there is a scale to how much a person can feel fear.. like it can be something small like a spider and they just avoid spiders.. or it can be a big fear like.. water itself- or loud sounds where it can affect your day to day life”

“… What can you feel?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly and thinks again.

...

"I don't feel... Things in a way I can place."

"Fear... I--"

They look at their hand and fall silent again.

"I do remember fear though... Fear and... And... Pain."

"Most feelings are dull... Now..."

They fidget with their gloves.

...

"... What does it feel like to die?"

That's... A heavy question. Why are they asking?

[deceitanon]

“… that’s a loaded question, it’s really depends on how you die”

“Why.. do you ask?”

{Remy frowns with worry}

“I promise you, it ain’t fun..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"I..."

They lean against the wall and pick at their gloves now.

"I don't know if I died... I"

They slowly slide down the wall to sit on the floor.

"I wasn't this... What was I?"

They're really wracking their mind now.

"I remember feeling tired... Then cool grass and dirt before falling asleep."

...

"Then an endless void. Thought it was a dream... There was a box. Nothing else... So I... Walked over to it."

They take their glove off and stare at all the writhing larva.

"I opened it... They spilled out, couldn't even guess how many..."

...

"Body was gone... Then I was this."

"It hurt... I was scared. I struggle to even remember feelings now."

[deceitanon]

“…”

{Remy frowns as he listens while nodding along}

{Remy slowly gets up and sits next to them}

“You aren’t alone anymore.. I can’t- I don’t want to promise anything that I’m not confident in.. but I’ll try my best to help you.. I know what it’s like.. losing your body.. being thrown into the void”

{Remy lets his hand hover over their arm, offering a warm touch}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at his hand and slowly takes it after putting their glove back on. They try to stop the sickening sensation, but it seems to be easier now.

"..."

They stay silent for a while longer.

"I don't... Mind what I am now. I think I was human... I can feel things coming back to me too. I don't think I was from your dimension or time period..."

...

"Is it weird... That I like being this?"

They don't like how unsettling they always are, but they still like what they are.

"I just... I just don't want to be alone anymore."

[deceitanon]

“If you liked being like this then I won’t stop you, you aren’t alone anymore. Okay? Not if I can help it”

{Remy smiles as he holds their hand}

“How do we get you over to my side?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null slowly nods and stares at Remy for a moment again.

"... Hard to explain... But it's not difficult for me."

They've just always been too scared to leave, being able to isn't a problem.

In another disorientating, nauseating blink they're back in the bar. It doesn't seem as bad with Null active in the process.

Though as Null teleports them back there's a dull wet popping sound of several of the larva in their body. Some black goo drips from them, but is quick to disappear.

They stumble a little and sit on the ground as their tv head glitches for a moment. It seems similar to a headache for them.

"... Hngg just a moment..."

----

Eddie startles when they are suddenly back and stares at them, more so towards Null. He gets a heavy uneasiness from them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy’s tails wagging quickly as he stands in front of Null and looks at Eddie, like a happy dog that just succeeded in a game of fetch}

“This is Null, he reminds me of Remus.. if that helps with the uneasiness..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie stares at Remy and then chuckles with a sign as he walks over.

He brings him into a hug.

"It does..."

He stares at Null behind Remy as they slowly stand back up.

"This era makes sense..." They mumble to themself as they look around and then at Eddie.

"... Ah, greetings... You must be Eddie?"

Their wording is similar to Logan's, but their voice has that static muffled through a tv feel... And the general uncanny nature of them.

"I am... It's nice to meet you, Null."

This is the second time Remy has mentioned Remus and how they're rather curious about him.

"It is nice to meet you as well..."

They also seem unsure what to do with themself in new area.

[deceitanon]

{Remys drapes himself behind Eddie’s back with a loving purr, nuzzling him}

“Welcome to our home! How are you feeling”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie purrs happily, nuzzling Remy back as he wraps a tail around his waist.

Null looks around before answering.

"I am..." They pause, unsure. "Fine I believe."

They walk closer to Eddie now, looking down at him. They are well over two feet taller than him.

"... Would you like to go upstairs? Everyone is typically up there."

He smiles softly, though still getting used to the uneasiness. He does pause and warn Virgil with a text, knowing he might not handle it well.

Null nods slowly and looks around more.

[deceitanon]

{Virgil gets the text and goes to his room, thanking Eddie}

——

{Upstairs, Logan is talking to Remus on the touch.. Patton is making lunch for everyone, Ethos is reading a book as best he can on the love seat}

{Logan pauses, invisible to Null}

“Eddie? Remy? Who is that?”

—

{Remus turns and perks up with a wicked smile}

“Well look at you! Tall and Mysterious~”

{Remus doesn’t seem to be effected but Null’s Unease presence}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Logan.

"This is Null... Oh-- They can't see you right now..."

--

Ella is sitting with Ethos if he doesn't mind right now.

--

Null stares at Remus and tilts their head slightly. They actually stay silent as they slowly walk over.

...

"Hello..." They almost seem to be analyzing Remus.

...

"You have a familiarity."

Concept of the liminal and uncanny... Concept of intrusive thoughts... Could be something with that, but Null doesn't seem to understand.

They just... Stare. Far more than they did with Remy earlier.

[deceitanon]

{Ethos didn’t mind, he also wasn’t surprised by the new person either, he’s been here since day one, he’s used to this}

——

{Remus stares back and giggles}

“Well I used to look slightly different and yknow been around”

“Oooo Maggots! I love the look”

“I’m Remus! Dark creativity, Intrusive Thoughts, Doctor- you.. look familiar too! But where do I know you from hmmm”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Ella looks over briefly, bur she rather relax with Ethos right now. She leans against him, purring contently.

----

"It is nice to meet you, Remus."

They pause again.

"I... Do not believe I was from this dimension or era... My space exists between all that, but I am never sure."

They move around the couch to sit next to him.

...

They just stare more. Then they offer their hand with no explantion.

Given Remus probably would take their hand without questioning...

He gets no nausea either. Something about who Null was before is what is familiar, hidden what they are now.

...

They were a scientist at the same lab-- They vanished around the same time Remus got the radiation poisoning. Null does not remember much though.

"..." They don't say anything, just analyzing what any of that means.

... If Remus may recall, they used to be called "Dr. Rhinestone." She was well known in her field back then.

[deceitanon]

{Remus stares}

{then blinks}

{stares}

“Dr…Rhinestone- no”

“That’s not possible- the lab was empty when-“

“What happened?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tilts their head and stares back in confusion. When the name Remus says actually registers their screen glitches again and they head a headache like pain.

Though they gather themself well enough.

"Apologies... Dr. Rhinestone?-- I--"

They stare at Remus more.

"... What happened?"

They don't know the answer themself.

"..."

They pick at their gloves again, seeming to be a stressed habit.

"... The lab-- Wait--" They look directly st Remus now, white eyes behind the screen more visible now.

"Dr. Eckhard."

They remember more.

"Shit." They don't like what they remember.

"Fuck. I--"

...

"I worked in a lab near yours. I was supposed to be monitoring the radiation--"

They messed that up. They know they did.

"I didn't-- I got it wrong-- I-I... What happened to me..."

They look at their hands again, their speech sounding more coherent in wording, more tone coming through.

"I just... I remember passing out. I felt dizzy, fell, and I hit my head... Hard... I felt so cold."

They swear they feel the pain again.

"Woke up in a field of grass... Just one peach tree. I was so tired... I felt like I shouldn't sleep, but I did... Then the void, the box-- the maggots."

They pick at their gloves more harshly. Did they pass out from radiation poisoning? How did they just vanish though?

[deceitanon]

{Remus takes a slow step back.. he tugs on his hair}

“Holy…holy shit”

{he stares and starts laughing.. his form glitches- as if almost returning back to how Remus was before.. maybe the death of Dr. Rhinestone is what made him go insane faster- the puzzle piece is bending again}

“It was my fault- you-“

{He starts crying while laughing}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null quickly gets up and shakes their head.

"No. No! I-I was supposed to be monitoring it! I... Fuck. I miscalculated things. If I just-- Fuck."

They are shown genuine visible stress by now. Their uneasiness affect gets stronger with this.

"God I was a fucking idiot!"

They remembered something again.

"Fuck. Why..."

"It was my fault!! Fuck-- Remus--"

They force themself to say the words stuck in their non existent throat.

"I fucked up because I was-- I-I was-- high... I was a fucking idiot!"

They grab the sides of their head, self loathing.

"What the fuck was wrong with me?!"

...

"I was a well regarded scientist, I had access to pretty much anything I wanted, and i fucking abused that?!"

They tear up too, that rot and iron leaking through the screen.

"If I wasn't busy getting high off my ass I would have realized things were going wrong!"

[deceitanon]

“I…I knew”

{Remus whispered}

“I knew about the radiation and still decided to take the risk to study it…”

“I’m so sorry this happened to you Dr. Rhinestone..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null falls back onto the couch to try and calm down.

"I knew the risk too... I was suppose to be helping minimize the risk, and be the first to know when it was becoming too high of a risk."

...

"Please don't be sorry... I probably would have been fired or worse even if I did live..."

They look back up at him after a moment.

"But... Still here now, y-yeah?... Suppose you still can't get r-rid of me that easily?"

They try to make a joke to lighten the mood, though their words are still choked.

"Don't beat yourself up about it... Would say I'm not the same person, and I think I gather why I wouldn't want to be now."

They offer their hand again.

"I don't hold anything against you..."

Though no mouth is there, Null does smile softly.

[deceitanon]

“Mghh”

{Remus laughs before nodding}

“I don’t hold anything against you either…”

——-

{Remy blinks slowly and stares at Eddie}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remus for a moment before pulling him into a hug if he lets them.

"... Thank you."

Their head feels all buzzy right now... They aren't sure why, but thinking of themself as human causes their entire body to ache. Like they aren't allowed to feel that.

"..."

"Please only call me Null as well..." Their human tone retreats a little now. Tone returning to more uncanny.

----

Eddie looks over at Remy as well. He seems very confused.

"I... Do not remember there being a Dr. Rhinestone...?"

Though with the nature of what Null is it may be impossible to see them in the past. Ethos wouldn't have detected any lies either.

Eddie does not know what Null is as of right now.

[deceitanon]

{Remus touches Null’s tv screen and smiles}

“Looks like we both were changed heavily after the accident..”

——

{Remy nods in agreement}

“I don’t remember if this is because of the time stuff we did either”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null's screen has a electrical buzzing feel to it despite no electricity actually existing in them.

"I suppose so, yes... I became the concept of the liminal and uncanny feeling. Does not make people particularly enjoy being around me."

The eyes behind their screen shift slightly to look at Remus past his hand.

"How were you changed?"

----

Eddie sighs and thinks for a moment. He catches what Null says about their concept--

"Ah, I uh I do not think it is..."

... Why does he say it like he knows something...?

"I was wondering when they would show up." He mumbles very quietly--

He implies he already knew about Null in a way?!

[deceitanon]

“I became intrusive thoughts , got a bad cancer, drank a experimental drug and now I have a Symbiot inside me-“

“I wasn’t all this sane, but thanks to everyone here I’m semi back to normal… now I’m growing plants thanks to the basement downstairs- I swear I feel like it’s alive sometimes”

——

{Remy blinks slowly}

“Huh?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null goes to respond, but pauses at the mention of the basement--

"... Alive... How?"

They ask as if they know something.

----

Eddie pauses briefly.

"I uh... You know how the basement is always shifting and responding to what living things need, but it isn't technically alive?"

He looks at Remy with a look of "please don't be mad"

... What did he do?

[deceitanon]

{Remy stares at Eddie}

“Babes….. what did you do?”

{he gives him a stern look but one that says he won’t be fully mad}

——

“I dunno.. it just responded to me in ways that I didn’t even know I needed.. it learned- I swore it was teasing and sarcastic to me at one point”

{Remus shrugs}

“Why?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Uhhh... That basement is technically part of Null's domain and I didn't remember how I did that until recently... I uh I still don't understand the technicality of how I did it."

...

"I may have stolen a part of their domain somehow--"

How the actual fuck does someone steal part of someone else's domain?!

----

Null pauses in thought...

"How the..."

They look at Eddie.

They stare.

"You... You stole part of my domain?!"

Eddie chuckles nervously and looks away.

"I was wondering what that went!! You ass!! I was working on that for so long!"

Oh dear--

They aren't properly angry, but they are upset.

[deceitanon]

“Whoa whoa- no need for name calling Null”

{Remy glares at Null as he steps in front of Eddie, the chill and soft look is gone once the room became tense}

“Eddie did you know that the domain belonged to someone?”

{he asked with patience}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null backs up at the look Remy gives and picks at their gloves again. Their screen is also dimmer.

"Apologies..."

Eddie speaks up after.

"I did not until it was there, and I didn't know how to return it... I also forgot all recollection of obtaining it briefly after."

He looks over at Null.

"I am sorry-- I-I didn't know what I was doing..."

There's silence for a while before Null speaks again, their voice quieter now.

"... It's okay-- I... Honestly that project was frustrating me a lot."

...

"Can I see it?"

They still don't step closer right now.

"... Maybe you had better luck getting it to work?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a deep breath and his glare drops, tension gone}

——

{Remus perks up}

“Wait! No you can go in there Eddie.. remember the mushrooms?!”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null relaxes after a moment as well.

"I am sorry for getting upset..."

They speak quietly still... If Remy looks at the floor below when Null was standing when they got upset; the carpet is warped now. The pattern on it looks unsettling yet eerily similar to how it was before.

They did mention they have a harder time controlling their abilities with emotions.

----

Eddie looks over at Remus.

"I... I do remember. They were triggered by an electrical shock though. They are dormant otherwise."

He tries to reassure Remus, also walking over to him.

"I'll be fine... I'll avoid that room too. Is that okay?"

Despite Eddie being certain about it being okay he would still listen to Remus if he said no.

[deceitanon]

{Remy nods and offers to hug Null as an apology for snapping and a forgiveness gesture}

——

“I.. okay, I will make sure the room will close the area off before you get in there”

{Remus said before taking a deep breath- Eddie hasn’t seen him worried about others so openly before.. only frustrated at the person}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks up for a moment before accepting the hug.

"I do understand your reaction... I apologize as well."

They do seem lost in thought for a moment.

...

"... I do not think I have expressed emotions that blatantly in a long time."

They are a little unsure on how to handle them, but also unsure what to do when emotions not only cause issues with control, but also body aches. They don't mention the last part.

It's not just conflicting in letting themself express them, but also conflicting in getting their curse to let them.

--

Eddie looks up at Remus and gently takes his hands.

"It'll be okay... Thank you for being concerned, and I will leave if anything goes wrong, okay?"

He smiles softly and offers a hug. He does want to kiss him, but that's hard to gesture with the height difference--

[deceitanon]

“Oh? Are emotions hard to control sometimes? It’s okay if they are, we are kinda experts in that field”

{Remy chuckles}

——

{Remus pulls Eddie in to a hug, leaning down to kiss him if he wanted too}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null chuckles lightly and quietly.

"I seem to struggle feeling them, and controlling them when I do... I suppose I perhaps forgot my own curse after so long of being alone."

Null pulls away from the hug after a moment more.

"Are you planning to come to the basement with Eddie and I?"

Their tone is now neutral again, back to the uncanny feeling it was before the emotions talking to Remus and then the blow up.

----

Eddie smiles softly and pulls himself up a little to kiss Remus with a purr.

"I love you..."

He takes a deep breath and sighs contently.

"I would assume you're coming down to the basement too, spark?"

[deceitanon]

“I do, if you wish to have me?”

{Remy smiles}

“I’m far to interested in all of this to quit now”

——

“Duh! I’m not letting your wires get too curious. If you wanna get shocky. Shock me”

{Remus huffs}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly in response.

"I would like for you to come with, yes."

They look back over at Eddie and Remus.

--

Eddie chuckles slightly and rests his face into Remus's chest briefly.

"I'll take note of that, though I don't think Strife appreciates electricity... I'll be careful though, I promise."

After a moment he looks back over at Null and Remy.

"You two ready?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy nods with a smile}

“Ready as always babes~”

____

{Remus holds Eddie closely and lovingly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 142

As Remy teleports there's a flicker in everything around him, a feeling of being torn from the plane he was in, and suddenly he's in a... Space. It's hard to put into words what the fuck this is.

... It feels endless, uncanny, and yet familiar. There's items Remy may have felt were important from the distant past, or even the present. Items that feel important, and yet he's never seen. There's segments of these uneven and disorganized rooms that look like the bar, the loft, the cherry grove, the river, the void... There's hints, fragments, of everything Remy has ever seen. Everything feels... Wrong. Soso wrong.

They look like what Remy has seem, but they have an extreme feel of them still not being accurate. Like this space disorderly pulled memories from his mind and threw them around in a desperation to make it feel like home.

...

Lights flicker dully where there is no source, water trickles in the walls that aren't hollow...

Familiar sounds of people Remy knows are in the distant, with no obvious direction, but they have no realism to them. Parrots and echos of memories put into here wrong.

...

There is a sound that is real, but still uncanny. A voice. Humming. Their voice sounds like a person stuck behind a broken tv playing static, a crackling stinging hum with a broken melody.

[deceitanon]

“Hm…. honestly- ain’t the worst place I’ve been in”

{Remy picks up a ball and chucks it over to where he hears the humming}

“Eddie? Babes? Why’d you summon me here?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie is no where to be smelled even though a quiet hint of his voice echos from no where.

When Remy chucks the ball to the humming it suddenly stops. Deafening silence fills the space immediately.

...

"HelL-o?" The voice is broken, muffled and stuffed with static.

Slow someone peaks around the corner. A extremely tall lanky figure, only their head visible right now. A thin hand gloves in black velvet holds the wall near them.

Their head is a small black tv box, a very only one. It glows dully with flickers of visual static, and a subtle ringing of static piercings the air. Ever so slightly glowing white eyes that flicker like screen tearing are visible behind the screen. Those eyes are barely visible, yet so unsettling piercing.

... No heart beat. No warmth. No breathing. Not even any subtle electrical current of nerves, brain, or even a computer. Like they are nothing at all.

"..." The way they tilt their head in confusion feels so incredibly wrong.

[deceitanon]

“Hm? Hello- Have you seen a short but handsome man with wired hair? I seem to be lost, wouldn’t be the first”

{Remy says like meeting someone like him is normal}

“Where even am I? It’s creepy but cool as fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The figure stays silent for a while before fully rounding the corner.

They stand at 7'9. They are unnaturally slim, limbs just slightly long enough to be uncanny. The way their clothes lay so perfectly and beautifully feels unnatural. They wear a long black layered dress with ruffles, and black velvet gloves covering their whole arms. Black flats with white frilly socks. Adorned on top of their head is a veil made of smooth lightweight black feathers.

They stare for a while.

"... I h-Ave noT..."

"I don-T hAve a nAme fOr thIs place... JuSt minE."

They radiate unease and uncanny feelings. They mean no harm.

"Int-rEstIng... Ho-w A-rE you hEre?"

They speak as if it is supposed to be impossible. They step closer slowly as if uncertain Remy is more than a trick of this space.

[deceitanon]

“Damn you’re tall- hmmmm must have glitched out of reality or something!”

“Oh like the backrooom”

{He said with a snap}

“How are you even alive here?- you’re very uncanny- but that’s hot nowadays”

“I’m Remy, you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"..."

They seem flabbergasted, even with no face that feeling isn't seen but felt from them to Remy.

"nOt alivE..."

"I hAve no NamE..." They pause. "NulL." It's a word meaning nothing afterall.

"HavE n-ot been callEd 'hot' bEfoRe."

They step closer and hesitantly poke Remy from the top of his head. They small touch feel cold, a split second of nausea given too.

"... You arE reAl..." They seem even more confused.

"I s-uppose oUt of reAlity w-Ould be dEcent as a WorDing."

They sit on the ground, now eye level to Remy.

"glItch... WhEre and w-Hen are you fr-Om?... You mUst be retUrned." They say as if returning a book to a library, clearly not used to human contact.

[deceitanon]

{Remy blinks away the nausea and chuckles when he is poked}

“Ouch, it’s like you don’t even want me here! I’m hurt”

{he says with a hand on his chest}

“I mean I got nothing important to do, just came back from altering time itself so.. this is kinda nice”

{Remy doesn’t know why he’s spilling all of this}

“Null? That’s a sick name, why.. are you here though? You look alive to me”

{he says with certainty}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"i dO n-ot mInd cOmpan-y... N-o-one shOulD be here thOugH..."

They stare and tilt their head again. When they do some 'skin' on their neck is visible briefly. It looks less like skin and more like a void made of millions of writhing larva. Constantly moving in a sickly way.

"altEriNg tIme?.."

...

"hErE is Home... My spAce. ConCepT of the liminal... UnCannY ties in-tO it."

"alivE... N-oT alive, bUt stiLl con-scious."

They aren't certain what would count as alive in other senses. "AlivE indiCates being m-Ade of org-anIc matter." They are not.

[deceitanon]

“Then I must be not alive too. I’m a giant dead fox. And you are made out of larva- not gonna lie, that’s kinda icky”

“…:does it hurt?”

{Remy asks very quietly with a frown}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses and looks at themself for a moment. They pause for a moment longer, turning a few dials on their head. There's a sickening squelching and gargling noise as they do. Their voice now sounds smoother and consistent though, but still stuffed with static and muffled by the screen.

"Larva... I suppose it could be comparable to that? They're void maggots. They are unique to this place."

They carefully scoop out a small few of the void maggots. They wiggle around for a moment, small like usual maggots, and then Null puts them back.

"Hurt...?"

They pause at that as well.

"Yes... But not in your sense. I do not feel it that same way. It is a constant feeling, but I am not bothered by it."

...

"Giant dead fox? Could you say more?"

[deceitanon]

“Ah… well, as long as you don’t go talking to the others here”

{he said jokingly}

“Kitsune, my fox form died a long time ago- it gets really complicated… can I show you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The chuckle Null lets out sounds like breaking glass through tv static.

"I do believe there is no one else to tell... Unless you mean the illusions, but I believe they do not count."

They pauses and then nod.

"I would like to see if you wish to show."

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a step back and drops all of his illusions at once… and shows Null his true fox form.. it’s massive… and dead looking}

{armor on top of his dead fur, it looks like it’s been washed recently by Eddie despite it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares, and though no mouth exists, a smile is felt.

"You are beautiful... May I pet y--"

They cut themself off.

"I should not touch... It makes people ill."

They stare regardless. A yearning for touch is blatantly radiating of them now.

"I could show you how I shapeshift?... It is not pretty though."

They wish to show themself too.

[deceitanon]

{Remy judges their hand, their bone armor could protect him if they pet in the right places.. he is so… warm! Despite claiming to be a dead fox}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tenses briefly before noticing Remy is okay.

They run their hands along his bone armor, his head mostly.

"Warm..."

They move closer and lay their tv head onto his. The sound of tv static feels sharp, but not too overburdening.

"I do not wish to leave you now..." This is the first time they've been able to touch anyone, and one of the very few times they've even been around someone visually.

[deceitanon]

{Remy sniffs where he can hear the static, then pauses when he hears them say that}

{he slowly shifts back, but offers his hand for Null to fidget with}

“I.. will try my best to help you, you said I can return, but why haven’t you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at his hand... Hesitantly taking it. They focus on trying to stop the nausea from carrying over.

"..."

"I can return... I do not have much control over how I warp spaces. I do try to not use abilities when I am in the existing planes, but I am unpredictable. I carry unease everywhere I go, I cannot choose a form that is not uncanny, I cannot create spaces that are not uncanny... Emotions are not something I understand, but I do know they contribute to mistaken use of my abilities."

They stare at Remy's hand as they talk. Quiet sparking crying is heard, though it is only black blood that drips from under the screen of their head. Smelling strongly of rot and iron.

"I do not wish to cause trouble. So I do not leave often, and when I do I do not leave with my body... I simply look, and memorize..."

This space is built by disorganized memories.

[deceitanon]

“We have a lot of people like you back at my home, Emotions, Weird lookin’ we even have someone that is the literal meaning of intrusive thoughts”

{Remy Chuckles, before pauses, he tries to summon a cloth, but his whole body glitches- and he falls forward against them, but he gets the cloth

“Imma… just ignore what happened to me for now”

{Remy murmurs to himself before gently cleaning off the rot and iron liquid}



[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null reaches out to catch Remy.

"Be careful in here. Your abilities will not work easily. I do not wish for you to harm yourself."

It leans into Remy wiping off the liquid.

"... Could I go home with you?"

They ask as if they are a stray cat giving boba eyes. Uncanny never leaves anything they do, as if it is a deep rooted curse in their very being.

[deceitanon]

“Of course you can!- wait… I should probably ask Eddie.. I’ve been bring so many people home.. it wouldn’t be okay if I just kept on doing it”

“Is… there a way I can speak to him? Or will I have to leave you first?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Oh-- You cannot leave with my help... And you will not be able to get back most likely."

They pauses to think, and then summon a black rotary phone with blood red rubies chaotically placed.

"Do you come from a time with phones?... This should work if so."

They talk as if they can travel between not just space, but time as well.

[deceitanon]

“Hmmm I- would call him but- I don’t really use a phone- he just kinda talks to me in my head”

“I promise it’s not as crazy as it seems”

“Oh! And I can totally come back, I’ll just recreate what I did, easy peasy”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at the phone and back at Remy.

They speak after a while of silence.

"Okay..."

They don't believe Remy will be able to come back, but they don't argue regardless. Remy has to go back either way.

"I will see you when you return." They say with hidden disbelief.

They don't wait for a response before they poke Remy's chest and in a sickening disorientating blink he's back in the bar.

[deceitanon]

{Remy groans and leans up against the bar}

{he blinks slowly, he feels like he needs to puke}

“Fuckkkk- Eddddiiieeeee”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie quickly appears next to Remy.

"Where-- What happened???" He sounds confused and concerned. "I lost all sense of you for a few minutes."

'Fee minutes' it felt like almost an hour passed down there... How does time work in that space?

"Are you okay??" He brings a trashcan over incase Remy does puke.

[deceitanon]

{Remy does end up puking}

“Got stuck in a weird space when I teleported….. few mins? It felt like I was there for hours”

“No… that’s not what I need to focus on.. there is someone trapped.. they are… uncanny more so than Remus but.. they wish to have a home”

{Remy gave Eddie puppy eyes}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie gently rubs Remy's back for a moment.

"What do you mean 'weird space??'"

He seems utterly confused.

"I--"

He looks at Remy's eyes and sighs after a moment with a lighthearted eye roll.

"Okay... Fine... I'm lucky Starie can create so much space where there shouldn't even be room, you know?"

With the amount of people here, it'd be impossible without Starie's stable space warping.

[deceitanon]

“Don’t worry~ they realllly tall which I know you love”

{Remy nuzzles up against Eddie with a happy purr}

“I… hope I can actually get back there”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie looks away with an embarrassed flush at Remy's comment.

"Oh, fuck off..." He playfully scoffs out without any actually annoyance. He clears his throat after a moment before replying, and nuzzling Remy back.

"Is there a chance you can't?"

He seems confused at that.

[deceitanon]

“Maybe… I just- need to make myself glitch while teleporting..”

“It… hurts to do it but I’ll only need to do it once.. so it won’t be that bad right?”

{Remy murmurs to himself}

{Remy kisses Eddie’s cheek before taking a deep breath, glitching and teleporting at the same time- and he lands back into the space.. but is on his hands and knees groaning, and coughing up more bile}

“Fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie tenses when Remy is gone again, he hates that he can't even senses Remy's existence right now... He paces while he waits.

----

Null startles and squeaks out shrieking static when they see Remy again.

"Remy...?"

They walk over and stare at him and the bile.

"How-- Are you okay?..."

Though Remy was gone for roughly five minutes, it's only been fifteen in here despite a few minutes being hours last time.

[deceitanon]

{Remy curls up and gives him a weak wait gesture… his body glitching again}

“Hurts…”

{His ears folded down- he hates when he glitches..}

“Don’t.. look”

{he hates making new people see him like this- 1) he likes to maintain the cool image he has.. and 2) because it makes him wish Eddie was here to comfort him}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses before nodding and turning around.

They sit nearby with their back to Remy.

"I am sorry that I cannot help... I am not a healing type... Do let me know if you cannot settle your body though, I can understand the glitching. It is one reason I do not leave with my body anymore... It tends to cause some of the void maggots to burst."

That... Sounds incredibly painful for someone who is made of them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tries to get up then lays back down immediately}

“Tel… tell me more… void maggots.. what do they do?”

“I… can control the void.. it’s how I can manipulate dreams”

{Remy murmurs weakly as he just lets his back lax.. he wishes just to listen}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Void maggots are specific to the place as I said... They grow in the walls, squirm their way in the ground, and come to me... I believe I am more of an entity made by this place."

They sound uncertain on what they are.

"They allow me to shapeshift, as they have no solid form either... I am unsure if they would be the same as the void you describe, but you can try manipulating them if you wish to test that? I do not mind."

Null is suggesting Remy manipulate their body itself.

"They have no thought, or organic life... They just exist. Like me... I do believe they are an essence of this place? That may be the best wording I have."

[deceitanon]

{Remy has gone silent}

{He has fallen asleep, he looks so.. human and warm}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turns around when he's silent for too long.

They stare for a while... Look around... They stand up slowly, and with focus to not make Remy ill, they pick him up.

They wander further into the space until it shifts out of Remy's memories and into a space Null made themself.

It's made to be a cottage, but it feels like an uncanny mimic of one, even more so than Remy's memories.

They place him on a bed, pulling a blanket over him, and then move to make coffee... They get a feeling he likes coffee. The bed feels oddly comfortable compared to the rest of this place.

The bedroom isn't all too separate from the living room, which is decently open to the kitchen and the front door. There are windows, but they're just a white light with no details.

[deceitanon]

{After sometime, Remy groans and hugs the blanket closer}

“Eddie?”

{he said sleepy, nuzzling into the blanket before opening his eyes… and sees the uncanny house}

“Where.. am I?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null hears him wake up, and slowly walks over to the bedroom. Floorboards creak under their silent feet.

They look around the corner... Looking around corners before walking past them seems like a habit of theirs.

"Are you okay now, Remy?"

They slowly walk closer, they also tend to walk slowly.

They carry a mug of coffee, setting it on the warped nightstand.

"I made coffee."

[deceitanon]

“Fuck yes… I love coffee.. and yes I’m feeling better.. sorry about passing out on you”

“You were talking about the void things?”

{Remy mutters as he sits up and grabs the coffee to drink it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"You are alright."

The coffee is almost right. Almost how Remy likes it. It's off still. Anything Null makes seems to be off.

"I was..."

They watch Remy drink the coffee for a moment, also staring at the bed... They don't say what they want, and it is difficult to tell without a face to show it.

"The void maggots are more of an essence of this space... I believe..."

They think for a moment.

"You mentioned dreamscapes being voids. I believe the void maggots grow up into them. Though they form in here, and make me, I would guess they grow up into something?"

They are larva after all.

"Perhaps that is what they grow into?"

There was a vague familiarity to the maggots, but it was hard to place, easy to dismiss as the space.

[deceitanon]

“You think I can control them? What do you think I can do with them?”

{Remy purrs at the taste of his coffee, his tails wag slowly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently watches Remy's tails wag for a moment.

...

"I believe you could, yes... I am unsure what you could do with them though."

They think for a moment, still staring at Remy. The longer they stare the more unsettling it feels...

"Maybe you could have control over what they form into?... I do not always understand where I learn what I do, but I suppose that is part of who I am... I believe they form dreamscapes, but also mindscapes and pocket dimensions."

"If they have multiple paths, maybe there could be more with artificial influence?"

They scoop out of maggots from their neck again and offer them to Remy. They writhe and squirm in their palm.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tilts his head and looks at the maggots, he shudders but takes a deep breath, he hover his hands over the maggots and tries to alter them in anyway he can}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

As he hovers his hand over the maggots he can feel they have a different type of energy. It's more like a potential energy, that would be gone the moment it's used?

As Remy tries to manipulate the maggots they writhe more, then start to bubble, and then they melt into a black goo... Then, suddenly, Remy can feel a new pocket dimension as the maggot goo disappears. It feels different from ones he may have created before.

He can feel that it was made, and that it belongs to him in a way, but it took little no of his energy to do so.

[deceitanon]

“Huh- gross but that took like no energy.. the maggots feel like that have some kind of energy probably stored inside them- UGH where is Logan when I need him”

{Remy groans- he’s not a scientist or a doctor like him}

“I have no idea what this could mean.. hmmm”

“When I altered the lil guys.. they disappeared but I felt a pocket dimension open up, a new one- how is that even possible.. it wasn’t a lot of em”

“Can you tell me more about yourself Null? How’d you get here? How are you made up of these Void Bugs”

{he wants to stop calling them maggots.. it feels rude because Null is made out of these lil buggers}

___

{While Null is explaining, Remy does try to write a note and glitchport (teleport and glitch) the note to Eddie, to tell him he is okay}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Each one of them grows up into a space like that, so you really only need one. Using more strengthens it, and makes it bigger I would guess."

They fall silent for several minutes at being asked about themself.

...

"I... Do not know how I got here. I just remember nothing... And then I was here... Or--"

Their screen glitches violently for a minute before they talk again.

"As for being made of the bugs--" They talk as if that glitching never happened. "I believe I made out of them as... As..."

They fall silent again.

"I don't think about what I am."

They don't know. They don't like that they don't know.

They can't remember how they got here...

"I like creating things... They always come out warped though."

They summon a fox plush, and while it looks like a fox it is unsettling not a fox at the same time.

----

The note ends up slightly clipped into the bar counter near Eddie. It's enough to read at least, but part of the note is in the counter.

"... Okay..." He sighs in shaky relief.

[deceitanon]

“Hmm.. so-“

{Remy pauses when he watches their screen glitch, he frowns in worry, everything about this place looks and feels fine- but it’s more like an uncanny feeling, he looks at the fox with a head tilt}

{Plus the whole time weirdness is throwing him off as well}

{he rubs his head as he thinks}

“I don’t know what to make of you babes, and I’d like to try and understand as much as I can before I introduce you to a whole new realm- or space.. don’t get me wrong- I’ve dealt with crazy stuff so this is just precarious, because who knows what could happen-“

“But- you don’t like these questions so.. maybe you can ask me somethings? And we can bounce off each others questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly, and stares at the bed for a bit again. They've kind of just been standing there, as if unsure what to do with themself.

"... What does it feel like to breathe?... Or... Just... How does your body feel to you?"

Odd first question...

[deceitanon]

“I.. hm I may not feel like the best example because it’s different with everyone.. but my body feels hot, it might seem warm and nice, but I do love the cold weather to help balance myself out, I get a lot of headaches due to my connections back in my world, but honestly it’s something I’m just used to so I’ve learned how to cope healthily..”

“Breathing feels awesome.. definitely something everyone takes for granted”

“Can I ask you the same questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently listens and processes what Remy said.

...

"I... Do not breathe. I always feel cold, I think numb is the other word... I like that you felt warm, I don't feel that often."

They fall silent again before there's a smaller and calmer glitch on their screen.

"... Breathing... I miss that. I took it for granted too it seems."

They remember breathing... There had to be something before they became this then, right?

"..." They pause, asking their next question quietly. "What does fear feel like?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy perks up, they remember something! Seems like this is going somewhere}

“Fear… is the worst thing to feel.. your body your mind all send these signals that you will die, get hurt.. and you can’t do anything about it”

{Remy looks away for a moment} “though there is a scale to how much a person can feel fear.. like it can be something small like a spider and they just avoid spiders.. or it can be a big fear like.. water itself- or loud sounds where it can affect your day to day life”

“… What can you feel?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly and thinks again.

...

"I don't feel... Things in a way I can place."

"Fear... I--"

They look at their hand and fall silent again.

"I do remember fear though... Fear and... And... Pain."

"Most feelings are dull... Now..."

They fidget with their gloves.

...

"... What does it feel like to die?"

That's... A heavy question. Why are they asking?

[deceitanon]

“… that’s a loaded question, it’s really depends on how you die”

“Why.. do you ask?”

{Remy frowns with worry}

“I promise you, it ain’t fun..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"I..."

They lean against the wall and pick at their gloves now.

"I don't know if I died... I"

They slowly slide down the wall to sit on the floor.

"I wasn't this... What was I?"

They're really wracking their mind now.

"I remember feeling tired... Then cool grass and dirt before falling asleep."

...

"Then an endless void. Thought it was a dream... There was a box. Nothing else... So I... Walked over to it."

They take their glove off and stare at all the writhing larva.

"I opened it... They spilled out, couldn't even guess how many..."

...

"Body was gone... Then I was this."

"It hurt... I was scared. I struggle to even remember feelings now."

[deceitanon]

“…”

{Remy frowns as he listens while nodding along}

{Remy slowly gets up and sits next to them}

“You aren’t alone anymore.. I can’t- I don’t want to promise anything that I’m not confident in.. but I’ll try my best to help you.. I know what it’s like.. losing your body.. being thrown into the void”

{Remy lets his hand hover over their arm, offering a warm touch}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at his hand and slowly takes it after putting their glove back on. They try to stop the sickening sensation, but it seems to be easier now.

"..."

They stay silent for a while longer.

"I don't... Mind what I am now. I think I was human... I can feel things coming back to me too. I don't think I was from your dimension or time period..."

...

"Is it weird... That I like being this?"

They don't like how unsettling they always are, but they still like what they are.

"I just... I just don't want to be alone anymore."

[deceitanon]

“If you liked being like this then I won’t stop you, you aren’t alone anymore. Okay? Not if I can help it”

{Remy smiles as he holds their hand}

“How do we get you over to my side?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null slowly nods and stares at Remy for a moment again.

"... Hard to explain... But it's not difficult for me."

They've just always been too scared to leave, being able to isn't a problem.

In another disorientating, nauseating blink they're back in the bar. It doesn't seem as bad with Null active in the process.

Though as Null teleports them back there's a dull wet popping sound of several of the larva in their body. Some black goo drips from them, but is quick to disappear.

They stumble a little and sit on the ground as their tv head glitches for a moment. It seems similar to a headache for them.

"... Hngg just a moment..."

----

Eddie startles when they are suddenly back and stares at them, more so towards Null. He gets a heavy uneasiness from them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy’s tails wagging quickly as he stands in front of Null and looks at Eddie, like a happy dog that just succeeded in a game of fetch}

“This is Null, he reminds me of Remus.. if that helps with the uneasiness..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie stares at Remy and then chuckles with a sign as he walks over.

He brings him into a hug.

"It does..."

He stares at Null behind Remy as they slowly stand back up.

"This era makes sense..." They mumble to themself as they look around and then at Eddie.

"... Ah, greetings... You must be Eddie?"

Their wording is similar to Logan's, but their voice has that static muffled through a tv feel... And the general uncanny nature of them.

"I am... It's nice to meet you, Null."

This is the second time Remy has mentioned Remus and how they're rather curious about him.

"It is nice to meet you as well..."

They also seem unsure what to do with themself in new area.

[deceitanon]

{Remys drapes himself behind Eddie’s back with a loving purr, nuzzling him}

“Welcome to our home! How are you feeling”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie purrs happily, nuzzling Remy back as he wraps a tail around his waist.

Null looks around before answering.

"I am..." They pause, unsure. "Fine I believe."

They walk closer to Eddie now, looking down at him. They are well over two feet taller than him.

"... Would you like to go upstairs? Everyone is typically up there."

He smiles softly, though still getting used to the uneasiness. He does pause and warn Virgil with a text, knowing he might not handle it well.

Null nods slowly and looks around more.

[deceitanon]

{Virgil gets the text and goes to his room, thanking Eddie}

——

{Upstairs, Logan is talking to Remus on the touch.. Patton is making lunch for everyone, Ethos is reading a book as best he can on the love seat}

{Logan pauses, invisible to Null}

“Eddie? Remy? Who is that?”

—

{Remus turns and perks up with a wicked smile}

“Well look at you! Tall and Mysterious~”

{Remus doesn’t seem to be effected but Null’s Unease presence}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Logan.

"This is Null... Oh-- They can't see you right now..."

--

Ella is sitting with Ethos if he doesn't mind right now.

--

Null stares at Remus and tilts their head slightly. They actually stay silent as they slowly walk over.

...

"Hello..." They almost seem to be analyzing Remus.

...

"You have a familiarity."

Concept of the liminal and uncanny... Concept of intrusive thoughts... Could be something with that, but Null doesn't seem to understand.

They just... Stare. Far more than they did with Remy earlier.

[deceitanon]

{Ethos didn’t mind, he also wasn’t surprised by the new person either, he’s been here since day one, he’s used to this}

——

{Remus stares back and giggles}

“Well I used to look slightly different and yknow been around”

“Oooo Maggots! I love the look”

“I’m Remus! Dark creativity, Intrusive Thoughts, Doctor- you.. look familiar too! But where do I know you from hmmm”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Ella looks over briefly, bur she rather relax with Ethos right now. She leans against him, purring contently.

----

"It is nice to meet you, Remus."

They pause again.

"I... Do not believe I was from this dimension or era... My space exists between all that, but I am never sure."

They move around the couch to sit next to him.

...

They just stare more. Then they offer their hand with no explantion.

Given Remus probably would take their hand without questioning...

He gets no nausea either. Something about who Null was before is what is familiar, hidden what they are now.

...

They were a scientist at the same lab-- They vanished around the same time Remus got the radiation poisoning. Null does not remember much though.

"..." They don't say anything, just analyzing what any of that means.

