On The Flip Side [Midareta!Rewrite & Reader] [Horror]
Noticing Rewrite is in peril, you try your best to give them comfort. The only problem is...
They're unpredictable, and you're in danger.
Type: Fic
Genre: Angst, Horror, Hurt/No Comfort, Character Exploration, Experimental
Content Warnings: Violence, Murder, Physical Abuse, Body Horror, Psychological Horror, Mind Altering, Betrayal, Self Harm, Descriptions of Dying
Stage: Active 2 Rings
Notes: Reader only speaks English.
Reader has a positive opinion of Rewrite.
Reader is EXTREMELY brave. Like, unrealistically so.
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[Link to Rewrite & Reader Masterpost]
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You're not sure what happened, but you remember the exact moment you noticed something was wrong.
It was an ordinary day. But all of a sudden, the world froze. The clouds stopped moving. The birds stopped chirping. The wind stopped blowing. It's eerily quiet and still.
You don't know why this is happening. But you have a feeling that you need to find Rewrite. They have power over this world and might know what's going on.
You begin to look around. In the distance, you see... Flickering. The textures of the grass flashing different colors. It abruptly stops for a few seconds, only to start again.
Something terrible is happening.
You should do something.
You start walking towards it. As you do so, fog suddenly starts closing in, obscuring your vision. Yet, you still see something twitching in the fog. A part of the world not rendering correctly.
You're not deterred. You keep moving forward, determined to find whoever or whatever this is.
With every step you take, you start feeling an odd pressure come over you. Like the air is pressing down around you.
And then, as the figure gets larger, and closer... You realize something.
That's Rewrite. Or, it should be.
Their textures are broken and dark. Their model is twitching violently.
Something is wrong.
"...Sonic?"
You take several steps forward, but stop when you see the green grass in front of you cuts off, leading into a dark blue, glitched out texture. You can see cracks in the ground, and looking through them, you see... The world looping in on itself, repeating endlessly. The sight is nauseating and disorienting. You force yourself to look away.
As you look up, you see Rewrite staring directly at you with oddly shaped eyes. They're silent, but ever twitching, staring at you as if waiting for you to do something. Around them, trees, rocks, and bushes teleport around and in and out of existence. For a brief second, a boulder blocks your path, only to vanish as quickly as it came.
"What's happening? Are you okay?" You softly ask them.
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You hear a series of blips and beeps emit from them... As if they're trying to say something, but only garbage noise comes out.
They're most certainly not okay.
Their limbs twitch violently and staggeringly, as if in pain.
"Hey, it'll be okay..." You assure them softly as you raise your hands up, trying to be soothing. A part of you wants to run up and hug them and tell them they'll be okay... But that can't possibly go well.
You steel yourself, ready to do something. You look back down at the grass, noting the threshold between the green, unglitched terrain and the glitched out grass. The deep blue has been replaced with flickering and flashing colors, and the cracks are gone.
You glance back up at Rewrite and begin to take a slow step onto the glitched out grass, keeping your eyes on them to judge their reaction.
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