A little concept for something within Martyn's VTuber lore.
Imagine NPC Owen becoming aware of the fact that everything exists within the datastream. He dies during Outsiders, but instead of simply ceasing to exist like he expected he's thrown into the void of the datastream. He sees his former friends and many enemies exist until the server ends. Then he's thrown to a new world where he sees some of his former friends and enemies again. He goes up to them and apologises for his past actions-
And everybody looks at him like he's insane. They don't recognise him or anything about Grievers and mazes and whatever else he rambles about. They've never met him after all.
Maybe he tries to convince himself he dreamt it all. But he fails. It was real. He knows it was real. He spends the entire time on the server trying to convince his friends that they knew him.
It's a very lonely few months. Lonelier than even Outsiders was.
And then it happens again. And again. And again. After a few rounds he gives up on trying to make his friends remember past worlds. He convinces himself that this is his punishment for what he did during his time in the maze. He meets new people sometimes, but they never recognise him during the next rounds (as he calls the different worlds he goes to). Though a little part of him still has hope, and he always drops a little hint to his friends about what they experienced in the past round.
Until he meets Martyn for the second round, and he makes a joke about rats and janitors.
And Martyn startles in recognition.