... If Remus may recall, they used to be called "Dr. Rhinestone." She was well known in her field back then.

[deceitanon]

{Remus stares}

{then blinks}

{stares}

“Dr…Rhinestone- no”

“That’s not possible- the lab was empty when-“

“What happened?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tilts their head and stares back in confusion. When the name Remus says actually registers their screen glitches again and they head a headache like pain.

Though they gather themself well enough.

"Apologies... Dr. Rhinestone?-- I--"

They stare at Remus more.

"... What happened?"

They don't know the answer themself.

"..."

They pick at their gloves again, seeming to be a stressed habit.

"... The lab-- Wait--" They look directly st Remus now, white eyes behind the screen more visible now.

"Dr. Eckhard."

They remember more.

"Shit." They don't like what they remember.

"Fuck. I--"

...

"I worked in a lab near yours. I was supposed to be monitoring the radiation--"

They messed that up. They know they did.

"I didn't-- I got it wrong-- I-I... What happened to me..."

They look at their hands again, their speech sounding more coherent in wording, more tone coming through.

"I just... I remember passing out. I felt dizzy, fell, and I hit my head... Hard... I felt so cold."

They swear they feel the pain again.

"Woke up in a field of grass... Just one peach tree. I was so tired... I felt like I shouldn't sleep, but I did... Then the void, the box-- the maggots."

They pick at their gloves more harshly. Did they pass out from radiation poisoning? How did they just vanish though?

[deceitanon]

{Remus takes a slow step back.. he tugs on his hair}

“Holy…holy shit”

{he stares and starts laughing.. his form glitches- as if almost returning back to how Remus was before.. maybe the death of Dr. Rhinestone is what made him go insane faster- the puzzle piece is bending again}

“It was my fault- you-“

{He starts crying while laughing}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null quickly gets up and shakes their head.

"No. No! I-I was supposed to be monitoring it! I... Fuck. I miscalculated things. If I just-- Fuck."

They are shown genuine visible stress by now. Their uneasiness affect gets stronger with this.

"God I was a fucking idiot!"

They remembered something again.

"Fuck. Why..."

"It was my fault!! Fuck-- Remus--"

They force themself to say the words stuck in their non existent throat.

"I fucked up because I was-- I-I was-- high... I was a fucking idiot!"

They grab the sides of their head, self loathing.

"What the fuck was wrong with me?!"

...

"I was a well regarded scientist, I had access to pretty much anything I wanted, and i fucking abused that?!"

They tear up too, that rot and iron leaking through the screen.

"If I wasn't busy getting high off my ass I would have realized things were going wrong!"

[deceitanon]

“I…I knew”

{Remus whispered}

“I knew about the radiation and still decided to take the risk to study it…”

“I’m so sorry this happened to you Dr. Rhinestone..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null falls back onto the couch to try and calm down.

"I knew the risk too... I was suppose to be helping minimize the risk, and be the first to know when it was becoming too high of a risk."

...

"Please don't be sorry... I probably would have been fired or worse even if I did live..."

They look back up at him after a moment.

"But... Still here now, y-yeah?... Suppose you still can't get r-rid of me that easily?"

They try to make a joke to lighten the mood, though their words are still choked.

"Don't beat yourself up about it... Would say I'm not the same person, and I think I gather why I wouldn't want to be now."

They offer their hand again.

"I don't hold anything against you..."

Though no mouth is there, Null does smile softly.

[deceitanon]

“Mghh”

{Remus laughs before nodding}

“I don’t hold anything against you either…”

——-

{Remy blinks slowly and stares at Eddie}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remus for a moment before pulling him into a hug if he lets them.

"... Thank you."

Their head feels all buzzy right now... They aren't sure why, but thinking of themself as human causes their entire body to ache. Like they aren't allowed to feel that.

"..."

"Please only call me Null as well..." Their human tone retreats a little now. Tone returning to more uncanny.

----

Eddie looks over at Remy as well. He seems very confused.

"I... Do not remember there being a Dr. Rhinestone...?"

Though with the nature of what Null is it may be impossible to see them in the past. Ethos wouldn't have detected any lies either.

Eddie does not know what Null is as of right now.

[deceitanon]

{Remus touches Null’s tv screen and smiles}

“Looks like we both were changed heavily after the accident..”

——

{Remy nods in agreement}

“I don’t remember if this is because of the time stuff we did either”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null's screen has a electrical buzzing feel to it despite no electricity actually existing in them.

"I suppose so, yes... I became the concept of the liminal and uncanny feeling. Does not make people particularly enjoy being around me."

The eyes behind their screen shift slightly to look at Remus past his hand.

"How were you changed?"

----

Eddie sighs and thinks for a moment. He catches what Null says about their concept--

"Ah, I uh I do not think it is..."

... Why does he say it like he knows something...?

"I was wondering when they would show up." He mumbles very quietly--

He implies he already knew about Null in a way?!

[deceitanon]

“I became intrusive thoughts , got a bad cancer, drank a experimental drug and now I have a Symbiot inside me-“

“I wasn’t all this sane, but thanks to everyone here I’m semi back to normal… now I’m growing plants thanks to the basement downstairs- I swear I feel like it’s alive sometimes”

——

{Remy blinks slowly}

“Huh?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null goes to respond, but pauses at the mention of the basement--

"... Alive... How?"

They ask as if they know something.

----

Eddie pauses briefly.

"I uh... You know how the basement is always shifting and responding to what living things need, but it isn't technically alive?"

He looks at Remy with a look of "please don't be mad"

... What did he do?

[deceitanon]

{Remy stares at Eddie}

“Babes….. what did you do?”

{he gives him a stern look but one that says he won’t be fully mad}

——

“I dunno.. it just responded to me in ways that I didn’t even know I needed.. it learned- I swore it was teasing and sarcastic to me at one point”

{Remus shrugs}

“Why?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Uhhh... That basement is technically part of Null's domain and I didn't remember how I did that until recently... I uh I still don't understand the technicality of how I did it."

...

"I may have stolen a part of their domain somehow--"

How the actual fuck does someone steal part of someone else's domain?!

----

Null pauses in thought...

"How the..."

They look at Eddie.

They stare.

"You... You stole part of my domain?!"

Eddie chuckles nervously and looks away.

"I was wondering what that went!! You ass!! I was working on that for so long!"

Oh dear--

They aren't properly angry, but they are upset.

[deceitanon]

“Whoa whoa- no need for name calling Null”

{Remy glares at Null as he steps in front of Eddie, the chill and soft look is gone once the room became tense}

“Eddie did you know that the domain belonged to someone?”

{he asked with patience}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null backs up at the look Remy gives and picks at their gloves again. Their screen is also dimmer.

"Apologies..."

Eddie speaks up after.

"I did not until it was there, and I didn't know how to return it... I also forgot all recollection of obtaining it briefly after."

He looks over at Null.

"I am sorry-- I-I didn't know what I was doing..."

There's silence for a while before Null speaks again, their voice quieter now.

"... It's okay-- I... Honestly that project was frustrating me a lot."

...

"Can I see it?"

They still don't step closer right now.

"... Maybe you had better luck getting it to work?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a deep breath and his glare drops, tension gone}

——

{Remus perks up}

“Wait! No you can go in there Eddie.. remember the mushrooms?!”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null relaxes after a moment as well.

"I am sorry for getting upset..."

They speak quietly still... If Remy looks at the floor below when Null was standing when they got upset; the carpet is warped now. The pattern on it looks unsettling yet eerily similar to how it was before.

They did mention they have a harder time controlling their abilities with emotions.

----

Eddie looks over at Remus.

"I... I do remember. They were triggered by an electrical shock though. They are dormant otherwise."

He tries to reassure Remus, also walking over to him.

"I'll be fine... I'll avoid that room too. Is that okay?"

Despite Eddie being certain about it being okay he would still listen to Remus if he said no.

[deceitanon]

{Remy nods and offers to hug Null as an apology for snapping and a forgiveness gesture}

——

“I.. okay, I will make sure the room will close the area off before you get in there”

{Remus said before taking a deep breath- Eddie hasn’t seen him worried about others so openly before.. only frustrated at the person}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks up for a moment before accepting the hug.

"I do understand your reaction... I apologize as well."

They do seem lost in thought for a moment.

...

"... I do not think I have expressed emotions that blatantly in a long time."

They are a little unsure on how to handle them, but also unsure what to do when emotions not only cause issues with control, but also body aches. They don't mention the last part.

It's not just conflicting in letting themself express them, but also conflicting in getting their curse to let them.

--

Eddie looks up at Remus and gently takes his hands.

"It'll be okay... Thank you for being concerned, and I will leave if anything goes wrong, okay?"

He smiles softly and offers a hug. He does want to kiss him, but that's hard to gesture with the height difference--

[deceitanon]

“Oh? Are emotions hard to control sometimes? It’s okay if they are, we are kinda experts in that field”

{Remy chuckles}

——

{Remus pulls Eddie in to a hug, leaning down to kiss him if he wanted too}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null chuckles lightly and quietly.

"I seem to struggle feeling them, and controlling them when I do... I suppose I perhaps forgot my own curse after so long of being alone."

Null pulls away from the hug after a moment more.

"Are you planning to come to the basement with Eddie and I?"

Their tone is now neutral again, back to the uncanny feeling it was before the emotions talking to Remus and then the blow up.

----

Eddie smiles softly and pulls himself up a little to kiss Remus with a purr.

"I love you..."

He takes a deep breath and sighs contently.

"I would assume you're coming down to the basement too, spark?"

[deceitanon]

“I do, if you wish to have me?”

{Remy smiles}

“I’m far to interested in all of this to quit now”

——

“Duh! I’m not letting your wires get too curious. If you wanna get shocky. Shock me”

{Remus huffs}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 142

As Remy teleports there's a flicker in everything around him, a feeling of being torn from the plane he was in, and suddenly he's in a... Space. It's hard to put into words what the fuck this is.

... It feels endless, uncanny, and yet familiar. There's items Remy may have felt were important from the distant past, or even the present. Items that feel important, and yet he's never seen. There's segments of these uneven and disorganized rooms that look like the bar, the loft, the cherry grove, the river, the void... There's hints, fragments, of everything Remy has ever seen. Everything feels... Wrong. Soso wrong.

They look like what Remy has seem, but they have an extreme feel of them still not being accurate. Like this space disorderly pulled memories from his mind and threw them around in a desperation to make it feel like home.

...

Lights flicker dully where there is no source, water trickles in the walls that aren't hollow...

Familiar sounds of people Remy knows are in the distant, with no obvious direction, but they have no realism to them. Parrots and echos of memories put into here wrong.

...

There is a sound that is real, but still uncanny. A voice. Humming. Their voice sounds like a person stuck behind a broken tv playing static, a crackling stinging hum with a broken melody.

[deceitanon]

“Hm…. honestly- ain’t the worst place I’ve been in”

{Remy picks up a ball and chucks it over to where he hears the humming}

“Eddie? Babes? Why’d you summon me here?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie is no where to be smelled even though a quiet hint of his voice echos from no where.

When Remy chucks the ball to the humming it suddenly stops. Deafening silence fills the space immediately.

...

"HelL-o?" The voice is broken, muffled and stuffed with static.

Slow someone peaks around the corner. A extremely tall lanky figure, only their head visible right now. A thin hand gloves in black velvet holds the wall near them.

Their head is a small black tv box, a very only one. It glows dully with flickers of visual static, and a subtle ringing of static piercings the air. Ever so slightly glowing white eyes that flicker like screen tearing are visible behind the screen. Those eyes are barely visible, yet so unsettling piercing.

... No heart beat. No warmth. No breathing. Not even any subtle electrical current of nerves, brain, or even a computer. Like they are nothing at all.

"..." The way they tilt their head in confusion feels so incredibly wrong.

[deceitanon]

“Hm? Hello- Have you seen a short but handsome man with wired hair? I seem to be lost, wouldn’t be the first”

{Remy says like meeting someone like him is normal}

“Where even am I? It’s creepy but cool as fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The figure stays silent for a while before fully rounding the corner.

They stand at 7'9. They are unnaturally slim, limbs just slightly long enough to be uncanny. The way their clothes lay so perfectly and beautifully feels unnatural. They wear a long black layered dress with ruffles, and black velvet gloves covering their whole arms. Black flats with white frilly socks. Adorned on top of their head is a veil made of smooth lightweight black feathers.

They stare for a while.

"... I h-Ave noT..."

"I don-T hAve a nAme fOr thIs place... JuSt minE."

They radiate unease and uncanny feelings. They mean no harm.

"Int-rEstIng... Ho-w A-rE you hEre?"

They speak as if it is supposed to be impossible. They step closer slowly as if uncertain Remy is more than a trick of this space.

[deceitanon]

“Damn you’re tall- hmmmm must have glitched out of reality or something!”

“Oh like the backrooom”

{He said with a snap}

“How are you even alive here?- you’re very uncanny- but that’s hot nowadays”

“I’m Remy, you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"..."

They seem flabbergasted, even with no face that feeling isn't seen but felt from them to Remy.

"nOt alivE..."

"I hAve no NamE..." They pause. "NulL." It's a word meaning nothing afterall.

"HavE n-ot been callEd 'hot' bEfoRe."

They step closer and hesitantly poke Remy from the top of his head. They small touch feel cold, a split second of nausea given too.

"... You arE reAl..." They seem even more confused.

"I s-uppose oUt of reAlity w-Ould be dEcent as a WorDing."

They sit on the ground, now eye level to Remy.

"glItch... WhEre and w-Hen are you fr-Om?... You mUst be retUrned." They say as if returning a book to a library, clearly not used to human contact.

[deceitanon]

{Remy blinks away the nausea and chuckles when he is poked}

“Ouch, it’s like you don’t even want me here! I’m hurt”

{he says with a hand on his chest}

“I mean I got nothing important to do, just came back from altering time itself so.. this is kinda nice”

{Remy doesn’t know why he’s spilling all of this}

“Null? That’s a sick name, why.. are you here though? You look alive to me”

{he says with certainty}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"i dO n-ot mInd cOmpan-y... N-o-one shOulD be here thOugH..."

They stare and tilt their head again. When they do some 'skin' on their neck is visible briefly. It looks less like skin and more like a void made of millions of writhing larva. Constantly moving in a sickly way.

"altEriNg tIme?.."

...

"hErE is Home... My spAce. ConCepT of the liminal... UnCannY ties in-tO it."

"alivE... N-oT alive, bUt stiLl con-scious."

They aren't certain what would count as alive in other senses. "AlivE indiCates being m-Ade of org-anIc matter." They are not.

[deceitanon]

“Then I must be not alive too. I’m a giant dead fox. And you are made out of larva- not gonna lie, that’s kinda icky”

“…:does it hurt?”

{Remy asks very quietly with a frown}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses and looks at themself for a moment. They pause for a moment longer, turning a few dials on their head. There's a sickening squelching and gargling noise as they do. Their voice now sounds smoother and consistent though, but still stuffed with static and muffled by the screen.

"Larva... I suppose it could be comparable to that? They're void maggots. They are unique to this place."

They carefully scoop out a small few of the void maggots. They wiggle around for a moment, small like usual maggots, and then Null puts them back.

"Hurt...?"

They pause at that as well.

"Yes... But not in your sense. I do not feel it that same way. It is a constant feeling, but I am not bothered by it."

...

"Giant dead fox? Could you say more?"

[deceitanon]

“Ah… well, as long as you don’t go talking to the others here”

{he said jokingly}

“Kitsune, my fox form died a long time ago- it gets really complicated… can I show you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The chuckle Null lets out sounds like breaking glass through tv static.

"I do believe there is no one else to tell... Unless you mean the illusions, but I believe they do not count."

They pauses and then nod.

"I would like to see if you wish to show."

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a step back and drops all of his illusions at once… and shows Null his true fox form.. it’s massive… and dead looking}

{armor on top of his dead fur, it looks like it’s been washed recently by Eddie despite it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares, and though no mouth exists, a smile is felt.

"You are beautiful... May I pet y--"

They cut themself off.

"I should not touch... It makes people ill."

They stare regardless. A yearning for touch is blatantly radiating of them now.

"I could show you how I shapeshift?... It is not pretty though."

They wish to show themself too.

[deceitanon]

{Remy judges their hand, their bone armor could protect him if they pet in the right places.. he is so… warm! Despite claiming to be a dead fox}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tenses briefly before noticing Remy is okay.

They run their hands along his bone armor, his head mostly.

"Warm..."

They move closer and lay their tv head onto his. The sound of tv static feels sharp, but not too overburdening.

"I do not wish to leave you now..." This is the first time they've been able to touch anyone, and one of the very few times they've even been around someone visually.

[deceitanon]

{Remy sniffs where he can hear the static, then pauses when he hears them say that}

{he slowly shifts back, but offers his hand for Null to fidget with}

“I.. will try my best to help you, you said I can return, but why haven’t you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at his hand... Hesitantly taking it. They focus on trying to stop the nausea from carrying over.

"..."

"I can return... I do not have much control over how I warp spaces. I do try to not use abilities when I am in the existing planes, but I am unpredictable. I carry unease everywhere I go, I cannot choose a form that is not uncanny, I cannot create spaces that are not uncanny... Emotions are not something I understand, but I do know they contribute to mistaken use of my abilities."

They stare at Remy's hand as they talk. Quiet sparking crying is heard, though it is only black blood that drips from under the screen of their head. Smelling strongly of rot and iron.

"I do not wish to cause trouble. So I do not leave often, and when I do I do not leave with my body... I simply look, and memorize..."

This space is built by disorganized memories.

[deceitanon]

“We have a lot of people like you back at my home, Emotions, Weird lookin’ we even have someone that is the literal meaning of intrusive thoughts”

{Remy Chuckles, before pauses, he tries to summon a cloth, but his whole body glitches- and he falls forward against them, but he gets the cloth

“Imma… just ignore what happened to me for now”

{Remy murmurs to himself before gently cleaning off the rot and iron liquid}



[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null reaches out to catch Remy.

"Be careful in here. Your abilities will not work easily. I do not wish for you to harm yourself."

It leans into Remy wiping off the liquid.

"... Could I go home with you?"

They ask as if they are a stray cat giving boba eyes. Uncanny never leaves anything they do, as if it is a deep rooted curse in their very being.

[deceitanon]

“Of course you can!- wait… I should probably ask Eddie.. I’ve been bring so many people home.. it wouldn’t be okay if I just kept on doing it”

“Is… there a way I can speak to him? Or will I have to leave you first?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Oh-- You cannot leave with my help... And you will not be able to get back most likely."

They pauses to think, and then summon a black rotary phone with blood red rubies chaotically placed.

"Do you come from a time with phones?... This should work if so."

They talk as if they can travel between not just space, but time as well.

[deceitanon]

“Hmmm I- would call him but- I don’t really use a phone- he just kinda talks to me in my head”

“I promise it’s not as crazy as it seems”

“Oh! And I can totally come back, I’ll just recreate what I did, easy peasy”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at the phone and back at Remy.

They speak after a while of silence.

"Okay..."

They don't believe Remy will be able to come back, but they don't argue regardless. Remy has to go back either way.

"I will see you when you return." They say with hidden disbelief.

They don't wait for a response before they poke Remy's chest and in a sickening disorientating blink he's back in the bar.

[deceitanon]

{Remy groans and leans up against the bar}

{he blinks slowly, he feels like he needs to puke}

“Fuckkkk- Eddddiiieeeee”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie quickly appears next to Remy.

"Where-- What happened???" He sounds confused and concerned. "I lost all sense of you for a few minutes."

'Fee minutes' it felt like almost an hour passed down there... How does time work in that space?

"Are you okay??" He brings a trashcan over incase Remy does puke.

[deceitanon]

{Remy does end up puking}

“Got stuck in a weird space when I teleported….. few mins? It felt like I was there for hours”

“No… that’s not what I need to focus on.. there is someone trapped.. they are… uncanny more so than Remus but.. they wish to have a home”

{Remy gave Eddie puppy eyes}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie gently rubs Remy's back for a moment.

"What do you mean 'weird space??'"

He seems utterly confused.

"I--"

He looks at Remy's eyes and sighs after a moment with a lighthearted eye roll.

"Okay... Fine... I'm lucky Starie can create so much space where there shouldn't even be room, you know?"

With the amount of people here, it'd be impossible without Starie's stable space warping.

[deceitanon]

“Don’t worry~ they realllly tall which I know you love”

{Remy nuzzles up against Eddie with a happy purr}

“I… hope I can actually get back there”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie looks away with an embarrassed flush at Remy's comment.

"Oh, fuck off..." He playfully scoffs out without any actually annoyance. He clears his throat after a moment before replying, and nuzzling Remy back.

"Is there a chance you can't?"

He seems confused at that.

[deceitanon]

“Maybe… I just- need to make myself glitch while teleporting..”

“It… hurts to do it but I’ll only need to do it once.. so it won’t be that bad right?”

{Remy murmurs to himself}

{Remy kisses Eddie’s cheek before taking a deep breath, glitching and teleporting at the same time- and he lands back into the space.. but is on his hands and knees groaning, and coughing up more bile}

“Fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie tenses when Remy is gone again, he hates that he can't even senses Remy's existence right now... He paces while he waits.

----

Null startles and squeaks out shrieking static when they see Remy again.

"Remy...?"

They walk over and stare at him and the bile.

"How-- Are you okay?..."

Though Remy was gone for roughly five minutes, it's only been fifteen in here despite a few minutes being hours last time.

[deceitanon]

{Remy curls up and gives him a weak wait gesture… his body glitching again}

“Hurts…”

{His ears folded down- he hates when he glitches..}

“Don’t.. look”

{he hates making new people see him like this- 1) he likes to maintain the cool image he has.. and 2) because it makes him wish Eddie was here to comfort him}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses before nodding and turning around.

They sit nearby with their back to Remy.

"I am sorry that I cannot help... I am not a healing type... Do let me know if you cannot settle your body though, I can understand the glitching. It is one reason I do not leave with my body anymore... It tends to cause some of the void maggots to burst."

That... Sounds incredibly painful for someone who is made of them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tries to get up then lays back down immediately}

“Tel… tell me more… void maggots.. what do they do?”

“I… can control the void.. it’s how I can manipulate dreams”

{Remy murmurs weakly as he just lets his back lax.. he wishes just to listen}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Void maggots are specific to the place as I said... They grow in the walls, squirm their way in the ground, and come to me... I believe I am more of an entity made by this place."

They sound uncertain on what they are.

"They allow me to shapeshift, as they have no solid form either... I am unsure if they would be the same as the void you describe, but you can try manipulating them if you wish to test that? I do not mind."

Null is suggesting Remy manipulate their body itself.

"They have no thought, or organic life... They just exist. Like me... I do believe they are an essence of this place? That may be the best wording I have."

[deceitanon]

{Remy has gone silent}

{He has fallen asleep, he looks so.. human and warm}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turns around when he's silent for too long.

They stare for a while... Look around... They stand up slowly, and with focus to not make Remy ill, they pick him up.

They wander further into the space until it shifts out of Remy's memories and into a space Null made themself.

It's made to be a cottage, but it feels like an uncanny mimic of one, even more so than Remy's memories.

They place him on a bed, pulling a blanket over him, and then move to make coffee... They get a feeling he likes coffee. The bed feels oddly comfortable compared to the rest of this place.

The bedroom isn't all too separate from the living room, which is decently open to the kitchen and the front door. There are windows, but they're just a white light with no details.

[deceitanon]

{After sometime, Remy groans and hugs the blanket closer}

“Eddie?”

{he said sleepy, nuzzling into the blanket before opening his eyes… and sees the uncanny house}

“Where.. am I?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null hears him wake up, and slowly walks over to the bedroom. Floorboards creak under their silent feet.

They look around the corner... Looking around corners before walking past them seems like a habit of theirs.

"Are you okay now, Remy?"

They slowly walk closer, they also tend to walk slowly.

They carry a mug of coffee, setting it on the warped nightstand.

"I made coffee."

[deceitanon]

“Fuck yes… I love coffee.. and yes I’m feeling better.. sorry about passing out on you”

“You were talking about the void things?”

{Remy mutters as he sits up and grabs the coffee to drink it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"You are alright."

The coffee is almost right. Almost how Remy likes it. It's off still. Anything Null makes seems to be off.

"I was..."

They watch Remy drink the coffee for a moment, also staring at the bed... They don't say what they want, and it is difficult to tell without a face to show it.

"The void maggots are more of an essence of this space... I believe..."

They think for a moment.

"You mentioned dreamscapes being voids. I believe the void maggots grow up into them. Though they form in here, and make me, I would guess they grow up into something?"

They are larva after all.

"Perhaps that is what they grow into?"

There was a vague familiarity to the maggots, but it was hard to place, easy to dismiss as the space.

[deceitanon]

“You think I can control them? What do you think I can do with them?”

{Remy purrs at the taste of his coffee, his tails wag slowly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently watches Remy's tails wag for a moment.

...

"I believe you could, yes... I am unsure what you could do with them though."

They think for a moment, still staring at Remy. The longer they stare the more unsettling it feels...

"Maybe you could have control over what they form into?... I do not always understand where I learn what I do, but I suppose that is part of who I am... I believe they form dreamscapes, but also mindscapes and pocket dimensions."

"If they have multiple paths, maybe there could be more with artificial influence?"

They scoop out of maggots from their neck again and offer them to Remy. They writhe and squirm in their palm.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tilts his head and looks at the maggots, he shudders but takes a deep breath, he hover his hands over the maggots and tries to alter them in anyway he can}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

As he hovers his hand over the maggots he can feel they have a different type of energy. It's more like a potential energy, that would be gone the moment it's used?

As Remy tries to manipulate the maggots they writhe more, then start to bubble, and then they melt into a black goo... Then, suddenly, Remy can feel a new pocket dimension as the maggot goo disappears. It feels different from ones he may have created before.

He can feel that it was made, and that it belongs to him in a way, but it took little no of his energy to do so.

[deceitanon]

“Huh- gross but that took like no energy.. the maggots feel like that have some kind of energy probably stored inside them- UGH where is Logan when I need him”

{Remy groans- he’s not a scientist or a doctor like him}

“I have no idea what this could mean.. hmmm”

“When I altered the lil guys.. they disappeared but I felt a pocket dimension open up, a new one- how is that even possible.. it wasn’t a lot of em”

“Can you tell me more about yourself Null? How’d you get here? How are you made up of these Void Bugs”

{he wants to stop calling them maggots.. it feels rude because Null is made out of these lil buggers}

___

{While Null is explaining, Remy does try to write a note and glitchport (teleport and glitch) the note to Eddie, to tell him he is okay}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Each one of them grows up into a space like that, so you really only need one. Using more strengthens it, and makes it bigger I would guess."

They fall silent for several minutes at being asked about themself.

...

"I... Do not know how I got here. I just remember nothing... And then I was here... Or--"

Their screen glitches violently for a minute before they talk again.

"As for being made of the bugs--" They talk as if that glitching never happened. "I believe I made out of them as... As..."

They fall silent again.

"I don't think about what I am."

They don't know. They don't like that they don't know.

They can't remember how they got here...

"I like creating things... They always come out warped though."

They summon a fox plush, and while it looks like a fox it is unsettling not a fox at the same time.

----

The note ends up slightly clipped into the bar counter near Eddie. It's enough to read at least, but part of the note is in the counter.

"... Okay..." He sighs in shaky relief.

[deceitanon]

“Hmm.. so-“

{Remy pauses when he watches their screen glitch, he frowns in worry, everything about this place looks and feels fine- but it’s more like an uncanny feeling, he looks at the fox with a head tilt}

{Plus the whole time weirdness is throwing him off as well}

{he rubs his head as he thinks}

“I don’t know what to make of you babes, and I’d like to try and understand as much as I can before I introduce you to a whole new realm- or space.. don’t get me wrong- I’ve dealt with crazy stuff so this is just precarious, because who knows what could happen-“

“But- you don’t like these questions so.. maybe you can ask me somethings? And we can bounce off each others questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly, and stares at the bed for a bit again. They've kind of just been standing there, as if unsure what to do with themself.

"... What does it feel like to breathe?... Or... Just... How does your body feel to you?"

Odd first question...

[deceitanon]

“I.. hm I may not feel like the best example because it’s different with everyone.. but my body feels hot, it might seem warm and nice, but I do love the cold weather to help balance myself out, I get a lot of headaches due to my connections back in my world, but honestly it’s something I’m just used to so I’ve learned how to cope healthily..”

“Breathing feels awesome.. definitely something everyone takes for granted”

“Can I ask you the same questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently listens and processes what Remy said.

...

"I... Do not breathe. I always feel cold, I think numb is the other word... I like that you felt warm, I don't feel that often."

They fall silent again before there's a smaller and calmer glitch on their screen.

"... Breathing... I miss that. I took it for granted too it seems."

They remember breathing... There had to be something before they became this then, right?

"..." They pause, asking their next question quietly. "What does fear feel like?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy perks up, they remember something! Seems like this is going somewhere}

“Fear… is the worst thing to feel.. your body your mind all send these signals that you will die, get hurt.. and you can’t do anything about it”

{Remy looks away for a moment} “though there is a scale to how much a person can feel fear.. like it can be something small like a spider and they just avoid spiders.. or it can be a big fear like.. water itself- or loud sounds where it can affect your day to day life”

“… What can you feel?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly and thinks again.

...

"I don't feel... Things in a way I can place."

"Fear... I--"

They look at their hand and fall silent again.

"I do remember fear though... Fear and... And... Pain."

"Most feelings are dull... Now..."

They fidget with their gloves.

...

"... What does it feel like to die?"

That's... A heavy question. Why are they asking?

[deceitanon]

“… that’s a loaded question, it’s really depends on how you die”

“Why.. do you ask?”

{Remy frowns with worry}

“I promise you, it ain’t fun..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"I..."

They lean against the wall and pick at their gloves now.

"I don't know if I died... I"

They slowly slide down the wall to sit on the floor.

"I wasn't this... What was I?"

They're really wracking their mind now.

"I remember feeling tired... Then cool grass and dirt before falling asleep."

...

"Then an endless void. Thought it was a dream... There was a box. Nothing else... So I... Walked over to it."

They take their glove off and stare at all the writhing larva.

"I opened it... They spilled out, couldn't even guess how many..."

...

"Body was gone... Then I was this."

"It hurt... I was scared. I struggle to even remember feelings now."

[deceitanon]

“…”

{Remy frowns as he listens while nodding along}

{Remy slowly gets up and sits next to them}

“You aren’t alone anymore.. I can’t- I don’t want to promise anything that I’m not confident in.. but I’ll try my best to help you.. I know what it’s like.. losing your body.. being thrown into the void”

{Remy lets his hand hover over their arm, offering a warm touch}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at his hand and slowly takes it after putting their glove back on. They try to stop the sickening sensation, but it seems to be easier now.

"..."

They stay silent for a while longer.

"I don't... Mind what I am now. I think I was human... I can feel things coming back to me too. I don't think I was from your dimension or time period..."

...

"Is it weird... That I like being this?"

They don't like how unsettling they always are, but they still like what they are.

"I just... I just don't want to be alone anymore."

[deceitanon]

“If you liked being like this then I won’t stop you, you aren’t alone anymore. Okay? Not if I can help it”

{Remy smiles as he holds their hand}

“How do we get you over to my side?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null slowly nods and stares at Remy for a moment again.

"... Hard to explain... But it's not difficult for me."

They've just always been too scared to leave, being able to isn't a problem.

In another disorientating, nauseating blink they're back in the bar. It doesn't seem as bad with Null active in the process.

Though as Null teleports them back there's a dull wet popping sound of several of the larva in their body. Some black goo drips from them, but is quick to disappear.

They stumble a little and sit on the ground as their tv head glitches for a moment. It seems similar to a headache for them.

"... Hngg just a moment..."

----

Eddie startles when they are suddenly back and stares at them, more so towards Null. He gets a heavy uneasiness from them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy’s tails wagging quickly as he stands in front of Null and looks at Eddie, like a happy dog that just succeeded in a game of fetch}

“This is Null, he reminds me of Remus.. if that helps with the uneasiness..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie stares at Remy and then chuckles with a sign as he walks over.

He brings him into a hug.

"It does..."

He stares at Null behind Remy as they slowly stand back up.

"This era makes sense..." They mumble to themself as they look around and then at Eddie.

"... Ah, greetings... You must be Eddie?"

Their wording is similar to Logan's, but their voice has that static muffled through a tv feel... And the general uncanny nature of them.

"I am... It's nice to meet you, Null."

This is the second time Remy has mentioned Remus and how they're rather curious about him.

"It is nice to meet you as well..."

They also seem unsure what to do with themself in new area.

[deceitanon]

{Remys drapes himself behind Eddie’s back with a loving purr, nuzzling him}

“Welcome to our home! How are you feeling”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie purrs happily, nuzzling Remy back as he wraps a tail around his waist.

Null looks around before answering.

"I am..." They pause, unsure. "Fine I believe."

They walk closer to Eddie now, looking down at him. They are well over two feet taller than him.

"... Would you like to go upstairs? Everyone is typically up there."

He smiles softly, though still getting used to the uneasiness. He does pause and warn Virgil with a text, knowing he might not handle it well.

Null nods slowly and looks around more.

[deceitanon]

{Virgil gets the text and goes to his room, thanking Eddie}

——

{Upstairs, Logan is talking to Remus on the touch.. Patton is making lunch for everyone, Ethos is reading a book as best he can on the love seat}

{Logan pauses, invisible to Null}

“Eddie? Remy? Who is that?”

—

{Remus turns and perks up with a wicked smile}

“Well look at you! Tall and Mysterious~”

{Remus doesn’t seem to be effected but Null’s Unease presence}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Logan.

"This is Null... Oh-- They can't see you right now..."

--

Ella is sitting with Ethos if he doesn't mind right now.

--

Null stares at Remus and tilts their head slightly. They actually stay silent as they slowly walk over.

...

"Hello..." They almost seem to be analyzing Remus.

...

"You have a familiarity."

Concept of the liminal and uncanny... Concept of intrusive thoughts... Could be something with that, but Null doesn't seem to understand.

They just... Stare. Far more than they did with Remy earlier.

[deceitanon]

{Ethos didn’t mind, he also wasn’t surprised by the new person either, he’s been here since day one, he’s used to this}

——

{Remus stares back and giggles}

“Well I used to look slightly different and yknow been around”

“Oooo Maggots! I love the look”

“I’m Remus! Dark creativity, Intrusive Thoughts, Doctor- you.. look familiar too! But where do I know you from hmmm”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Ella looks over briefly, bur she rather relax with Ethos right now. She leans against him, purring contently.

----

"It is nice to meet you, Remus."

They pause again.

"I... Do not believe I was from this dimension or era... My space exists between all that, but I am never sure."

They move around the couch to sit next to him.

...

They just stare more. Then they offer their hand with no explantion.

Given Remus probably would take their hand without questioning...

He gets no nausea either. Something about who Null was before is what is familiar, hidden what they are now.

...

They were a scientist at the same lab-- They vanished around the same time Remus got the radiation poisoning. Null does not remember much though.

"..." They don't say anything, just analyzing what any of that means.

... If Remus may recall, they used to be called "Dr. Rhinestone." She was well known in her field back then.

[deceitanon]

{Remus stares}

{then blinks}

{stares}

“Dr…Rhinestone- no”

“That’s not possible- the lab was empty when-“

“What happened?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tilts their head and stares back in confusion. When the name Remus says actually registers their screen glitches again and they head a headache like pain.

Though they gather themself well enough.

"Apologies... Dr. Rhinestone?-- I--"

They stare at Remus more.

"... What happened?"

They don't know the answer themself.

"..."

They pick at their gloves again, seeming to be a stressed habit.

"... The lab-- Wait--" They look directly st Remus now, white eyes behind the screen more visible now.

"Dr. Eckhard."

They remember more.

"Shit." They don't like what they remember.

"Fuck. I--"

...

"I worked in a lab near yours. I was supposed to be monitoring the radiation--"

They messed that up. They know they did.

"I didn't-- I got it wrong-- I-I... What happened to me..."

They look at their hands again, their speech sounding more coherent in wording, more tone coming through.

"I just... I remember passing out. I felt dizzy, fell, and I hit my head... Hard... I felt so cold."

They swear they feel the pain again.

"Woke up in a field of grass... Just one peach tree. I was so tired... I felt like I shouldn't sleep, but I did... Then the void, the box-- the maggots."

They pick at their gloves more harshly. Did they pass out from radiation poisoning? How did they just vanish though?

[deceitanon]

{Remus takes a slow step back.. he tugs on his hair}

“Holy…holy shit”

{he stares and starts laughing.. his form glitches- as if almost returning back to how Remus was before.. maybe the death of Dr. Rhinestone is what made him go insane faster- the puzzle piece is bending again}

“It was my fault- you-“

{He starts crying while laughing}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null quickly gets up and shakes their head.

"No. No! I-I was supposed to be monitoring it! I... Fuck. I miscalculated things. If I just-- Fuck."

They are shown genuine visible stress by now. Their uneasiness affect gets stronger with this.

"God I was a fucking idiot!"

They remembered something again.

"Fuck. Why..."

"It was my fault!! Fuck-- Remus--"

They force themself to say the words stuck in their non existent throat.

"I fucked up because I was-- I-I was-- high... I was a fucking idiot!"

They grab the sides of their head, self loathing.

"What the fuck was wrong with me?!"

...

"I was a well regarded scientist, I had access to pretty much anything I wanted, and i fucking abused that?!"

They tear up too, that rot and iron leaking through the screen.

"If I wasn't busy getting high off my ass I would have realized things were going wrong!"

[deceitanon]

“I…I knew”

{Remus whispered}

“I knew about the radiation and still decided to take the risk to study it…”

“I’m so sorry this happened to you Dr. Rhinestone..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null falls back onto the couch to try and calm down.

"I knew the risk too... I was suppose to be helping minimize the risk, and be the first to know when it was becoming too high of a risk."

...

"Please don't be sorry... I probably would have been fired or worse even if I did live..."

They look back up at him after a moment.

"But... Still here now, y-yeah?... Suppose you still can't get r-rid of me that easily?"

They try to make a joke to lighten the mood, though their words are still choked.

"Don't beat yourself up about it... Would say I'm not the same person, and I think I gather why I wouldn't want to be now."

They offer their hand again.

"I don't hold anything against you..."

Though no mouth is there, Null does smile softly.

[deceitanon]

“Mghh”

{Remus laughs before nodding}

“I don’t hold anything against you either…”

——-

{Remy blinks slowly and stares at Eddie}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remus for a moment before pulling him into a hug if he lets them.

"... Thank you."

Their head feels all buzzy right now... They aren't sure why, but thinking of themself as human causes their entire body to ache. Like they aren't allowed to feel that.

"..."

"Please only call me Null as well..." Their human tone retreats a little now. Tone returning to more uncanny.

----

Eddie looks over at Remy as well. He seems very confused.

"I... Do not remember there being a Dr. Rhinestone...?"

Though with the nature of what Null is it may be impossible to see them in the past. Ethos wouldn't have detected any lies either.

Eddie does not know what Null is as of right now.

[deceitanon]

{Remus touches Null’s tv screen and smiles}

“Looks like we both were changed heavily after the accident..”

——

{Remy nods in agreement}

“I don’t remember if this is because of the time stuff we did either”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null's screen has a electrical buzzing feel to it despite no electricity actually existing in them.

"I suppose so, yes... I became the concept of the liminal and uncanny feeling. Does not make people particularly enjoy being around me."

The eyes behind their screen shift slightly to look at Remus past his hand.

"How were you changed?"

----

Eddie sighs and thinks for a moment. He catches what Null says about their concept--

"Ah, I uh I do not think it is..."

... Why does he say it like he knows something...?

"I was wondering when they would show up." He mumbles very quietly--

He implies he already knew about Null in a way?!

[deceitanon]

“I became intrusive thoughts , got a bad cancer, drank a experimental drug and now I have a Symbiot inside me-“

“I wasn’t all this sane, but thanks to everyone here I’m semi back to normal… now I’m growing plants thanks to the basement downstairs- I swear I feel like it’s alive sometimes”

——

{Remy blinks slowly}

“Huh?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null goes to respond, but pauses at the mention of the basement--

"... Alive... How?"

They ask as if they know something.

----

Eddie pauses briefly.

"I uh... You know how the basement is always shifting and responding to what living things need, but it isn't technically alive?"

He looks at Remy with a look of "please don't be mad"

... What did he do?

[deceitanon]

{Remy stares at Eddie}

“Babes….. what did you do?”

{he gives him a stern look but one that says he won’t be fully mad}

——

“I dunno.. it just responded to me in ways that I didn’t even know I needed.. it learned- I swore it was teasing and sarcastic to me at one point”

{Remus shrugs}

“Why?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Uhhh... That basement is technically part of Null's domain and I didn't remember how I did that until recently... I uh I still don't understand the technicality of how I did it."

...

"I may have stolen a part of their domain somehow--"

How the actual fuck does someone steal part of someone else's domain?!

----

Null pauses in thought...

"How the..."

They look at Eddie.

They stare.

"You... You stole part of my domain?!"

Eddie chuckles nervously and looks away.

"I was wondering what that went!! You ass!! I was working on that for so long!"

Oh dear--

They aren't properly angry, but they are upset.

[deceitanon]

“Whoa whoa- no need for name calling Null”

{Remy glares at Null as he steps in front of Eddie, the chill and soft look is gone once the room became tense}

“Eddie did you know that the domain belonged to someone?”

{he asked with patience}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null backs up at the look Remy gives and picks at their gloves again. Their screen is also dimmer.

