WARNING: this gets really dark topics
So this came to me as I was listening to music and wanted to get the brain worm out. This is sort of an au of an au of Onni, Glitch Onni (Glitch for short and differentiate). Now this starts with the mysterious game maker wanting to create an assistant that is more than code. So they somehow capture a new spark from a hot spot (not in a body) keeping it alive in a jar of filtered constantly replenishing energon. A few years later after the beginning of the war the game maker decides to connect the spark to an artificial teaching kinda interface to start training them, in different bodies and making them competent. Which would later be the bare bones of cyberworld. So they hook up the tortured/experimented on spark. The problem is that Julian shows up.
This leads to a supposed new spark already having understanding of basic of how the world works. And already having a sense of self. This fascinated the game maker (scientist at heart) leading to the game maker having to be smarter in manipulating along with testing this consciousness limits. Now the game/server acts as Glitch’s processor as he doesn’t have a physical one just for himself as he is just a spark and wouldn’t even be conscious if not for the technology supporting him. Making the gamemaker also have a very direct way of manipulating or controlling his processor-
So this is a few years before the others arrive leading to him becoming very unstable due to his brain practically being scrambled against his will over and over. And very dependent to the game master as it’s his only contact. (mixed with a heavy dose of conditioning of giving a rush of good feelings/sensations when he does something the game master likes, or at random when talking to him to get him to associate the game master positively) The game master also convinced him that he’s an ai that was built by them, not a person. (dehumanization and making it seem that he doesn’t have his own thoughts/spark)
By this point in a very one sided way Glitch sees the game maker as their savior and creator. Along with their only friend and who would like him/ put up with him. So helps them develop the game cyberworld and quietly in the background Glitch unknowingly is gaining more access to the systems.
The day of all of the others joining/getting pulled in Glitch, well, glitches. Due to his system overloading from all the inputs because he’s more connected to the ‘server’/control panel. Now this kinda freaks out the game maker so they try to run a program to shut down his thought temporarily to figure out the problem.
The problem is that Glitch sees and in his extremely unstable mind the game maker is getting rid of him finally- (Because the game maker at this point has made him believe that he’s an AI and in the early days was threatened to be deleted if he wasn’t satisfactory)
“You’re trying to make me d̶͇̖̗̺̟̹̂̈́̋̍̓̀̀͋͘͜͠͝ͅi̴̡̲͈̘̯̰̥̟̣̝̐̇̾͜ͅś̷̢̫̪̯̦̹͓͎̻̰̮̠̃̅͊̐̋̋͝a̴̺̯̲̯̽͋̿̿̆̅̄́̚p̸̢̤̫͉̼̹̦̼̥͇̂́̍̔̈́̒̾͋͗͠p̷̢̡̛̩̮̰̰̯͕̗̤̜̰̹̰̯͐̾e̴̝̰̠̝̺̬̘̪̪̮̭͝ā̵̛̳͈̝̽̊͌͘ͅr̸̨̪̳͎̥̮̭̬̾̃̈̐ͅ!”
And the game maker freaks because Glitch is in the entire system their life’s work is under threat. Glitch gives them an ultimatum leave them untouched or they are taking down the entire cyberworld with them.
This comes to ahead to a scenario where the game maker is trying to get back control as O̵͍͌̾͜n̶̺̋n̵̙̖͂i̶͇̓ takes up the mantle of false player. The game maker still has some control over him but Glitch literally has a gun pointed at their magnum opus. Such as gives him tasks and makes sure he’s helpful to all player and can’t kill the players unprovoked. Leading to a very unstable (seemingly sane to other players as he holds up a very good mask) O̵͍͌̾͜n̶̺̋n̵̙̖͂i̶͇̓ playing out how the sort of original goes. The difference is he has the pre-impression that if they leave-
he’s alone and gets deleted
This comes to him sabotaging discreetly through the code causing glitched events (nothing ever lethal he doesn’t want to be alone) but very damaging.
In the end the others discover and he becomes a kind of final boss. (What clued them in is in the scan his outline has progressively gotten more warped and the strings binding him loosen. As well as everything going wrong if he’s in the area but still never seemingly hurt as long as them. And the infinite energon that he can give) As the others find out he’s not actually an ai but a trapped experimented on/ tortured spark. Leading to them having to find a way through all the conditioning and planing for once they get out a way to help him-
This leads to a situation where Julian becomes obsessed with keeping his ‘friends’ with him. (I don’t know how else to describe it kinda like a platonic yandere) And even bots he’s hostile towards he wants to keep. As the most dangerous type of person is the type that is desperate and feels that they have nothing left to lose.
(The song that inspired this- https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Ak2eVxB74&si=AzxBDx6L5eqlA0MR )
Like, really, really good :D
Not me thinking about the convoluted plot I've got laid out xDDD
(if you ever wanna write this whole thing out as a fic I am so down to read it fr tho)
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