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aftoonfamily · 4 months
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I never do this, but I drew a little something for a little something I something I wrote. lol.
Enjoy below it might be long.
Mike had a Nickit he named Nickie. Nickie with a C and an E because he thought she was a boy at first. Nickie never cared, she thought it was a cute nickname anyway.
Nickie was very small and followed her Mike everywhere. She left soot, dirt, and dust all over the floor from her messy paws, but she always tried to sweep it up with her tail so Mike’s father wouldn’t get upset. Her trainer always got yelled at when she would make a mess. She tries to clean up any messes he makes as well. Sometimes Mike would cause a mess himself and his father would try to take care of it, making him clean it up with biting insults and possibly a hit or two.
She never liked it when that man would hit her young Mike, but he would always tell her to leave it alone.
Sometimes the man would hit her trainer hard enough to cause bruises, or sometimes bleeding. Nickie would bring him berries and try to get him to eat them. Bleeding was never good and bruises could hurt for quite a long time.
He would push her and her berries away, telling her off, yelling at her. Once he kicked her away and she yelped, but the boy was crying. He had cried for so long with blood still gushing from his nose and using tissue after tissue, staining them a horrible red.
She didn’t worry about the kick. It wasn’t that hard and he was still crying. When Nickie had pressed up behind him, nuzzling her way into his lap, he did not push her away again. Her little Mike had hugged her to his chest and sobbed into the soft fur in between her ears.
The man was mean. A real bad man.
He needed his boy to be strong. He made Mike fight. His Pokémon were very strong. Nickie had been forced to battle each one until she could barely stand on many occasions.
The first time she had battled was with the man’s Lopunny. His name was Bonnie and he had harsh scars, tearing through his skin like ragged grooves in matted brown fur. He had stared at Nickie like she was prey, beady pink eyes shining with pain and malice. Bonnie had slashed right across her eye and knocked her out before she could even get a turn in. She had woken up blind in that eye, everything foggy and white.
Her misguided Mike hadn’t helped her. He tried to keep his head down and voice harsh as he scolded her, but he was only ten and it wobbled as he told her she was weak and this was her punishment for being so weak. When she chirped at him and tilted her head to get a better look at him, he broke into tears and picked her up, holding her close as a silent apology.
Nickie had gotten stronger slowly. She hasn’t gotten any more scars as harsh and debilitating as her blind eye, but there were a few. She had scratches on her chest, too close to her stomach, bites on her scruff, and a few nicks in her ears, but those never hurt for long.
Mike had changed slowly as well. He had grown to stand up for himself more, ignoring his father’s cruel ways towards his Pokémon and healing Nickie in secret after battles. Every time they battled wild Pokémon or battled with friends, Mike would take her straight to a PokéCenter so that she could get some rest and heal up quickly.
Battles with the man were harder to heal from. Mike would have to take her back up to his room— too injured to walk herself because she never won a battle with him— and have to heal her with potions he would buy with any extra cash he had. When there weren’t potions available, he would let her rest, feeding her berries and cleaning up any blood or dirt in her fur.
She did the same with him. Her strong Mike had been getting hurt more now that he’s starting to stand up for himself. And worse.
Nickie had woken one night, resting from a hard fight, to yelling below her. She had pushed herself up on aching legs and snuck her way out of Mike’s room.
Her trainer had two young siblings. They were smaller than him, but still bigger than her. Nickie liked them well. She remembers when the little boy was so small. He used to pull at her ears curiously and she would sniff at him, purring.
Now, the little boy was watching something from the banister, pressed against it, hugging his own Pokémon close.
Nickie padded her way to the little boy and nudged him away from the stairs. He jumped, but once he saw her, he reached out to pet her small head, hands shaking. She nudged him again, gently herding him back to his room. Mike liked his siblings and took care of them, even if they got into fights a lot. He was too young to be caring for little ones.
After the little boy was safe in his room, Nickie tilted her head and pushed it through the bars of the banister, her ears popping out as she got her head through. Looking below, she saw the commotion that had woken her.
The man was yelling at her trainer. He had him pressed against a wall, hand gripping his throat tightly. Choking Mike.
Mike’s hands were gripping his father’s arms, but unable to pull him off. His eyes were bulging, bloodshot and teary. His mouth was open and gasping. He couldn’t breathe.
Nickie pulled her head out of the banister and ran down the steps, bounding her way to her hurt Mike.
She snarled at the man, snapping her teeth at his legs. He had turned cold blue eyes to her and kicked out, delivering a hard, steel-toed shoe to her healing torso. Nickie had yelped, skidding across the floor, but she had scrambled back to them in seconds. Slashing and biting at anything she could get into while the man continued to try and kick her off, cussing her out angrily.
But it worked. He had let go of Mike’s throat in order to grab her by her large ears and throw her across the room.
She remembers something shattering, but nothing else.