"Apologies..."

Eddie speaks up after.

"I did not until it was there, and I didn't know how to return it... I also forgot all recollection of obtaining it briefly after."

He looks over at Null.

"I am sorry-- I-I didn't know what I was doing..."

There's silence for a while before Null speaks again, their voice quieter now.

"... It's okay-- I... Honestly that project was frustrating me a lot."

...

"Can I see it?"

They still don't step closer right now.

"... Maybe you had better luck getting it to work?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a deep breath and his glare drops, tension gone}

——

{Remus perks up}

“Wait! No you can go in there Eddie.. remember the mushrooms?!”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null relaxes after a moment as well.

"I am sorry for getting upset..."

They speak quietly still... If Remy looks at the floor below when Null was standing when they got upset; the carpet is warped now. The pattern on it looks unsettling yet eerily similar to how it was before.

They did mention they have a harder time controlling their abilities with emotions.

----

Eddie looks over at Remus.

"I... I do remember. They were triggered by an electrical shock though. They are dormant otherwise."

He tries to reassure Remus, also walking over to him.

"I'll be fine... I'll avoid that room too. Is that okay?"

Despite Eddie being certain about it being okay he would still listen to Remus if he said no.

[deceitanon]

{Remy nods and offers to hug Null as an apology for snapping and a forgiveness gesture}

——

“I.. okay, I will make sure the room will close the area off before you get in there”

{Remus said before taking a deep breath- Eddie hasn’t seen him worried about others so openly before.. only frustrated at the person}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks up for a moment before accepting the hug.

"I do understand your reaction... I apologize as well."

They do seem lost in thought for a moment.

...

"... I do not think I have expressed emotions that blatantly in a long time."

They are a little unsure on how to handle them, but also unsure what to do when emotions not only cause issues with control, but also body aches. They don't mention the last part.

It's not just conflicting in letting themself express them, but also conflicting in getting their curse to let them.

--

Eddie looks up at Remus and gently takes his hands.

"It'll be okay... Thank you for being concerned, and I will leave if anything goes wrong, okay?"

He smiles softly and offers a hug. He does want to kiss him, but that's hard to gesture with the height difference--

[deceitanon]

“Oh? Are emotions hard to control sometimes? It’s okay if they are, we are kinda experts in that field”

{Remy chuckles}

——

{Remus pulls Eddie in to a hug, leaning down to kiss him if he wanted too}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 142

As Remy teleports there's a flicker in everything around him, a feeling of being torn from the plane he was in, and suddenly he's in a... Space. It's hard to put into words what the fuck this is.

... It feels endless, uncanny, and yet familiar. There's items Remy may have felt were important from the distant past, or even the present. Items that feel important, and yet he's never seen. There's segments of these uneven and disorganized rooms that look like the bar, the loft, the cherry grove, the river, the void... There's hints, fragments, of everything Remy has ever seen. Everything feels... Wrong. Soso wrong.

They look like what Remy has seem, but they have an extreme feel of them still not being accurate. Like this space disorderly pulled memories from his mind and threw them around in a desperation to make it feel like home.

...

Lights flicker dully where there is no source, water trickles in the walls that aren't hollow...

Familiar sounds of people Remy knows are in the distant, with no obvious direction, but they have no realism to them. Parrots and echos of memories put into here wrong.

...

There is a sound that is real, but still uncanny. A voice. Humming. Their voice sounds like a person stuck behind a broken tv playing static, a crackling stinging hum with a broken melody.

[deceitanon]

“Hm…. honestly- ain’t the worst place I’ve been in”

{Remy picks up a ball and chucks it over to where he hears the humming}

“Eddie? Babes? Why’d you summon me here?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie is no where to be smelled even though a quiet hint of his voice echos from no where.

When Remy chucks the ball to the humming it suddenly stops. Deafening silence fills the space immediately.

...

"HelL-o?" The voice is broken, muffled and stuffed with static.

Slow someone peaks around the corner. A extremely tall lanky figure, only their head visible right now. A thin hand gloves in black velvet holds the wall near them.

Their head is a small black tv box, a very only one. It glows dully with flickers of visual static, and a subtle ringing of static piercings the air. Ever so slightly glowing white eyes that flicker like screen tearing are visible behind the screen. Those eyes are barely visible, yet so unsettling piercing.

... No heart beat. No warmth. No breathing. Not even any subtle electrical current of nerves, brain, or even a computer. Like they are nothing at all.

"..." The way they tilt their head in confusion feels so incredibly wrong.

[deceitanon]

“Hm? Hello- Have you seen a short but handsome man with wired hair? I seem to be lost, wouldn’t be the first”

{Remy says like meeting someone like him is normal}

“Where even am I? It’s creepy but cool as fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The figure stays silent for a while before fully rounding the corner.

They stand at 7'9. They are unnaturally slim, limbs just slightly long enough to be uncanny. The way their clothes lay so perfectly and beautifully feels unnatural. They wear a long black layered dress with ruffles, and black velvet gloves covering their whole arms. Black flats with white frilly socks. Adorned on top of their head is a veil made of smooth lightweight black feathers.

They stare for a while.

"... I h-Ave noT..."

"I don-T hAve a nAme fOr thIs place... JuSt minE."

They radiate unease and uncanny feelings. They mean no harm.

"Int-rEstIng... Ho-w A-rE you hEre?"

They speak as if it is supposed to be impossible. They step closer slowly as if uncertain Remy is more than a trick of this space.

[deceitanon]

“Damn you’re tall- hmmmm must have glitched out of reality or something!”

“Oh like the backrooom”

{He said with a snap}

“How are you even alive here?- you’re very uncanny- but that’s hot nowadays”

“I’m Remy, you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"..."

They seem flabbergasted, even with no face that feeling isn't seen but felt from them to Remy.

"nOt alivE..."

"I hAve no NamE..." They pause. "NulL." It's a word meaning nothing afterall.

"HavE n-ot been callEd 'hot' bEfoRe."

They step closer and hesitantly poke Remy from the top of his head. They small touch feel cold, a split second of nausea given too.

"... You arE reAl..." They seem even more confused.

"I s-uppose oUt of reAlity w-Ould be dEcent as a WorDing."

They sit on the ground, now eye level to Remy.

"glItch... WhEre and w-Hen are you fr-Om?... You mUst be retUrned." They say as if returning a book to a library, clearly not used to human contact.

[deceitanon]

{Remy blinks away the nausea and chuckles when he is poked}

“Ouch, it’s like you don’t even want me here! I’m hurt”

{he says with a hand on his chest}

“I mean I got nothing important to do, just came back from altering time itself so.. this is kinda nice”

{Remy doesn’t know why he’s spilling all of this}

“Null? That’s a sick name, why.. are you here though? You look alive to me”

{he says with certainty}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"i dO n-ot mInd cOmpan-y... N-o-one shOulD be here thOugH..."

They stare and tilt their head again. When they do some 'skin' on their neck is visible briefly. It looks less like skin and more like a void made of millions of writhing larva. Constantly moving in a sickly way.

"altEriNg tIme?.."

...

"hErE is Home... My spAce. ConCepT of the liminal... UnCannY ties in-tO it."

"alivE... N-oT alive, bUt stiLl con-scious."

They aren't certain what would count as alive in other senses. "AlivE indiCates being m-Ade of org-anIc matter." They are not.

[deceitanon]

“Then I must be not alive too. I’m a giant dead fox. And you are made out of larva- not gonna lie, that’s kinda icky”

“…:does it hurt?”

{Remy asks very quietly with a frown}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses and looks at themself for a moment. They pause for a moment longer, turning a few dials on their head. There's a sickening squelching and gargling noise as they do. Their voice now sounds smoother and consistent though, but still stuffed with static and muffled by the screen.

"Larva... I suppose it could be comparable to that? They're void maggots. They are unique to this place."

They carefully scoop out a small few of the void maggots. They wiggle around for a moment, small like usual maggots, and then Null puts them back.

"Hurt...?"

They pause at that as well.

"Yes... But not in your sense. I do not feel it that same way. It is a constant feeling, but I am not bothered by it."

...

"Giant dead fox? Could you say more?"

[deceitanon]

“Ah… well, as long as you don’t go talking to the others here”

{he said jokingly}

“Kitsune, my fox form died a long time ago- it gets really complicated… can I show you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The chuckle Null lets out sounds like breaking glass through tv static.

"I do believe there is no one else to tell... Unless you mean the illusions, but I believe they do not count."

They pauses and then nod.

"I would like to see if you wish to show."

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a step back and drops all of his illusions at once… and shows Null his true fox form.. it’s massive… and dead looking}

{armor on top of his dead fur, it looks like it’s been washed recently by Eddie despite it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares, and though no mouth exists, a smile is felt.

"You are beautiful... May I pet y--"

They cut themself off.

"I should not touch... It makes people ill."

They stare regardless. A yearning for touch is blatantly radiating of them now.

"I could show you how I shapeshift?... It is not pretty though."

They wish to show themself too.

[deceitanon]

{Remy judges their hand, their bone armor could protect him if they pet in the right places.. he is so… warm! Despite claiming to be a dead fox}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tenses briefly before noticing Remy is okay.

They run their hands along his bone armor, his head mostly.

"Warm..."

They move closer and lay their tv head onto his. The sound of tv static feels sharp, but not too overburdening.

"I do not wish to leave you now..." This is the first time they've been able to touch anyone, and one of the very few times they've even been around someone visually.

[deceitanon]

{Remy sniffs where he can hear the static, then pauses when he hears them say that}

{he slowly shifts back, but offers his hand for Null to fidget with}

“I.. will try my best to help you, you said I can return, but why haven’t you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at his hand... Hesitantly taking it. They focus on trying to stop the nausea from carrying over.

"..."

"I can return... I do not have much control over how I warp spaces. I do try to not use abilities when I am in the existing planes, but I am unpredictable. I carry unease everywhere I go, I cannot choose a form that is not uncanny, I cannot create spaces that are not uncanny... Emotions are not something I understand, but I do know they contribute to mistaken use of my abilities."

They stare at Remy's hand as they talk. Quiet sparking crying is heard, though it is only black blood that drips from under the screen of their head. Smelling strongly of rot and iron.

"I do not wish to cause trouble. So I do not leave often, and when I do I do not leave with my body... I simply look, and memorize..."

This space is built by disorganized memories.

[deceitanon]

“We have a lot of people like you back at my home, Emotions, Weird lookin’ we even have someone that is the literal meaning of intrusive thoughts”

{Remy Chuckles, before pauses, he tries to summon a cloth, but his whole body glitches- and he falls forward against them, but he gets the cloth

“Imma… just ignore what happened to me for now”

{Remy murmurs to himself before gently cleaning off the rot and iron liquid}



[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null reaches out to catch Remy.

"Be careful in here. Your abilities will not work easily. I do not wish for you to harm yourself."

It leans into Remy wiping off the liquid.

"... Could I go home with you?"

They ask as if they are a stray cat giving boba eyes. Uncanny never leaves anything they do, as if it is a deep rooted curse in their very being.

[deceitanon]

“Of course you can!- wait… I should probably ask Eddie.. I’ve been bring so many people home.. it wouldn’t be okay if I just kept on doing it”

“Is… there a way I can speak to him? Or will I have to leave you first?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Oh-- You cannot leave with my help... And you will not be able to get back most likely."

They pauses to think, and then summon a black rotary phone with blood red rubies chaotically placed.

"Do you come from a time with phones?... This should work if so."

They talk as if they can travel between not just space, but time as well.

[deceitanon]

“Hmmm I- would call him but- I don’t really use a phone- he just kinda talks to me in my head”

“I promise it’s not as crazy as it seems”

“Oh! And I can totally come back, I’ll just recreate what I did, easy peasy”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at the phone and back at Remy.

They speak after a while of silence.

"Okay..."

They don't believe Remy will be able to come back, but they don't argue regardless. Remy has to go back either way.

"I will see you when you return." They say with hidden disbelief.

They don't wait for a response before they poke Remy's chest and in a sickening disorientating blink he's back in the bar.

[deceitanon]

{Remy groans and leans up against the bar}

{he blinks slowly, he feels like he needs to puke}

“Fuckkkk- Eddddiiieeeee”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie quickly appears next to Remy.

"Where-- What happened???" He sounds confused and concerned. "I lost all sense of you for a few minutes."

'Fee minutes' it felt like almost an hour passed down there... How does time work in that space?

"Are you okay??" He brings a trashcan over incase Remy does puke.

[deceitanon]

{Remy does end up puking}

“Got stuck in a weird space when I teleported….. few mins? It felt like I was there for hours”

“No… that’s not what I need to focus on.. there is someone trapped.. they are… uncanny more so than Remus but.. they wish to have a home”

{Remy gave Eddie puppy eyes}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie gently rubs Remy's back for a moment.

"What do you mean 'weird space??'"

He seems utterly confused.

"I--"

He looks at Remy's eyes and sighs after a moment with a lighthearted eye roll.

"Okay... Fine... I'm lucky Starie can create so much space where there shouldn't even be room, you know?"

With the amount of people here, it'd be impossible without Starie's stable space warping.

[deceitanon]

“Don’t worry~ they realllly tall which I know you love”

{Remy nuzzles up against Eddie with a happy purr}

“I… hope I can actually get back there”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie looks away with an embarrassed flush at Remy's comment.

"Oh, fuck off..." He playfully scoffs out without any actually annoyance. He clears his throat after a moment before replying, and nuzzling Remy back.

"Is there a chance you can't?"

He seems confused at that.

[deceitanon]

“Maybe… I just- need to make myself glitch while teleporting..”

“It… hurts to do it but I’ll only need to do it once.. so it won’t be that bad right?”

{Remy murmurs to himself}

{Remy kisses Eddie’s cheek before taking a deep breath, glitching and teleporting at the same time- and he lands back into the space.. but is on his hands and knees groaning, and coughing up more bile}

“Fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie tenses when Remy is gone again, he hates that he can't even senses Remy's existence right now... He paces while he waits.

----

Null startles and squeaks out shrieking static when they see Remy again.

"Remy...?"

They walk over and stare at him and the bile.

"How-- Are you okay?..."

Though Remy was gone for roughly five minutes, it's only been fifteen in here despite a few minutes being hours last time.

[deceitanon]

{Remy curls up and gives him a weak wait gesture… his body glitching again}

“Hurts…”

{His ears folded down- he hates when he glitches..}

“Don’t.. look”

{he hates making new people see him like this- 1) he likes to maintain the cool image he has.. and 2) because it makes him wish Eddie was here to comfort him}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses before nodding and turning around.

They sit nearby with their back to Remy.

"I am sorry that I cannot help... I am not a healing type... Do let me know if you cannot settle your body though, I can understand the glitching. It is one reason I do not leave with my body anymore... It tends to cause some of the void maggots to burst."

That... Sounds incredibly painful for someone who is made of them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tries to get up then lays back down immediately}

“Tel… tell me more… void maggots.. what do they do?”

“I… can control the void.. it’s how I can manipulate dreams”

{Remy murmurs weakly as he just lets his back lax.. he wishes just to listen}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Void maggots are specific to the place as I said... They grow in the walls, squirm their way in the ground, and come to me... I believe I am more of an entity made by this place."

They sound uncertain on what they are.

"They allow me to shapeshift, as they have no solid form either... I am unsure if they would be the same as the void you describe, but you can try manipulating them if you wish to test that? I do not mind."

Null is suggesting Remy manipulate their body itself.

"They have no thought, or organic life... They just exist. Like me... I do believe they are an essence of this place? That may be the best wording I have."

[deceitanon]

{Remy has gone silent}

{He has fallen asleep, he looks so.. human and warm}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turns around when he's silent for too long.

They stare for a while... Look around... They stand up slowly, and with focus to not make Remy ill, they pick him up.

They wander further into the space until it shifts out of Remy's memories and into a space Null made themself.

It's made to be a cottage, but it feels like an uncanny mimic of one, even more so than Remy's memories.

They place him on a bed, pulling a blanket over him, and then move to make coffee... They get a feeling he likes coffee. The bed feels oddly comfortable compared to the rest of this place.

The bedroom isn't all too separate from the living room, which is decently open to the kitchen and the front door. There are windows, but they're just a white light with no details.

[deceitanon]

{After sometime, Remy groans and hugs the blanket closer}

“Eddie?”

{he said sleepy, nuzzling into the blanket before opening his eyes… and sees the uncanny house}

“Where.. am I?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null hears him wake up, and slowly walks over to the bedroom. Floorboards creak under their silent feet.

They look around the corner... Looking around corners before walking past them seems like a habit of theirs.

"Are you okay now, Remy?"

They slowly walk closer, they also tend to walk slowly.

They carry a mug of coffee, setting it on the warped nightstand.

"I made coffee."

[deceitanon]

“Fuck yes… I love coffee.. and yes I’m feeling better.. sorry about passing out on you”

“You were talking about the void things?”

{Remy mutters as he sits up and grabs the coffee to drink it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"You are alright."

The coffee is almost right. Almost how Remy likes it. It's off still. Anything Null makes seems to be off.

"I was..."

They watch Remy drink the coffee for a moment, also staring at the bed... They don't say what they want, and it is difficult to tell without a face to show it.

"The void maggots are more of an essence of this space... I believe..."

They think for a moment.

"You mentioned dreamscapes being voids. I believe the void maggots grow up into them. Though they form in here, and make me, I would guess they grow up into something?"

They are larva after all.

"Perhaps that is what they grow into?"

There was a vague familiarity to the maggots, but it was hard to place, easy to dismiss as the space.

[deceitanon]

“You think I can control them? What do you think I can do with them?”

{Remy purrs at the taste of his coffee, his tails wag slowly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently watches Remy's tails wag for a moment.

...

"I believe you could, yes... I am unsure what you could do with them though."

They think for a moment, still staring at Remy. The longer they stare the more unsettling it feels...

"Maybe you could have control over what they form into?... I do not always understand where I learn what I do, but I suppose that is part of who I am... I believe they form dreamscapes, but also mindscapes and pocket dimensions."

"If they have multiple paths, maybe there could be more with artificial influence?"

They scoop out of maggots from their neck again and offer them to Remy. They writhe and squirm in their palm.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tilts his head and looks at the maggots, he shudders but takes a deep breath, he hover his hands over the maggots and tries to alter them in anyway he can}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

As he hovers his hand over the maggots he can feel they have a different type of energy. It's more like a potential energy, that would be gone the moment it's used?

As Remy tries to manipulate the maggots they writhe more, then start to bubble, and then they melt into a black goo... Then, suddenly, Remy can feel a new pocket dimension as the maggot goo disappears. It feels different from ones he may have created before.

He can feel that it was made, and that it belongs to him in a way, but it took little no of his energy to do so.

[deceitanon]

“Huh- gross but that took like no energy.. the maggots feel like that have some kind of energy probably stored inside them- UGH where is Logan when I need him”

{Remy groans- he’s not a scientist or a doctor like him}

“I have no idea what this could mean.. hmmm”

“When I altered the lil guys.. they disappeared but I felt a pocket dimension open up, a new one- how is that even possible.. it wasn’t a lot of em”

“Can you tell me more about yourself Null? How’d you get here? How are you made up of these Void Bugs”

{he wants to stop calling them maggots.. it feels rude because Null is made out of these lil buggers}

___

{While Null is explaining, Remy does try to write a note and glitchport (teleport and glitch) the note to Eddie, to tell him he is okay}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Each one of them grows up into a space like that, so you really only need one. Using more strengthens it, and makes it bigger I would guess."

They fall silent for several minutes at being asked about themself.

...

"I... Do not know how I got here. I just remember nothing... And then I was here... Or--"

Their screen glitches violently for a minute before they talk again.

"As for being made of the bugs--" They talk as if that glitching never happened. "I believe I made out of them as... As..."

They fall silent again.

"I don't think about what I am."

They don't know. They don't like that they don't know.

They can't remember how they got here...

"I like creating things... They always come out warped though."

They summon a fox plush, and while it looks like a fox it is unsettling not a fox at the same time.

----

The note ends up slightly clipped into the bar counter near Eddie. It's enough to read at least, but part of the note is in the counter.

"... Okay..." He sighs in shaky relief.

[deceitanon]

“Hmm.. so-“

{Remy pauses when he watches their screen glitch, he frowns in worry, everything about this place looks and feels fine- but it’s more like an uncanny feeling, he looks at the fox with a head tilt}

{Plus the whole time weirdness is throwing him off as well}

{he rubs his head as he thinks}

“I don’t know what to make of you babes, and I’d like to try and understand as much as I can before I introduce you to a whole new realm- or space.. don’t get me wrong- I’ve dealt with crazy stuff so this is just precarious, because who knows what could happen-“

“But- you don’t like these questions so.. maybe you can ask me somethings? And we can bounce off each others questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly, and stares at the bed for a bit again. They've kind of just been standing there, as if unsure what to do with themself.

"... What does it feel like to breathe?... Or... Just... How does your body feel to you?"

Odd first question...

[deceitanon]

“I.. hm I may not feel like the best example because it’s different with everyone.. but my body feels hot, it might seem warm and nice, but I do love the cold weather to help balance myself out, I get a lot of headaches due to my connections back in my world, but honestly it’s something I’m just used to so I’ve learned how to cope healthily..”

“Breathing feels awesome.. definitely something everyone takes for granted”

“Can I ask you the same questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently listens and processes what Remy said.

...

"I... Do not breathe. I always feel cold, I think numb is the other word... I like that you felt warm, I don't feel that often."

They fall silent again before there's a smaller and calmer glitch on their screen.

"... Breathing... I miss that. I took it for granted too it seems."

They remember breathing... There had to be something before they became this then, right?

"..." They pause, asking their next question quietly. "What does fear feel like?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy perks up, they remember something! Seems like this is going somewhere}

“Fear… is the worst thing to feel.. your body your mind all send these signals that you will die, get hurt.. and you can’t do anything about it”

{Remy looks away for a moment} “though there is a scale to how much a person can feel fear.. like it can be something small like a spider and they just avoid spiders.. or it can be a big fear like.. water itself- or loud sounds where it can affect your day to day life”

“… What can you feel?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly and thinks again.

...

"I don't feel... Things in a way I can place."

"Fear... I--"

They look at their hand and fall silent again.

"I do remember fear though... Fear and... And... Pain."

"Most feelings are dull... Now..."

They fidget with their gloves.

...

"... What does it feel like to die?"

That's... A heavy question. Why are they asking?

[deceitanon]

“… that’s a loaded question, it’s really depends on how you die”

“Why.. do you ask?”

{Remy frowns with worry}

“I promise you, it ain’t fun..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"I..."

They lean against the wall and pick at their gloves now.

"I don't know if I died... I"

They slowly slide down the wall to sit on the floor.

"I wasn't this... What was I?"

They're really wracking their mind now.

"I remember feeling tired... Then cool grass and dirt before falling asleep."

...

"Then an endless void. Thought it was a dream... There was a box. Nothing else... So I... Walked over to it."

They take their glove off and stare at all the writhing larva.

"I opened it... They spilled out, couldn't even guess how many..."

...

"Body was gone... Then I was this."

"It hurt... I was scared. I struggle to even remember feelings now."

[deceitanon]

“…”

{Remy frowns as he listens while nodding along}

{Remy slowly gets up and sits next to them}

“You aren’t alone anymore.. I can’t- I don’t want to promise anything that I’m not confident in.. but I’ll try my best to help you.. I know what it’s like.. losing your body.. being thrown into the void”

{Remy lets his hand hover over their arm, offering a warm touch}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at his hand and slowly takes it after putting their glove back on. They try to stop the sickening sensation, but it seems to be easier now.

"..."

They stay silent for a while longer.

"I don't... Mind what I am now. I think I was human... I can feel things coming back to me too. I don't think I was from your dimension or time period..."

...

"Is it weird... That I like being this?"

They don't like how unsettling they always are, but they still like what they are.

"I just... I just don't want to be alone anymore."

[deceitanon]

“If you liked being like this then I won’t stop you, you aren’t alone anymore. Okay? Not if I can help it”

{Remy smiles as he holds their hand}

“How do we get you over to my side?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null slowly nods and stares at Remy for a moment again.

"... Hard to explain... But it's not difficult for me."

They've just always been too scared to leave, being able to isn't a problem.

In another disorientating, nauseating blink they're back in the bar. It doesn't seem as bad with Null active in the process.

Though as Null teleports them back there's a dull wet popping sound of several of the larva in their body. Some black goo drips from them, but is quick to disappear.

They stumble a little and sit on the ground as their tv head glitches for a moment. It seems similar to a headache for them.

"... Hngg just a moment..."

----

Eddie startles when they are suddenly back and stares at them, more so towards Null. He gets a heavy uneasiness from them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy’s tails wagging quickly as he stands in front of Null and looks at Eddie, like a happy dog that just succeeded in a game of fetch}

“This is Null, he reminds me of Remus.. if that helps with the uneasiness..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie stares at Remy and then chuckles with a sign as he walks over.

He brings him into a hug.

"It does..."

He stares at Null behind Remy as they slowly stand back up.

"This era makes sense..." They mumble to themself as they look around and then at Eddie.

"... Ah, greetings... You must be Eddie?"

Their wording is similar to Logan's, but their voice has that static muffled through a tv feel... And the general uncanny nature of them.

"I am... It's nice to meet you, Null."

This is the second time Remy has mentioned Remus and how they're rather curious about him.

"It is nice to meet you as well..."

They also seem unsure what to do with themself in new area.

[deceitanon]

{Remys drapes himself behind Eddie’s back with a loving purr, nuzzling him}

“Welcome to our home! How are you feeling”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie purrs happily, nuzzling Remy back as he wraps a tail around his waist.

Null looks around before answering.

"I am..." They pause, unsure. "Fine I believe."

They walk closer to Eddie now, looking down at him. They are well over two feet taller than him.

"... Would you like to go upstairs? Everyone is typically up there."

He smiles softly, though still getting used to the uneasiness. He does pause and warn Virgil with a text, knowing he might not handle it well.

Null nods slowly and looks around more.

[deceitanon]

{Virgil gets the text and goes to his room, thanking Eddie}

——

{Upstairs, Logan is talking to Remus on the touch.. Patton is making lunch for everyone, Ethos is reading a book as best he can on the love seat}

{Logan pauses, invisible to Null}

“Eddie? Remy? Who is that?”

—

{Remus turns and perks up with a wicked smile}

“Well look at you! Tall and Mysterious~”

{Remus doesn’t seem to be effected but Null’s Unease presence}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Logan.

"This is Null... Oh-- They can't see you right now..."

--

Ella is sitting with Ethos if he doesn't mind right now.

--

Null stares at Remus and tilts their head slightly. They actually stay silent as they slowly walk over.

...

"Hello..." They almost seem to be analyzing Remus.

...

"You have a familiarity."

Concept of the liminal and uncanny... Concept of intrusive thoughts... Could be something with that, but Null doesn't seem to understand.

They just... Stare. Far more than they did with Remy earlier.

[deceitanon]

{Ethos didn’t mind, he also wasn’t surprised by the new person either, he’s been here since day one, he’s used to this}

——

{Remus stares back and giggles}

“Well I used to look slightly different and yknow been around”

“Oooo Maggots! I love the look”

“I’m Remus! Dark creativity, Intrusive Thoughts, Doctor- you.. look familiar too! But where do I know you from hmmm”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Ella looks over briefly, bur she rather relax with Ethos right now. She leans against him, purring contently.

----

"It is nice to meet you, Remus."

They pause again.

"I... Do not believe I was from this dimension or era... My space exists between all that, but I am never sure."

They move around the couch to sit next to him.

...

They just stare more. Then they offer their hand with no explantion.

Given Remus probably would take their hand without questioning...

He gets no nausea either. Something about who Null was before is what is familiar, hidden what they are now.

...

They were a scientist at the same lab-- They vanished around the same time Remus got the radiation poisoning. Null does not remember much though.

"..." They don't say anything, just analyzing what any of that means.

... If Remus may recall, they used to be called "Dr. Rhinestone." She was well known in her field back then.

[deceitanon]

{Remus stares}

{then blinks}

{stares}

“Dr…Rhinestone- no”

“That’s not possible- the lab was empty when-“

“What happened?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tilts their head and stares back in confusion. When the name Remus says actually registers their screen glitches again and they head a headache like pain.

Though they gather themself well enough.

"Apologies... Dr. Rhinestone?-- I--"

They stare at Remus more.

"... What happened?"

They don't know the answer themself.

"..."

They pick at their gloves again, seeming to be a stressed habit.

"... The lab-- Wait--" They look directly st Remus now, white eyes behind the screen more visible now.

"Dr. Eckhard."

They remember more.

"Shit." They don't like what they remember.

"Fuck. I--"

...

"I worked in a lab near yours. I was supposed to be monitoring the radiation--"

They messed that up. They know they did.

"I didn't-- I got it wrong-- I-I... What happened to me..."

They look at their hands again, their speech sounding more coherent in wording, more tone coming through.

"I just... I remember passing out. I felt dizzy, fell, and I hit my head... Hard... I felt so cold."

They swear they feel the pain again.

"Woke up in a field of grass... Just one peach tree. I was so tired... I felt like I shouldn't sleep, but I did... Then the void, the box-- the maggots."

They pick at their gloves more harshly. Did they pass out from radiation poisoning? How did they just vanish though?

[deceitanon]

{Remus takes a slow step back.. he tugs on his hair}

“Holy…holy shit”

{he stares and starts laughing.. his form glitches- as if almost returning back to how Remus was before.. maybe the death of Dr. Rhinestone is what made him go insane faster- the puzzle piece is bending again}

“It was my fault- you-“

{He starts crying while laughing}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null quickly gets up and shakes their head.

"No. No! I-I was supposed to be monitoring it! I... Fuck. I miscalculated things. If I just-- Fuck."

They are shown genuine visible stress by now. Their uneasiness affect gets stronger with this.

"God I was a fucking idiot!"

They remembered something again.

"Fuck. Why..."

"It was my fault!! Fuck-- Remus--"

They force themself to say the words stuck in their non existent throat.

"I fucked up because I was-- I-I was-- high... I was a fucking idiot!"

They grab the sides of their head, self loathing.

"What the fuck was wrong with me?!"

...

"I was a well regarded scientist, I had access to pretty much anything I wanted, and i fucking abused that?!"

They tear up too, that rot and iron leaking through the screen.

"If I wasn't busy getting high off my ass I would have realized things were going wrong!"

[deceitanon]

“I…I knew”

{Remus whispered}

“I knew about the radiation and still decided to take the risk to study it…”

“I’m so sorry this happened to you Dr. Rhinestone..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null falls back onto the couch to try and calm down.

"I knew the risk too... I was suppose to be helping minimize the risk, and be the first to know when it was becoming too high of a risk."

...

"Please don't be sorry... I probably would have been fired or worse even if I did live..."

They look back up at him after a moment.

"But... Still here now, y-yeah?... Suppose you still can't get r-rid of me that easily?"

They try to make a joke to lighten the mood, though their words are still choked.

"Don't beat yourself up about it... Would say I'm not the same person, and I think I gather why I wouldn't want to be now."

They offer their hand again.

"I don't hold anything against you..."

Though no mouth is there, Null does smile softly.

[deceitanon]

“Mghh”

{Remus laughs before nodding}

“I don’t hold anything against you either…”

——-

{Remy blinks slowly and stares at Eddie}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remus for a moment before pulling him into a hug if he lets them.

"... Thank you."

Their head feels all buzzy right now... They aren't sure why, but thinking of themself as human causes their entire body to ache. Like they aren't allowed to feel that.

"..."

"Please only call me Null as well..." Their human tone retreats a little now. Tone returning to more uncanny.

----

Eddie looks over at Remy as well. He seems very confused.

"I... Do not remember there being a Dr. Rhinestone...?"

Though with the nature of what Null is it may be impossible to see them in the past. Ethos wouldn't have detected any lies either.

Eddie does not know what Null is as of right now.

[deceitanon]

{Remus touches Null’s tv screen and smiles}

“Looks like we both were changed heavily after the accident..”

——

{Remy nods in agreement}

“I don’t remember if this is because of the time stuff we did either”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null's screen has a electrical buzzing feel to it despite no electricity actually existing in them.

"I suppose so, yes... I became the concept of the liminal and uncanny feeling. Does not make people particularly enjoy being around me."

The eyes behind their screen shift slightly to look at Remus past his hand.

"How were you changed?"

----

Eddie sighs and thinks for a moment. He catches what Null says about their concept--

"Ah, I uh I do not think it is..."

... Why does he say it like he knows something...?

"I was wondering when they would show up." He mumbles very quietly--

He implies he already knew about Null in a way?!

[deceitanon]

“I became intrusive thoughts , got a bad cancer, drank a experimental drug and now I have a Symbiot inside me-“

“I wasn’t all this sane, but thanks to everyone here I’m semi back to normal… now I’m growing plants thanks to the basement downstairs- I swear I feel like it’s alive sometimes”

——

{Remy blinks slowly}

“Huh?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null goes to respond, but pauses at the mention of the basement--

"... Alive... How?"

They ask as if they know something.

----

Eddie pauses briefly.

"I uh... You know how the basement is always shifting and responding to what living things need, but it isn't technically alive?"

He looks at Remy with a look of "please don't be mad"

... What did he do?

[deceitanon]

{Remy stares at Eddie}

“Babes….. what did you do?”

{he gives him a stern look but one that says he won’t be fully mad}

——

“I dunno.. it just responded to me in ways that I didn’t even know I needed.. it learned- I swore it was teasing and sarcastic to me at one point”

{Remus shrugs}

“Why?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Uhhh... That basement is technically part of Null's domain and I didn't remember how I did that until recently... I uh I still don't understand the technicality of how I did it."

...

"I may have stolen a part of their domain somehow--"

How the actual fuck does someone steal part of someone else's domain?!

----

Null pauses in thought...

"How the..."

They look at Eddie.

They stare.

"You... You stole part of my domain?!"

Eddie chuckles nervously and looks away.

"I was wondering what that went!! You ass!! I was working on that for so long!"

Oh dear--

They aren't properly angry, but they are upset.

[deceitanon]

“Whoa whoa- no need for name calling Null”

{Remy glares at Null as he steps in front of Eddie, the chill and soft look is gone once the room became tense}

“Eddie did you know that the domain belonged to someone?”

{he asked with patience}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null backs up at the look Remy gives and picks at their gloves again. Their screen is also dimmer.

"Apologies..."

Eddie speaks up after.

"I did not until it was there, and I didn't know how to return it... I also forgot all recollection of obtaining it briefly after."

He looks over at Null.

"I am sorry-- I-I didn't know what I was doing..."

There's silence for a while before Null speaks again, their voice quieter now.

"... It's okay-- I... Honestly that project was frustrating me a lot."

...

"Can I see it?"

They still don't step closer right now.

"... Maybe you had better luck getting it to work?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a deep breath and his glare drops, tension gone}

——

{Remus perks up}

“Wait! No you can go in there Eddie.. remember the mushrooms?!”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null relaxes after a moment as well.

"I am sorry for getting upset..."

They speak quietly still... If Remy looks at the floor below when Null was standing when they got upset; the carpet is warped now. The pattern on it looks unsettling yet eerily similar to how it was before.

They did mention they have a harder time controlling their abilities with emotions.

----

Eddie looks over at Remus.

"I... I do remember. They were triggered by an electrical shock though. They are dormant otherwise."

He tries to reassure Remus, also walking over to him.

"I'll be fine... I'll avoid that room too. Is that okay?"

Despite Eddie being certain about it being okay he would still listen to Remus if he said no.

[deceitanon]

{Remy nods and offers to hug Null as an apology for snapping and a forgiveness gesture}

——

“I.. okay, I will make sure the room will close the area off before you get in there”

{Remus said before taking a deep breath- Eddie hasn’t seen him worried about others so openly before.. only frustrated at the person}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 142

As Remy teleports there's a flicker in everything around him, a feeling of being torn from the plane he was in, and suddenly he's in a... Space. It's hard to put into words what the fuck this is.

... It feels endless, uncanny, and yet familiar. There's items Remy may have felt were important from the distant past, or even the present. Items that feel important, and yet he's never seen. There's segments of these uneven and disorganized rooms that look like the bar, the loft, the cherry grove, the river, the void... There's hints, fragments, of everything Remy has ever seen. Everything feels... Wrong. Soso wrong.

They look like what Remy has seem, but they have an extreme feel of them still not being accurate. Like this space disorderly pulled memories from his mind and threw them around in a desperation to make it feel like home.

...

Lights flicker dully where there is no source, water trickles in the walls that aren't hollow...

Familiar sounds of people Remy knows are in the distant, with no obvious direction, but they have no realism to them. Parrots and echos of memories put into here wrong.

...

There is a sound that is real, but still uncanny. A voice. Humming. Their voice sounds like a person stuck behind a broken tv playing static, a crackling stinging hum with a broken melody.

[deceitanon]

“Hm…. honestly- ain’t the worst place I’ve been in”

{Remy picks up a ball and chucks it over to where he hears the humming}

“Eddie? Babes? Why’d you summon me here?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie is no where to be smelled even though a quiet hint of his voice echos from no where.

When Remy chucks the ball to the humming it suddenly stops. Deafening silence fills the space immediately.

...

"HelL-o?" The voice is broken, muffled and stuffed with static.

Slow someone peaks around the corner. A extremely tall lanky figure, only their head visible right now. A thin hand gloves in black velvet holds the wall near them.

Their head is a small black tv box, a very only one. It glows dully with flickers of visual static, and a subtle ringing of static piercings the air. Ever so slightly glowing white eyes that flicker like screen tearing are visible behind the screen. Those eyes are barely visible, yet so unsettling piercing.

... No heart beat. No warmth. No breathing. Not even any subtle electrical current of nerves, brain, or even a computer. Like they are nothing at all.

"..." The way they tilt their head in confusion feels so incredibly wrong.

[deceitanon]

“Hm? Hello- Have you seen a short but handsome man with wired hair? I seem to be lost, wouldn’t be the first”

{Remy says like meeting someone like him is normal}

“Where even am I? It’s creepy but cool as fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The figure stays silent for a while before fully rounding the corner.

They stand at 7'9. They are unnaturally slim, limbs just slightly long enough to be uncanny. The way their clothes lay so perfectly and beautifully feels unnatural. They wear a long black layered dress with ruffles, and black velvet gloves covering their whole arms. Black flats with white frilly socks. Adorned on top of their head is a veil made of smooth lightweight black feathers.

They stare for a while.

"... I h-Ave noT..."

"I don-T hAve a nAme fOr thIs place... JuSt minE."

They radiate unease and uncanny feelings. They mean no harm.

"Int-rEstIng... Ho-w A-rE you hEre?"

They speak as if it is supposed to be impossible. They step closer slowly as if uncertain Remy is more than a trick of this space.

[deceitanon]

“Damn you’re tall- hmmmm must have glitched out of reality or something!”

“Oh like the backrooom”

{He said with a snap}

“How are you even alive here?- you’re very uncanny- but that’s hot nowadays”

“I’m Remy, you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"..."

They seem flabbergasted, even with no face that feeling isn't seen but felt from them to Remy.

"nOt alivE..."

"I hAve no NamE..." They pause. "NulL." It's a word meaning nothing afterall.

"HavE n-ot been callEd 'hot' bEfoRe."

They step closer and hesitantly poke Remy from the top of his head. They small touch feel cold, a split second of nausea given too.

"... You arE reAl..." They seem even more confused.

"I s-uppose oUt of reAlity w-Ould be dEcent as a WorDing."

They sit on the ground, now eye level to Remy.

"glItch... WhEre and w-Hen are you fr-Om?... You mUst be retUrned." They say as if returning a book to a library, clearly not used to human contact.

[deceitanon]

{Remy blinks away the nausea and chuckles when he is poked}

“Ouch, it’s like you don’t even want me here! I’m hurt”

{he says with a hand on his chest}

“I mean I got nothing important to do, just came back from altering time itself so.. this is kinda nice”

{Remy doesn’t know why he’s spilling all of this}

“Null? That’s a sick name, why.. are you here though? You look alive to me”

{he says with certainty}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"i dO n-ot mInd cOmpan-y... N-o-one shOulD be here thOugH..."

They stare and tilt their head again. When they do some 'skin' on their neck is visible briefly. It looks less like skin and more like a void made of millions of writhing larva. Constantly moving in a sickly way.

"altEriNg tIme?.."

...

"hErE is Home... My spAce. ConCepT of the liminal... UnCannY ties in-tO it."

"alivE... N-oT alive, bUt stiLl con-scious."

They aren't certain what would count as alive in other senses. "AlivE indiCates being m-Ade of org-anIc matter." They are not.

[deceitanon]

“Then I must be not alive too. I’m a giant dead fox. And you are made out of larva- not gonna lie, that’s kinda icky”

“…:does it hurt?”

{Remy asks very quietly with a frown}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses and looks at themself for a moment. They pause for a moment longer, turning a few dials on their head. There's a sickening squelching and gargling noise as they do. Their voice now sounds smoother and consistent though, but still stuffed with static and muffled by the screen.

"Larva... I suppose it could be comparable to that? They're void maggots. They are unique to this place."

They carefully scoop out a small few of the void maggots. They wiggle around for a moment, small like usual maggots, and then Null puts them back.

"Hurt...?"

They pause at that as well.

"Yes... But not in your sense. I do not feel it that same way. It is a constant feeling, but I am not bothered by it."

...

"Giant dead fox? Could you say more?"

[deceitanon]

“Ah… well, as long as you don’t go talking to the others here”

{he said jokingly}

“Kitsune, my fox form died a long time ago- it gets really complicated… can I show you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The chuckle Null lets out sounds like breaking glass through tv static.

