Born alone and nameless neath a crimson sky we'll learn to fly one day
No one to hold on to Ain't nobody's son but I'll reach that sun one day
A shot in the dark This is all we are A shot in the dark Little lonesome stars
- "A Shot in the Dark" by Smash Into Pieces
All L-1024500 wants is to be the best Bedwars player he can be, to distinguish himself from the other hordes of other nameless game-born cogs bred to fight and bleed to entertain Hypixel's masses. He might not have a long life, but by all the stars in all the skies, he'll make sure he has a memorable one. But then... Secret letters passed through a crack in the wall, signed with a bear's pawprint. A naive foreigner who speaks of loving parents and worlds outside Hypixel's borders. A strong-willed firecracker of a girl whose love of the stars rivals his own. A free-thinking rebel who refuses to play anyone's games but his own. A bright-eyed hopeful who looks up to him for once. A cutthroat mercenary displaying humanity in the unlikeliest of places. A wily fairy who thrives despite being marooned on a server far from her origin. And an enigmatic masked man who dares to dream bigger than anyone he's ever met. And slowly, L-1024500 - Purpled, his name is Purpled - starts to yearn for something more, too. (or: My take on c!Purpled's backstory. Daemon AU.)
Fic here.
