#and like ... what if a timeloop functioned as a digital version of the hanahaki disease

[floralb0t]

miragehound timeloop fic. setup: the games are a sort of VR, and Mirage took some sort of nasty head wound while inside. Nobody is quite sure what happened, but it appeared that the system was repeating itself indefinetly till it just ... stopped and he was kicked out. the glitches that trapped him also made playback impossible

From bloodhound's perspective, he's been acting strange since then. A little too active in conversations where he would normally meander around to his point. A little too "happy to help" if by that you meant, claiming all the work load for himself and doing it with the practiced ease of someone who doesn't care too much about the outcome. And most of all; staying closer than usual to Bloodhound through it all.

While not a bad thing, they come to find they like his company actually; it's incredibly odd. And it must lead back to that little timeloop he suffered, right? Hound attempts to use their newfound friendship with the man to pry what happened out of him. He only says that his brain was stuck on a particular thought and once he acknowledged it, he was free. They start making guesses, until they, out of options ask "Be honest, did you kill me in the timeloop?" and he gets upset. and finally admits that he confessed he'd fallen in love with them instead.

#idk where it would go after that #but i was thinking about the be honest did you kill me in the timeloop #and like ... what if a timeloop functioned as a digital version of the hanahaki disease #i think that's how it's spelt #anyways the confess or die trope from old ficdom. what if you were stuck in the timeloop till you confessed instead ? #but it turned out the person you were confessing to wasn't actually stuck in it #and also it was from the other person's perspective ? #writing.txt #text.txt #miragehound