"I do believe there is no one else to tell... Unless you mean the illusions, but I believe they do not count."

They pauses and then nod.

"I would like to see if you wish to show."

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a step back and drops all of his illusions at once… and shows Null his true fox form.. it’s massive… and dead looking}

{armor on top of his dead fur, it looks like it’s been washed recently by Eddie despite it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares, and though no mouth exists, a smile is felt.

"You are beautiful... May I pet y--"

They cut themself off.

"I should not touch... It makes people ill."

They stare regardless. A yearning for touch is blatantly radiating of them now.

"I could show you how I shapeshift?... It is not pretty though."

They wish to show themself too.

[deceitanon]

{Remy judges their hand, their bone armor could protect him if they pet in the right places.. he is so… warm! Despite claiming to be a dead fox}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tenses briefly before noticing Remy is okay.

They run their hands along his bone armor, his head mostly.

"Warm..."

They move closer and lay their tv head onto his. The sound of tv static feels sharp, but not too overburdening.

"I do not wish to leave you now..." This is the first time they've been able to touch anyone, and one of the very few times they've even been around someone visually.

[deceitanon]

{Remy sniffs where he can hear the static, then pauses when he hears them say that}

{he slowly shifts back, but offers his hand for Null to fidget with}

“I.. will try my best to help you, you said I can return, but why haven’t you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at his hand... Hesitantly taking it. They focus on trying to stop the nausea from carrying over.

"..."

"I can return... I do not have much control over how I warp spaces. I do try to not use abilities when I am in the existing planes, but I am unpredictable. I carry unease everywhere I go, I cannot choose a form that is not uncanny, I cannot create spaces that are not uncanny... Emotions are not something I understand, but I do know they contribute to mistaken use of my abilities."

They stare at Remy's hand as they talk. Quiet sparking crying is heard, though it is only black blood that drips from under the screen of their head. Smelling strongly of rot and iron.

"I do not wish to cause trouble. So I do not leave often, and when I do I do not leave with my body... I simply look, and memorize..."

This space is built by disorganized memories.

[deceitanon]

“We have a lot of people like you back at my home, Emotions, Weird lookin’ we even have someone that is the literal meaning of intrusive thoughts”

{Remy Chuckles, before pauses, he tries to summon a cloth, but his whole body glitches- and he falls forward against them, but he gets the cloth

“Imma… just ignore what happened to me for now”

{Remy murmurs to himself before gently cleaning off the rot and iron liquid}



[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null reaches out to catch Remy.

"Be careful in here. Your abilities will not work easily. I do not wish for you to harm yourself."

It leans into Remy wiping off the liquid.

"... Could I go home with you?"

They ask as if they are a stray cat giving boba eyes. Uncanny never leaves anything they do, as if it is a deep rooted curse in their very being.

[deceitanon]

“Of course you can!- wait… I should probably ask Eddie.. I’ve been bring so many people home.. it wouldn’t be okay if I just kept on doing it”

“Is… there a way I can speak to him? Or will I have to leave you first?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Oh-- You cannot leave with my help... And you will not be able to get back most likely."

They pauses to think, and then summon a black rotary phone with blood red rubies chaotically placed.

"Do you come from a time with phones?... This should work if so."

They talk as if they can travel between not just space, but time as well.

[deceitanon]

“Hmmm I- would call him but- I don’t really use a phone- he just kinda talks to me in my head”

“I promise it’s not as crazy as it seems”

“Oh! And I can totally come back, I’ll just recreate what I did, easy peasy”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at the phone and back at Remy.

They speak after a while of silence.

"Okay..."

They don't believe Remy will be able to come back, but they don't argue regardless. Remy has to go back either way.

"I will see you when you return." They say with hidden disbelief.

They don't wait for a response before they poke Remy's chest and in a sickening disorientating blink he's back in the bar.

[deceitanon]

{Remy groans and leans up against the bar}

{he blinks slowly, he feels like he needs to puke}

“Fuckkkk- Eddddiiieeeee”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie quickly appears next to Remy.

"Where-- What happened???" He sounds confused and concerned. "I lost all sense of you for a few minutes."

'Fee minutes' it felt like almost an hour passed down there... How does time work in that space?

"Are you okay??" He brings a trashcan over incase Remy does puke.

[deceitanon]

{Remy does end up puking}

“Got stuck in a weird space when I teleported….. few mins? It felt like I was there for hours”

“No… that’s not what I need to focus on.. there is someone trapped.. they are… uncanny more so than Remus but.. they wish to have a home”

{Remy gave Eddie puppy eyes}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie gently rubs Remy's back for a moment.

"What do you mean 'weird space??'"

He seems utterly confused.

"I--"

He looks at Remy's eyes and sighs after a moment with a lighthearted eye roll.

"Okay... Fine... I'm lucky Starie can create so much space where there shouldn't even be room, you know?"

With the amount of people here, it'd be impossible without Starie's stable space warping.

[deceitanon]

“Don’t worry~ they realllly tall which I know you love”

{Remy nuzzles up against Eddie with a happy purr}

“I… hope I can actually get back there”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie looks away with an embarrassed flush at Remy's comment.

"Oh, fuck off..." He playfully scoffs out without any actually annoyance. He clears his throat after a moment before replying, and nuzzling Remy back.

"Is there a chance you can't?"

He seems confused at that.

[deceitanon]

“Maybe… I just- need to make myself glitch while teleporting..”

“It… hurts to do it but I’ll only need to do it once.. so it won’t be that bad right?”

{Remy murmurs to himself}

{Remy kisses Eddie’s cheek before taking a deep breath, glitching and teleporting at the same time- and he lands back into the space.. but is on his hands and knees groaning, and coughing up more bile}

“Fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie tenses when Remy is gone again, he hates that he can't even senses Remy's existence right now... He paces while he waits.

----

Null startles and squeaks out shrieking static when they see Remy again.

"Remy...?"

They walk over and stare at him and the bile.

"How-- Are you okay?..."

Though Remy was gone for roughly five minutes, it's only been fifteen in here despite a few minutes being hours last time.

[deceitanon]

{Remy curls up and gives him a weak wait gesture… his body glitching again}

“Hurts…”

{His ears folded down- he hates when he glitches..}

“Don’t.. look”

{he hates making new people see him like this- 1) he likes to maintain the cool image he has.. and 2) because it makes him wish Eddie was here to comfort him}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses before nodding and turning around.

They sit nearby with their back to Remy.

"I am sorry that I cannot help... I am not a healing type... Do let me know if you cannot settle your body though, I can understand the glitching. It is one reason I do not leave with my body anymore... It tends to cause some of the void maggots to burst."

That... Sounds incredibly painful for someone who is made of them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tries to get up then lays back down immediately}

“Tel… tell me more… void maggots.. what do they do?”

“I… can control the void.. it’s how I can manipulate dreams”

{Remy murmurs weakly as he just lets his back lax.. he wishes just to listen}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Void maggots are specific to the place as I said... They grow in the walls, squirm their way in the ground, and come to me... I believe I am more of an entity made by this place."

They sound uncertain on what they are.

"They allow me to shapeshift, as they have no solid form either... I am unsure if they would be the same as the void you describe, but you can try manipulating them if you wish to test that? I do not mind."

Null is suggesting Remy manipulate their body itself.

"They have no thought, or organic life... They just exist. Like me... I do believe they are an essence of this place? That may be the best wording I have."

[deceitanon]

{Remy has gone silent}

{He has fallen asleep, he looks so.. human and warm}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turns around when he's silent for too long.

They stare for a while... Look around... They stand up slowly, and with focus to not make Remy ill, they pick him up.

They wander further into the space until it shifts out of Remy's memories and into a space Null made themself.

It's made to be a cottage, but it feels like an uncanny mimic of one, even more so than Remy's memories.

They place him on a bed, pulling a blanket over him, and then move to make coffee... They get a feeling he likes coffee. The bed feels oddly comfortable compared to the rest of this place.

The bedroom isn't all too separate from the living room, which is decently open to the kitchen and the front door. There are windows, but they're just a white light with no details.

[deceitanon]

{After sometime, Remy groans and hugs the blanket closer}

“Eddie?”

{he said sleepy, nuzzling into the blanket before opening his eyes… and sees the uncanny house}

“Where.. am I?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null hears him wake up, and slowly walks over to the bedroom. Floorboards creak under their silent feet.

They look around the corner... Looking around corners before walking past them seems like a habit of theirs.

"Are you okay now, Remy?"

They slowly walk closer, they also tend to walk slowly.

They carry a mug of coffee, setting it on the warped nightstand.

"I made coffee."

[deceitanon]

“Fuck yes… I love coffee.. and yes I’m feeling better.. sorry about passing out on you”

“You were talking about the void things?”

{Remy mutters as he sits up and grabs the coffee to drink it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"You are alright."

The coffee is almost right. Almost how Remy likes it. It's off still. Anything Null makes seems to be off.

"I was..."

They watch Remy drink the coffee for a moment, also staring at the bed... They don't say what they want, and it is difficult to tell without a face to show it.

"The void maggots are more of an essence of this space... I believe..."

They think for a moment.

"You mentioned dreamscapes being voids. I believe the void maggots grow up into them. Though they form in here, and make me, I would guess they grow up into something?"

They are larva after all.

"Perhaps that is what they grow into?"

There was a vague familiarity to the maggots, but it was hard to place, easy to dismiss as the space.

[deceitanon]

“You think I can control them? What do you think I can do with them?”

{Remy purrs at the taste of his coffee, his tails wag slowly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently watches Remy's tails wag for a moment.

...

"I believe you could, yes... I am unsure what you could do with them though."

They think for a moment, still staring at Remy. The longer they stare the more unsettling it feels...

"Maybe you could have control over what they form into?... I do not always understand where I learn what I do, but I suppose that is part of who I am... I believe they form dreamscapes, but also mindscapes and pocket dimensions."

"If they have multiple paths, maybe there could be more with artificial influence?"

They scoop out of maggots from their neck again and offer them to Remy. They writhe and squirm in their palm.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tilts his head and looks at the maggots, he shudders but takes a deep breath, he hover his hands over the maggots and tries to alter them in anyway he can}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

As he hovers his hand over the maggots he can feel they have a different type of energy. It's more like a potential energy, that would be gone the moment it's used?

As Remy tries to manipulate the maggots they writhe more, then start to bubble, and then they melt into a black goo... Then, suddenly, Remy can feel a new pocket dimension as the maggot goo disappears. It feels different from ones he may have created before.

He can feel that it was made, and that it belongs to him in a way, but it took little no of his energy to do so.

[deceitanon]

“Huh- gross but that took like no energy.. the maggots feel like that have some kind of energy probably stored inside them- UGH where is Logan when I need him”

{Remy groans- he’s not a scientist or a doctor like him}

“I have no idea what this could mean.. hmmm”

“When I altered the lil guys.. they disappeared but I felt a pocket dimension open up, a new one- how is that even possible.. it wasn’t a lot of em”

“Can you tell me more about yourself Null? How’d you get here? How are you made up of these Void Bugs”

{he wants to stop calling them maggots.. it feels rude because Null is made out of these lil buggers}

___

{While Null is explaining, Remy does try to write a note and glitchport (teleport and glitch) the note to Eddie, to tell him he is okay}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Each one of them grows up into a space like that, so you really only need one. Using more strengthens it, and makes it bigger I would guess."

They fall silent for several minutes at being asked about themself.

...

"I... Do not know how I got here. I just remember nothing... And then I was here... Or--"

Their screen glitches violently for a minute before they talk again.

"As for being made of the bugs--" They talk as if that glitching never happened. "I believe I made out of them as... As..."

They fall silent again.

"I don't think about what I am."

They don't know. They don't like that they don't know.

They can't remember how they got here...

"I like creating things... They always come out warped though."

They summon a fox plush, and while it looks like a fox it is unsettling not a fox at the same time.

----

The note ends up slightly clipped into the bar counter near Eddie. It's enough to read at least, but part of the note is in the counter.

"... Okay..." He sighs in shaky relief.

[deceitanon]

“Hmm.. so-“

{Remy pauses when he watches their screen glitch, he frowns in worry, everything about this place looks and feels fine- but it’s more like an uncanny feeling, he looks at the fox with a head tilt}

{Plus the whole time weirdness is throwing him off as well}

{he rubs his head as he thinks}

“I don’t know what to make of you babes, and I’d like to try and understand as much as I can before I introduce you to a whole new realm- or space.. don’t get me wrong- I’ve dealt with crazy stuff so this is just precarious, because who knows what could happen-“

“But- you don’t like these questions so.. maybe you can ask me somethings? And we can bounce off each others questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly, and stares at the bed for a bit again. They've kind of just been standing there, as if unsure what to do with themself.

"... What does it feel like to breathe?... Or... Just... How does your body feel to you?"

Odd first question...

[deceitanon]

“I.. hm I may not feel like the best example because it’s different with everyone.. but my body feels hot, it might seem warm and nice, but I do love the cold weather to help balance myself out, I get a lot of headaches due to my connections back in my world, but honestly it’s something I’m just used to so I’ve learned how to cope healthily..”

“Breathing feels awesome.. definitely something everyone takes for granted”

“Can I ask you the same questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently listens and processes what Remy said.

...

"I... Do not breathe. I always feel cold, I think numb is the other word... I like that you felt warm, I don't feel that often."

They fall silent again before there's a smaller and calmer glitch on their screen.

"... Breathing... I miss that. I took it for granted too it seems."

They remember breathing... There had to be something before they became this then, right?

"..." They pause, asking their next question quietly. "What does fear feel like?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy perks up, they remember something! Seems like this is going somewhere}

“Fear… is the worst thing to feel.. your body your mind all send these signals that you will die, get hurt.. and you can’t do anything about it”

{Remy looks away for a moment} “though there is a scale to how much a person can feel fear.. like it can be something small like a spider and they just avoid spiders.. or it can be a big fear like.. water itself- or loud sounds where it can affect your day to day life”

“… What can you feel?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly and thinks again.

...

"I don't feel... Things in a way I can place."

"Fear... I--"

They look at their hand and fall silent again.

"I do remember fear though... Fear and... And... Pain."

"Most feelings are dull... Now..."

They fidget with their gloves.

...

"... What does it feel like to die?"

That's... A heavy question. Why are they asking?

[deceitanon]

“… that’s a loaded question, it’s really depends on how you die”

“Why.. do you ask?”

{Remy frowns with worry}

“I promise you, it ain’t fun..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"I..."

They lean against the wall and pick at their gloves now.

"I don't know if I died... I"

They slowly slide down the wall to sit on the floor.

"I wasn't this... What was I?"

They're really wracking their mind now.

"I remember feeling tired... Then cool grass and dirt before falling asleep."

...

"Then an endless void. Thought it was a dream... There was a box. Nothing else... So I... Walked over to it."

They take their glove off and stare at all the writhing larva.

"I opened it... They spilled out, couldn't even guess how many..."

...

"Body was gone... Then I was this."

"It hurt... I was scared. I struggle to even remember feelings now."

[deceitanon]

“…”

{Remy frowns as he listens while nodding along}

{Remy slowly gets up and sits next to them}

“You aren’t alone anymore.. I can’t- I don’t want to promise anything that I’m not confident in.. but I’ll try my best to help you.. I know what it’s like.. losing your body.. being thrown into the void”

{Remy lets his hand hover over their arm, offering a warm touch}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at his hand and slowly takes it after putting their glove back on. They try to stop the sickening sensation, but it seems to be easier now.

"..."

They stay silent for a while longer.

"I don't... Mind what I am now. I think I was human... I can feel things coming back to me too. I don't think I was from your dimension or time period..."

...

"Is it weird... That I like being this?"

They don't like how unsettling they always are, but they still like what they are.

"I just... I just don't want to be alone anymore."

[deceitanon]

“If you liked being like this then I won’t stop you, you aren’t alone anymore. Okay? Not if I can help it”

{Remy smiles as he holds their hand}

“How do we get you over to my side?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null slowly nods and stares at Remy for a moment again.

"... Hard to explain... But it's not difficult for me."

They've just always been too scared to leave, being able to isn't a problem.

In another disorientating, nauseating blink they're back in the bar. It doesn't seem as bad with Null active in the process.

Though as Null teleports them back there's a dull wet popping sound of several of the larva in their body. Some black goo drips from them, but is quick to disappear.

They stumble a little and sit on the ground as their tv head glitches for a moment. It seems similar to a headache for them.

"... Hngg just a moment..."

----

Eddie startles when they are suddenly back and stares at them, more so towards Null. He gets a heavy uneasiness from them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy’s tails wagging quickly as he stands in front of Null and looks at Eddie, like a happy dog that just succeeded in a game of fetch}

“This is Null, he reminds me of Remus.. if that helps with the uneasiness..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie stares at Remy and then chuckles with a sign as he walks over.

He brings him into a hug.

"It does..."

He stares at Null behind Remy as they slowly stand back up.

"This era makes sense..." They mumble to themself as they look around and then at Eddie.

"... Ah, greetings... You must be Eddie?"

Their wording is similar to Logan's, but their voice has that static muffled through a tv feel... And the general uncanny nature of them.

"I am... It's nice to meet you, Null."

This is the second time Remy has mentioned Remus and how they're rather curious about him.

"It is nice to meet you as well..."

They also seem unsure what to do with themself in new area.

[deceitanon]

{Remys drapes himself behind Eddie’s back with a loving purr, nuzzling him}

“Welcome to our home! How are you feeling”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie purrs happily, nuzzling Remy back as he wraps a tail around his waist.

Null looks around before answering.

"I am..." They pause, unsure. "Fine I believe."

They walk closer to Eddie now, looking down at him. They are well over two feet taller than him.

"... Would you like to go upstairs? Everyone is typically up there."

He smiles softly, though still getting used to the uneasiness. He does pause and warn Virgil with a text, knowing he might not handle it well.

Null nods slowly and looks around more.

[deceitanon]

{Virgil gets the text and goes to his room, thanking Eddie}

——

{Upstairs, Logan is talking to Remus on the touch.. Patton is making lunch for everyone, Ethos is reading a book as best he can on the love seat}

{Logan pauses, invisible to Null}

“Eddie? Remy? Who is that?”

—

{Remus turns and perks up with a wicked smile}

“Well look at you! Tall and Mysterious~”

{Remus doesn’t seem to be effected but Null’s Unease presence}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Logan.

"This is Null... Oh-- They can't see you right now..."

--

Ella is sitting with Ethos if he doesn't mind right now.

--

Null stares at Remus and tilts their head slightly. They actually stay silent as they slowly walk over.

...

"Hello..." They almost seem to be analyzing Remus.

...

"You have a familiarity."

Concept of the liminal and uncanny... Concept of intrusive thoughts... Could be something with that, but Null doesn't seem to understand.

They just... Stare. Far more than they did with Remy earlier.

[deceitanon]

{Ethos didn’t mind, he also wasn’t surprised by the new person either, he’s been here since day one, he’s used to this}

——

{Remus stares back and giggles}

“Well I used to look slightly different and yknow been around”

“Oooo Maggots! I love the look”

“I’m Remus! Dark creativity, Intrusive Thoughts, Doctor- you.. look familiar too! But where do I know you from hmmm”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Ella looks over briefly, bur she rather relax with Ethos right now. She leans against him, purring contently.

----

"It is nice to meet you, Remus."

They pause again.

"I... Do not believe I was from this dimension or era... My space exists between all that, but I am never sure."

They move around the couch to sit next to him.

...

They just stare more. Then they offer their hand with no explantion.

Given Remus probably would take their hand without questioning...

He gets no nausea either. Something about who Null was before is what is familiar, hidden what they are now.

...

They were a scientist at the same lab-- They vanished around the same time Remus got the radiation poisoning. Null does not remember much though.

"..." They don't say anything, just analyzing what any of that means.

... If Remus may recall, they used to be called "Dr. Rhinestone." She was well known in her field back then.

[deceitanon]

{Remus stares}

{then blinks}

{stares}

“Dr…Rhinestone- no”

“That’s not possible- the lab was empty when-“

“What happened?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tilts their head and stares back in confusion. When the name Remus says actually registers their screen glitches again and they head a headache like pain.

Though they gather themself well enough.

"Apologies... Dr. Rhinestone?-- I--"

They stare at Remus more.

"... What happened?"

They don't know the answer themself.

"..."

They pick at their gloves again, seeming to be a stressed habit.

"... The lab-- Wait--" They look directly st Remus now, white eyes behind the screen more visible now.

"Dr. Eckhard."

They remember more.

"Shit." They don't like what they remember.

"Fuck. I--"

...

"I worked in a lab near yours. I was supposed to be monitoring the radiation--"

They messed that up. They know they did.

"I didn't-- I got it wrong-- I-I... What happened to me..."

They look at their hands again, their speech sounding more coherent in wording, more tone coming through.

"I just... I remember passing out. I felt dizzy, fell, and I hit my head... Hard... I felt so cold."

They swear they feel the pain again.

"Woke up in a field of grass... Just one peach tree. I was so tired... I felt like I shouldn't sleep, but I did... Then the void, the box-- the maggots."

They pick at their gloves more harshly. Did they pass out from radiation poisoning? How did they just vanish though?

[deceitanon]

{Remus takes a slow step back.. he tugs on his hair}

“Holy…holy shit”

{he stares and starts laughing.. his form glitches- as if almost returning back to how Remus was before.. maybe the death of Dr. Rhinestone is what made him go insane faster- the puzzle piece is bending again}

“It was my fault- you-“

{He starts crying while laughing}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null quickly gets up and shakes their head.

"No. No! I-I was supposed to be monitoring it! I... Fuck. I miscalculated things. If I just-- Fuck."

They are shown genuine visible stress by now. Their uneasiness affect gets stronger with this.

"God I was a fucking idiot!"

They remembered something again.

"Fuck. Why..."

"It was my fault!! Fuck-- Remus--"

They force themself to say the words stuck in their non existent throat.

"I fucked up because I was-- I-I was-- high... I was a fucking idiot!"

They grab the sides of their head, self loathing.

"What the fuck was wrong with me?!"

...

"I was a well regarded scientist, I had access to pretty much anything I wanted, and i fucking abused that?!"

They tear up too, that rot and iron leaking through the screen.

"If I wasn't busy getting high off my ass I would have realized things were going wrong!"

[deceitanon]

“I…I knew”

{Remus whispered}

“I knew about the radiation and still decided to take the risk to study it…”

“I’m so sorry this happened to you Dr. Rhinestone..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null falls back onto the couch to try and calm down.

"I knew the risk too... I was suppose to be helping minimize the risk, and be the first to know when it was becoming too high of a risk."

...

"Please don't be sorry... I probably would have been fired or worse even if I did live..."

They look back up at him after a moment.

"But... Still here now, y-yeah?... Suppose you still can't get r-rid of me that easily?"

They try to make a joke to lighten the mood, though their words are still choked.

"Don't beat yourself up about it... Would say I'm not the same person, and I think I gather why I wouldn't want to be now."

They offer their hand again.

"I don't hold anything against you..."

Though no mouth is there, Null does smile softly.

[deceitanon]

“Mghh”

{Remus laughs before nodding}

“I don’t hold anything against you either…”

——-

{Remy blinks slowly and stares at Eddie}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remus for a moment before pulling him into a hug if he lets them.

"... Thank you."

Their head feels all buzzy right now... They aren't sure why, but thinking of themself as human causes their entire body to ache. Like they aren't allowed to feel that.

"..."

"Please only call me Null as well..." Their human tone retreats a little now. Tone returning to more uncanny.

----

Eddie looks over at Remy as well. He seems very confused.

"I... Do not remember there being a Dr. Rhinestone...?"

Though with the nature of what Null is it may be impossible to see them in the past. Ethos wouldn't have detected any lies either.

Eddie does not know what Null is as of right now.

[deceitanon]

{Remus touches Null’s tv screen and smiles}

“Looks like we both were changed heavily after the accident..”

——

{Remy nods in agreement}

“I don’t remember if this is because of the time stuff we did either”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null's screen has a electrical buzzing feel to it despite no electricity actually existing in them.

"I suppose so, yes... I became the concept of the liminal and uncanny feeling. Does not make people particularly enjoy being around me."

The eyes behind their screen shift slightly to look at Remus past his hand.

"How were you changed?"

----

Eddie sighs and thinks for a moment. He catches what Null says about their concept--

"Ah, I uh I do not think it is..."

... Why does he say it like he knows something...?

"I was wondering when they would show up." He mumbles very quietly--

He implies he already knew about Null in a way?!

[deceitanon]

“I became intrusive thoughts , got a bad cancer, drank a experimental drug and now I have a Symbiot inside me-“

“I wasn’t all this sane, but thanks to everyone here I’m semi back to normal… now I’m growing plants thanks to the basement downstairs- I swear I feel like it’s alive sometimes”

——

{Remy blinks slowly}

“Huh?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null goes to respond, but pauses at the mention of the basement--

"... Alive... How?"

They ask as if they know something.

----

Eddie pauses briefly.

"I uh... You know how the basement is always shifting and responding to what living things need, but it isn't technically alive?"

He looks at Remy with a look of "please don't be mad"

... What did he do?

[deceitanon]

{Remy stares at Eddie}

“Babes….. what did you do?”

{he gives him a stern look but one that says he won’t be fully mad}

——

“I dunno.. it just responded to me in ways that I didn’t even know I needed.. it learned- I swore it was teasing and sarcastic to me at one point”

{Remus shrugs}

“Why?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Uhhh... That basement is technically part of Null's domain and I didn't remember how I did that until recently... I uh I still don't understand the technicality of how I did it."

...

"I may have stolen a part of their domain somehow--"

How the actual fuck does someone steal part of someone else's domain?!

----

Null pauses in thought...

"How the..."

They look at Eddie.

They stare.

"You... You stole part of my domain?!"

Eddie chuckles nervously and looks away.

"I was wondering what that went!! You ass!! I was working on that for so long!"

Oh dear--

They aren't properly angry, but they are upset.

[deceitanon]

“Whoa whoa- no need for name calling Null”

{Remy glares at Null as he steps in front of Eddie, the chill and soft look is gone once the room became tense}

“Eddie did you know that the domain belonged to someone?”

{he asked with patience}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null backs up at the look Remy gives and picks at their gloves again. Their screen is also dimmer.

"Apologies..."

Eddie speaks up after.

"I did not until it was there, and I didn't know how to return it... I also forgot all recollection of obtaining it briefly after."

He looks over at Null.

"I am sorry-- I-I didn't know what I was doing..."

There's silence for a while before Null speaks again, their voice quieter now.

"... It's okay-- I... Honestly that project was frustrating me a lot."

...

"Can I see it?"

They still don't step closer right now.

"... Maybe you had better luck getting it to work?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a deep breath and his glare drops, tension gone}

——

{Remus perks up}

“Wait! No you can go in there Eddie.. remember the mushrooms?!”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 142

As Remy teleports there's a flicker in everything around him, a feeling of being torn from the plane he was in, and suddenly he's in a... Space. It's hard to put into words what the fuck this is.

... It feels endless, uncanny, and yet familiar. There's items Remy may have felt were important from the distant past, or even the present. Items that feel important, and yet he's never seen. There's segments of these uneven and disorganized rooms that look like the bar, the loft, the cherry grove, the river, the void... There's hints, fragments, of everything Remy has ever seen. Everything feels... Wrong. Soso wrong.

They look like what Remy has seem, but they have an extreme feel of them still not being accurate. Like this space disorderly pulled memories from his mind and threw them around in a desperation to make it feel like home.

...

Lights flicker dully where there is no source, water trickles in the walls that aren't hollow...

Familiar sounds of people Remy knows are in the distant, with no obvious direction, but they have no realism to them. Parrots and echos of memories put into here wrong.

...

There is a sound that is real, but still uncanny. A voice. Humming. Their voice sounds like a person stuck behind a broken tv playing static, a crackling stinging hum with a broken melody.

[deceitanon]

“Hm…. honestly- ain’t the worst place I’ve been in”

{Remy picks up a ball and chucks it over to where he hears the humming}

“Eddie? Babes? Why’d you summon me here?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie is no where to be smelled even though a quiet hint of his voice echos from no where.

When Remy chucks the ball to the humming it suddenly stops. Deafening silence fills the space immediately.

...

"HelL-o?" The voice is broken, muffled and stuffed with static.

Slow someone peaks around the corner. A extremely tall lanky figure, only their head visible right now. A thin hand gloves in black velvet holds the wall near them.

Their head is a small black tv box, a very only one. It glows dully with flickers of visual static, and a subtle ringing of static piercings the air. Ever so slightly glowing white eyes that flicker like screen tearing are visible behind the screen. Those eyes are barely visible, yet so unsettling piercing.

... No heart beat. No warmth. No breathing. Not even any subtle electrical current of nerves, brain, or even a computer. Like they are nothing at all.

"..." The way they tilt their head in confusion feels so incredibly wrong.

[deceitanon]

“Hm? Hello- Have you seen a short but handsome man with wired hair? I seem to be lost, wouldn’t be the first”

{Remy says like meeting someone like him is normal}

“Where even am I? It’s creepy but cool as fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The figure stays silent for a while before fully rounding the corner.

They stand at 7'9. They are unnaturally slim, limbs just slightly long enough to be uncanny. The way their clothes lay so perfectly and beautifully feels unnatural. They wear a long black layered dress with ruffles, and black velvet gloves covering their whole arms. Black flats with white frilly socks. Adorned on top of their head is a veil made of smooth lightweight black feathers.

They stare for a while.

"... I h-Ave noT..."

"I don-T hAve a nAme fOr thIs place... JuSt minE."

They radiate unease and uncanny feelings. They mean no harm.

"Int-rEstIng... Ho-w A-rE you hEre?"

They speak as if it is supposed to be impossible. They step closer slowly as if uncertain Remy is more than a trick of this space.

[deceitanon]

“Damn you’re tall- hmmmm must have glitched out of reality or something!”

“Oh like the backrooom”

{He said with a snap}

“How are you even alive here?- you’re very uncanny- but that’s hot nowadays”

“I’m Remy, you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"..."

They seem flabbergasted, even with no face that feeling isn't seen but felt from them to Remy.

"nOt alivE..."

"I hAve no NamE..." They pause. "NulL." It's a word meaning nothing afterall.

"HavE n-ot been callEd 'hot' bEfoRe."

They step closer and hesitantly poke Remy from the top of his head. They small touch feel cold, a split second of nausea given too.

"... You arE reAl..." They seem even more confused.

"I s-uppose oUt of reAlity w-Ould be dEcent as a WorDing."

They sit on the ground, now eye level to Remy.

"glItch... WhEre and w-Hen are you fr-Om?... You mUst be retUrned." They say as if returning a book to a library, clearly not used to human contact.

[deceitanon]

{Remy blinks away the nausea and chuckles when he is poked}

“Ouch, it’s like you don’t even want me here! I’m hurt”

{he says with a hand on his chest}

“I mean I got nothing important to do, just came back from altering time itself so.. this is kinda nice”

{Remy doesn’t know why he’s spilling all of this}

“Null? That’s a sick name, why.. are you here though? You look alive to me”

{he says with certainty}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"i dO n-ot mInd cOmpan-y... N-o-one shOulD be here thOugH..."

They stare and tilt their head again. When they do some 'skin' on their neck is visible briefly. It looks less like skin and more like a void made of millions of writhing larva. Constantly moving in a sickly way.

"altEriNg tIme?.."

...

"hErE is Home... My spAce. ConCepT of the liminal... UnCannY ties in-tO it."

"alivE... N-oT alive, bUt stiLl con-scious."

They aren't certain what would count as alive in other senses. "AlivE indiCates being m-Ade of org-anIc matter." They are not.

[deceitanon]

“Then I must be not alive too. I’m a giant dead fox. And you are made out of larva- not gonna lie, that’s kinda icky”

“…:does it hurt?”

{Remy asks very quietly with a frown}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses and looks at themself for a moment. They pause for a moment longer, turning a few dials on their head. There's a sickening squelching and gargling noise as they do. Their voice now sounds smoother and consistent though, but still stuffed with static and muffled by the screen.

"Larva... I suppose it could be comparable to that? They're void maggots. They are unique to this place."

They carefully scoop out a small few of the void maggots. They wiggle around for a moment, small like usual maggots, and then Null puts them back.

"Hurt...?"

They pause at that as well.

"Yes... But not in your sense. I do not feel it that same way. It is a constant feeling, but I am not bothered by it."

...

"Giant dead fox? Could you say more?"

[deceitanon]

“Ah… well, as long as you don’t go talking to the others here”

{he said jokingly}

“Kitsune, my fox form died a long time ago- it gets really complicated… can I show you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The chuckle Null lets out sounds like breaking glass through tv static.

"I do believe there is no one else to tell... Unless you mean the illusions, but I believe they do not count."

They pauses and then nod.

"I would like to see if you wish to show."

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a step back and drops all of his illusions at once… and shows Null his true fox form.. it’s massive… and dead looking}

{armor on top of his dead fur, it looks like it’s been washed recently by Eddie despite it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares, and though no mouth exists, a smile is felt.

"You are beautiful... May I pet y--"

They cut themself off.

"I should not touch... It makes people ill."

They stare regardless. A yearning for touch is blatantly radiating of them now.

"I could show you how I shapeshift?... It is not pretty though."

They wish to show themself too.

[deceitanon]

{Remy judges their hand, their bone armor could protect him if they pet in the right places.. he is so… warm! Despite claiming to be a dead fox}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tenses briefly before noticing Remy is okay.

They run their hands along his bone armor, his head mostly.

"Warm..."

They move closer and lay their tv head onto his. The sound of tv static feels sharp, but not too overburdening.

"I do not wish to leave you now..." This is the first time they've been able to touch anyone, and one of the very few times they've even been around someone visually.

[deceitanon]

{Remy sniffs where he can hear the static, then pauses when he hears them say that}

{he slowly shifts back, but offers his hand for Null to fidget with}

“I.. will try my best to help you, you said I can return, but why haven’t you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at his hand... Hesitantly taking it. They focus on trying to stop the nausea from carrying over.

"..."

"I can return... I do not have much control over how I warp spaces. I do try to not use abilities when I am in the existing planes, but I am unpredictable. I carry unease everywhere I go, I cannot choose a form that is not uncanny, I cannot create spaces that are not uncanny... Emotions are not something I understand, but I do know they contribute to mistaken use of my abilities."

They stare at Remy's hand as they talk. Quiet sparking crying is heard, though it is only black blood that drips from under the screen of their head. Smelling strongly of rot and iron.

"I do not wish to cause trouble. So I do not leave often, and when I do I do not leave with my body... I simply look, and memorize..."

This space is built by disorganized memories.

[deceitanon]

“We have a lot of people like you back at my home, Emotions, Weird lookin’ we even have someone that is the literal meaning of intrusive thoughts”

{Remy Chuckles, before pauses, he tries to summon a cloth, but his whole body glitches- and he falls forward against them, but he gets the cloth

“Imma… just ignore what happened to me for now”

{Remy murmurs to himself before gently cleaning off the rot and iron liquid}



[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null reaches out to catch Remy.

"Be careful in here. Your abilities will not work easily. I do not wish for you to harm yourself."

It leans into Remy wiping off the liquid.

"... Could I go home with you?"

They ask as if they are a stray cat giving boba eyes. Uncanny never leaves anything they do, as if it is a deep rooted curse in their very being.

[deceitanon]

“Of course you can!- wait… I should probably ask Eddie.. I’ve been bring so many people home.. it wouldn’t be okay if I just kept on doing it”

“Is… there a way I can speak to him? Or will I have to leave you first?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Oh-- You cannot leave with my help... And you will not be able to get back most likely."

They pauses to think, and then summon a black rotary phone with blood red rubies chaotically placed.

"Do you come from a time with phones?... This should work if so."

They talk as if they can travel between not just space, but time as well.

[deceitanon]

“Hmmm I- would call him but- I don’t really use a phone- he just kinda talks to me in my head”

“I promise it’s not as crazy as it seems”

“Oh! And I can totally come back, I’ll just recreate what I did, easy peasy”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at the phone and back at Remy.

They speak after a while of silence.

"Okay..."

They don't believe Remy will be able to come back, but they don't argue regardless. Remy has to go back either way.

"I will see you when you return." They say with hidden disbelief.

They don't wait for a response before they poke Remy's chest and in a sickening disorientating blink he's back in the bar.

[deceitanon]

{Remy groans and leans up against the bar}

{he blinks slowly, he feels like he needs to puke}

“Fuckkkk- Eddddiiieeeee”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie quickly appears next to Remy.

"Where-- What happened???" He sounds confused and concerned. "I lost all sense of you for a few minutes."

'Fee minutes' it felt like almost an hour passed down there... How does time work in that space?

"Are you okay??" He brings a trashcan over incase Remy does puke.

[deceitanon]

{Remy does end up puking}

“Got stuck in a weird space when I teleported….. few mins? It felt like I was there for hours”

“No… that’s not what I need to focus on.. there is someone trapped.. they are… uncanny more so than Remus but.. they wish to have a home”

{Remy gave Eddie puppy eyes}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie gently rubs Remy's back for a moment.

"What do you mean 'weird space??'"

He seems utterly confused.

"I--"

He looks at Remy's eyes and sighs after a moment with a lighthearted eye roll.

"Okay... Fine... I'm lucky Starie can create so much space where there shouldn't even be room, you know?"

With the amount of people here, it'd be impossible without Starie's stable space warping.

[deceitanon]

“Don’t worry~ they realllly tall which I know you love”

{Remy nuzzles up against Eddie with a happy purr}

“I… hope I can actually get back there”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie looks away with an embarrassed flush at Remy's comment.

"Oh, fuck off..." He playfully scoffs out without any actually annoyance. He clears his throat after a moment before replying, and nuzzling Remy back.

"Is there a chance you can't?"

He seems confused at that.

[deceitanon]

“Maybe… I just- need to make myself glitch while teleporting..”

“It… hurts to do it but I’ll only need to do it once.. so it won’t be that bad right?”

{Remy murmurs to himself}

{Remy kisses Eddie’s cheek before taking a deep breath, glitching and teleporting at the same time- and he lands back into the space.. but is on his hands and knees groaning, and coughing up more bile}

“Fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie tenses when Remy is gone again, he hates that he can't even senses Remy's existence right now... He paces while he waits.

----

Null startles and squeaks out shrieking static when they see Remy again.

"Remy...?"

They walk over and stare at him and the bile.

"How-- Are you okay?..."

Though Remy was gone for roughly five minutes, it's only been fifteen in here despite a few minutes being hours last time.

[deceitanon]

{Remy curls up and gives him a weak wait gesture… his body glitching again}

“Hurts…”

{His ears folded down- he hates when he glitches..}

“Don’t.. look”

{he hates making new people see him like this- 1) he likes to maintain the cool image he has.. and 2) because it makes him wish Eddie was here to comfort him}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses before nodding and turning around.

They sit nearby with their back to Remy.

"I am sorry that I cannot help... I am not a healing type... Do let me know if you cannot settle your body though, I can understand the glitching. It is one reason I do not leave with my body anymore... It tends to cause some of the void maggots to burst."

That... Sounds incredibly painful for someone who is made of them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tries to get up then lays back down immediately}

“Tel… tell me more… void maggots.. what do they do?”

“I… can control the void.. it’s how I can manipulate dreams”

{Remy murmurs weakly as he just lets his back lax.. he wishes just to listen}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Void maggots are specific to the place as I said... They grow in the walls, squirm their way in the ground, and come to me... I believe I am more of an entity made by this place."

They sound uncertain on what they are.

"They allow me to shapeshift, as they have no solid form either... I am unsure if they would be the same as the void you describe, but you can try manipulating them if you wish to test that? I do not mind."

Null is suggesting Remy manipulate their body itself.

"They have no thought, or organic life... They just exist. Like me... I do believe they are an essence of this place? That may be the best wording I have."

[deceitanon]

{Remy has gone silent}

{He has fallen asleep, he looks so.. human and warm}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turns around when he's silent for too long.

They stare for a while... Look around... They stand up slowly, and with focus to not make Remy ill, they pick him up.

They wander further into the space until it shifts out of Remy's memories and into a space Null made themself.

It's made to be a cottage, but it feels like an uncanny mimic of one, even more so than Remy's memories.

They place him on a bed, pulling a blanket over him, and then move to make coffee... They get a feeling he likes coffee. The bed feels oddly comfortable compared to the rest of this place.

The bedroom isn't all too separate from the living room, which is decently open to the kitchen and the front door. There are windows, but they're just a white light with no details.

[deceitanon]

{After sometime, Remy groans and hugs the blanket closer}

“Eddie?”

{he said sleepy, nuzzling into the blanket before opening his eyes… and sees the uncanny house}

“Where.. am I?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null hears him wake up, and slowly walks over to the bedroom. Floorboards creak under their silent feet.

They look around the corner... Looking around corners before walking past them seems like a habit of theirs.

"Are you okay now, Remy?"

They slowly walk closer, they also tend to walk slowly.

They carry a mug of coffee, setting it on the warped nightstand.

"I made coffee."

[deceitanon]

“Fuck yes… I love coffee.. and yes I’m feeling better.. sorry about passing out on you”

“You were talking about the void things?”

{Remy mutters as he sits up and grabs the coffee to drink it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"You are alright."

The coffee is almost right. Almost how Remy likes it. It's off still. Anything Null makes seems to be off.

"I was..."

They watch Remy drink the coffee for a moment, also staring at the bed... They don't say what they want, and it is difficult to tell without a face to show it.

