marci is a popular horror let’s-player who skyrocketed in views after her vlog/rant on misogyny in the gaming community went viral
john does niche true crime videos in the vein of buzzfeed unsolved. when it begins to look like there’s a serial killer operating near him, he eagerly tracks the case, unearthing debates about what it means to love true crime, and if it’s tasteless or insensitive
marci is a casual viewer and, upon seeing the raging comments section in his fifteen-second response video(“bad can be interesting, and being interested in wrong things isn’t the same as approving of them” *turns off camera*), comes to his defense
he isn’t really sure how to respond to that, and she says he can thank her by listening to a collab pitch at vidcon, which he is reluctantly going to
john: i’m not doing it. i’m not. what she did was nice and all, but she’s a horror gamer, and i fucking hate horror, the gore is always so fake-” *sees marci* “and that could totally be fun to mock i’m in”
she has him do a two-player on a game based on famous murder cases, every level being a riff on a different one. her subscribers go crazy for it. their banter is legendary within minutes of the first upload.
john hesitantly asks if she would be interested in doing a special on female serial killers. she accepts with a smirk that makes him forget he was telling himself he was only doing it to be fair
by this point, the rpf has already started rolling in, and her guest spot fans the flames. his longtime fans are quick to point out that she makes him look almost as happy as jeffrey dahmer’s fbi file being released.
they run off on a tangent during the shoot about whether or not having jack the ripper as the final boss was too cliched, and john has to admit that he genuinely enjoys her company
by this point, the rpf has already started rolling in, and her guest spot fans the flames. his longtime fans are quick to point out that she makes him look almost as happy as jeffrey dahmer’s fbi file being released.
john, reading comments: they’re saying we should do a series. and something about a jarci. is that a character from one of your video games?
he googles it before she can decipher the sentence from the kitchen and learns what colorful conclusions his viewers have drawn about his sexual preferences
she asks a half-catatonic john to show her the camera he has where the most recent body was found, just in case the killer comes back
he’s still staring into space when they get there. when he walks right past the tree where it’s hidden, marci has to ask wtf is up, and he blurts, “ARE WE DATING AND YOU DIDN’T TELL ME?”
she shrugs, grins and says, “everybody thinks we should. i mean, they have a point. our chemistry is off the charts.”
that camera never did capture anything worth showing the police, but it does have footage of two idiots kissing in the snow
john, waking up to a million screaming notifications: i forgot to turn off the fucking stream
but it’s just as well; marci’s next video is possibly the weirdest iteration of the boyfriend tag ever
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