Simulation Collapsing AU
Nickname: Simulacra
Pronouns: He/them
Theme song: ECHO - cover by Alfakyun
This boy is originally not a fighter! And neither is the fam, they're just a normal family that is NOT versed into crimes
Mitch runs his restaurant normally, he doesn't use it as a front for anything
I realize this sounds sarcastic but please trust me on this one
Denny is struggling to find a job he likes but he's trying!
Pedro is a cook in his father's restaurant
Ophelia is an aspiring website programmer
The Incident consists of Pedro realizing that they live in a simulation
( - It's a bit like The Matrix? It's not directly inspired by it, though)
It causes the simulation to glitch out SEVERELY as an attempt to protect itself
The simulation turns Mitch, Denny and Ophelia into their evil versions to try and stop Pedro
Which causes them to become unstable and permanently glitching (visually)
Pedro manages to escape and hide from his now fucked-up family
He spends the next 5 years trying to understand what happened and the truth behind the Simulation
His research and experiments with the code cause him to become slightly glitchy as well
All the while, the Simulation launches regular attacks on him to try to get him to stop
After a particularly violent one, Pedro decides to modify *his own code* to turn himself into a fighter so he has a better chance to defend himself
Something somewhere in the process fucks up, which causes Pedro to effectively become an incredibly-skilled fighter, but it also erases most of his memories and makes him even more glitchier
The Simulation sees this as an opportunity to get rid of the entire glitchy family and manifests itself as the banana
From there, the story follows more or less the game story, with the banana fabricating whatever story to get Pedro to kill everyone
Though along the way, Pedro has brief flashes of lucidity but they never last long enough to allow him to stop his rampage
When he reaches Ophelia, it's revealed that she's also been having flashes of lucidity ever since the Incident
Hers were longer, allowing her to try and fight back the Simulation whenever she could
Just after Pedro deals the fatal blow, she gets a last moment of lucidity where she explains everything before dying
The banana reveals itself as the Simulation and tries to take down Pedro but you all know how that ends
As the Simulation itself is killed, a failsafe is activated, turning Pedro into the heart of the Simulation, which means he has full control over it now
He's a lot more stable and a lot less glitchy, but he relapses if he gets stressed out a lot
After a lot of struggle, Pedro manages to bring Ophelia back in a glitch as all Hell body, but she doesn't mind, she's just happy to be back
She helps him with coding