"The void maggots are more of an essence of this space... I believe..."

They think for a moment.

"You mentioned dreamscapes being voids. I believe the void maggots grow up into them. Though they form in here, and make me, I would guess they grow up into something?"

They are larva after all.

"Perhaps that is what they grow into?"

There was a vague familiarity to the maggots, but it was hard to place, easy to dismiss as the space.

[deceitanon]

“You think I can control them? What do you think I can do with them?”

{Remy purrs at the taste of his coffee, his tails wag slowly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently watches Remy's tails wag for a moment.

...

"I believe you could, yes... I am unsure what you could do with them though."

They think for a moment, still staring at Remy. The longer they stare the more unsettling it feels...

"Maybe you could have control over what they form into?... I do not always understand where I learn what I do, but I suppose that is part of who I am... I believe they form dreamscapes, but also mindscapes and pocket dimensions."

"If they have multiple paths, maybe there could be more with artificial influence?"

They scoop out of maggots from their neck again and offer them to Remy. They writhe and squirm in their palm.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tilts his head and looks at the maggots, he shudders but takes a deep breath, he hover his hands over the maggots and tries to alter them in anyway he can}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

As he hovers his hand over the maggots he can feel they have a different type of energy. It's more like a potential energy, that would be gone the moment it's used?

As Remy tries to manipulate the maggots they writhe more, then start to bubble, and then they melt into a black goo... Then, suddenly, Remy can feel a new pocket dimension as the maggot goo disappears. It feels different from ones he may have created before.

He can feel that it was made, and that it belongs to him in a way, but it took little no of his energy to do so.

[deceitanon]

“Huh- gross but that took like no energy.. the maggots feel like that have some kind of energy probably stored inside them- UGH where is Logan when I need him”

{Remy groans- he’s not a scientist or a doctor like him}

“I have no idea what this could mean.. hmmm”

“When I altered the lil guys.. they disappeared but I felt a pocket dimension open up, a new one- how is that even possible.. it wasn’t a lot of em”

“Can you tell me more about yourself Null? How’d you get here? How are you made up of these Void Bugs”

{he wants to stop calling them maggots.. it feels rude because Null is made out of these lil buggers}

___

{While Null is explaining, Remy does try to write a note and glitchport (teleport and glitch) the note to Eddie, to tell him he is okay}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Each one of them grows up into a space like that, so you really only need one. Using more strengthens it, and makes it bigger I would guess."

They fall silent for several minutes at being asked about themself.

...

"I... Do not know how I got here. I just remember nothing... And then I was here... Or--"

Their screen glitches violently for a minute before they talk again.

"As for being made of the bugs--" They talk as if that glitching never happened. "I believe I made out of them as... As..."

They fall silent again.

"I don't think about what I am."

They don't know. They don't like that they don't know.

They can't remember how they got here...

"I like creating things... They always come out warped though."

They summon a fox plush, and while it looks like a fox it is unsettling not a fox at the same time.

----

The note ends up slightly clipped into the bar counter near Eddie. It's enough to read at least, but part of the note is in the counter.

"... Okay..." He sighs in shaky relief.

[deceitanon]

“Hmm.. so-“

{Remy pauses when he watches their screen glitch, he frowns in worry, everything about this place looks and feels fine- but it’s more like an uncanny feeling, he looks at the fox with a head tilt}

{Plus the whole time weirdness is throwing him off as well}

{he rubs his head as he thinks}

“I don’t know what to make of you babes, and I’d like to try and understand as much as I can before I introduce you to a whole new realm- or space.. don’t get me wrong- I’ve dealt with crazy stuff so this is just precarious, because who knows what could happen-“

“But- you don’t like these questions so.. maybe you can ask me somethings? And we can bounce off each others questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly, and stares at the bed for a bit again. They've kind of just been standing there, as if unsure what to do with themself.

"... What does it feel like to breathe?... Or... Just... How does your body feel to you?"

Odd first question...

[deceitanon]

“I.. hm I may not feel like the best example because it’s different with everyone.. but my body feels hot, it might seem warm and nice, but I do love the cold weather to help balance myself out, I get a lot of headaches due to my connections back in my world, but honestly it’s something I’m just used to so I’ve learned how to cope healthily..”

“Breathing feels awesome.. definitely something everyone takes for granted”

“Can I ask you the same questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently listens and processes what Remy said.

...

"I... Do not breathe. I always feel cold, I think numb is the other word... I like that you felt warm, I don't feel that often."

They fall silent again before there's a smaller and calmer glitch on their screen.

"... Breathing... I miss that. I took it for granted too it seems."

They remember breathing... There had to be something before they became this then, right?

"..." They pause, asking their next question quietly. "What does fear feel like?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy perks up, they remember something! Seems like this is going somewhere}

“Fear… is the worst thing to feel.. your body your mind all send these signals that you will die, get hurt.. and you can’t do anything about it”

{Remy looks away for a moment} “though there is a scale to how much a person can feel fear.. like it can be something small like a spider and they just avoid spiders.. or it can be a big fear like.. water itself- or loud sounds where it can affect your day to day life”

“… What can you feel?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly and thinks again.

...

"I don't feel... Things in a way I can place."

"Fear... I--"

They look at their hand and fall silent again.

"I do remember fear though... Fear and... And... Pain."

"Most feelings are dull... Now..."

They fidget with their gloves.

...

"... What does it feel like to die?"

That's... A heavy question. Why are they asking?

[deceitanon]

“… that’s a loaded question, it’s really depends on how you die”

“Why.. do you ask?”

{Remy frowns with worry}

“I promise you, it ain’t fun..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"I..."

They lean against the wall and pick at their gloves now.

"I don't know if I died... I"

They slowly slide down the wall to sit on the floor.

"I wasn't this... What was I?"

They're really wracking their mind now.

"I remember feeling tired... Then cool grass and dirt before falling asleep."

...

"Then an endless void. Thought it was a dream... There was a box. Nothing else... So I... Walked over to it."

They take their glove off and stare at all the writhing larva.

"I opened it... They spilled out, couldn't even guess how many..."

...

"Body was gone... Then I was this."

"It hurt... I was scared. I struggle to even remember feelings now."

[deceitanon]

“…”

{Remy frowns as he listens while nodding along}

{Remy slowly gets up and sits next to them}

“You aren’t alone anymore.. I can’t- I don’t want to promise anything that I’m not confident in.. but I’ll try my best to help you.. I know what it’s like.. losing your body.. being thrown into the void”

{Remy lets his hand hover over their arm, offering a warm touch}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at his hand and slowly takes it after putting their glove back on. They try to stop the sickening sensation, but it seems to be easier now.

"..."

They stay silent for a while longer.

"I don't... Mind what I am now. I think I was human... I can feel things coming back to me too. I don't think I was from your dimension or time period..."

...

"Is it weird... That I like being this?"

They don't like how unsettling they always are, but they still like what they are.

"I just... I just don't want to be alone anymore."

[deceitanon]

“If you liked being like this then I won’t stop you, you aren’t alone anymore. Okay? Not if I can help it”

{Remy smiles as he holds their hand}

“How do we get you over to my side?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null slowly nods and stares at Remy for a moment again.

"... Hard to explain... But it's not difficult for me."

They've just always been too scared to leave, being able to isn't a problem.

In another disorientating, nauseating blink they're back in the bar. It doesn't seem as bad with Null active in the process.

Though as Null teleports them back there's a dull wet popping sound of several of the larva in their body. Some black goo drips from them, but is quick to disappear.

They stumble a little and sit on the ground as their tv head glitches for a moment. It seems similar to a headache for them.

"... Hngg just a moment..."

----

Eddie startles when they are suddenly back and stares at them, more so towards Null. He gets a heavy uneasiness from them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy’s tails wagging quickly as he stands in front of Null and looks at Eddie, like a happy dog that just succeeded in a game of fetch}

“This is Null, he reminds me of Remus.. if that helps with the uneasiness..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie stares at Remy and then chuckles with a sign as he walks over.

He brings him into a hug.

"It does..."

He stares at Null behind Remy as they slowly stand back up.

"This era makes sense..." They mumble to themself as they look around and then at Eddie.

"... Ah, greetings... You must be Eddie?"

Their wording is similar to Logan's, but their voice has that static muffled through a tv feel... And the general uncanny nature of them.

"I am... It's nice to meet you, Null."

This is the second time Remy has mentioned Remus and how they're rather curious about him.

"It is nice to meet you as well..."

They also seem unsure what to do with themself in new area.

[deceitanon]

{Remys drapes himself behind Eddie’s back with a loving purr, nuzzling him}

“Welcome to our home! How are you feeling”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie purrs happily, nuzzling Remy back as he wraps a tail around his waist.

Null looks around before answering.

"I am..." They pause, unsure. "Fine I believe."

They walk closer to Eddie now, looking down at him. They are well over two feet taller than him.

"... Would you like to go upstairs? Everyone is typically up there."

He smiles softly, though still getting used to the uneasiness. He does pause and warn Virgil with a text, knowing he might not handle it well.

Null nods slowly and looks around more.

[deceitanon]

{Virgil gets the text and goes to his room, thanking Eddie}

——

{Upstairs, Logan is talking to Remus on the touch.. Patton is making lunch for everyone, Ethos is reading a book as best he can on the love seat}

{Logan pauses, invisible to Null}

“Eddie? Remy? Who is that?”

—

{Remus turns and perks up with a wicked smile}

“Well look at you! Tall and Mysterious~”

{Remus doesn’t seem to be effected but Null’s Unease presence}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Logan.

"This is Null... Oh-- They can't see you right now..."

--

Ella is sitting with Ethos if he doesn't mind right now.

--

Null stares at Remus and tilts their head slightly. They actually stay silent as they slowly walk over.

...

"Hello..." They almost seem to be analyzing Remus.

...

"You have a familiarity."

Concept of the liminal and uncanny... Concept of intrusive thoughts... Could be something with that, but Null doesn't seem to understand.

They just... Stare. Far more than they did with Remy earlier.

[deceitanon]

{Ethos didn’t mind, he also wasn’t surprised by the new person either, he’s been here since day one, he’s used to this}

——

{Remus stares back and giggles}

“Well I used to look slightly different and yknow been around”

“Oooo Maggots! I love the look”

“I’m Remus! Dark creativity, Intrusive Thoughts, Doctor- you.. look familiar too! But where do I know you from hmmm”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Ella looks over briefly, bur she rather relax with Ethos right now. She leans against him, purring contently.

----

"It is nice to meet you, Remus."

They pause again.

"I... Do not believe I was from this dimension or era... My space exists between all that, but I am never sure."

They move around the couch to sit next to him.

...

They just stare more. Then they offer their hand with no explantion.

Given Remus probably would take their hand without questioning...

He gets no nausea either. Something about who Null was before is what is familiar, hidden what they are now.

...

They were a scientist at the same lab-- They vanished around the same time Remus got the radiation poisoning. Null does not remember much though.

"..." They don't say anything, just analyzing what any of that means.

... If Remus may recall, they used to be called "Dr. Rhinestone." She was well known in her field back then.

[deceitanon]

{Remus stares}

{then blinks}

{stares}

“Dr…Rhinestone- no”

“That’s not possible- the lab was empty when-“

“What happened?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tilts their head and stares back in confusion. When the name Remus says actually registers their screen glitches again and they head a headache like pain.

Though they gather themself well enough.

"Apologies... Dr. Rhinestone?-- I--"

They stare at Remus more.

"... What happened?"

They don't know the answer themself.

"..."

They pick at their gloves again, seeming to be a stressed habit.

"... The lab-- Wait--" They look directly st Remus now, white eyes behind the screen more visible now.

"Dr. Eckhard."

They remember more.

"Shit." They don't like what they remember.

"Fuck. I--"

...

"I worked in a lab near yours. I was supposed to be monitoring the radiation--"

They messed that up. They know they did.

"I didn't-- I got it wrong-- I-I... What happened to me..."

They look at their hands again, their speech sounding more coherent in wording, more tone coming through.

"I just... I remember passing out. I felt dizzy, fell, and I hit my head... Hard... I felt so cold."

They swear they feel the pain again.

"Woke up in a field of grass... Just one peach tree. I was so tired... I felt like I shouldn't sleep, but I did... Then the void, the box-- the maggots."

They pick at their gloves more harshly. Did they pass out from radiation poisoning? How did they just vanish though?

[deceitanon]

{Remus takes a slow step back.. he tugs on his hair}

“Holy…holy shit”

{he stares and starts laughing.. his form glitches- as if almost returning back to how Remus was before.. maybe the death of Dr. Rhinestone is what made him go insane faster- the puzzle piece is bending again}

“It was my fault- you-“

{He starts crying while laughing}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null quickly gets up and shakes their head.

"No. No! I-I was supposed to be monitoring it! I... Fuck. I miscalculated things. If I just-- Fuck."

They are shown genuine visible stress by now. Their uneasiness affect gets stronger with this.

"God I was a fucking idiot!"

They remembered something again.

"Fuck. Why..."

"It was my fault!! Fuck-- Remus--"

They force themself to say the words stuck in their non existent throat.

"I fucked up because I was-- I-I was-- high... I was a fucking idiot!"

They grab the sides of their head, self loathing.

"What the fuck was wrong with me?!"

...

"I was a well regarded scientist, I had access to pretty much anything I wanted, and i fucking abused that?!"

They tear up too, that rot and iron leaking through the screen.

"If I wasn't busy getting high off my ass I would have realized things were going wrong!"

[deceitanon]

“I…I knew”

{Remus whispered}

“I knew about the radiation and still decided to take the risk to study it…”

“I’m so sorry this happened to you Dr. Rhinestone..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null falls back onto the couch to try and calm down.

"I knew the risk too... I was suppose to be helping minimize the risk, and be the first to know when it was becoming too high of a risk."

...

"Please don't be sorry... I probably would have been fired or worse even if I did live..."

They look back up at him after a moment.

"But... Still here now, y-yeah?... Suppose you still can't get r-rid of me that easily?"

They try to make a joke to lighten the mood, though their words are still choked.

"Don't beat yourself up about it... Would say I'm not the same person, and I think I gather why I wouldn't want to be now."

They offer their hand again.

"I don't hold anything against you..."

Though no mouth is there, Null does smile softly.

[deceitanon]

“Mghh”

{Remus laughs before nodding}

“I don’t hold anything against you either…”

——-

{Remy blinks slowly and stares at Eddie}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remus for a moment before pulling him into a hug if he lets them.

"... Thank you."

Their head feels all buzzy right now... They aren't sure why, but thinking of themself as human causes their entire body to ache. Like they aren't allowed to feel that.

"..."

"Please only call me Null as well..." Their human tone retreats a little now. Tone returning to more uncanny.

----

Eddie looks over at Remy as well. He seems very confused.

"I... Do not remember there being a Dr. Rhinestone...?"

Though with the nature of what Null is it may be impossible to see them in the past. Ethos wouldn't have detected any lies either.

Eddie does not know what Null is as of right now.

[deceitanon]

{Remus touches Null’s tv screen and smiles}

“Looks like we both were changed heavily after the accident..”

——

{Remy nods in agreement}

“I don’t remember if this is because of the time stuff we did either”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null's screen has a electrical buzzing feel to it despite no electricity actually existing in them.

"I suppose so, yes... I became the concept of the liminal and uncanny feeling. Does not make people particularly enjoy being around me."

The eyes behind their screen shift slightly to look at Remus past his hand.

"How were you changed?"

----

Eddie sighs and thinks for a moment. He catches what Null says about their concept--

"Ah, I uh I do not think it is..."

... Why does he say it like he knows something...?

"I was wondering when they would show up." He mumbles very quietly--

He implies he already knew about Null in a way?!

[deceitanon]

“I became intrusive thoughts , got a bad cancer, drank a experimental drug and now I have a Symbiot inside me-“

“I wasn’t all this sane, but thanks to everyone here I’m semi back to normal… now I’m growing plants thanks to the basement downstairs- I swear I feel like it’s alive sometimes”

——

{Remy blinks slowly}

“Huh?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null goes to respond, but pauses at the mention of the basement--

"... Alive... How?"

They ask as if they know something.

----

Eddie pauses briefly.

"I uh... You know how the basement is always shifting and responding to what living things need, but it isn't technically alive?"

He looks at Remy with a look of "please don't be mad"

... What did he do?

[deceitanon]

{Remy stares at Eddie}

“Babes….. what did you do?”

{he gives him a stern look but one that says he won’t be fully mad}

——

“I dunno.. it just responded to me in ways that I didn’t even know I needed.. it learned- I swore it was teasing and sarcastic to me at one point”

{Remus shrugs}

“Why?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Uhhh... That basement is technically part of Null's domain and I didn't remember how I did that until recently... I uh I still don't understand the technicality of how I did it."

...

"I may have stolen a part of their domain somehow--"

How the actual fuck does someone steal part of someone else's domain?!

----

Null pauses in thought...

"How the..."

They look at Eddie.

They stare.

"You... You stole part of my domain?!"

Eddie chuckles nervously and looks away.

"I was wondering what that went!! You ass!! I was working on that for so long!"

Oh dear--

They aren't properly angry, but they are upset.

[deceitanon]

“Whoa whoa- no need for name calling Null”

{Remy glares at Null as he steps in front of Eddie, the chill and soft look is gone once the room became tense}

“Eddie did you know that the domain belonged to someone?”

{he asked with patience}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 142

As Remy teleports there's a flicker in everything around him, a feeling of being torn from the plane he was in, and suddenly he's in a... Space. It's hard to put into words what the fuck this is.

... It feels endless, uncanny, and yet familiar. There's items Remy may have felt were important from the distant past, or even the present. Items that feel important, and yet he's never seen. There's segments of these uneven and disorganized rooms that look like the bar, the loft, the cherry grove, the river, the void... There's hints, fragments, of everything Remy has ever seen. Everything feels... Wrong. Soso wrong.

They look like what Remy has seem, but they have an extreme feel of them still not being accurate. Like this space disorderly pulled memories from his mind and threw them around in a desperation to make it feel like home.

...

Lights flicker dully where there is no source, water trickles in the walls that aren't hollow...

Familiar sounds of people Remy knows are in the distant, with no obvious direction, but they have no realism to them. Parrots and echos of memories put into here wrong.

...

There is a sound that is real, but still uncanny. A voice. Humming. Their voice sounds like a person stuck behind a broken tv playing static, a crackling stinging hum with a broken melody.

[deceitanon]

“Hm…. honestly- ain’t the worst place I’ve been in”

{Remy picks up a ball and chucks it over to where he hears the humming}

“Eddie? Babes? Why’d you summon me here?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie is no where to be smelled even though a quiet hint of his voice echos from no where.

When Remy chucks the ball to the humming it suddenly stops. Deafening silence fills the space immediately.

...

"HelL-o?" The voice is broken, muffled and stuffed with static.

Slow someone peaks around the corner. A extremely tall lanky figure, only their head visible right now. A thin hand gloves in black velvet holds the wall near them.

Their head is a small black tv box, a very only one. It glows dully with flickers of visual static, and a subtle ringing of static piercings the air. Ever so slightly glowing white eyes that flicker like screen tearing are visible behind the screen. Those eyes are barely visible, yet so unsettling piercing.

... No heart beat. No warmth. No breathing. Not even any subtle electrical current of nerves, brain, or even a computer. Like they are nothing at all.

"..." The way they tilt their head in confusion feels so incredibly wrong.

[deceitanon]

“Hm? Hello- Have you seen a short but handsome man with wired hair? I seem to be lost, wouldn’t be the first”

{Remy says like meeting someone like him is normal}

“Where even am I? It’s creepy but cool as fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The figure stays silent for a while before fully rounding the corner.

They stand at 7'9. They are unnaturally slim, limbs just slightly long enough to be uncanny. The way their clothes lay so perfectly and beautifully feels unnatural. They wear a long black layered dress with ruffles, and black velvet gloves covering their whole arms. Black flats with white frilly socks. Adorned on top of their head is a veil made of smooth lightweight black feathers.

They stare for a while.

"... I h-Ave noT..."

"I don-T hAve a nAme fOr thIs place... JuSt minE."

They radiate unease and uncanny feelings. They mean no harm.

"Int-rEstIng... Ho-w A-rE you hEre?"

They speak as if it is supposed to be impossible. They step closer slowly as if uncertain Remy is more than a trick of this space.

[deceitanon]

“Damn you’re tall- hmmmm must have glitched out of reality or something!”

“Oh like the backrooom”

{He said with a snap}

“How are you even alive here?- you’re very uncanny- but that’s hot nowadays”

“I’m Remy, you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"..."

They seem flabbergasted, even with no face that feeling isn't seen but felt from them to Remy.

"nOt alivE..."

"I hAve no NamE..." They pause. "NulL." It's a word meaning nothing afterall.

"HavE n-ot been callEd 'hot' bEfoRe."

They step closer and hesitantly poke Remy from the top of his head. They small touch feel cold, a split second of nausea given too.

"... You arE reAl..." They seem even more confused.

"I s-uppose oUt of reAlity w-Ould be dEcent as a WorDing."

They sit on the ground, now eye level to Remy.

"glItch... WhEre and w-Hen are you fr-Om?... You mUst be retUrned." They say as if returning a book to a library, clearly not used to human contact.

[deceitanon]

{Remy blinks away the nausea and chuckles when he is poked}

“Ouch, it’s like you don’t even want me here! I’m hurt”

{he says with a hand on his chest}

“I mean I got nothing important to do, just came back from altering time itself so.. this is kinda nice”

{Remy doesn’t know why he’s spilling all of this}

“Null? That’s a sick name, why.. are you here though? You look alive to me”

{he says with certainty}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"i dO n-ot mInd cOmpan-y... N-o-one shOulD be here thOugH..."

They stare and tilt their head again. When they do some 'skin' on their neck is visible briefly. It looks less like skin and more like a void made of millions of writhing larva. Constantly moving in a sickly way.

"altEriNg tIme?.."

...

"hErE is Home... My spAce. ConCepT of the liminal... UnCannY ties in-tO it."

"alivE... N-oT alive, bUt stiLl con-scious."

They aren't certain what would count as alive in other senses. "AlivE indiCates being m-Ade of org-anIc matter." They are not.

[deceitanon]

“Then I must be not alive too. I’m a giant dead fox. And you are made out of larva- not gonna lie, that’s kinda icky”

“…:does it hurt?”

{Remy asks very quietly with a frown}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses and looks at themself for a moment. They pause for a moment longer, turning a few dials on their head. There's a sickening squelching and gargling noise as they do. Their voice now sounds smoother and consistent though, but still stuffed with static and muffled by the screen.

"Larva... I suppose it could be comparable to that? They're void maggots. They are unique to this place."

They carefully scoop out a small few of the void maggots. They wiggle around for a moment, small like usual maggots, and then Null puts them back.

"Hurt...?"

They pause at that as well.

"Yes... But not in your sense. I do not feel it that same way. It is a constant feeling, but I am not bothered by it."

...

"Giant dead fox? Could you say more?"

[deceitanon]

“Ah… well, as long as you don’t go talking to the others here”

{he said jokingly}

“Kitsune, my fox form died a long time ago- it gets really complicated… can I show you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The chuckle Null lets out sounds like breaking glass through tv static.

"I do believe there is no one else to tell... Unless you mean the illusions, but I believe they do not count."

They pauses and then nod.

"I would like to see if you wish to show."

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a step back and drops all of his illusions at once… and shows Null his true fox form.. it’s massive… and dead looking}

{armor on top of his dead fur, it looks like it’s been washed recently by Eddie despite it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares, and though no mouth exists, a smile is felt.

"You are beautiful... May I pet y--"

They cut themself off.

"I should not touch... It makes people ill."

They stare regardless. A yearning for touch is blatantly radiating of them now.

"I could show you how I shapeshift?... It is not pretty though."

They wish to show themself too.

[deceitanon]

{Remy judges their hand, their bone armor could protect him if they pet in the right places.. he is so… warm! Despite claiming to be a dead fox}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tenses briefly before noticing Remy is okay.

They run their hands along his bone armor, his head mostly.

"Warm..."

They move closer and lay their tv head onto his. The sound of tv static feels sharp, but not too overburdening.

"I do not wish to leave you now..." This is the first time they've been able to touch anyone, and one of the very few times they've even been around someone visually.

[deceitanon]

{Remy sniffs where he can hear the static, then pauses when he hears them say that}

{he slowly shifts back, but offers his hand for Null to fidget with}

“I.. will try my best to help you, you said I can return, but why haven’t you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at his hand... Hesitantly taking it. They focus on trying to stop the nausea from carrying over.

"..."

"I can return... I do not have much control over how I warp spaces. I do try to not use abilities when I am in the existing planes, but I am unpredictable. I carry unease everywhere I go, I cannot choose a form that is not uncanny, I cannot create spaces that are not uncanny... Emotions are not something I understand, but I do know they contribute to mistaken use of my abilities."

They stare at Remy's hand as they talk. Quiet sparking crying is heard, though it is only black blood that drips from under the screen of their head. Smelling strongly of rot and iron.

"I do not wish to cause trouble. So I do not leave often, and when I do I do not leave with my body... I simply look, and memorize..."

This space is built by disorganized memories.

[deceitanon]

“We have a lot of people like you back at my home, Emotions, Weird lookin’ we even have someone that is the literal meaning of intrusive thoughts”

{Remy Chuckles, before pauses, he tries to summon a cloth, but his whole body glitches- and he falls forward against them, but he gets the cloth

“Imma… just ignore what happened to me for now”

{Remy murmurs to himself before gently cleaning off the rot and iron liquid}



[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null reaches out to catch Remy.

"Be careful in here. Your abilities will not work easily. I do not wish for you to harm yourself."

It leans into Remy wiping off the liquid.

"... Could I go home with you?"

They ask as if they are a stray cat giving boba eyes. Uncanny never leaves anything they do, as if it is a deep rooted curse in their very being.

[deceitanon]

“Of course you can!- wait… I should probably ask Eddie.. I’ve been bring so many people home.. it wouldn’t be okay if I just kept on doing it”

“Is… there a way I can speak to him? Or will I have to leave you first?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Oh-- You cannot leave with my help... And you will not be able to get back most likely."

They pauses to think, and then summon a black rotary phone with blood red rubies chaotically placed.

"Do you come from a time with phones?... This should work if so."

They talk as if they can travel between not just space, but time as well.

[deceitanon]

“Hmmm I- would call him but- I don’t really use a phone- he just kinda talks to me in my head”

“I promise it’s not as crazy as it seems”

“Oh! And I can totally come back, I’ll just recreate what I did, easy peasy”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at the phone and back at Remy.

They speak after a while of silence.

"Okay..."

They don't believe Remy will be able to come back, but they don't argue regardless. Remy has to go back either way.

"I will see you when you return." They say with hidden disbelief.

They don't wait for a response before they poke Remy's chest and in a sickening disorientating blink he's back in the bar.

[deceitanon]

{Remy groans and leans up against the bar}

{he blinks slowly, he feels like he needs to puke}

“Fuckkkk- Eddddiiieeeee”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie quickly appears next to Remy.

"Where-- What happened???" He sounds confused and concerned. "I lost all sense of you for a few minutes."

'Fee minutes' it felt like almost an hour passed down there... How does time work in that space?

"Are you okay??" He brings a trashcan over incase Remy does puke.

[deceitanon]

{Remy does end up puking}

“Got stuck in a weird space when I teleported….. few mins? It felt like I was there for hours”

“No… that’s not what I need to focus on.. there is someone trapped.. they are… uncanny more so than Remus but.. they wish to have a home”

{Remy gave Eddie puppy eyes}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie gently rubs Remy's back for a moment.

"What do you mean 'weird space??'"

He seems utterly confused.

"I--"

He looks at Remy's eyes and sighs after a moment with a lighthearted eye roll.

"Okay... Fine... I'm lucky Starie can create so much space where there shouldn't even be room, you know?"

With the amount of people here, it'd be impossible without Starie's stable space warping.

[deceitanon]

“Don’t worry~ they realllly tall which I know you love”

{Remy nuzzles up against Eddie with a happy purr}

“I… hope I can actually get back there”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie looks away with an embarrassed flush at Remy's comment.

"Oh, fuck off..." He playfully scoffs out without any actually annoyance. He clears his throat after a moment before replying, and nuzzling Remy back.

"Is there a chance you can't?"

He seems confused at that.

[deceitanon]

“Maybe… I just- need to make myself glitch while teleporting..”

“It… hurts to do it but I’ll only need to do it once.. so it won’t be that bad right?”

{Remy murmurs to himself}

{Remy kisses Eddie’s cheek before taking a deep breath, glitching and teleporting at the same time- and he lands back into the space.. but is on his hands and knees groaning, and coughing up more bile}

“Fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie tenses when Remy is gone again, he hates that he can't even senses Remy's existence right now... He paces while he waits.

----

Null startles and squeaks out shrieking static when they see Remy again.

"Remy...?"

They walk over and stare at him and the bile.

"How-- Are you okay?..."

Though Remy was gone for roughly five minutes, it's only been fifteen in here despite a few minutes being hours last time.

[deceitanon]

{Remy curls up and gives him a weak wait gesture… his body glitching again}

“Hurts…”

{His ears folded down- he hates when he glitches..}

“Don’t.. look”

{he hates making new people see him like this- 1) he likes to maintain the cool image he has.. and 2) because it makes him wish Eddie was here to comfort him}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses before nodding and turning around.

They sit nearby with their back to Remy.

"I am sorry that I cannot help... I am not a healing type... Do let me know if you cannot settle your body though, I can understand the glitching. It is one reason I do not leave with my body anymore... It tends to cause some of the void maggots to burst."

That... Sounds incredibly painful for someone who is made of them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tries to get up then lays back down immediately}

“Tel… tell me more… void maggots.. what do they do?”

“I… can control the void.. it’s how I can manipulate dreams”

{Remy murmurs weakly as he just lets his back lax.. he wishes just to listen}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Void maggots are specific to the place as I said... They grow in the walls, squirm their way in the ground, and come to me... I believe I am more of an entity made by this place."

They sound uncertain on what they are.

"They allow me to shapeshift, as they have no solid form either... I am unsure if they would be the same as the void you describe, but you can try manipulating them if you wish to test that? I do not mind."

Null is suggesting Remy manipulate their body itself.

"They have no thought, or organic life... They just exist. Like me... I do believe they are an essence of this place? That may be the best wording I have."

[deceitanon]

{Remy has gone silent}

{He has fallen asleep, he looks so.. human and warm}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turns around when he's silent for too long.

They stare for a while... Look around... They stand up slowly, and with focus to not make Remy ill, they pick him up.

They wander further into the space until it shifts out of Remy's memories and into a space Null made themself.

It's made to be a cottage, but it feels like an uncanny mimic of one, even more so than Remy's memories.

They place him on a bed, pulling a blanket over him, and then move to make coffee... They get a feeling he likes coffee. The bed feels oddly comfortable compared to the rest of this place.

The bedroom isn't all too separate from the living room, which is decently open to the kitchen and the front door. There are windows, but they're just a white light with no details.

[deceitanon]

{After sometime, Remy groans and hugs the blanket closer}

“Eddie?”

{he said sleepy, nuzzling into the blanket before opening his eyes… and sees the uncanny house}

“Where.. am I?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null hears him wake up, and slowly walks over to the bedroom. Floorboards creak under their silent feet.

They look around the corner... Looking around corners before walking past them seems like a habit of theirs.

"Are you okay now, Remy?"

They slowly walk closer, they also tend to walk slowly.

They carry a mug of coffee, setting it on the warped nightstand.

"I made coffee."

[deceitanon]

“Fuck yes… I love coffee.. and yes I’m feeling better.. sorry about passing out on you”

“You were talking about the void things?”

{Remy mutters as he sits up and grabs the coffee to drink it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"You are alright."

The coffee is almost right. Almost how Remy likes it. It's off still. Anything Null makes seems to be off.

"I was..."

They watch Remy drink the coffee for a moment, also staring at the bed... They don't say what they want, and it is difficult to tell without a face to show it.

"The void maggots are more of an essence of this space... I believe..."

They think for a moment.

"You mentioned dreamscapes being voids. I believe the void maggots grow up into them. Though they form in here, and make me, I would guess they grow up into something?"

They are larva after all.

"Perhaps that is what they grow into?"

There was a vague familiarity to the maggots, but it was hard to place, easy to dismiss as the space.

[deceitanon]

“You think I can control them? What do you think I can do with them?”

{Remy purrs at the taste of his coffee, his tails wag slowly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently watches Remy's tails wag for a moment.

...

"I believe you could, yes... I am unsure what you could do with them though."

They think for a moment, still staring at Remy. The longer they stare the more unsettling it feels...

"Maybe you could have control over what they form into?... I do not always understand where I learn what I do, but I suppose that is part of who I am... I believe they form dreamscapes, but also mindscapes and pocket dimensions."

"If they have multiple paths, maybe there could be more with artificial influence?"

They scoop out of maggots from their neck again and offer them to Remy. They writhe and squirm in their palm.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tilts his head and looks at the maggots, he shudders but takes a deep breath, he hover his hands over the maggots and tries to alter them in anyway he can}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

As he hovers his hand over the maggots he can feel they have a different type of energy. It's more like a potential energy, that would be gone the moment it's used?

As Remy tries to manipulate the maggots they writhe more, then start to bubble, and then they melt into a black goo... Then, suddenly, Remy can feel a new pocket dimension as the maggot goo disappears. It feels different from ones he may have created before.

He can feel that it was made, and that it belongs to him in a way, but it took little no of his energy to do so.

[deceitanon]

“Huh- gross but that took like no energy.. the maggots feel like that have some kind of energy probably stored inside them- UGH where is Logan when I need him”

{Remy groans- he’s not a scientist or a doctor like him}

“I have no idea what this could mean.. hmmm”

“When I altered the lil guys.. they disappeared but I felt a pocket dimension open up, a new one- how is that even possible.. it wasn’t a lot of em”

“Can you tell me more about yourself Null? How’d you get here? How are you made up of these Void Bugs”

{he wants to stop calling them maggots.. it feels rude because Null is made out of these lil buggers}

___

{While Null is explaining, Remy does try to write a note and glitchport (teleport and glitch) the note to Eddie, to tell him he is okay}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Each one of them grows up into a space like that, so you really only need one. Using more strengthens it, and makes it bigger I would guess."

They fall silent for several minutes at being asked about themself.

...

"I... Do not know how I got here. I just remember nothing... And then I was here... Or--"

Their screen glitches violently for a minute before they talk again.

"As for being made of the bugs--" They talk as if that glitching never happened. "I believe I made out of them as... As..."

They fall silent again.

"I don't think about what I am."

They don't know. They don't like that they don't know.

They can't remember how they got here...

"I like creating things... They always come out warped though."

They summon a fox plush, and while it looks like a fox it is unsettling not a fox at the same time.

----

The note ends up slightly clipped into the bar counter near Eddie. It's enough to read at least, but part of the note is in the counter.

"... Okay..." He sighs in shaky relief.

[deceitanon]

“Hmm.. so-“

{Remy pauses when he watches their screen glitch, he frowns in worry, everything about this place looks and feels fine- but it’s more like an uncanny feeling, he looks at the fox with a head tilt}

{Plus the whole time weirdness is throwing him off as well}

{he rubs his head as he thinks}

“I don’t know what to make of you babes, and I’d like to try and understand as much as I can before I introduce you to a whole new realm- or space.. don’t get me wrong- I’ve dealt with crazy stuff so this is just precarious, because who knows what could happen-“

“But- you don’t like these questions so.. maybe you can ask me somethings? And we can bounce off each others questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly, and stares at the bed for a bit again. They've kind of just been standing there, as if unsure what to do with themself.

"... What does it feel like to breathe?... Or... Just... How does your body feel to you?"

Odd first question...

[deceitanon]

“I.. hm I may not feel like the best example because it’s different with everyone.. but my body feels hot, it might seem warm and nice, but I do love the cold weather to help balance myself out, I get a lot of headaches due to my connections back in my world, but honestly it’s something I’m just used to so I’ve learned how to cope healthily..”

“Breathing feels awesome.. definitely something everyone takes for granted”

“Can I ask you the same questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently listens and processes what Remy said.

...

"I... Do not breathe. I always feel cold, I think numb is the other word... I like that you felt warm, I don't feel that often."

They fall silent again before there's a smaller and calmer glitch on their screen.

"... Breathing... I miss that. I took it for granted too it seems."

They remember breathing... There had to be something before they became this then, right?

"..." They pause, asking their next question quietly. "What does fear feel like?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy perks up, they remember something! Seems like this is going somewhere}

“Fear… is the worst thing to feel.. your body your mind all send these signals that you will die, get hurt.. and you can’t do anything about it”

{Remy looks away for a moment} “though there is a scale to how much a person can feel fear.. like it can be something small like a spider and they just avoid spiders.. or it can be a big fear like.. water itself- or loud sounds where it can affect your day to day life”

“… What can you feel?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly and thinks again.

...

"I don't feel... Things in a way I can place."

"Fear... I--"

They look at their hand and fall silent again.

"I do remember fear though... Fear and... And... Pain."

"Most feelings are dull... Now..."

They fidget with their gloves.

...

"... What does it feel like to die?"

That's... A heavy question. Why are they asking?

[deceitanon]

“… that’s a loaded question, it’s really depends on how you die”

“Why.. do you ask?”

{Remy frowns with worry}

“I promise you, it ain’t fun..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"I..."

They lean against the wall and pick at their gloves now.

"I don't know if I died... I"

They slowly slide down the wall to sit on the floor.

"I wasn't this... What was I?"

They're really wracking their mind now.

"I remember feeling tired... Then cool grass and dirt before falling asleep."

...

"Then an endless void. Thought it was a dream... There was a box. Nothing else... So I... Walked over to it."

They take their glove off and stare at all the writhing larva.

"I opened it... They spilled out, couldn't even guess how many..."

...

"Body was gone... Then I was this."

"It hurt... I was scared. I struggle to even remember feelings now."

[deceitanon]

“…”

{Remy frowns as he listens while nodding along}

{Remy slowly gets up and sits next to them}

“You aren’t alone anymore.. I can’t- I don’t want to promise anything that I’m not confident in.. but I’ll try my best to help you.. I know what it’s like.. losing your body.. being thrown into the void”

{Remy lets his hand hover over their arm, offering a warm touch}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at his hand and slowly takes it after putting their glove back on. They try to stop the sickening sensation, but it seems to be easier now.

"..."

They stay silent for a while longer.

"I don't... Mind what I am now. I think I was human... I can feel things coming back to me too. I don't think I was from your dimension or time period..."

...

"Is it weird... That I like being this?"

They don't like how unsettling they always are, but they still like what they are.

"I just... I just don't want to be alone anymore."

[deceitanon]

“If you liked being like this then I won’t stop you, you aren’t alone anymore. Okay? Not if I can help it”

{Remy smiles as he holds their hand}

“How do we get you over to my side?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null slowly nods and stares at Remy for a moment again.

"... Hard to explain... But it's not difficult for me."

They've just always been too scared to leave, being able to isn't a problem.

In another disorientating, nauseating blink they're back in the bar. It doesn't seem as bad with Null active in the process.

Though as Null teleports them back there's a dull wet popping sound of several of the larva in their body. Some black goo drips from them, but is quick to disappear.

They stumble a little and sit on the ground as their tv head glitches for a moment. It seems similar to a headache for them.

"... Hngg just a moment..."

----

Eddie startles when they are suddenly back and stares at them, more so towards Null. He gets a heavy uneasiness from them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy’s tails wagging quickly as he stands in front of Null and looks at Eddie, like a happy dog that just succeeded in a game of fetch}

“This is Null, he reminds me of Remus.. if that helps with the uneasiness..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie stares at Remy and then chuckles with a sign as he walks over.

He brings him into a hug.

"It does..."

He stares at Null behind Remy as they slowly stand back up.

"This era makes sense..." They mumble to themself as they look around and then at Eddie.

"... Ah, greetings... You must be Eddie?"

Their wording is similar to Logan's, but their voice has that static muffled through a tv feel... And the general uncanny nature of them.

"I am... It's nice to meet you, Null."

This is the second time Remy has mentioned Remus and how they're rather curious about him.

"It is nice to meet you as well..."

They also seem unsure what to do with themself in new area.

[deceitanon]

{Remys drapes himself behind Eddie’s back with a loving purr, nuzzling him}

“Welcome to our home! How are you feeling”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie purrs happily, nuzzling Remy back as he wraps a tail around his waist.

Null looks around before answering.

"I am..." They pause, unsure. "Fine I believe."

They walk closer to Eddie now, looking down at him. They are well over two feet taller than him.

"... Would you like to go upstairs? Everyone is typically up there."

He smiles softly, though still getting used to the uneasiness. He does pause and warn Virgil with a text, knowing he might not handle it well.

Null nods slowly and looks around more.

[deceitanon]

{Virgil gets the text and goes to his room, thanking Eddie}

——

{Upstairs, Logan is talking to Remus on the touch.. Patton is making lunch for everyone, Ethos is reading a book as best he can on the love seat}

{Logan pauses, invisible to Null}

“Eddie? Remy? Who is that?”

—

{Remus turns and perks up with a wicked smile}

“Well look at you! Tall and Mysterious~”

{Remus doesn’t seem to be effected but Null’s Unease presence}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Logan.

"This is Null... Oh-- They can't see you right now..."

--

Ella is sitting with Ethos if he doesn't mind right now.

--

Null stares at Remus and tilts their head slightly. They actually stay silent as they slowly walk over.

...

"Hello..." They almost seem to be analyzing Remus.

...

"You have a familiarity."

Concept of the liminal and uncanny... Concept of intrusive thoughts... Could be something with that, but Null doesn't seem to understand.

They just... Stare. Far more than they did with Remy earlier.

[deceitanon]

{Ethos didn’t mind, he also wasn’t surprised by the new person either, he’s been here since day one, he’s used to this}

——

{Remus stares back and giggles}

“Well I used to look slightly different and yknow been around”

“Oooo Maggots! I love the look”

“I’m Remus! Dark creativity, Intrusive Thoughts, Doctor- you.. look familiar too! But where do I know you from hmmm”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Ella looks over briefly, bur she rather relax with Ethos right now. She leans against him, purring contently.

----

"It is nice to meet you, Remus."

They pause again.

"I... Do not believe I was from this dimension or era... My space exists between all that, but I am never sure."

They move around the couch to sit next to him.

...

They just stare more. Then they offer their hand with no explantion.

Given Remus probably would take their hand without questioning...

He gets no nausea either. Something about who Null was before is what is familiar, hidden what they are now.

...

They were a scientist at the same lab-- They vanished around the same time Remus got the radiation poisoning. Null does not remember much though.

"..." They don't say anything, just analyzing what any of that means.

... If Remus may recall, they used to be called "Dr. Rhinestone." She was well known in her field back then.

[deceitanon]

{Remus stares}

{then blinks}

{stares}

“Dr…Rhinestone- no”

“That’s not possible- the lab was empty when-“

“What happened?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tilts their head and stares back in confusion. When the name Remus says actually registers their screen glitches again and they head a headache like pain.

Though they gather themself well enough.

"Apologies... Dr. Rhinestone?-- I--"

They stare at Remus more.

"... What happened?"

They don't know the answer themself.

"..."

They pick at their gloves again, seeming to be a stressed habit.

"... The lab-- Wait--" They look directly st Remus now, white eyes behind the screen more visible now.

"Dr. Eckhard."

They remember more.

"Shit." They don't like what they remember.

"Fuck. I--"

...

"I worked in a lab near yours. I was supposed to be monitoring the radiation--"

They messed that up. They know they did.

"I didn't-- I got it wrong-- I-I... What happened to me..."

They look at their hands again, their speech sounding more coherent in wording, more tone coming through.

"I just... I remember passing out. I felt dizzy, fell, and I hit my head... Hard... I felt so cold."

They swear they feel the pain again.

"Woke up in a field of grass... Just one peach tree. I was so tired... I felt like I shouldn't sleep, but I did... Then the void, the box-- the maggots."

They pick at their gloves more harshly. Did they pass out from radiation poisoning? How did they just vanish though?

[deceitanon]

{Remus takes a slow step back.. he tugs on his hair}

“Holy…holy shit”

{he stares and starts laughing.. his form glitches- as if almost returning back to how Remus was before.. maybe the death of Dr. Rhinestone is what made him go insane faster- the puzzle piece is bending again}

“It was my fault- you-“

{He starts crying while laughing}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null quickly gets up and shakes their head.

"No. No! I-I was supposed to be monitoring it! I... Fuck. I miscalculated things. If I just-- Fuck."

They are shown genuine visible stress by now. Their uneasiness affect gets stronger with this.

"God I was a fucking idiot!"

They remembered something again.

"Fuck. Why..."

"It was my fault!! Fuck-- Remus--"

They force themself to say the words stuck in their non existent throat.

"I fucked up because I was-- I-I was-- high... I was a fucking idiot!"

They grab the sides of their head, self loathing.

"What the fuck was wrong with me?!"

...

"I was a well regarded scientist, I had access to pretty much anything I wanted, and i fucking abused that?!"

They tear up too, that rot and iron leaking through the screen.

"If I wasn't busy getting high off my ass I would have realized things were going wrong!"

[deceitanon]

“I…I knew”

{Remus whispered}

“I knew about the radiation and still decided to take the risk to study it…”

“I’m so sorry this happened to you Dr. Rhinestone..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null falls back onto the couch to try and calm down.

"I knew the risk too... I was suppose to be helping minimize the risk, and be the first to know when it was becoming too high of a risk."

...

"Please don't be sorry... I probably would have been fired or worse even if I did live..."

They look back up at him after a moment.

"But... Still here now, y-yeah?... Suppose you still can't get r-rid of me that easily?"

They try to make a joke to lighten the mood, though their words are still choked.

"Don't beat yourself up about it... Would say I'm not the same person, and I think I gather why I wouldn't want to be now."

They offer their hand again.

"I don't hold anything against you..."

Though no mouth is there, Null does smile softly.

[deceitanon]

“Mghh”

{Remus laughs before nodding}

“I don’t hold anything against you either…”

——-

{Remy blinks slowly and stares at Eddie}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remus for a moment before pulling him into a hug if he lets them.

"... Thank you."

Their head feels all buzzy right now... They aren't sure why, but thinking of themself as human causes their entire body to ache. Like they aren't allowed to feel that.

"..."

"Please only call me Null as well..." Their human tone retreats a little now. Tone returning to more uncanny.

----

Eddie looks over at Remy as well. He seems very confused.

"I... Do not remember there being a Dr. Rhinestone...?"

Though with the nature of what Null is it may be impossible to see them in the past. Ethos wouldn't have detected any lies either.

Eddie does not know what Null is as of right now.

[deceitanon]

{Remus touches Null’s tv screen and smiles}

“Looks like we both were changed heavily after the accident..”

——

{Remy nods in agreement}

“I don’t remember if this is because of the time stuff we did either”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null's screen has a electrical buzzing feel to it despite no electricity actually existing in them.

"I suppose so, yes... I became the concept of the liminal and uncanny feeling. Does not make people particularly enjoy being around me."

The eyes behind their screen shift slightly to look at Remus past his hand.

"How were you changed?"

----

Eddie sighs and thinks for a moment. He catches what Null says about their concept--

"Ah, I uh I do not think it is..."

... Why does he say it like he knows something...?

"I was wondering when they would show up." He mumbles very quietly--

He implies he already knew about Null in a way?!

[deceitanon]

“I became intrusive thoughts , got a bad cancer, drank a experimental drug and now I have a Symbiot inside me-“

“I wasn’t all this sane, but thanks to everyone here I’m semi back to normal… now I’m growing plants thanks to the basement downstairs- I swear I feel like it’s alive sometimes”

——

{Remy blinks slowly}

“Huh?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null goes to respond, but pauses at the mention of the basement--

"... Alive... How?"

They ask as if they know something.

----

Eddie pauses briefly.

"I uh... You know how the basement is always shifting and responding to what living things need, but it isn't technically alive?"

He looks at Remy with a look of "please don't be mad"

... What did he do?

[deceitanon]

{Remy stares at Eddie}

“Babes….. what did you do?”

{he gives him a stern look but one that says he won’t be fully mad}

——

“I dunno.. it just responded to me in ways that I didn’t even know I needed.. it learned- I swore it was teasing and sarcastic to me at one point”

{Remus shrugs}

“Why?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 142

As Remy teleports there's a flicker in everything around him, a feeling of being torn from the plane he was in, and suddenly he's in a... Space. It's hard to put into words what the fuck this is.

... It feels endless, uncanny, and yet familiar. There's items Remy may have felt were important from the distant past, or even the present. Items that feel important, and yet he's never seen. There's segments of these uneven and disorganized rooms that look like the bar, the loft, the cherry grove, the river, the void... There's hints, fragments, of everything Remy has ever seen. Everything feels... Wrong. Soso wrong.

They look like what Remy has seem, but they have an extreme feel of them still not being accurate. Like this space disorderly pulled memories from his mind and threw them around in a desperation to make it feel like home.

...

Lights flicker dully where there is no source, water trickles in the walls that aren't hollow...

Familiar sounds of people Remy knows are in the distant, with no obvious direction, but they have no realism to them. Parrots and echos of memories put into here wrong.

...

There is a sound that is real, but still uncanny. A voice. Humming. Their voice sounds like a person stuck behind a broken tv playing static, a crackling stinging hum with a broken melody.

[deceitanon]

“Hm…. honestly- ain’t the worst place I’ve been in”

{Remy picks up a ball and chucks it over to where he hears the humming}

“Eddie? Babes? Why’d you summon me here?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie is no where to be smelled even though a quiet hint of his voice echos from no where.

When Remy chucks the ball to the humming it suddenly stops. Deafening silence fills the space immediately.

...

"HelL-o?" The voice is broken, muffled and stuffed with static.

Slow someone peaks around the corner. A extremely tall lanky figure, only their head visible right now. A thin hand gloves in black velvet holds the wall near them.

Their head is a small black tv box, a very only one. It glows dully with flickers of visual static, and a subtle ringing of static piercings the air. Ever so slightly glowing white eyes that flicker like screen tearing are visible behind the screen. Those eyes are barely visible, yet so unsettling piercing.

... No heart beat. No warmth. No breathing. Not even any subtle electrical current of nerves, brain, or even a computer. Like they are nothing at all.

"..." The way they tilt their head in confusion feels so incredibly wrong.

[deceitanon]

“Hm? Hello- Have you seen a short but handsome man with wired hair? I seem to be lost, wouldn’t be the first”

{Remy says like meeting someone like him is normal}

“Where even am I? It’s creepy but cool as fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The figure stays silent for a while before fully rounding the corner.

They stand at 7'9. They are unnaturally slim, limbs just slightly long enough to be uncanny. The way their clothes lay so perfectly and beautifully feels unnatural. They wear a long black layered dress with ruffles, and black velvet gloves covering their whole arms. Black flats with white frilly socks. Adorned on top of their head is a veil made of smooth lightweight black feathers.

They stare for a while.

"... I h-Ave noT..."

"I don-T hAve a nAme fOr thIs place... JuSt minE."

They radiate unease and uncanny feelings. They mean no harm.

"Int-rEstIng... Ho-w A-rE you hEre?"

They speak as if it is supposed to be impossible. They step closer slowly as if uncertain Remy is more than a trick of this space.

[deceitanon]

“Damn you’re tall- hmmmm must have glitched out of reality or something!”

“Oh like the backrooom”

{He said with a snap}

“How are you even alive here?- you’re very uncanny- but that’s hot nowadays”

“I’m Remy, you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"..."

They seem flabbergasted, even with no face that feeling isn't seen but felt from them to Remy.

"nOt alivE..."

"I hAve no NamE..." They pause. "NulL." It's a word meaning nothing afterall.

"HavE n-ot been callEd 'hot' bEfoRe."

They step closer and hesitantly poke Remy from the top of his head. They small touch feel cold, a split second of nausea given too.

"... You arE reAl..." They seem even more confused.

"I s-uppose oUt of reAlity w-Ould be dEcent as a WorDing."

They sit on the ground, now eye level to Remy.

"glItch... WhEre and w-Hen are you fr-Om?... You mUst be retUrned." They say as if returning a book to a library, clearly not used to human contact.

[deceitanon]

{Remy blinks away the nausea and chuckles when he is poked}

“Ouch, it’s like you don’t even want me here! I’m hurt”

{he says with a hand on his chest}

“I mean I got nothing important to do, just came back from altering time itself so.. this is kinda nice”

{Remy doesn’t know why he’s spilling all of this}

“Null? That’s a sick name, why.. are you here though? You look alive to me”

{he says with certainty}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"i dO n-ot mInd cOmpan-y... N-o-one shOulD be here thOugH..."

They stare and tilt their head again. When they do some 'skin' on their neck is visible briefly. It looks less like skin and more like a void made of millions of writhing larva. Constantly moving in a sickly way.

"altEriNg tIme?.."

...

"hErE is Home... My spAce. ConCepT of the liminal... UnCannY ties in-tO it."

"alivE... N-oT alive, bUt stiLl con-scious."

They aren't certain what would count as alive in other senses. "AlivE indiCates being m-Ade of org-anIc matter." They are not.

[deceitanon]

“Then I must be not alive too. I’m a giant dead fox. And you are made out of larva- not gonna lie, that’s kinda icky”

“…:does it hurt?”

{Remy asks very quietly with a frown}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses and looks at themself for a moment. They pause for a moment longer, turning a few dials on their head. There's a sickening squelching and gargling noise as they do. Their voice now sounds smoother and consistent though, but still stuffed with static and muffled by the screen.

"Larva... I suppose it could be comparable to that? They're void maggots. They are unique to this place."

They carefully scoop out a small few of the void maggots. They wiggle around for a moment, small like usual maggots, and then Null puts them back.

"Hurt...?"

They pause at that as well.

"Yes... But not in your sense. I do not feel it that same way. It is a constant feeling, but I am not bothered by it."

...

"Giant dead fox? Could you say more?"

[deceitanon]

“Ah… well, as long as you don’t go talking to the others here”

{he said jokingly}

“Kitsune, my fox form died a long time ago- it gets really complicated… can I show you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The chuckle Null lets out sounds like breaking glass through tv static.

"I do believe there is no one else to tell... Unless you mean the illusions, but I believe they do not count."

They pauses and then nod.

"I would like to see if you wish to show."

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a step back and drops all of his illusions at once… and shows Null his true fox form.. it’s massive… and dead looking}

{armor on top of his dead fur, it looks like it’s been washed recently by Eddie despite it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares, and though no mouth exists, a smile is felt.

"You are beautiful... May I pet y--"

They cut themself off.

"I should not touch... It makes people ill."

They stare regardless. A yearning for touch is blatantly radiating of them now.

"I could show you how I shapeshift?... It is not pretty though."

They wish to show themself too.

[deceitanon]

{Remy judges their hand, their bone armor could protect him if they pet in the right places.. he is so… warm! Despite claiming to be a dead fox}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tenses briefly before noticing Remy is okay.

They run their hands along his bone armor, his head mostly.

"Warm..."

They move closer and lay their tv head onto his. The sound of tv static feels sharp, but not too overburdening.

"I do not wish to leave you now..." This is the first time they've been able to touch anyone, and one of the very few times they've even been around someone visually.

[deceitanon]

{Remy sniffs where he can hear the static, then pauses when he hears them say that}

{he slowly shifts back, but offers his hand for Null to fidget with}

“I.. will try my best to help you, you said I can return, but why haven’t you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at his hand... Hesitantly taking it. They focus on trying to stop the nausea from carrying over.

"..."

"I can return... I do not have much control over how I warp spaces. I do try to not use abilities when I am in the existing planes, but I am unpredictable. I carry unease everywhere I go, I cannot choose a form that is not uncanny, I cannot create spaces that are not uncanny... Emotions are not something I understand, but I do know they contribute to mistaken use of my abilities."

They stare at Remy's hand as they talk. Quiet sparking crying is heard, though it is only black blood that drips from under the screen of their head. Smelling strongly of rot and iron.

"I do not wish to cause trouble. So I do not leave often, and when I do I do not leave with my body... I simply look, and memorize..."

This space is built by disorganized memories.

[deceitanon]

“We have a lot of people like you back at my home, Emotions, Weird lookin’ we even have someone that is the literal meaning of intrusive thoughts”

{Remy Chuckles, before pauses, he tries to summon a cloth, but his whole body glitches- and he falls forward against them, but he gets the cloth

“Imma… just ignore what happened to me for now”

{Remy murmurs to himself before gently cleaning off the rot and iron liquid}



[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null reaches out to catch Remy.

"Be careful in here. Your abilities will not work easily. I do not wish for you to harm yourself."

It leans into Remy wiping off the liquid.

"... Could I go home with you?"

They ask as if they are a stray cat giving boba eyes. Uncanny never leaves anything they do, as if it is a deep rooted curse in their very being.

[deceitanon]

“Of course you can!- wait… I should probably ask Eddie.. I’ve been bring so many people home.. it wouldn’t be okay if I just kept on doing it”

“Is… there a way I can speak to him? Or will I have to leave you first?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Oh-- You cannot leave with my help... And you will not be able to get back most likely."

They pauses to think, and then summon a black rotary phone with blood red rubies chaotically placed.

"Do you come from a time with phones?... This should work if so."

They talk as if they can travel between not just space, but time as well.

[deceitanon]

“Hmmm I- would call him but- I don’t really use a phone- he just kinda talks to me in my head”

“I promise it’s not as crazy as it seems”

“Oh! And I can totally come back, I’ll just recreate what I did, easy peasy”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at the phone and back at Remy.

They speak after a while of silence.

"Okay..."

They don't believe Remy will be able to come back, but they don't argue regardless. Remy has to go back either way.

"I will see you when you return." They say with hidden disbelief.

They don't wait for a response before they poke Remy's chest and in a sickening disorientating blink he's back in the bar.

[deceitanon]

{Remy groans and leans up against the bar}

{he blinks slowly, he feels like he needs to puke}

“Fuckkkk- Eddddiiieeeee”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie quickly appears next to Remy.

"Where-- What happened???" He sounds confused and concerned. "I lost all sense of you for a few minutes."

'Fee minutes' it felt like almost an hour passed down there... How does time work in that space?

"Are you okay??" He brings a trashcan over incase Remy does puke.

[deceitanon]

{Remy does end up puking}

“Got stuck in a weird space when I teleported….. few mins? It felt like I was there for hours”

“No… that’s not what I need to focus on.. there is someone trapped.. they are… uncanny more so than Remus but.. they wish to have a home”

{Remy gave Eddie puppy eyes}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie gently rubs Remy's back for a moment.

"What do you mean 'weird space??'"

He seems utterly confused.

"I--"

He looks at Remy's eyes and sighs after a moment with a lighthearted eye roll.

"Okay... Fine... I'm lucky Starie can create so much space where there shouldn't even be room, you know?"

With the amount of people here, it'd be impossible without Starie's stable space warping.

[deceitanon]

“Don’t worry~ they realllly tall which I know you love”

{Remy nuzzles up against Eddie with a happy purr}

“I… hope I can actually get back there”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie looks away with an embarrassed flush at Remy's comment.

"Oh, fuck off..." He playfully scoffs out without any actually annoyance. He clears his throat after a moment before replying, and nuzzling Remy back.

"Is there a chance you can't?"

He seems confused at that.

[deceitanon]

“Maybe… I just- need to make myself glitch while teleporting..”

“It… hurts to do it but I’ll only need to do it once.. so it won’t be that bad right?”

{Remy murmurs to himself}

{Remy kisses Eddie’s cheek before taking a deep breath, glitching and teleporting at the same time- and he lands back into the space.. but is on his hands and knees groaning, and coughing up more bile}

“Fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie tenses when Remy is gone again, he hates that he can't even senses Remy's existence right now... He paces while he waits.

----

Null startles and squeaks out shrieking static when they see Remy again.

"Remy...?"

They walk over and stare at him and the bile.

"How-- Are you okay?..."

Though Remy was gone for roughly five minutes, it's only been fifteen in here despite a few minutes being hours last time.

[deceitanon]

{Remy curls up and gives him a weak wait gesture… his body glitching again}

“Hurts…”

{His ears folded down- he hates when he glitches..}

“Don’t.. look”

{he hates making new people see him like this- 1) he likes to maintain the cool image he has.. and 2) because it makes him wish Eddie was here to comfort him}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses before nodding and turning around.

They sit nearby with their back to Remy.

"I am sorry that I cannot help... I am not a healing type... Do let me know if you cannot settle your body though, I can understand the glitching. It is one reason I do not leave with my body anymore... It tends to cause some of the void maggots to burst."

That... Sounds incredibly painful for someone who is made of them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tries to get up then lays back down immediately}

“Tel… tell me more… void maggots.. what do they do?”

“I… can control the void.. it’s how I can manipulate dreams”

{Remy murmurs weakly as he just lets his back lax.. he wishes just to listen}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Void maggots are specific to the place as I said... They grow in the walls, squirm their way in the ground, and come to me... I believe I am more of an entity made by this place."

They sound uncertain on what they are.

"They allow me to shapeshift, as they have no solid form either... I am unsure if they would be the same as the void you describe, but you can try manipulating them if you wish to test that? I do not mind."

Null is suggesting Remy manipulate their body itself.

"They have no thought, or organic life... They just exist. Like me... I do believe they are an essence of this place? That may be the best wording I have."

[deceitanon]

{Remy has gone silent}

{He has fallen asleep, he looks so.. human and warm}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turns around when he's silent for too long.

They stare for a while... Look around... They stand up slowly, and with focus to not make Remy ill, they pick him up.

They wander further into the space until it shifts out of Remy's memories and into a space Null made themself.

It's made to be a cottage, but it feels like an uncanny mimic of one, even more so than Remy's memories.

They place him on a bed, pulling a blanket over him, and then move to make coffee... They get a feeling he likes coffee. The bed feels oddly comfortable compared to the rest of this place.

The bedroom isn't all too separate from the living room, which is decently open to the kitchen and the front door. There are windows, but they're just a white light with no details.

[deceitanon]

{After sometime, Remy groans and hugs the blanket closer}

“Eddie?”

{he said sleepy, nuzzling into the blanket before opening his eyes… and sees the uncanny house}

“Where.. am I?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null hears him wake up, and slowly walks over to the bedroom. Floorboards creak under their silent feet.

They look around the corner... Looking around corners before walking past them seems like a habit of theirs.

"Are you okay now, Remy?"

They slowly walk closer, they also tend to walk slowly.

They carry a mug of coffee, setting it on the warped nightstand.

"I made coffee."

[deceitanon]

“Fuck yes… I love coffee.. and yes I’m feeling better.. sorry about passing out on you”

“You were talking about the void things?”

{Remy mutters as he sits up and grabs the coffee to drink it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"You are alright."

The coffee is almost right. Almost how Remy likes it. It's off still. Anything Null makes seems to be off.

"I was..."

They watch Remy drink the coffee for a moment, also staring at the bed... They don't say what they want, and it is difficult to tell without a face to show it.

"The void maggots are more of an essence of this space... I believe..."

They think for a moment.

"You mentioned dreamscapes being voids. I believe the void maggots grow up into them. Though they form in here, and make me, I would guess they grow up into something?"

They are larva after all.

"Perhaps that is what they grow into?"

There was a vague familiarity to the maggots, but it was hard to place, easy to dismiss as the space.

[deceitanon]

“You think I can control them? What do you think I can do with them?”

{Remy purrs at the taste of his coffee, his tails wag slowly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently watches Remy's tails wag for a moment.

...

"I believe you could, yes... I am unsure what you could do with them though."

They think for a moment, still staring at Remy. The longer they stare the more unsettling it feels...

"Maybe you could have control over what they form into?... I do not always understand where I learn what I do, but I suppose that is part of who I am... I believe they form dreamscapes, but also mindscapes and pocket dimensions."

"If they have multiple paths, maybe there could be more with artificial influence?"

They scoop out of maggots from their neck again and offer them to Remy. They writhe and squirm in their palm.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tilts his head and looks at the maggots, he shudders but takes a deep breath, he hover his hands over the maggots and tries to alter them in anyway he can}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

As he hovers his hand over the maggots he can feel they have a different type of energy. It's more like a potential energy, that would be gone the moment it's used?

As Remy tries to manipulate the maggots they writhe more, then start to bubble, and then they melt into a black goo... Then, suddenly, Remy can feel a new pocket dimension as the maggot goo disappears. It feels different from ones he may have created before.

He can feel that it was made, and that it belongs to him in a way, but it took little no of his energy to do so.

[deceitanon]

“Huh- gross but that took like no energy.. the maggots feel like that have some kind of energy probably stored inside them- UGH where is Logan when I need him”

{Remy groans- he’s not a scientist or a doctor like him}

“I have no idea what this could mean.. hmmm”

“When I altered the lil guys.. they disappeared but I felt a pocket dimension open up, a new one- how is that even possible.. it wasn’t a lot of em”

“Can you tell me more about yourself Null? How’d you get here? How are you made up of these Void Bugs”

{he wants to stop calling them maggots.. it feels rude because Null is made out of these lil buggers}

___

{While Null is explaining, Remy does try to write a note and glitchport (teleport and glitch) the note to Eddie, to tell him he is okay}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Each one of them grows up into a space like that, so you really only need one. Using more strengthens it, and makes it bigger I would guess."

They fall silent for several minutes at being asked about themself.

...

"I... Do not know how I got here. I just remember nothing... And then I was here... Or--"

Their screen glitches violently for a minute before they talk again.

"As for being made of the bugs--" They talk as if that glitching never happened. "I believe I made out of them as... As..."

They fall silent again.

"I don't think about what I am."

They don't know. They don't like that they don't know.

They can't remember how they got here...

"I like creating things... They always come out warped though."

They summon a fox plush, and while it looks like a fox it is unsettling not a fox at the same time.

----

The note ends up slightly clipped into the bar counter near Eddie. It's enough to read at least, but part of the note is in the counter.

"... Okay..." He sighs in shaky relief.

[deceitanon]

“Hmm.. so-“

{Remy pauses when he watches their screen glitch, he frowns in worry, everything about this place looks and feels fine- but it’s more like an uncanny feeling, he looks at the fox with a head tilt}

{Plus the whole time weirdness is throwing him off as well}

{he rubs his head as he thinks}

“I don’t know what to make of you babes, and I’d like to try and understand as much as I can before I introduce you to a whole new realm- or space.. don’t get me wrong- I’ve dealt with crazy stuff so this is just precarious, because who knows what could happen-“

“But- you don’t like these questions so.. maybe you can ask me somethings? And we can bounce off each others questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly, and stares at the bed for a bit again. They've kind of just been standing there, as if unsure what to do with themself.

"... What does it feel like to breathe?... Or... Just... How does your body feel to you?"

Odd first question...

[deceitanon]

“I.. hm I may not feel like the best example because it’s different with everyone.. but my body feels hot, it might seem warm and nice, but I do love the cold weather to help balance myself out, I get a lot of headaches due to my connections back in my world, but honestly it’s something I’m just used to so I’ve learned how to cope healthily..”

“Breathing feels awesome.. definitely something everyone takes for granted”

“Can I ask you the same questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently listens and processes what Remy said.

...

"I... Do not breathe. I always feel cold, I think numb is the other word... I like that you felt warm, I don't feel that often."

They fall silent again before there's a smaller and calmer glitch on their screen.

"... Breathing... I miss that. I took it for granted too it seems."

They remember breathing... There had to be something before they became this then, right?

"..." They pause, asking their next question quietly. "What does fear feel like?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy perks up, they remember something! Seems like this is going somewhere}

“Fear… is the worst thing to feel.. your body your mind all send these signals that you will die, get hurt.. and you can’t do anything about it”

{Remy looks away for a moment} “though there is a scale to how much a person can feel fear.. like it can be something small like a spider and they just avoid spiders.. or it can be a big fear like.. water itself- or loud sounds where it can affect your day to day life”

“… What can you feel?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly and thinks again.

...

"I don't feel... Things in a way I can place."

"Fear... I--"

They look at their hand and fall silent again.

"I do remember fear though... Fear and... And... Pain."

"Most feelings are dull... Now..."

They fidget with their gloves.

...

"... What does it feel like to die?"

That's... A heavy question. Why are they asking?

[deceitanon]

“… that’s a loaded question, it’s really depends on how you die”

“Why.. do you ask?”

{Remy frowns with worry}

“I promise you, it ain’t fun..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"I..."

They lean against the wall and pick at their gloves now.

"I don't know if I died... I"

They slowly slide down the wall to sit on the floor.

"I wasn't this... What was I?"

They're really wracking their mind now.

"I remember feeling tired... Then cool grass and dirt before falling asleep."

...

"Then an endless void. Thought it was a dream... There was a box. Nothing else... So I... Walked over to it."

They take their glove off and stare at all the writhing larva.

"I opened it... They spilled out, couldn't even guess how many..."

...

"Body was gone... Then I was this."

"It hurt... I was scared. I struggle to even remember feelings now."

[deceitanon]

“…”

{Remy frowns as he listens while nodding along}

{Remy slowly gets up and sits next to them}

“You aren’t alone anymore.. I can’t- I don’t want to promise anything that I’m not confident in.. but I’ll try my best to help you.. I know what it’s like.. losing your body.. being thrown into the void”

{Remy lets his hand hover over their arm, offering a warm touch}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at his hand and slowly takes it after putting their glove back on. They try to stop the sickening sensation, but it seems to be easier now.

"..."

They stay silent for a while longer.

"I don't... Mind what I am now. I think I was human... I can feel things coming back to me too. I don't think I was from your dimension or time period..."

...

"Is it weird... That I like being this?"

They don't like how unsettling they always are, but they still like what they are.

"I just... I just don't want to be alone anymore."

[deceitanon]

“If you liked being like this then I won’t stop you, you aren’t alone anymore. Okay? Not if I can help it”

{Remy smiles as he holds their hand}

“How do we get you over to my side?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null slowly nods and stares at Remy for a moment again.

"... Hard to explain... But it's not difficult for me."

They've just always been too scared to leave, being able to isn't a problem.

In another disorientating, nauseating blink they're back in the bar. It doesn't seem as bad with Null active in the process.

Though as Null teleports them back there's a dull wet popping sound of several of the larva in their body. Some black goo drips from them, but is quick to disappear.

They stumble a little and sit on the ground as their tv head glitches for a moment. It seems similar to a headache for them.

"... Hngg just a moment..."

----

Eddie startles when they are suddenly back and stares at them, more so towards Null. He gets a heavy uneasiness from them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy’s tails wagging quickly as he stands in front of Null and looks at Eddie, like a happy dog that just succeeded in a game of fetch}

“This is Null, he reminds me of Remus.. if that helps with the uneasiness..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie stares at Remy and then chuckles with a sign as he walks over.

He brings him into a hug.

"It does..."

He stares at Null behind Remy as they slowly stand back up.

"This era makes sense..." They mumble to themself as they look around and then at Eddie.

"... Ah, greetings... You must be Eddie?"

Their wording is similar to Logan's, but their voice has that static muffled through a tv feel... And the general uncanny nature of them.

"I am... It's nice to meet you, Null."

This is the second time Remy has mentioned Remus and how they're rather curious about him.

"It is nice to meet you as well..."

They also seem unsure what to do with themself in new area.

[deceitanon]

{Remys drapes himself behind Eddie’s back with a loving purr, nuzzling him}

“Welcome to our home! How are you feeling”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie purrs happily, nuzzling Remy back as he wraps a tail around his waist.

Null looks around before answering.

"I am..." They pause, unsure. "Fine I believe."

They walk closer to Eddie now, looking down at him. They are well over two feet taller than him.

"... Would you like to go upstairs? Everyone is typically up there."

He smiles softly, though still getting used to the uneasiness. He does pause and warn Virgil with a text, knowing he might not handle it well.

Null nods slowly and looks around more.

[deceitanon]

{Virgil gets the text and goes to his room, thanking Eddie}

——

{Upstairs, Logan is talking to Remus on the touch.. Patton is making lunch for everyone, Ethos is reading a book as best he can on the love seat}

{Logan pauses, invisible to Null}

“Eddie? Remy? Who is that?”

—

{Remus turns and perks up with a wicked smile}

“Well look at you! Tall and Mysterious~”

{Remus doesn’t seem to be effected but Null’s Unease presence}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Logan.

"This is Null... Oh-- They can't see you right now..."

--

Ella is sitting with Ethos if he doesn't mind right now.

--

Null stares at Remus and tilts their head slightly. They actually stay silent as they slowly walk over.

...

"Hello..." They almost seem to be analyzing Remus.

...

"You have a familiarity."

Concept of the liminal and uncanny... Concept of intrusive thoughts... Could be something with that, but Null doesn't seem to understand.

They just... Stare. Far more than they did with Remy earlier.

[deceitanon]

{Ethos didn’t mind, he also wasn’t surprised by the new person either, he’s been here since day one, he’s used to this}

——

{Remus stares back and giggles}

“Well I used to look slightly different and yknow been around”

“Oooo Maggots! I love the look”

“I’m Remus! Dark creativity, Intrusive Thoughts, Doctor- you.. look familiar too! But where do I know you from hmmm”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Ella looks over briefly, bur she rather relax with Ethos right now. She leans against him, purring contently.

----

"It is nice to meet you, Remus."

They pause again.

"I... Do not believe I was from this dimension or era... My space exists between all that, but I am never sure."

They move around the couch to sit next to him.

...

They just stare more. Then they offer their hand with no explantion.

Given Remus probably would take their hand without questioning...

He gets no nausea either. Something about who Null was before is what is familiar, hidden what they are now.

...

They were a scientist at the same lab-- They vanished around the same time Remus got the radiation poisoning. Null does not remember much though.

"..." They don't say anything, just analyzing what any of that means.

... If Remus may recall, they used to be called "Dr. Rhinestone." She was well known in her field back then.

[deceitanon]

{Remus stares}

{then blinks}

{stares}

“Dr…Rhinestone- no”

“That’s not possible- the lab was empty when-“

“What happened?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tilts their head and stares back in confusion. When the name Remus says actually registers their screen glitches again and they head a headache like pain.

Though they gather themself well enough.

"Apologies... Dr. Rhinestone?-- I--"

They stare at Remus more.

"... What happened?"

They don't know the answer themself.

"..."

They pick at their gloves again, seeming to be a stressed habit.

"... The lab-- Wait--" They look directly st Remus now, white eyes behind the screen more visible now.

"Dr. Eckhard."

They remember more.

"Shit." They don't like what they remember.

"Fuck. I--"

...

"I worked in a lab near yours. I was supposed to be monitoring the radiation--"

They messed that up. They know they did.

"I didn't-- I got it wrong-- I-I... What happened to me..."

They look at their hands again, their speech sounding more coherent in wording, more tone coming through.

"I just... I remember passing out. I felt dizzy, fell, and I hit my head... Hard... I felt so cold."

They swear they feel the pain again.

"Woke up in a field of grass... Just one peach tree. I was so tired... I felt like I shouldn't sleep, but I did... Then the void, the box-- the maggots."

They pick at their gloves more harshly. Did they pass out from radiation poisoning? How did they just vanish though?

[deceitanon]

{Remus takes a slow step back.. he tugs on his hair}

“Holy…holy shit”

{he stares and starts laughing.. his form glitches- as if almost returning back to how Remus was before.. maybe the death of Dr. Rhinestone is what made him go insane faster- the puzzle piece is bending again}

“It was my fault- you-“

{He starts crying while laughing}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null quickly gets up and shakes their head.

"No. No! I-I was supposed to be monitoring it! I... Fuck. I miscalculated things. If I just-- Fuck."

They are shown genuine visible stress by now. Their uneasiness affect gets stronger with this.

"God I was a fucking idiot!"

They remembered something again.

"Fuck. Why..."

"It was my fault!! Fuck-- Remus--"

They force themself to say the words stuck in their non existent throat.

"I fucked up because I was-- I-I was-- high... I was a fucking idiot!"

They grab the sides of their head, self loathing.

"What the fuck was wrong with me?!"

...

"I was a well regarded scientist, I had access to pretty much anything I wanted, and i fucking abused that?!"

They tear up too, that rot and iron leaking through the screen.

"If I wasn't busy getting high off my ass I would have realized things were going wrong!"

[deceitanon]

“I…I knew”

{Remus whispered}

“I knew about the radiation and still decided to take the risk to study it…”

“I’m so sorry this happened to you Dr. Rhinestone..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null falls back onto the couch to try and calm down.

"I knew the risk too... I was suppose to be helping minimize the risk, and be the first to know when it was becoming too high of a risk."

...

"Please don't be sorry... I probably would have been fired or worse even if I did live..."

They look back up at him after a moment.

"But... Still here now, y-yeah?... Suppose you still can't get r-rid of me that easily?"

They try to make a joke to lighten the mood, though their words are still choked.

"Don't beat yourself up about it... Would say I'm not the same person, and I think I gather why I wouldn't want to be now."

They offer their hand again.

"I don't hold anything against you..."

Though no mouth is there, Null does smile softly.

[deceitanon]

“Mghh”

{Remus laughs before nodding}

“I don’t hold anything against you either…”

——-

{Remy blinks slowly and stares at Eddie}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remus for a moment before pulling him into a hug if he lets them.

"... Thank you."

Their head feels all buzzy right now... They aren't sure why, but thinking of themself as human causes their entire body to ache. Like they aren't allowed to feel that.

"..."

"Please only call me Null as well..." Their human tone retreats a little now. Tone returning to more uncanny.

----

Eddie looks over at Remy as well. He seems very confused.

"I... Do not remember there being a Dr. Rhinestone...?"

Though with the nature of what Null is it may be impossible to see them in the past. Ethos wouldn't have detected any lies either.

Eddie does not know what Null is as of right now.

[deceitanon]

{Remus touches Null’s tv screen and smiles}

“Looks like we both were changed heavily after the accident..”

——

{Remy nods in agreement}

“I don’t remember if this is because of the time stuff we did either”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null's screen has a electrical buzzing feel to it despite no electricity actually existing in them.

"I suppose so, yes... I became the concept of the liminal and uncanny feeling. Does not make people particularly enjoy being around me."

The eyes behind their screen shift slightly to look at Remus past his hand.

"How were you changed?"

----

Eddie sighs and thinks for a moment. He catches what Null says about their concept--

"Ah, I uh I do not think it is..."

... Why does he say it like he knows something...?

"I was wondering when they would show up." He mumbles very quietly--

He implies he already knew about Null in a way?!

[deceitanon]

“I became intrusive thoughts , got a bad cancer, drank a experimental drug and now I have a Symbiot inside me-“

“I wasn’t all this sane, but thanks to everyone here I’m semi back to normal… now I’m growing plants thanks to the basement downstairs- I swear I feel like it’s alive sometimes”

——

{Remy blinks slowly}

“Huh?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 142

As Remy teleports there's a flicker in everything around him, a feeling of being torn from the plane he was in, and suddenly he's in a... Space. It's hard to put into words what the fuck this is.

... It feels endless, uncanny, and yet familiar. There's items Remy may have felt were important from the distant past, or even the present. Items that feel important, and yet he's never seen. There's segments of these uneven and disorganized rooms that look like the bar, the loft, the cherry grove, the river, the void... There's hints, fragments, of everything Remy has ever seen. Everything feels... Wrong. Soso wrong.

They look like what Remy has seem, but they have an extreme feel of them still not being accurate. Like this space disorderly pulled memories from his mind and threw them around in a desperation to make it feel like home.

...

Lights flicker dully where there is no source, water trickles in the walls that aren't hollow...

Familiar sounds of people Remy knows are in the distant, with no obvious direction, but they have no realism to them. Parrots and echos of memories put into here wrong.

...

There is a sound that is real, but still uncanny. A voice. Humming. Their voice sounds like a person stuck behind a broken tv playing static, a crackling stinging hum with a broken melody.

[deceitanon]

“Hm…. honestly- ain’t the worst place I’ve been in”

{Remy picks up a ball and chucks it over to where he hears the humming}

“Eddie? Babes? Why’d you summon me here?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie is no where to be smelled even though a quiet hint of his voice echos from no where.

When Remy chucks the ball to the humming it suddenly stops. Deafening silence fills the space immediately.

...

"HelL-o?" The voice is broken, muffled and stuffed with static.

Slow someone peaks around the corner. A extremely tall lanky figure, only their head visible right now. A thin hand gloves in black velvet holds the wall near them.

Their head is a small black tv box, a very only one. It glows dully with flickers of visual static, and a subtle ringing of static piercings the air. Ever so slightly glowing white eyes that flicker like screen tearing are visible behind the screen. Those eyes are barely visible, yet so unsettling piercing.

... No heart beat. No warmth. No breathing. Not even any subtle electrical current of nerves, brain, or even a computer. Like they are nothing at all.

"..." The way they tilt their head in confusion feels so incredibly wrong.

[deceitanon]

“Hm? Hello- Have you seen a short but handsome man with wired hair? I seem to be lost, wouldn’t be the first”

{Remy says like meeting someone like him is normal}

“Where even am I? It’s creepy but cool as fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The figure stays silent for a while before fully rounding the corner.

They stand at 7'9. They are unnaturally slim, limbs just slightly long enough to be uncanny. The way their clothes lay so perfectly and beautifully feels unnatural. They wear a long black layered dress with ruffles, and black velvet gloves covering their whole arms. Black flats with white frilly socks. Adorned on top of their head is a veil made of smooth lightweight black feathers.

They stare for a while.

"... I h-Ave noT..."

"I don-T hAve a nAme fOr thIs place... JuSt minE."

They radiate unease and uncanny feelings. They mean no harm.

"Int-rEstIng... Ho-w A-rE you hEre?"

They speak as if it is supposed to be impossible. They step closer slowly as if uncertain Remy is more than a trick of this space.

[deceitanon]

“Damn you’re tall- hmmmm must have glitched out of reality or something!”

“Oh like the backrooom”

{He said with a snap}

“How are you even alive here?- you’re very uncanny- but that’s hot nowadays”

“I’m Remy, you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"..."

They seem flabbergasted, even with no face that feeling isn't seen but felt from them to Remy.

"nOt alivE..."

"I hAve no NamE..." They pause. "NulL." It's a word meaning nothing afterall.

"HavE n-ot been callEd 'hot' bEfoRe."

They step closer and hesitantly poke Remy from the top of his head. They small touch feel cold, a split second of nausea given too.

"... You arE reAl..." They seem even more confused.

"I s-uppose oUt of reAlity w-Ould be dEcent as a WorDing."

They sit on the ground, now eye level to Remy.

"glItch... WhEre and w-Hen are you fr-Om?... You mUst be retUrned." They say as if returning a book to a library, clearly not used to human contact.

[deceitanon]

{Remy blinks away the nausea and chuckles when he is poked}

“Ouch, it’s like you don’t even want me here! I’m hurt”

{he says with a hand on his chest}

“I mean I got nothing important to do, just came back from altering time itself so.. this is kinda nice”

{Remy doesn’t know why he’s spilling all of this}

“Null? That’s a sick name, why.. are you here though? You look alive to me”

{he says with certainty}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"i dO n-ot mInd cOmpan-y... N-o-one shOulD be here thOugH..."

They stare and tilt their head again. When they do some 'skin' on their neck is visible briefly. It looks less like skin and more like a void made of millions of writhing larva. Constantly moving in a sickly way.

"altEriNg tIme?.."

...

"hErE is Home... My spAce. ConCepT of the liminal... UnCannY ties in-tO it."

"alivE... N-oT alive, bUt stiLl con-scious."

They aren't certain what would count as alive in other senses. "AlivE indiCates being m-Ade of org-anIc matter." They are not.

[deceitanon]

“Then I must be not alive too. I’m a giant dead fox. And you are made out of larva- not gonna lie, that’s kinda icky”

“…:does it hurt?”

{Remy asks very quietly with a frown}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses and looks at themself for a moment. They pause for a moment longer, turning a few dials on their head. There's a sickening squelching and gargling noise as they do. Their voice now sounds smoother and consistent though, but still stuffed with static and muffled by the screen.

"Larva... I suppose it could be comparable to that? They're void maggots. They are unique to this place."

They carefully scoop out a small few of the void maggots. They wiggle around for a moment, small like usual maggots, and then Null puts them back.

"Hurt...?"

They pause at that as well.

"Yes... But not in your sense. I do not feel it that same way. It is a constant feeling, but I am not bothered by it."

...

"Giant dead fox? Could you say more?"

[deceitanon]

“Ah… well, as long as you don’t go talking to the others here”

{he said jokingly}

“Kitsune, my fox form died a long time ago- it gets really complicated… can I show you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The chuckle Null lets out sounds like breaking glass through tv static.

"I do believe there is no one else to tell... Unless you mean the illusions, but I believe they do not count."

They pauses and then nod.

"I would like to see if you wish to show."

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a step back and drops all of his illusions at once… and shows Null his true fox form.. it’s massive… and dead looking}

{armor on top of his dead fur, it looks like it’s been washed recently by Eddie despite it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares, and though no mouth exists, a smile is felt.

"You are beautiful... May I pet y--"

They cut themself off.

"I should not touch... It makes people ill."

They stare regardless. A yearning for touch is blatantly radiating of them now.

"I could show you how I shapeshift?... It is not pretty though."

They wish to show themself too.

[deceitanon]

{Remy judges their hand, their bone armor could protect him if they pet in the right places.. he is so… warm! Despite claiming to be a dead fox}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tenses briefly before noticing Remy is okay.

They run their hands along his bone armor, his head mostly.

"Warm..."

They move closer and lay their tv head onto his. The sound of tv static feels sharp, but not too overburdening.

"I do not wish to leave you now..." This is the first time they've been able to touch anyone, and one of the very few times they've even been around someone visually.

[deceitanon]

{Remy sniffs where he can hear the static, then pauses when he hears them say that}

{he slowly shifts back, but offers his hand for Null to fidget with}

“I.. will try my best to help you, you said I can return, but why haven’t you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at his hand... Hesitantly taking it. They focus on trying to stop the nausea from carrying over.

"..."

"I can return... I do not have much control over how I warp spaces. I do try to not use abilities when I am in the existing planes, but I am unpredictable. I carry unease everywhere I go, I cannot choose a form that is not uncanny, I cannot create spaces that are not uncanny... Emotions are not something I understand, but I do know they contribute to mistaken use of my abilities."

They stare at Remy's hand as they talk. Quiet sparking crying is heard, though it is only black blood that drips from under the screen of their head. Smelling strongly of rot and iron.

"I do not wish to cause trouble. So I do not leave often, and when I do I do not leave with my body... I simply look, and memorize..."

This space is built by disorganized memories.

[deceitanon]

“We have a lot of people like you back at my home, Emotions, Weird lookin’ we even have someone that is the literal meaning of intrusive thoughts”

{Remy Chuckles, before pauses, he tries to summon a cloth, but his whole body glitches- and he falls forward against them, but he gets the cloth

“Imma… just ignore what happened to me for now”

{Remy murmurs to himself before gently cleaning off the rot and iron liquid}



[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null reaches out to catch Remy.

"Be careful in here. Your abilities will not work easily. I do not wish for you to harm yourself."

It leans into Remy wiping off the liquid.

"... Could I go home with you?"

They ask as if they are a stray cat giving boba eyes. Uncanny never leaves anything they do, as if it is a deep rooted curse in their very being.

[deceitanon]

“Of course you can!- wait… I should probably ask Eddie.. I’ve been bring so many people home.. it wouldn’t be okay if I just kept on doing it”

“Is… there a way I can speak to him? Or will I have to leave you first?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Oh-- You cannot leave with my help... And you will not be able to get back most likely."

They pauses to think, and then summon a black rotary phone with blood red rubies chaotically placed.

"Do you come from a time with phones?... This should work if so."

They talk as if they can travel between not just space, but time as well.

[deceitanon]

“Hmmm I- would call him but- I don’t really use a phone- he just kinda talks to me in my head”

“I promise it’s not as crazy as it seems”

“Oh! And I can totally come back, I’ll just recreate what I did, easy peasy”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at the phone and back at Remy.

They speak after a while of silence.

"Okay..."

They don't believe Remy will be able to come back, but they don't argue regardless. Remy has to go back either way.

"I will see you when you return." They say with hidden disbelief.

They don't wait for a response before they poke Remy's chest and in a sickening disorientating blink he's back in the bar.

[deceitanon]

{Remy groans and leans up against the bar}

{he blinks slowly, he feels like he needs to puke}

“Fuckkkk- Eddddiiieeeee”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie quickly appears next to Remy.

"Where-- What happened???" He sounds confused and concerned. "I lost all sense of you for a few minutes."

'Fee minutes' it felt like almost an hour passed down there... How does time work in that space?

"Are you okay??" He brings a trashcan over incase Remy does puke.

[deceitanon]

{Remy does end up puking}

“Got stuck in a weird space when I teleported….. few mins? It felt like I was there for hours”

“No… that’s not what I need to focus on.. there is someone trapped.. they are… uncanny more so than Remus but.. they wish to have a home”

{Remy gave Eddie puppy eyes}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie gently rubs Remy's back for a moment.

"What do you mean 'weird space??'"

He seems utterly confused.

"I--"

He looks at Remy's eyes and sighs after a moment with a lighthearted eye roll.

"Okay... Fine... I'm lucky Starie can create so much space where there shouldn't even be room, you know?"

With the amount of people here, it'd be impossible without Starie's stable space warping.

[deceitanon]

“Don’t worry~ they realllly tall which I know you love”

{Remy nuzzles up against Eddie with a happy purr}

“I… hope I can actually get back there”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie looks away with an embarrassed flush at Remy's comment.

"Oh, fuck off..." He playfully scoffs out without any actually annoyance. He clears his throat after a moment before replying, and nuzzling Remy back.

"Is there a chance you can't?"

He seems confused at that.

[deceitanon]

“Maybe… I just- need to make myself glitch while teleporting..”

“It… hurts to do it but I’ll only need to do it once.. so it won’t be that bad right?”

{Remy murmurs to himself}

{Remy kisses Eddie’s cheek before taking a deep breath, glitching and teleporting at the same time- and he lands back into the space.. but is on his hands and knees groaning, and coughing up more bile}

“Fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie tenses when Remy is gone again, he hates that he can't even senses Remy's existence right now... He paces while he waits.

----

Null startles and squeaks out shrieking static when they see Remy again.

"Remy...?"

They walk over and stare at him and the bile.

"How-- Are you okay?..."

Though Remy was gone for roughly five minutes, it's only been fifteen in here despite a few minutes being hours last time.

[deceitanon]

{Remy curls up and gives him a weak wait gesture… his body glitching again}

“Hurts…”

{His ears folded down- he hates when he glitches..}

“Don’t.. look”

{he hates making new people see him like this- 1) he likes to maintain the cool image he has.. and 2) because it makes him wish Eddie was here to comfort him}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses before nodding and turning around.

They sit nearby with their back to Remy.

"I am sorry that I cannot help... I am not a healing type... Do let me know if you cannot settle your body though, I can understand the glitching. It is one reason I do not leave with my body anymore... It tends to cause some of the void maggots to burst."

That... Sounds incredibly painful for someone who is made of them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tries to get up then lays back down immediately}

“Tel… tell me more… void maggots.. what do they do?”

“I… can control the void.. it’s how I can manipulate dreams”

{Remy murmurs weakly as he just lets his back lax.. he wishes just to listen}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Void maggots are specific to the place as I said... They grow in the walls, squirm their way in the ground, and come to me... I believe I am more of an entity made by this place."

They sound uncertain on what they are.

"They allow me to shapeshift, as they have no solid form either... I am unsure if they would be the same as the void you describe, but you can try manipulating them if you wish to test that? I do not mind."

Null is suggesting Remy manipulate their body itself.

"They have no thought, or organic life... They just exist. Like me... I do believe they are an essence of this place? That may be the best wording I have."

[deceitanon]

{Remy has gone silent}

{He has fallen asleep, he looks so.. human and warm}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turns around when he's silent for too long.

They stare for a while... Look around... They stand up slowly, and with focus to not make Remy ill, they pick him up.

They wander further into the space until it shifts out of Remy's memories and into a space Null made themself.

It's made to be a cottage, but it feels like an uncanny mimic of one, even more so than Remy's memories.

They place him on a bed, pulling a blanket over him, and then move to make coffee... They get a feeling he likes coffee. The bed feels oddly comfortable compared to the rest of this place.

The bedroom isn't all too separate from the living room, which is decently open to the kitchen and the front door. There are windows, but they're just a white light with no details.

[deceitanon]

{After sometime, Remy groans and hugs the blanket closer}

“Eddie?”

{he said sleepy, nuzzling into the blanket before opening his eyes… and sees the uncanny house}

“Where.. am I?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null hears him wake up, and slowly walks over to the bedroom. Floorboards creak under their silent feet.

They look around the corner... Looking around corners before walking past them seems like a habit of theirs.

"Are you okay now, Remy?"

They slowly walk closer, they also tend to walk slowly.

They carry a mug of coffee, setting it on the warped nightstand.

"I made coffee."

[deceitanon]

“Fuck yes… I love coffee.. and yes I’m feeling better.. sorry about passing out on you”

“You were talking about the void things?”

{Remy mutters as he sits up and grabs the coffee to drink it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"You are alright."

The coffee is almost right. Almost how Remy likes it. It's off still. Anything Null makes seems to be off.

"I was..."

They watch Remy drink the coffee for a moment, also staring at the bed... They don't say what they want, and it is difficult to tell without a face to show it.

"The void maggots are more of an essence of this space... I believe..."

They think for a moment.

"You mentioned dreamscapes being voids. I believe the void maggots grow up into them. Though they form in here, and make me, I would guess they grow up into something?"

They are larva after all.

"Perhaps that is what they grow into?"

There was a vague familiarity to the maggots, but it was hard to place, easy to dismiss as the space.

[deceitanon]

“You think I can control them? What do you think I can do with them?”

{Remy purrs at the taste of his coffee, his tails wag slowly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently watches Remy's tails wag for a moment.

...

"I believe you could, yes... I am unsure what you could do with them though."

They think for a moment, still staring at Remy. The longer they stare the more unsettling it feels...

"Maybe you could have control over what they form into?... I do not always understand where I learn what I do, but I suppose that is part of who I am... I believe they form dreamscapes, but also mindscapes and pocket dimensions."

"If they have multiple paths, maybe there could be more with artificial influence?"

They scoop out of maggots from their neck again and offer them to Remy. They writhe and squirm in their palm.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tilts his head and looks at the maggots, he shudders but takes a deep breath, he hover his hands over the maggots and tries to alter them in anyway he can}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

As he hovers his hand over the maggots he can feel they have a different type of energy. It's more like a potential energy, that would be gone the moment it's used?

As Remy tries to manipulate the maggots they writhe more, then start to bubble, and then they melt into a black goo... Then, suddenly, Remy can feel a new pocket dimension as the maggot goo disappears. It feels different from ones he may have created before.

He can feel that it was made, and that it belongs to him in a way, but it took little no of his energy to do so.

[deceitanon]

“Huh- gross but that took like no energy.. the maggots feel like that have some kind of energy probably stored inside them- UGH where is Logan when I need him”

{Remy groans- he’s not a scientist or a doctor like him}

“I have no idea what this could mean.. hmmm”

“When I altered the lil guys.. they disappeared but I felt a pocket dimension open up, a new one- how is that even possible.. it wasn’t a lot of em”

“Can you tell me more about yourself Null? How’d you get here? How are you made up of these Void Bugs”

{he wants to stop calling them maggots.. it feels rude because Null is made out of these lil buggers}

___

{While Null is explaining, Remy does try to write a note and glitchport (teleport and glitch) the note to Eddie, to tell him he is okay}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Each one of them grows up into a space like that, so you really only need one. Using more strengthens it, and makes it bigger I would guess."

They fall silent for several minutes at being asked about themself.

...

"I... Do not know how I got here. I just remember nothing... And then I was here... Or--"

Their screen glitches violently for a minute before they talk again.

"As for being made of the bugs--" They talk as if that glitching never happened. "I believe I made out of them as... As..."

They fall silent again.

"I don't think about what I am."

They don't know. They don't like that they don't know.

They can't remember how they got here...

"I like creating things... They always come out warped though."

They summon a fox plush, and while it looks like a fox it is unsettling not a fox at the same time.

----

The note ends up slightly clipped into the bar counter near Eddie. It's enough to read at least, but part of the note is in the counter.

"... Okay..." He sighs in shaky relief.

[deceitanon]

“Hmm.. so-“

{Remy pauses when he watches their screen glitch, he frowns in worry, everything about this place looks and feels fine- but it’s more like an uncanny feeling, he looks at the fox with a head tilt}

{Plus the whole time weirdness is throwing him off as well}

{he rubs his head as he thinks}

“I don’t know what to make of you babes, and I’d like to try and understand as much as I can before I introduce you to a whole new realm- or space.. don’t get me wrong- I’ve dealt with crazy stuff so this is just precarious, because who knows what could happen-“

“But- you don’t like these questions so.. maybe you can ask me somethings? And we can bounce off each others questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly, and stares at the bed for a bit again. They've kind of just been standing there, as if unsure what to do with themself.

"... What does it feel like to breathe?... Or... Just... How does your body feel to you?"

Odd first question...

[deceitanon]

“I.. hm I may not feel like the best example because it’s different with everyone.. but my body feels hot, it might seem warm and nice, but I do love the cold weather to help balance myself out, I get a lot of headaches due to my connections back in my world, but honestly it’s something I’m just used to so I’ve learned how to cope healthily..”

“Breathing feels awesome.. definitely something everyone takes for granted”

“Can I ask you the same questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently listens and processes what Remy said.

...

"I... Do not breathe. I always feel cold, I think numb is the other word... I like that you felt warm, I don't feel that often."

They fall silent again before there's a smaller and calmer glitch on their screen.

"... Breathing... I miss that. I took it for granted too it seems."

They remember breathing... There had to be something before they became this then, right?

"..." They pause, asking their next question quietly. "What does fear feel like?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy perks up, they remember something! Seems like this is going somewhere}

“Fear… is the worst thing to feel.. your body your mind all send these signals that you will die, get hurt.. and you can’t do anything about it”

{Remy looks away for a moment} “though there is a scale to how much a person can feel fear.. like it can be something small like a spider and they just avoid spiders.. or it can be a big fear like.. water itself- or loud sounds where it can affect your day to day life”

“… What can you feel?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly and thinks again.

...

"I don't feel... Things in a way I can place."

"Fear... I--"

They look at their hand and fall silent again.

"I do remember fear though... Fear and... And... Pain."

"Most feelings are dull... Now..."

They fidget with their gloves.

...

"... What does it feel like to die?"

That's... A heavy question. Why are they asking?

[deceitanon]

“… that’s a loaded question, it’s really depends on how you die”

“Why.. do you ask?”

{Remy frowns with worry}

“I promise you, it ain’t fun..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"I..."

They lean against the wall and pick at their gloves now.

"I don't know if I died... I"

They slowly slide down the wall to sit on the floor.

"I wasn't this... What was I?"

They're really wracking their mind now.

"I remember feeling tired... Then cool grass and dirt before falling asleep."

...

"Then an endless void. Thought it was a dream... There was a box. Nothing else... So I... Walked over to it."

They take their glove off and stare at all the writhing larva.

"I opened it... They spilled out, couldn't even guess how many..."

...

"Body was gone... Then I was this."

"It hurt... I was scared. I struggle to even remember feelings now."

[deceitanon]

“…”

{Remy frowns as he listens while nodding along}

{Remy slowly gets up and sits next to them}

“You aren’t alone anymore.. I can’t- I don’t want to promise anything that I’m not confident in.. but I’ll try my best to help you.. I know what it’s like.. losing your body.. being thrown into the void”

{Remy lets his hand hover over their arm, offering a warm touch}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at his hand and slowly takes it after putting their glove back on. They try to stop the sickening sensation, but it seems to be easier now.

"..."

They stay silent for a while longer.

"I don't... Mind what I am now. I think I was human... I can feel things coming back to me too. I don't think I was from your dimension or time period..."

...

"Is it weird... That I like being this?"

They don't like how unsettling they always are, but they still like what they are.

"I just... I just don't want to be alone anymore."

[deceitanon]

“If you liked being like this then I won’t stop you, you aren’t alone anymore. Okay? Not if I can help it”

{Remy smiles as he holds their hand}

“How do we get you over to my side?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null slowly nods and stares at Remy for a moment again.

"... Hard to explain... But it's not difficult for me."

They've just always been too scared to leave, being able to isn't a problem.

In another disorientating, nauseating blink they're back in the bar. It doesn't seem as bad with Null active in the process.

Though as Null teleports them back there's a dull wet popping sound of several of the larva in their body. Some black goo drips from them, but is quick to disappear.

They stumble a little and sit on the ground as their tv head glitches for a moment. It seems similar to a headache for them.

"... Hngg just a moment..."

----

Eddie startles when they are suddenly back and stares at them, more so towards Null. He gets a heavy uneasiness from them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy’s tails wagging quickly as he stands in front of Null and looks at Eddie, like a happy dog that just succeeded in a game of fetch}

“This is Null, he reminds me of Remus.. if that helps with the uneasiness..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie stares at Remy and then chuckles with a sign as he walks over.

He brings him into a hug.

"It does..."

He stares at Null behind Remy as they slowly stand back up.

"This era makes sense..." They mumble to themself as they look around and then at Eddie.

"... Ah, greetings... You must be Eddie?"

Their wording is similar to Logan's, but their voice has that static muffled through a tv feel... And the general uncanny nature of them.

"I am... It's nice to meet you, Null."

This is the second time Remy has mentioned Remus and how they're rather curious about him.

"It is nice to meet you as well..."

They also seem unsure what to do with themself in new area.

[deceitanon]

{Remys drapes himself behind Eddie’s back with a loving purr, nuzzling him}

“Welcome to our home! How are you feeling”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie purrs happily, nuzzling Remy back as he wraps a tail around his waist.

Null looks around before answering.

"I am..." They pause, unsure. "Fine I believe."

They walk closer to Eddie now, looking down at him. They are well over two feet taller than him.

"... Would you like to go upstairs? Everyone is typically up there."

He smiles softly, though still getting used to the uneasiness. He does pause and warn Virgil with a text, knowing he might not handle it well.

Null nods slowly and looks around more.

[deceitanon]

{Virgil gets the text and goes to his room, thanking Eddie}

——

{Upstairs, Logan is talking to Remus on the touch.. Patton is making lunch for everyone, Ethos is reading a book as best he can on the love seat}

{Logan pauses, invisible to Null}

“Eddie? Remy? Who is that?”

—

{Remus turns and perks up with a wicked smile}

“Well look at you! Tall and Mysterious~”

{Remus doesn’t seem to be effected but Null’s Unease presence}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Logan.

"This is Null... Oh-- They can't see you right now..."

--

Ella is sitting with Ethos if he doesn't mind right now.

--

Null stares at Remus and tilts their head slightly. They actually stay silent as they slowly walk over.

...

"Hello..." They almost seem to be analyzing Remus.

...

"You have a familiarity."

Concept of the liminal and uncanny... Concept of intrusive thoughts... Could be something with that, but Null doesn't seem to understand.

They just... Stare. Far more than they did with Remy earlier.

[deceitanon]

{Ethos didn’t mind, he also wasn’t surprised by the new person either, he’s been here since day one, he’s used to this}

——

{Remus stares back and giggles}

“Well I used to look slightly different and yknow been around”

“Oooo Maggots! I love the look”

“I’m Remus! Dark creativity, Intrusive Thoughts, Doctor- you.. look familiar too! But where do I know you from hmmm”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Ella looks over briefly, bur she rather relax with Ethos right now. She leans against him, purring contently.

----

"It is nice to meet you, Remus."

They pause again.

"I... Do not believe I was from this dimension or era... My space exists between all that, but I am never sure."

They move around the couch to sit next to him.

...

They just stare more. Then they offer their hand with no explantion.

Given Remus probably would take their hand without questioning...

He gets no nausea either. Something about who Null was before is what is familiar, hidden what they are now.

...

They were a scientist at the same lab-- They vanished around the same time Remus got the radiation poisoning. Null does not remember much though.

"..." They don't say anything, just analyzing what any of that means.

... If Remus may recall, they used to be called "Dr. Rhinestone." She was well known in her field back then.

[deceitanon]

{Remus stares}

{then blinks}

{stares}

“Dr…Rhinestone- no”

“That’s not possible- the lab was empty when-“

“What happened?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tilts their head and stares back in confusion. When the name Remus says actually registers their screen glitches again and they head a headache like pain.

Though they gather themself well enough.

"Apologies... Dr. Rhinestone?-- I--"

They stare at Remus more.

"... What happened?"

They don't know the answer themself.

"..."

They pick at their gloves again, seeming to be a stressed habit.

"... The lab-- Wait--" They look directly st Remus now, white eyes behind the screen more visible now.

"Dr. Eckhard."

They remember more.

"Shit." They don't like what they remember.

"Fuck. I--"

...

"I worked in a lab near yours. I was supposed to be monitoring the radiation--"

They messed that up. They know they did.

"I didn't-- I got it wrong-- I-I... What happened to me..."

They look at their hands again, their speech sounding more coherent in wording, more tone coming through.

"I just... I remember passing out. I felt dizzy, fell, and I hit my head... Hard... I felt so cold."

They swear they feel the pain again.

"Woke up in a field of grass... Just one peach tree. I was so tired... I felt like I shouldn't sleep, but I did... Then the void, the box-- the maggots."

They pick at their gloves more harshly. Did they pass out from radiation poisoning? How did they just vanish though?

[deceitanon]

{Remus takes a slow step back.. he tugs on his hair}

“Holy…holy shit”

{he stares and starts laughing.. his form glitches- as if almost returning back to how Remus was before.. maybe the death of Dr. Rhinestone is what made him go insane faster- the puzzle piece is bending again}

“It was my fault- you-“

{He starts crying while laughing}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null quickly gets up and shakes their head.

"No. No! I-I was supposed to be monitoring it! I... Fuck. I miscalculated things. If I just-- Fuck."

They are shown genuine visible stress by now. Their uneasiness affect gets stronger with this.

"God I was a fucking idiot!"

They remembered something again.

"Fuck. Why..."

"It was my fault!! Fuck-- Remus--"

They force themself to say the words stuck in their non existent throat.

"I fucked up because I was-- I-I was-- high... I was a fucking idiot!"

They grab the sides of their head, self loathing.

"What the fuck was wrong with me?!"

...

"I was a well regarded scientist, I had access to pretty much anything I wanted, and i fucking abused that?!"

They tear up too, that rot and iron leaking through the screen.

"If I wasn't busy getting high off my ass I would have realized things were going wrong!"

[deceitanon]

“I…I knew”

{Remus whispered}

“I knew about the radiation and still decided to take the risk to study it…”

“I’m so sorry this happened to you Dr. Rhinestone..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null falls back onto the couch to try and calm down.

"I knew the risk too... I was suppose to be helping minimize the risk, and be the first to know when it was becoming too high of a risk."

...

"Please don't be sorry... I probably would have been fired or worse even if I did live..."

They look back up at him after a moment.

"But... Still here now, y-yeah?... Suppose you still can't get r-rid of me that easily?"

They try to make a joke to lighten the mood, though their words are still choked.

"Don't beat yourself up about it... Would say I'm not the same person, and I think I gather why I wouldn't want to be now."

They offer their hand again.

"I don't hold anything against you..."

Though no mouth is there, Null does smile softly.

[deceitanon]

“Mghh”

{Remus laughs before nodding}

“I don’t hold anything against you either…”

——-

{Remy blinks slowly and stares at Eddie}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at Remus for a moment before pulling him into a hug if he lets them.

"... Thank you."

Their head feels all buzzy right now... They aren't sure why, but thinking of themself as human causes their entire body to ache. Like they aren't allowed to feel that.

"..."

"Please only call me Null as well..." Their human tone retreats a little now. Tone returning to more uncanny.

----

Eddie looks over at Remy as well. He seems very confused.

"I... Do not remember there being a Dr. Rhinestone...?"

Though with the nature of what Null is it may be impossible to see them in the past. Ethos wouldn't have detected any lies either.

Eddie does not know what Null is as of right now.

[deceitanon]

{Remus touches Null’s tv screen and smiles}

“Looks like we both were changed heavily after the accident..”

——

{Remy nods in agreement}

“I don’t remember if this is because of the time stuff we did either”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 142

As Remy teleports there's a flicker in everything around him, a feeling of being torn from the plane he was in, and suddenly he's in a... Space. It's hard to put into words what the fuck this is.

... It feels endless, uncanny, and yet familiar. There's items Remy may have felt were important from the distant past, or even the present. Items that feel important, and yet he's never seen. There's segments of these uneven and disorganized rooms that look like the bar, the loft, the cherry grove, the river, the void... There's hints, fragments, of everything Remy has ever seen. Everything feels... Wrong. Soso wrong.

They look like what Remy has seem, but they have an extreme feel of them still not being accurate. Like this space disorderly pulled memories from his mind and threw them around in a desperation to make it feel like home.

...

Lights flicker dully where there is no source, water trickles in the walls that aren't hollow...

Familiar sounds of people Remy knows are in the distant, with no obvious direction, but they have no realism to them. Parrots and echos of memories put into here wrong.

...

There is a sound that is real, but still uncanny. A voice. Humming. Their voice sounds like a person stuck behind a broken tv playing static, a crackling stinging hum with a broken melody.

[deceitanon]

“Hm…. honestly- ain’t the worst place I’ve been in”

{Remy picks up a ball and chucks it over to where he hears the humming}

“Eddie? Babes? Why’d you summon me here?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie is no where to be smelled even though a quiet hint of his voice echos from no where.

When Remy chucks the ball to the humming it suddenly stops. Deafening silence fills the space immediately.

...

"HelL-o?" The voice is broken, muffled and stuffed with static.

Slow someone peaks around the corner. A extremely tall lanky figure, only their head visible right now. A thin hand gloves in black velvet holds the wall near them.

Their head is a small black tv box, a very only one. It glows dully with flickers of visual static, and a subtle ringing of static piercings the air. Ever so slightly glowing white eyes that flicker like screen tearing are visible behind the screen. Those eyes are barely visible, yet so unsettling piercing.

... No heart beat. No warmth. No breathing. Not even any subtle electrical current of nerves, brain, or even a computer. Like they are nothing at all.

"..." The way they tilt their head in confusion feels so incredibly wrong.

[deceitanon]

“Hm? Hello- Have you seen a short but handsome man with wired hair? I seem to be lost, wouldn’t be the first”

{Remy says like meeting someone like him is normal}

“Where even am I? It’s creepy but cool as fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The figure stays silent for a while before fully rounding the corner.

They stand at 7'9. They are unnaturally slim, limbs just slightly long enough to be uncanny. The way their clothes lay so perfectly and beautifully feels unnatural. They wear a long black layered dress with ruffles, and black velvet gloves covering their whole arms. Black flats with white frilly socks. Adorned on top of their head is a veil made of smooth lightweight black feathers.

They stare for a while.

"... I h-Ave noT..."

"I don-T hAve a nAme fOr thIs place... JuSt minE."

They radiate unease and uncanny feelings. They mean no harm.

"Int-rEstIng... Ho-w A-rE you hEre?"

They speak as if it is supposed to be impossible. They step closer slowly as if uncertain Remy is more than a trick of this space.

[deceitanon]

“Damn you’re tall- hmmmm must have glitched out of reality or something!”

“Oh like the backrooom”

{He said with a snap}

“How are you even alive here?- you’re very uncanny- but that’s hot nowadays”

“I’m Remy, you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"..."

They seem flabbergasted, even with no face that feeling isn't seen but felt from them to Remy.

"nOt alivE..."

"I hAve no NamE..." They pause. "NulL." It's a word meaning nothing afterall.

"HavE n-ot been callEd 'hot' bEfoRe."

They step closer and hesitantly poke Remy from the top of his head. They small touch feel cold, a split second of nausea given too.

"... You arE reAl..." They seem even more confused.

"I s-uppose oUt of reAlity w-Ould be dEcent as a WorDing."

They sit on the ground, now eye level to Remy.

"glItch... WhEre and w-Hen are you fr-Om?... You mUst be retUrned." They say as if returning a book to a library, clearly not used to human contact.

[deceitanon]

{Remy blinks away the nausea and chuckles when he is poked}

“Ouch, it’s like you don’t even want me here! I’m hurt”

{he says with a hand on his chest}

“I mean I got nothing important to do, just came back from altering time itself so.. this is kinda nice”

{Remy doesn’t know why he’s spilling all of this}

“Null? That’s a sick name, why.. are you here though? You look alive to me”

{he says with certainty}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"i dO n-ot mInd cOmpan-y... N-o-one shOulD be here thOugH..."

They stare and tilt their head again. When they do some 'skin' on their neck is visible briefly. It looks less like skin and more like a void made of millions of writhing larva. Constantly moving in a sickly way.

"altEriNg tIme?.."

...

"hErE is Home... My spAce. ConCepT of the liminal... UnCannY ties in-tO it."

"alivE... N-oT alive, bUt stiLl con-scious."

They aren't certain what would count as alive in other senses. "AlivE indiCates being m-Ade of org-anIc matter." They are not.

[deceitanon]

“Then I must be not alive too. I’m a giant dead fox. And you are made out of larva- not gonna lie, that’s kinda icky”

“…:does it hurt?”

{Remy asks very quietly with a frown}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses and looks at themself for a moment. They pause for a moment longer, turning a few dials on their head. There's a sickening squelching and gargling noise as they do. Their voice now sounds smoother and consistent though, but still stuffed with static and muffled by the screen.

"Larva... I suppose it could be comparable to that? They're void maggots. They are unique to this place."

They carefully scoop out a small few of the void maggots. They wiggle around for a moment, small like usual maggots, and then Null puts them back.

"Hurt...?"

They pause at that as well.

"Yes... But not in your sense. I do not feel it that same way. It is a constant feeling, but I am not bothered by it."

...

"Giant dead fox? Could you say more?"

[deceitanon]

“Ah… well, as long as you don’t go talking to the others here”

{he said jokingly}

“Kitsune, my fox form died a long time ago- it gets really complicated… can I show you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The chuckle Null lets out sounds like breaking glass through tv static.

"I do believe there is no one else to tell... Unless you mean the illusions, but I believe they do not count."

They pauses and then nod.

"I would like to see if you wish to show."

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a step back and drops all of his illusions at once… and shows Null his true fox form.. it’s massive… and dead looking}

{armor on top of his dead fur, it looks like it’s been washed recently by Eddie despite it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares, and though no mouth exists, a smile is felt.

"You are beautiful... May I pet y--"

They cut themself off.

"I should not touch... It makes people ill."

They stare regardless. A yearning for touch is blatantly radiating of them now.

"I could show you how I shapeshift?... It is not pretty though."

They wish to show themself too.

[deceitanon]

{Remy judges their hand, their bone armor could protect him if they pet in the right places.. he is so… warm! Despite claiming to be a dead fox}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tenses briefly before noticing Remy is okay.

They run their hands along his bone armor, his head mostly.

"Warm..."

They move closer and lay their tv head onto his. The sound of tv static feels sharp, but not too overburdening.

"I do not wish to leave you now..." This is the first time they've been able to touch anyone, and one of the very few times they've even been around someone visually.

[deceitanon]

{Remy sniffs where he can hear the static, then pauses when he hears them say that}

{he slowly shifts back, but offers his hand for Null to fidget with}

“I.. will try my best to help you, you said I can return, but why haven’t you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at his hand... Hesitantly taking it. They focus on trying to stop the nausea from carrying over.

"..."

"I can return... I do not have much control over how I warp spaces. I do try to not use abilities when I am in the existing planes, but I am unpredictable. I carry unease everywhere I go, I cannot choose a form that is not uncanny, I cannot create spaces that are not uncanny... Emotions are not something I understand, but I do know they contribute to mistaken use of my abilities."

They stare at Remy's hand as they talk. Quiet sparking crying is heard, though it is only black blood that drips from under the screen of their head. Smelling strongly of rot and iron.

"I do not wish to cause trouble. So I do not leave often, and when I do I do not leave with my body... I simply look, and memorize..."

This space is built by disorganized memories.

[deceitanon]

“We have a lot of people like you back at my home, Emotions, Weird lookin’ we even have someone that is the literal meaning of intrusive thoughts”

{Remy Chuckles, before pauses, he tries to summon a cloth, but his whole body glitches- and he falls forward against them, but he gets the cloth

“Imma… just ignore what happened to me for now”

{Remy murmurs to himself before gently cleaning off the rot and iron liquid}



[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null reaches out to catch Remy.

"Be careful in here. Your abilities will not work easily. I do not wish for you to harm yourself."

It leans into Remy wiping off the liquid.

"... Could I go home with you?"

They ask as if they are a stray cat giving boba eyes. Uncanny never leaves anything they do, as if it is a deep rooted curse in their very being.

[deceitanon]

“Of course you can!- wait… I should probably ask Eddie.. I’ve been bring so many people home.. it wouldn’t be okay if I just kept on doing it”

“Is… there a way I can speak to him? Or will I have to leave you first?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Oh-- You cannot leave with my help... And you will not be able to get back most likely."

They pauses to think, and then summon a black rotary phone with blood red rubies chaotically placed.

"Do you come from a time with phones?... This should work if so."

They talk as if they can travel between not just space, but time as well.

[deceitanon]

“Hmmm I- would call him but- I don’t really use a phone- he just kinda talks to me in my head”

“I promise it’s not as crazy as it seems”

“Oh! And I can totally come back, I’ll just recreate what I did, easy peasy”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at the phone and back at Remy.

They speak after a while of silence.

"Okay..."

They don't believe Remy will be able to come back, but they don't argue regardless. Remy has to go back either way.

"I will see you when you return." They say with hidden disbelief.

They don't wait for a response before they poke Remy's chest and in a sickening disorientating blink he's back in the bar.

[deceitanon]

{Remy groans and leans up against the bar}

{he blinks slowly, he feels like he needs to puke}

“Fuckkkk- Eddddiiieeeee”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie quickly appears next to Remy.

"Where-- What happened???" He sounds confused and concerned. "I lost all sense of you for a few minutes."

'Fee minutes' it felt like almost an hour passed down there... How does time work in that space?

"Are you okay??" He brings a trashcan over incase Remy does puke.

[deceitanon]

{Remy does end up puking}

“Got stuck in a weird space when I teleported….. few mins? It felt like I was there for hours”

“No… that’s not what I need to focus on.. there is someone trapped.. they are… uncanny more so than Remus but.. they wish to have a home”

{Remy gave Eddie puppy eyes}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie gently rubs Remy's back for a moment.

"What do you mean 'weird space??'"

He seems utterly confused.

"I--"

He looks at Remy's eyes and sighs after a moment with a lighthearted eye roll.

"Okay... Fine... I'm lucky Starie can create so much space where there shouldn't even be room, you know?"

With the amount of people here, it'd be impossible without Starie's stable space warping.

[deceitanon]

“Don’t worry~ they realllly tall which I know you love”

{Remy nuzzles up against Eddie with a happy purr}

“I… hope I can actually get back there”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie looks away with an embarrassed flush at Remy's comment.

"Oh, fuck off..." He playfully scoffs out without any actually annoyance. He clears his throat after a moment before replying, and nuzzling Remy back.

"Is there a chance you can't?"

He seems confused at that.

[deceitanon]

“Maybe… I just- need to make myself glitch while teleporting..”

“It… hurts to do it but I’ll only need to do it once.. so it won’t be that bad right?”

{Remy murmurs to himself}

{Remy kisses Eddie’s cheek before taking a deep breath, glitching and teleporting at the same time- and he lands back into the space.. but is on his hands and knees groaning, and coughing up more bile}

“Fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie tenses when Remy is gone again, he hates that he can't even senses Remy's existence right now... He paces while he waits.

----

Null startles and squeaks out shrieking static when they see Remy again.

"Remy...?"

They walk over and stare at him and the bile.

"How-- Are you okay?..."

Though Remy was gone for roughly five minutes, it's only been fifteen in here despite a few minutes being hours last time.

[deceitanon]

{Remy curls up and gives him a weak wait gesture… his body glitching again}

“Hurts…”

{His ears folded down- he hates when he glitches..}

“Don’t.. look”

{he hates making new people see him like this- 1) he likes to maintain the cool image he has.. and 2) because it makes him wish Eddie was here to comfort him}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses before nodding and turning around.

They sit nearby with their back to Remy.

"I am sorry that I cannot help... I am not a healing type... Do let me know if you cannot settle your body though, I can understand the glitching. It is one reason I do not leave with my body anymore... It tends to cause some of the void maggots to burst."

That... Sounds incredibly painful for someone who is made of them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tries to get up then lays back down immediately}

“Tel… tell me more… void maggots.. what do they do?”

“I… can control the void.. it’s how I can manipulate dreams”

{Remy murmurs weakly as he just lets his back lax.. he wishes just to listen}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Void maggots are specific to the place as I said... They grow in the walls, squirm their way in the ground, and come to me... I believe I am more of an entity made by this place."

They sound uncertain on what they are.

"They allow me to shapeshift, as they have no solid form either... I am unsure if they would be the same as the void you describe, but you can try manipulating them if you wish to test that? I do not mind."

Null is suggesting Remy manipulate their body itself.

"They have no thought, or organic life... They just exist. Like me... I do believe they are an essence of this place? That may be the best wording I have."

[deceitanon]

{Remy has gone silent}

{He has fallen asleep, he looks so.. human and warm}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turns around when he's silent for too long.

They stare for a while... Look around... They stand up slowly, and with focus to not make Remy ill, they pick him up.

They wander further into the space until it shifts out of Remy's memories and into a space Null made themself.

It's made to be a cottage, but it feels like an uncanny mimic of one, even more so than Remy's memories.

They place him on a bed, pulling a blanket over him, and then move to make coffee... They get a feeling he likes coffee. The bed feels oddly comfortable compared to the rest of this place.

The bedroom isn't all too separate from the living room, which is decently open to the kitchen and the front door. There are windows, but they're just a white light with no details.

[deceitanon]

{After sometime, Remy groans and hugs the blanket closer}

“Eddie?”

{he said sleepy, nuzzling into the blanket before opening his eyes… and sees the uncanny house}

“Where.. am I?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null hears him wake up, and slowly walks over to the bedroom. Floorboards creak under their silent feet.

They look around the corner... Looking around corners before walking past them seems like a habit of theirs.

"Are you okay now, Remy?"

They slowly walk closer, they also tend to walk slowly.

They carry a mug of coffee, setting it on the warped nightstand.

"I made coffee."

[deceitanon]

“Fuck yes… I love coffee.. and yes I’m feeling better.. sorry about passing out on you”

“You were talking about the void things?”

{Remy mutters as he sits up and grabs the coffee to drink it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"You are alright."

The coffee is almost right. Almost how Remy likes it. It's off still. Anything Null makes seems to be off.

"I was..."

They watch Remy drink the coffee for a moment, also staring at the bed... They don't say what they want, and it is difficult to tell without a face to show it.

"The void maggots are more of an essence of this space... I believe..."

They think for a moment.

"You mentioned dreamscapes being voids. I believe the void maggots grow up into them. Though they form in here, and make me, I would guess they grow up into something?"

They are larva after all.

"Perhaps that is what they grow into?"

There was a vague familiarity to the maggots, but it was hard to place, easy to dismiss as the space.

[deceitanon]

“You think I can control them? What do you think I can do with them?”

{Remy purrs at the taste of his coffee, his tails wag slowly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently watches Remy's tails wag for a moment.

...

"I believe you could, yes... I am unsure what you could do with them though."

They think for a moment, still staring at Remy. The longer they stare the more unsettling it feels...

"Maybe you could have control over what they form into?... I do not always understand where I learn what I do, but I suppose that is part of who I am... I believe they form dreamscapes, but also mindscapes and pocket dimensions."

"If they have multiple paths, maybe there could be more with artificial influence?"

They scoop out of maggots from their neck again and offer them to Remy. They writhe and squirm in their palm.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tilts his head and looks at the maggots, he shudders but takes a deep breath, he hover his hands over the maggots and tries to alter them in anyway he can}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

As he hovers his hand over the maggots he can feel they have a different type of energy. It's more like a potential energy, that would be gone the moment it's used?

As Remy tries to manipulate the maggots they writhe more, then start to bubble, and then they melt into a black goo... Then, suddenly, Remy can feel a new pocket dimension as the maggot goo disappears. It feels different from ones he may have created before.

He can feel that it was made, and that it belongs to him in a way, but it took little no of his energy to do so.

[deceitanon]

“Huh- gross but that took like no energy.. the maggots feel like that have some kind of energy probably stored inside them- UGH where is Logan when I need him”

{Remy groans- he’s not a scientist or a doctor like him}

“I have no idea what this could mean.. hmmm”

“When I altered the lil guys.. they disappeared but I felt a pocket dimension open up, a new one- how is that even possible.. it wasn’t a lot of em”

“Can you tell me more about yourself Null? How’d you get here? How are you made up of these Void Bugs”

{he wants to stop calling them maggots.. it feels rude because Null is made out of these lil buggers}

___

{While Null is explaining, Remy does try to write a note and glitchport (teleport and glitch) the note to Eddie, to tell him he is okay}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Each one of them grows up into a space like that, so you really only need one. Using more strengthens it, and makes it bigger I would guess."

They fall silent for several minutes at being asked about themself.

...

"I... Do not know how I got here. I just remember nothing... And then I was here... Or--"

Their screen glitches violently for a minute before they talk again.

"As for being made of the bugs--" They talk as if that glitching never happened. "I believe I made out of them as... As..."

They fall silent again.

"I don't think about what I am."

They don't know. They don't like that they don't know.

They can't remember how they got here...

"I like creating things... They always come out warped though."

They summon a fox plush, and while it looks like a fox it is unsettling not a fox at the same time.

----

The note ends up slightly clipped into the bar counter near Eddie. It's enough to read at least, but part of the note is in the counter.

"... Okay..." He sighs in shaky relief.

[deceitanon]

“Hmm.. so-“

{Remy pauses when he watches their screen glitch, he frowns in worry, everything about this place looks and feels fine- but it’s more like an uncanny feeling, he looks at the fox with a head tilt}

{Plus the whole time weirdness is throwing him off as well}

{he rubs his head as he thinks}

“I don’t know what to make of you babes, and I’d like to try and understand as much as I can before I introduce you to a whole new realm- or space.. don’t get me wrong- I’ve dealt with crazy stuff so this is just precarious, because who knows what could happen-“

“But- you don’t like these questions so.. maybe you can ask me somethings? And we can bounce off each others questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly, and stares at the bed for a bit again. They've kind of just been standing there, as if unsure what to do with themself.

"... What does it feel like to breathe?... Or... Just... How does your body feel to you?"

Odd first question...

[deceitanon]

“I.. hm I may not feel like the best example because it’s different with everyone.. but my body feels hot, it might seem warm and nice, but I do love the cold weather to help balance myself out, I get a lot of headaches due to my connections back in my world, but honestly it’s something I’m just used to so I’ve learned how to cope healthily..”

“Breathing feels awesome.. definitely something everyone takes for granted”

“Can I ask you the same questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently listens and processes what Remy said.

...

"I... Do not breathe. I always feel cold, I think numb is the other word... I like that you felt warm, I don't feel that often."

They fall silent again before there's a smaller and calmer glitch on their screen.

"... Breathing... I miss that. I took it for granted too it seems."

They remember breathing... There had to be something before they became this then, right?

"..." They pause, asking their next question quietly. "What does fear feel like?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy perks up, they remember something! Seems like this is going somewhere}

“Fear… is the worst thing to feel.. your body your mind all send these signals that you will die, get hurt.. and you can’t do anything about it”

{Remy looks away for a moment} “though there is a scale to how much a person can feel fear.. like it can be something small like a spider and they just avoid spiders.. or it can be a big fear like.. water itself- or loud sounds where it can affect your day to day life”

“… What can you feel?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly and thinks again.

...

"I don't feel... Things in a way I can place."

"Fear... I--"

They look at their hand and fall silent again.

"I do remember fear though... Fear and... And... Pain."

"Most feelings are dull... Now..."

They fidget with their gloves.

...

"... What does it feel like to die?"

That's... A heavy question. Why are they asking?

[deceitanon]

“… that’s a loaded question, it’s really depends on how you die”

“Why.. do you ask?”

{Remy frowns with worry}

“I promise you, it ain’t fun..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"I..."

They lean against the wall and pick at their gloves now.

"I don't know if I died... I"

They slowly slide down the wall to sit on the floor.

"I wasn't this... What was I?"

They're really wracking their mind now.

"I remember feeling tired... Then cool grass and dirt before falling asleep."

...

"Then an endless void. Thought it was a dream... There was a box. Nothing else... So I... Walked over to it."

They take their glove off and stare at all the writhing larva.

"I opened it... They spilled out, couldn't even guess how many..."

...

"Body was gone... Then I was this."

"It hurt... I was scared. I struggle to even remember feelings now."

[deceitanon]

“…”

{Remy frowns as he listens while nodding along}

{Remy slowly gets up and sits next to them}

“You aren’t alone anymore.. I can’t- I don’t want to promise anything that I’m not confident in.. but I’ll try my best to help you.. I know what it’s like.. losing your body.. being thrown into the void”

{Remy lets his hand hover over their arm, offering a warm touch}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at his hand and slowly takes it after putting their glove back on. They try to stop the sickening sensation, but it seems to be easier now.

"..."

They stay silent for a while longer.

"I don't... Mind what I am now. I think I was human... I can feel things coming back to me too. I don't think I was from your dimension or time period..."

...

"Is it weird... That I like being this?"

They don't like how unsettling they always are, but they still like what they are.

"I just... I just don't want to be alone anymore."

[deceitanon]

“If you liked being like this then I won’t stop you, you aren’t alone anymore. Okay? Not if I can help it”

{Remy smiles as he holds their hand}

“How do we get you over to my side?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null slowly nods and stares at Remy for a moment again.

"... Hard to explain... But it's not difficult for me."

They've just always been too scared to leave, being able to isn't a problem.

In another disorientating, nauseating blink they're back in the bar. It doesn't seem as bad with Null active in the process.

Though as Null teleports them back there's a dull wet popping sound of several of the larva in their body. Some black goo drips from them, but is quick to disappear.

They stumble a little and sit on the ground as their tv head glitches for a moment. It seems similar to a headache for them.

"... Hngg just a moment..."

----

Eddie startles when they are suddenly back and stares at them, more so towards Null. He gets a heavy uneasiness from them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy’s tails wagging quickly as he stands in front of Null and looks at Eddie, like a happy dog that just succeeded in a game of fetch}

“This is Null, he reminds me of Remus.. if that helps with the uneasiness..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie stares at Remy and then chuckles with a sign as he walks over.

He brings him into a hug.

"It does..."

He stares at Null behind Remy as they slowly stand back up.

"This era makes sense..." They mumble to themself as they look around and then at Eddie.

"... Ah, greetings... You must be Eddie?"

Their wording is similar to Logan's, but their voice has that static muffled through a tv feel... And the general uncanny nature of them.

"I am... It's nice to meet you, Null."

This is the second time Remy has mentioned Remus and how they're rather curious about him.

"It is nice to meet you as well..."

They also seem unsure what to do with themself in new area.

[deceitanon]

{Remys drapes himself behind Eddie’s back with a loving purr, nuzzling him}

“Welcome to our home! How are you feeling”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie purrs happily, nuzzling Remy back as he wraps a tail around his waist.

Null looks around before answering.

"I am..." They pause, unsure. "Fine I believe."

They walk closer to Eddie now, looking down at him. They are well over two feet taller than him.

"... Would you like to go upstairs? Everyone is typically up there."

He smiles softly, though still getting used to the uneasiness. He does pause and warn Virgil with a text, knowing he might not handle it well.

Null nods slowly and looks around more.

[deceitanon]

{Virgil gets the text and goes to his room, thanking Eddie}

——

{Upstairs, Logan is talking to Remus on the touch.. Patton is making lunch for everyone, Ethos is reading a book as best he can on the love seat}

{Logan pauses, invisible to Null}

“Eddie? Remy? Who is that?”

—

{Remus turns and perks up with a wicked smile}

“Well look at you! Tall and Mysterious~”

{Remus doesn’t seem to be effected but Null’s Unease presence}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Logan.

"This is Null... Oh-- They can't see you right now..."

--

Ella is sitting with Ethos if he doesn't mind right now.

--

Null stares at Remus and tilts their head slightly. They actually stay silent as they slowly walk over.

...

"Hello..." They almost seem to be analyzing Remus.

...

"You have a familiarity."

Concept of the liminal and uncanny... Concept of intrusive thoughts... Could be something with that, but Null doesn't seem to understand.

They just... Stare. Far more than they did with Remy earlier.

[deceitanon]

{Ethos didn’t mind, he also wasn’t surprised by the new person either, he’s been here since day one, he’s used to this}

——

{Remus stares back and giggles}

“Well I used to look slightly different and yknow been around”

“Oooo Maggots! I love the look”

“I’m Remus! Dark creativity, Intrusive Thoughts, Doctor- you.. look familiar too! But where do I know you from hmmm”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Ella looks over briefly, bur she rather relax with Ethos right now. She leans against him, purring contently.

----

"It is nice to meet you, Remus."

They pause again.

"I... Do not believe I was from this dimension or era... My space exists between all that, but I am never sure."

They move around the couch to sit next to him.

...

They just stare more. Then they offer their hand with no explantion.

Given Remus probably would take their hand without questioning...

He gets no nausea either. Something about who Null was before is what is familiar, hidden what they are now.

...

They were a scientist at the same lab-- They vanished around the same time Remus got the radiation poisoning. Null does not remember much though.

"..." They don't say anything, just analyzing what any of that means.

... If Remus may recall, they used to be called "Dr. Rhinestone." She was well known in her field back then.

[deceitanon]

{Remus stares}

{then blinks}

{stares}

“Dr…Rhinestone- no”

“That’s not possible- the lab was empty when-“

“What happened?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tilts their head and stares back in confusion. When the name Remus says actually registers their screen glitches again and they head a headache like pain.

Though they gather themself well enough.

"Apologies... Dr. Rhinestone?-- I--"

They stare at Remus more.

"... What happened?"

They don't know the answer themself.

"..."

They pick at their gloves again, seeming to be a stressed habit.

"... The lab-- Wait--" They look directly st Remus now, white eyes behind the screen more visible now.

"Dr. Eckhard."

They remember more.

"Shit." They don't like what they remember.

"Fuck. I--"

...

"I worked in a lab near yours. I was supposed to be monitoring the radiation--"

They messed that up. They know they did.

"I didn't-- I got it wrong-- I-I... What happened to me..."

They look at their hands again, their speech sounding more coherent in wording, more tone coming through.

"I just... I remember passing out. I felt dizzy, fell, and I hit my head... Hard... I felt so cold."

They swear they feel the pain again.

"Woke up in a field of grass... Just one peach tree. I was so tired... I felt like I shouldn't sleep, but I did... Then the void, the box-- the maggots."

They pick at their gloves more harshly. Did they pass out from radiation poisoning? How did they just vanish though?

[deceitanon]

{Remus takes a slow step back.. he tugs on his hair}

“Holy…holy shit”

{he stares and starts laughing.. his form glitches- as if almost returning back to how Remus was before.. maybe the death of Dr. Rhinestone is what made him go insane faster- the puzzle piece is bending again}

“It was my fault- you-“

{He starts crying while laughing}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null quickly gets up and shakes their head.

"No. No! I-I was supposed to be monitoring it! I... Fuck. I miscalculated things. If I just-- Fuck."

They are shown genuine visible stress by now. Their uneasiness affect gets stronger with this.

"God I was a fucking idiot!"

They remembered something again.

"Fuck. Why..."

"It was my fault!! Fuck-- Remus--"

They force themself to say the words stuck in their non existent throat.

"I fucked up because I was-- I-I was-- high... I was a fucking idiot!"

They grab the sides of their head, self loathing.

"What the fuck was wrong with me?!"

...

"I was a well regarded scientist, I had access to pretty much anything I wanted, and i fucking abused that?!"

They tear up too, that rot and iron leaking through the screen.

"If I wasn't busy getting high off my ass I would have realized things were going wrong!"

[deceitanon]

“I…I knew”

{Remus whispered}

“I knew about the radiation and still decided to take the risk to study it…”

“I’m so sorry this happened to you Dr. Rhinestone..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null falls back onto the couch to try and calm down.

"I knew the risk too... I was suppose to be helping minimize the risk, and be the first to know when it was becoming too high of a risk."

...

"Please don't be sorry... I probably would have been fired or worse even if I did live..."

They look back up at him after a moment.

"But... Still here now, y-yeah?... Suppose you still can't get r-rid of me that easily?"

They try to make a joke to lighten the mood, though their words are still choked.

"Don't beat yourself up about it... Would say I'm not the same person, and I think I gather why I wouldn't want to be now."

They offer their hand again.

"I don't hold anything against you..."

Though no mouth is there, Null does smile softly.

[deceitanon]

“Mghh”

{Remus laughs before nodding}

“I don’t hold anything against you either…”

——-

{Remy blinks slowly and stares at Eddie}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

@deceitanon 142

As Remy teleports there's a flicker in everything around him, a feeling of being torn from the plane he was in, and suddenly he's in a... Space. It's hard to put into words what the fuck this is.

... It feels endless, uncanny, and yet familiar. There's items Remy may have felt were important from the distant past, or even the present. Items that feel important, and yet he's never seen. There's segments of these uneven and disorganized rooms that look like the bar, the loft, the cherry grove, the river, the void... There's hints, fragments, of everything Remy has ever seen. Everything feels... Wrong. Soso wrong.

They look like what Remy has seem, but they have an extreme feel of them still not being accurate. Like this space disorderly pulled memories from his mind and threw them around in a desperation to make it feel like home.

...

Lights flicker dully where there is no source, water trickles in the walls that aren't hollow...

Familiar sounds of people Remy knows are in the distant, with no obvious direction, but they have no realism to them. Parrots and echos of memories put into here wrong.

...

There is a sound that is real, but still uncanny. A voice. Humming. Their voice sounds like a person stuck behind a broken tv playing static, a crackling stinging hum with a broken melody.

[deceitanon]

“Hm…. honestly- ain’t the worst place I’ve been in”

{Remy picks up a ball and chucks it over to where he hears the humming}

“Eddie? Babes? Why’d you summon me here?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie is no where to be smelled even though a quiet hint of his voice echos from no where.

When Remy chucks the ball to the humming it suddenly stops. Deafening silence fills the space immediately.

...

"HelL-o?" The voice is broken, muffled and stuffed with static.

Slow someone peaks around the corner. A extremely tall lanky figure, only their head visible right now. A thin hand gloves in black velvet holds the wall near them.

Their head is a small black tv box, a very only one. It glows dully with flickers of visual static, and a subtle ringing of static piercings the air. Ever so slightly glowing white eyes that flicker like screen tearing are visible behind the screen. Those eyes are barely visible, yet so unsettling piercing.

... No heart beat. No warmth. No breathing. Not even any subtle electrical current of nerves, brain, or even a computer. Like they are nothing at all.

"..." The way they tilt their head in confusion feels so incredibly wrong.

[deceitanon]

“Hm? Hello- Have you seen a short but handsome man with wired hair? I seem to be lost, wouldn’t be the first”

{Remy says like meeting someone like him is normal}

“Where even am I? It’s creepy but cool as fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The figure stays silent for a while before fully rounding the corner.

They stand at 7'9. They are unnaturally slim, limbs just slightly long enough to be uncanny. The way their clothes lay so perfectly and beautifully feels unnatural. They wear a long black layered dress with ruffles, and black velvet gloves covering their whole arms. Black flats with white frilly socks. Adorned on top of their head is a veil made of smooth lightweight black feathers.

They stare for a while.

"... I h-Ave noT..."

"I don-T hAve a nAme fOr thIs place... JuSt minE."

They radiate unease and uncanny feelings. They mean no harm.

"Int-rEstIng... Ho-w A-rE you hEre?"

They speak as if it is supposed to be impossible. They step closer slowly as if uncertain Remy is more than a trick of this space.

[deceitanon]

“Damn you’re tall- hmmmm must have glitched out of reality or something!”

“Oh like the backrooom”

{He said with a snap}

“How are you even alive here?- you’re very uncanny- but that’s hot nowadays”

“I’m Remy, you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"..."

They seem flabbergasted, even with no face that feeling isn't seen but felt from them to Remy.

"nOt alivE..."

"I hAve no NamE..." They pause. "NulL." It's a word meaning nothing afterall.

"HavE n-ot been callEd 'hot' bEfoRe."

They step closer and hesitantly poke Remy from the top of his head. They small touch feel cold, a split second of nausea given too.

"... You arE reAl..." They seem even more confused.

"I s-uppose oUt of reAlity w-Ould be dEcent as a WorDing."

They sit on the ground, now eye level to Remy.

"glItch... WhEre and w-Hen are you fr-Om?... You mUst be retUrned." They say as if returning a book to a library, clearly not used to human contact.

[deceitanon]

{Remy blinks away the nausea and chuckles when he is poked}

“Ouch, it’s like you don’t even want me here! I’m hurt”

{he says with a hand on his chest}

“I mean I got nothing important to do, just came back from altering time itself so.. this is kinda nice”

{Remy doesn’t know why he’s spilling all of this}

“Null? That’s a sick name, why.. are you here though? You look alive to me”

{he says with certainty}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"i dO n-ot mInd cOmpan-y... N-o-one shOulD be here thOugH..."

They stare and tilt their head again. When they do some 'skin' on their neck is visible briefly. It looks less like skin and more like a void made of millions of writhing larva. Constantly moving in a sickly way.

"altEriNg tIme?.."

...

"hErE is Home... My spAce. ConCepT of the liminal... UnCannY ties in-tO it."

"alivE... N-oT alive, bUt stiLl con-scious."

They aren't certain what would count as alive in other senses. "AlivE indiCates being m-Ade of org-anIc matter." They are not.

[deceitanon]

“Then I must be not alive too. I’m a giant dead fox. And you are made out of larva- not gonna lie, that’s kinda icky”

“…:does it hurt?”

{Remy asks very quietly with a frown}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses and looks at themself for a moment. They pause for a moment longer, turning a few dials on their head. There's a sickening squelching and gargling noise as they do. Their voice now sounds smoother and consistent though, but still stuffed with static and muffled by the screen.

"Larva... I suppose it could be comparable to that? They're void maggots. They are unique to this place."

They carefully scoop out a small few of the void maggots. They wiggle around for a moment, small like usual maggots, and then Null puts them back.

"Hurt...?"

They pause at that as well.

"Yes... But not in your sense. I do not feel it that same way. It is a constant feeling, but I am not bothered by it."

...

"Giant dead fox? Could you say more?"

[deceitanon]

“Ah… well, as long as you don’t go talking to the others here”

{he said jokingly}

“Kitsune, my fox form died a long time ago- it gets really complicated… can I show you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

The chuckle Null lets out sounds like breaking glass through tv static.

"I do believe there is no one else to tell... Unless you mean the illusions, but I believe they do not count."

They pauses and then nod.

"I would like to see if you wish to show."

[deceitanon]

{Remy takes a step back and drops all of his illusions at once… and shows Null his true fox form.. it’s massive… and dead looking}

{armor on top of his dead fur, it looks like it’s been washed recently by Eddie despite it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares, and though no mouth exists, a smile is felt.

"You are beautiful... May I pet y--"

They cut themself off.

"I should not touch... It makes people ill."

They stare regardless. A yearning for touch is blatantly radiating of them now.

"I could show you how I shapeshift?... It is not pretty though."

They wish to show themself too.

[deceitanon]

{Remy judges their hand, their bone armor could protect him if they pet in the right places.. he is so… warm! Despite claiming to be a dead fox}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tenses briefly before noticing Remy is okay.

They run their hands along his bone armor, his head mostly.

"Warm..."

They move closer and lay their tv head onto his. The sound of tv static feels sharp, but not too overburdening.

"I do not wish to leave you now..." This is the first time they've been able to touch anyone, and one of the very few times they've even been around someone visually.

[deceitanon]

{Remy sniffs where he can hear the static, then pauses when he hears them say that}

{he slowly shifts back, but offers his hand for Null to fidget with}

“I.. will try my best to help you, you said I can return, but why haven’t you?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at his hand... Hesitantly taking it. They focus on trying to stop the nausea from carrying over.

"..."

"I can return... I do not have much control over how I warp spaces. I do try to not use abilities when I am in the existing planes, but I am unpredictable. I carry unease everywhere I go, I cannot choose a form that is not uncanny, I cannot create spaces that are not uncanny... Emotions are not something I understand, but I do know they contribute to mistaken use of my abilities."

They stare at Remy's hand as they talk. Quiet sparking crying is heard, though it is only black blood that drips from under the screen of their head. Smelling strongly of rot and iron.

"I do not wish to cause trouble. So I do not leave often, and when I do I do not leave with my body... I simply look, and memorize..."

This space is built by disorganized memories.

[deceitanon]

“We have a lot of people like you back at my home, Emotions, Weird lookin’ we even have someone that is the literal meaning of intrusive thoughts”

{Remy Chuckles, before pauses, he tries to summon a cloth, but his whole body glitches- and he falls forward against them, but he gets the cloth

“Imma… just ignore what happened to me for now”

{Remy murmurs to himself before gently cleaning off the rot and iron liquid}



[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null reaches out to catch Remy.

"Be careful in here. Your abilities will not work easily. I do not wish for you to harm yourself."

It leans into Remy wiping off the liquid.

"... Could I go home with you?"

They ask as if they are a stray cat giving boba eyes. Uncanny never leaves anything they do, as if it is a deep rooted curse in their very being.

[deceitanon]

“Of course you can!- wait… I should probably ask Eddie.. I’ve been bring so many people home.. it wouldn’t be okay if I just kept on doing it”

“Is… there a way I can speak to him? Or will I have to leave you first?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Oh-- You cannot leave with my help... And you will not be able to get back most likely."

They pauses to think, and then summon a black rotary phone with blood red rubies chaotically placed.

"Do you come from a time with phones?... This should work if so."

They talk as if they can travel between not just space, but time as well.

[deceitanon]

“Hmmm I- would call him but- I don’t really use a phone- he just kinda talks to me in my head”

“I promise it’s not as crazy as it seems”

“Oh! And I can totally come back, I’ll just recreate what I did, easy peasy”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null stares at the phone and back at Remy.

They speak after a while of silence.

"Okay..."

They don't believe Remy will be able to come back, but they don't argue regardless. Remy has to go back either way.

"I will see you when you return." They say with hidden disbelief.

They don't wait for a response before they poke Remy's chest and in a sickening disorientating blink he's back in the bar.

[deceitanon]

{Remy groans and leans up against the bar}

{he blinks slowly, he feels like he needs to puke}

“Fuckkkk- Eddddiiieeeee”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie quickly appears next to Remy.

"Where-- What happened???" He sounds confused and concerned. "I lost all sense of you for a few minutes."

'Fee minutes' it felt like almost an hour passed down there... How does time work in that space?

"Are you okay??" He brings a trashcan over incase Remy does puke.

[deceitanon]

{Remy does end up puking}

“Got stuck in a weird space when I teleported….. few mins? It felt like I was there for hours”

“No… that’s not what I need to focus on.. there is someone trapped.. they are… uncanny more so than Remus but.. they wish to have a home”

{Remy gave Eddie puppy eyes}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie gently rubs Remy's back for a moment.

"What do you mean 'weird space??'"

He seems utterly confused.

"I--"

He looks at Remy's eyes and sighs after a moment with a lighthearted eye roll.

"Okay... Fine... I'm lucky Starie can create so much space where there shouldn't even be room, you know?"

With the amount of people here, it'd be impossible without Starie's stable space warping.

[deceitanon]

“Don’t worry~ they realllly tall which I know you love”

{Remy nuzzles up against Eddie with a happy purr}

“I… hope I can actually get back there”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie looks away with an embarrassed flush at Remy's comment.

"Oh, fuck off..." He playfully scoffs out without any actually annoyance. He clears his throat after a moment before replying, and nuzzling Remy back.

"Is there a chance you can't?"

He seems confused at that.

[deceitanon]

“Maybe… I just- need to make myself glitch while teleporting..”

“It… hurts to do it but I’ll only need to do it once.. so it won’t be that bad right?”

{Remy murmurs to himself}

{Remy kisses Eddie’s cheek before taking a deep breath, glitching and teleporting at the same time- and he lands back into the space.. but is on his hands and knees groaning, and coughing up more bile}

“Fuck”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie tenses when Remy is gone again, he hates that he can't even senses Remy's existence right now... He paces while he waits.

----

Null startles and squeaks out shrieking static when they see Remy again.

"Remy...?"

They walk over and stare at him and the bile.

"How-- Are you okay?..."

Though Remy was gone for roughly five minutes, it's only been fifteen in here despite a few minutes being hours last time.

[deceitanon]

{Remy curls up and gives him a weak wait gesture… his body glitching again}

“Hurts…”

{His ears folded down- he hates when he glitches..}

“Don’t.. look”

{he hates making new people see him like this- 1) he likes to maintain the cool image he has.. and 2) because it makes him wish Eddie was here to comfort him}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null pauses before nodding and turning around.

They sit nearby with their back to Remy.

"I am sorry that I cannot help... I am not a healing type... Do let me know if you cannot settle your body though, I can understand the glitching. It is one reason I do not leave with my body anymore... It tends to cause some of the void maggots to burst."

That... Sounds incredibly painful for someone who is made of them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tries to get up then lays back down immediately}

“Tel… tell me more… void maggots.. what do they do?”

“I… can control the void.. it’s how I can manipulate dreams”

{Remy murmurs weakly as he just lets his back lax.. he wishes just to listen}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Void maggots are specific to the place as I said... They grow in the walls, squirm their way in the ground, and come to me... I believe I am more of an entity made by this place."

They sound uncertain on what they are.

"They allow me to shapeshift, as they have no solid form either... I am unsure if they would be the same as the void you describe, but you can try manipulating them if you wish to test that? I do not mind."

Null is suggesting Remy manipulate their body itself.

"They have no thought, or organic life... They just exist. Like me... I do believe they are an essence of this place? That may be the best wording I have."

[deceitanon]

{Remy has gone silent}

{He has fallen asleep, he looks so.. human and warm}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null turns around when he's silent for too long.

They stare for a while... Look around... They stand up slowly, and with focus to not make Remy ill, they pick him up.

They wander further into the space until it shifts out of Remy's memories and into a space Null made themself.

It's made to be a cottage, but it feels like an uncanny mimic of one, even more so than Remy's memories.

They place him on a bed, pulling a blanket over him, and then move to make coffee... They get a feeling he likes coffee. The bed feels oddly comfortable compared to the rest of this place.

The bedroom isn't all too separate from the living room, which is decently open to the kitchen and the front door. There are windows, but they're just a white light with no details.

[deceitanon]

{After sometime, Remy groans and hugs the blanket closer}

“Eddie?”

{he said sleepy, nuzzling into the blanket before opening his eyes… and sees the uncanny house}

“Where.. am I?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null hears him wake up, and slowly walks over to the bedroom. Floorboards creak under their silent feet.

They look around the corner... Looking around corners before walking past them seems like a habit of theirs.

"Are you okay now, Remy?"

They slowly walk closer, they also tend to walk slowly.

They carry a mug of coffee, setting it on the warped nightstand.

"I made coffee."

[deceitanon]

“Fuck yes… I love coffee.. and yes I’m feeling better.. sorry about passing out on you”

“You were talking about the void things?”

{Remy mutters as he sits up and grabs the coffee to drink it}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"You are alright."

The coffee is almost right. Almost how Remy likes it. It's off still. Anything Null makes seems to be off.

"I was..."

They watch Remy drink the coffee for a moment, also staring at the bed... They don't say what they want, and it is difficult to tell without a face to show it.

"The void maggots are more of an essence of this space... I believe..."

They think for a moment.

"You mentioned dreamscapes being voids. I believe the void maggots grow up into them. Though they form in here, and make me, I would guess they grow up into something?"

They are larva after all.

"Perhaps that is what they grow into?"

There was a vague familiarity to the maggots, but it was hard to place, easy to dismiss as the space.

[deceitanon]

“You think I can control them? What do you think I can do with them?”

{Remy purrs at the taste of his coffee, his tails wag slowly}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently watches Remy's tails wag for a moment.

...

"I believe you could, yes... I am unsure what you could do with them though."

They think for a moment, still staring at Remy. The longer they stare the more unsettling it feels...

"Maybe you could have control over what they form into?... I do not always understand where I learn what I do, but I suppose that is part of who I am... I believe they form dreamscapes, but also mindscapes and pocket dimensions."

"If they have multiple paths, maybe there could be more with artificial influence?"

They scoop out of maggots from their neck again and offer them to Remy. They writhe and squirm in their palm.

[deceitanon]

{Remy tilts his head and looks at the maggots, he shudders but takes a deep breath, he hover his hands over the maggots and tries to alter them in anyway he can}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

As he hovers his hand over the maggots he can feel they have a different type of energy. It's more like a potential energy, that would be gone the moment it's used?

As Remy tries to manipulate the maggots they writhe more, then start to bubble, and then they melt into a black goo... Then, suddenly, Remy can feel a new pocket dimension as the maggot goo disappears. It feels different from ones he may have created before.

He can feel that it was made, and that it belongs to him in a way, but it took little no of his energy to do so.

[deceitanon]

“Huh- gross but that took like no energy.. the maggots feel like that have some kind of energy probably stored inside them- UGH where is Logan when I need him”

{Remy groans- he’s not a scientist or a doctor like him}

“I have no idea what this could mean.. hmmm”

“When I altered the lil guys.. they disappeared but I felt a pocket dimension open up, a new one- how is that even possible.. it wasn’t a lot of em”

“Can you tell me more about yourself Null? How’d you get here? How are you made up of these Void Bugs”

{he wants to stop calling them maggots.. it feels rude because Null is made out of these lil buggers}

___

{While Null is explaining, Remy does try to write a note and glitchport (teleport and glitch) the note to Eddie, to tell him he is okay}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"Each one of them grows up into a space like that, so you really only need one. Using more strengthens it, and makes it bigger I would guess."

They fall silent for several minutes at being asked about themself.

...

"I... Do not know how I got here. I just remember nothing... And then I was here... Or--"

Their screen glitches violently for a minute before they talk again.

"As for being made of the bugs--" They talk as if that glitching never happened. "I believe I made out of them as... As..."

They fall silent again.

"I don't think about what I am."

They don't know. They don't like that they don't know.

They can't remember how they got here...

"I like creating things... They always come out warped though."

They summon a fox plush, and while it looks like a fox it is unsettling not a fox at the same time.

----

The note ends up slightly clipped into the bar counter near Eddie. It's enough to read at least, but part of the note is in the counter.

"... Okay..." He sighs in shaky relief.

[deceitanon]

“Hmm.. so-“

{Remy pauses when he watches their screen glitch, he frowns in worry, everything about this place looks and feels fine- but it’s more like an uncanny feeling, he looks at the fox with a head tilt}

{Plus the whole time weirdness is throwing him off as well}

{he rubs his head as he thinks}

“I don’t know what to make of you babes, and I’d like to try and understand as much as I can before I introduce you to a whole new realm- or space.. don’t get me wrong- I’ve dealt with crazy stuff so this is just precarious, because who knows what could happen-“

“But- you don’t like these questions so.. maybe you can ask me somethings? And we can bounce off each others questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly, and stares at the bed for a bit again. They've kind of just been standing there, as if unsure what to do with themself.

"... What does it feel like to breathe?... Or... Just... How does your body feel to you?"

Odd first question...

[deceitanon]

“I.. hm I may not feel like the best example because it’s different with everyone.. but my body feels hot, it might seem warm and nice, but I do love the cold weather to help balance myself out, I get a lot of headaches due to my connections back in my world, but honestly it’s something I’m just used to so I’ve learned how to cope healthily..”

“Breathing feels awesome.. definitely something everyone takes for granted”

“Can I ask you the same questions?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null silently listens and processes what Remy said.

...

"I... Do not breathe. I always feel cold, I think numb is the other word... I like that you felt warm, I don't feel that often."

They fall silent again before there's a smaller and calmer glitch on their screen.

"... Breathing... I miss that. I took it for granted too it seems."

They remember breathing... There had to be something before they became this then, right?

"..." They pause, asking their next question quietly. "What does fear feel like?"

[deceitanon]

{Remy perks up, they remember something! Seems like this is going somewhere}

“Fear… is the worst thing to feel.. your body your mind all send these signals that you will die, get hurt.. and you can’t do anything about it”

{Remy looks away for a moment} “though there is a scale to how much a person can feel fear.. like it can be something small like a spider and they just avoid spiders.. or it can be a big fear like.. water itself- or loud sounds where it can affect your day to day life”

“… What can you feel?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null nods slowly and thinks again.

...

"I don't feel... Things in a way I can place."

"Fear... I--"

They look at their hand and fall silent again.

"I do remember fear though... Fear and... And... Pain."

"Most feelings are dull... Now..."

They fidget with their gloves.

...

"... What does it feel like to die?"

That's... A heavy question. Why are they asking?

[deceitanon]

“… that’s a loaded question, it’s really depends on how you die”

“Why.. do you ask?”

{Remy frowns with worry}

“I promise you, it ain’t fun..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

"I..."

They lean against the wall and pick at their gloves now.

"I don't know if I died... I"

They slowly slide down the wall to sit on the floor.

"I wasn't this... What was I?"

They're really wracking their mind now.

"I remember feeling tired... Then cool grass and dirt before falling asleep."

...

"Then an endless void. Thought it was a dream... There was a box. Nothing else... So I... Walked over to it."

They take their glove off and stare at all the writhing larva.

"I opened it... They spilled out, couldn't even guess how many..."

...

"Body was gone... Then I was this."

"It hurt... I was scared. I struggle to even remember feelings now."

[deceitanon]

“…”

{Remy frowns as he listens while nodding along}

{Remy slowly gets up and sits next to them}

“You aren’t alone anymore.. I can’t- I don’t want to promise anything that I’m not confident in.. but I’ll try my best to help you.. I know what it’s like.. losing your body.. being thrown into the void”

{Remy lets his hand hover over their arm, offering a warm touch}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null looks at his hand and slowly takes it after putting their glove back on. They try to stop the sickening sensation, but it seems to be easier now.

"..."

They stay silent for a while longer.

"I don't... Mind what I am now. I think I was human... I can feel things coming back to me too. I don't think I was from your dimension or time period..."

...

"Is it weird... That I like being this?"

They don't like how unsettling they always are, but they still like what they are.

"I just... I just don't want to be alone anymore."

[deceitanon]

“If you liked being like this then I won’t stop you, you aren’t alone anymore. Okay? Not if I can help it”

{Remy smiles as he holds their hand}

“How do we get you over to my side?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null slowly nods and stares at Remy for a moment again.

"... Hard to explain... But it's not difficult for me."

They've just always been too scared to leave, being able to isn't a problem.

In another disorientating, nauseating blink they're back in the bar. It doesn't seem as bad with Null active in the process.

Though as Null teleports them back there's a dull wet popping sound of several of the larva in their body. Some black goo drips from them, but is quick to disappear.

They stumble a little and sit on the ground as their tv head glitches for a moment. It seems similar to a headache for them.

"... Hngg just a moment..."

----

Eddie startles when they are suddenly back and stares at them, more so towards Null. He gets a heavy uneasiness from them.

[deceitanon]

{Remy’s tails wagging quickly as he stands in front of Null and looks at Eddie, like a happy dog that just succeeded in a game of fetch}

“This is Null, he reminds me of Remus.. if that helps with the uneasiness..”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie stares at Remy and then chuckles with a sign as he walks over.

He brings him into a hug.

"It does..."

He stares at Null behind Remy as they slowly stand back up.

"This era makes sense..." They mumble to themself as they look around and then at Eddie.

"... Ah, greetings... You must be Eddie?"

Their wording is similar to Logan's, but their voice has that static muffled through a tv feel... And the general uncanny nature of them.

"I am... It's nice to meet you, Null."

This is the second time Remy has mentioned Remus and how they're rather curious about him.

"It is nice to meet you as well..."

They also seem unsure what to do with themself in new area.

[deceitanon]

{Remys drapes himself behind Eddie’s back with a loving purr, nuzzling him}

“Welcome to our home! How are you feeling”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie purrs happily, nuzzling Remy back as he wraps a tail around his waist.

Null looks around before answering.

"I am..." They pause, unsure. "Fine I believe."

They walk closer to Eddie now, looking down at him. They are well over two feet taller than him.

"... Would you like to go upstairs? Everyone is typically up there."

He smiles softly, though still getting used to the uneasiness. He does pause and warn Virgil with a text, knowing he might not handle it well.

Null nods slowly and looks around more.

[deceitanon]

{Virgil gets the text and goes to his room, thanking Eddie}

——

{Upstairs, Logan is talking to Remus on the touch.. Patton is making lunch for everyone, Ethos is reading a book as best he can on the love seat}

{Logan pauses, invisible to Null}

“Eddie? Remy? Who is that?”

—

{Remus turns and perks up with a wicked smile}

“Well look at you! Tall and Mysterious~”

{Remus doesn’t seem to be effected but Null’s Unease presence}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Eddie smiles softly at Logan.

"This is Null... Oh-- They can't see you right now..."

--

Ella is sitting with Ethos if he doesn't mind right now.

--

Null stares at Remus and tilts their head slightly. They actually stay silent as they slowly walk over.

...

"Hello..." They almost seem to be analyzing Remus.

...

"You have a familiarity."

Concept of the liminal and uncanny... Concept of intrusive thoughts... Could be something with that, but Null doesn't seem to understand.

They just... Stare. Far more than they did with Remy earlier.

[deceitanon]

{Ethos didn’t mind, he also wasn’t surprised by the new person either, he’s been here since day one, he’s used to this}

——

{Remus stares back and giggles}

“Well I used to look slightly different and yknow been around”

“Oooo Maggots! I love the look”

“I’m Remus! Dark creativity, Intrusive Thoughts, Doctor- you.. look familiar too! But where do I know you from hmmm”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Ella looks over briefly, bur she rather relax with Ethos right now. She leans against him, purring contently.

----

"It is nice to meet you, Remus."

They pause again.

"I... Do not believe I was from this dimension or era... My space exists between all that, but I am never sure."

They move around the couch to sit next to him.

...

They just stare more. Then they offer their hand with no explantion.

Given Remus probably would take their hand without questioning...

He gets no nausea either. Something about who Null was before is what is familiar, hidden what they are now.

...

They were a scientist at the same lab-- They vanished around the same time Remus got the radiation poisoning. Null does not remember much though.

"..." They don't say anything, just analyzing what any of that means.

... If Remus may recall, they used to be called "Dr. Rhinestone." She was well known in her field back then.

[deceitanon]

{Remus stares}

{then blinks}

{stares}

“Dr…Rhinestone- no”

“That’s not possible- the lab was empty when-“

“What happened?”

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null tilts their head and stares back in confusion. When the name Remus says actually registers their screen glitches again and they head a headache like pain.

Though they gather themself well enough.

"Apologies... Dr. Rhinestone?-- I--"

They stare at Remus more.

"... What happened?"

They don't know the answer themself.

"..."

They pick at their gloves again, seeming to be a stressed habit.

"... The lab-- Wait--" They look directly st Remus now, white eyes behind the screen more visible now.

"Dr. Eckhard."

They remember more.

"Shit." They don't like what they remember.

"Fuck. I--"

...

"I worked in a lab near yours. I was supposed to be monitoring the radiation--"

They messed that up. They know they did.

"I didn't-- I got it wrong-- I-I... What happened to me..."

They look at their hands again, their speech sounding more coherent in wording, more tone coming through.

"I just... I remember passing out. I felt dizzy, fell, and I hit my head... Hard... I felt so cold."

They swear they feel the pain again.

"Woke up in a field of grass... Just one peach tree. I was so tired... I felt like I shouldn't sleep, but I did... Then the void, the box-- the maggots."

They pick at their gloves more harshly. Did they pass out from radiation poisoning? How did they just vanish though?

[deceitanon]

{Remus takes a slow step back.. he tugs on his hair}

“Holy…holy shit”

{he stares and starts laughing.. his form glitches- as if almost returning back to how Remus was before.. maybe the death of Dr. Rhinestone is what made him go insane faster- the puzzle piece is bending again}

“It was my fault- you-“

{He starts crying while laughing}

[eddie-volt-multiverse]

Null quickly gets up and shakes their head.

"No. No! I-I was supposed to be monitoring it! I... Fuck. I miscalculated things. If I just-- Fuck."

They are shown genuine visible stress by now. Their uneasiness affect gets stronger with this.

"God I was a fucking idiot!"

They remembered something again.

"Fuck. Why..."

"It was my fault!! Fuck-- Remus--"

They force themself to say the words stuck in their non existent throat.

"I fucked up because I was-- I-I was-- high... I was a fucking idiot!"

They grab the sides of their head, self loathing.

"What the fuck was wrong with me?!"

...

"I was a well regarded scientist, I had access to pretty much anything I wanted, and i fucking abused that?!"

They tear up too, that rot and iron leaking through the screen.

"If I wasn't busy getting high off my ass I would have realized things were going wrong!"

[deceitanon]

“I…I knew”

{Remus whispered}

“I knew about the radiation and still decided to take the risk to study it…”

“I’m so sorry this happened to you Dr. Rhinestone..”