When Nickie had woken up, she was in the PokéCenter. Her sweet Mike had been petting her head, careful of the stitches all over her small body. Everything hurt so much, but there was a soft shuffling of her tail at the sight of her trainer. He had a thick sweater on that covered the bruises that were sure to be on his neck. She wished she could dig her nose under his collar to check for any other injuries.
The nurse suggested Nickie was not to be released from her Pokéball and should definitely not be fighting for some time while she healed from her injuries. Mike had followed every suggestion thoroughly. If Nickie ever came out of her ball, it was only to stay in Mike’s room and only to sleep and eat.
She spent quite a long time like this. She had to watch from afar as her hurting Mike was falling into line with his father’s footsteps, trying to get some love from the man by making him as happy as he could. Making him happy often included making his little siblings’ lives worse.
Nickie saw as teasing became screaming until there was nothing and how worrying became crying until there was pain.
Lots of pain.
Nickie hadn’t been there when it all happened, but she saw the signs. Mike never showed interest in catching any Pokémon. He liked his solitude and he already had to take care of his family as well as Nickie. Too many Pokémon running around would cause too much stress.
That was one of the reasons why she had started to worry for her oblivious Mike when a Litwick started to follow behind him.
When she snapped her teeth at the candle creature and snarled, Mike had pushed her back with his foot and scolded her.
“No, Nickie,” he had said, scratching behind her shredded ears. “No fighting. It’s just some stupid Pokémon.”
Nickie had snapped her teeth again when the Litwick’s flame flickered. Shining brighter.
Mike had never been interested in studying Pokémon like his father. He was content with the one he had and didn’t further his knowledge into any others. He didn’t know what a bad omen it was for a Litwick to follow you.
Nickie was healing, so she started following her clueless Mike around again, just so she could drive away that cursed candle. He would always tell her off, telling her to stop being so aggressive. He was adamant on retiring Nickie from any more battles, deciding her safety was better than strength and evolution. She didn’t care about battling, she only cared about what exactly that Litwick wanted to say.
She learned soon enough when Mike’s little sister went missing. Right when she got her first Pokémon.
Her trainer had searched desperately, all over the house and all over town. He had yelled at his little brother to stay in his room, and when he fought him on that, Mike had pushed him in and locked the door. Nickie had felt conflicted on if she should comfort the little boy or her little boy, but there was no stopping Mike from fretting and getting more frustrated with every second he didn’t find the girl.
So Nickie snuck into the little boy’s room and kept him company while her scared Mike searched for a child he wouldn’t find alive.
She saw the glow of the Litwick’s flame when the little girl disappeared. It was a bright, blinding blue. Mike might now know what that meant, but Nickie did.
Nickie tried all she could to keep Mike calm after that. She pressed against him every moment she could, brought him food when he wouldn’t eat, and protected him from the rotten Litwick that continued to pester him. Mike had appreciated her comfort, but the longer his sister wasn’t found, the more he closed himself off.
Their father hadn’t been a great source of comfort. Nickie avoided him for the most part and he was never really around, but she could see the toll it held on him that his daughter was missing. The man was always violent and cruel to his family, but he now neglected them completely. Nickie felt overwhelmed trying to take care of Mike during his bouts of aggressive depression, but now she felt the need to watch over the little boy to make sure he was okay too.
The abuse never stopped. The pain turned to anger, and anger turned to violence. Nickie loved her trainer, but she couldn’t help but see the resemblance between him and his father. Her lost Mike was so cruel to the only sibling he had left.
Months went by. Nickie had started to avoid her trainer. She would give him berries when he wouldn't eat and sit with him when he was hurt, but she was disappointed in his behavior.
His little brother had gotten bruises on his arms from Mike’s harsh treatment towards him. He cried when Mike would scare him over and over again until he got to a point where the little boy hid from his brother. And Mike took pleasure in hurting his brother. He would smile and laugh, and Nickie didn’t like it.
Her sweet, misguided, poor Mike, was not an abusive person. She wanted to believe he was still hurting. She saw his pain late into the night when he would lie bedridden, sometimes whole days going by without leaving his bed. He was still hurting, but Nickie couldn’t act like the pain he put his brother through was okay.
She didn’t notice the bright blue glow following Mike around until it was too late.
The little boy was dead, killed by ignorance. Mike had taunted the boy, pushing him towards the Bewear’s awaiting arms. Nickie had frozen. She had called to Mike, crying for him to stop, drowned out from the boy’s own cries.
Bones cracked, arms bending in wrong angles, and screams suffocated under the crushing weight squeezing his chest into a bloody pulp.
Mike had screamed too. He heard the first crack and screamed for the Pokémon to let him go. He had pulled and pried at the Bewear’s arms, but they didn’t move an inch. It continued to crush the little boy until he stopped crying, until there was no movement at all.
Then the little boy was dropped into a broken, mangled heap on the ground. Mike had screamed.
Nickie had failed her dear Mike. She had tried to protect him all her life, but she had turned her back on him at such a terrible time. She should have been there for him. When he was young, she stayed a steady presence in his life, pulling him away from the footsteps he had been following, only to abandon him when he went back on his progress.
She wasn’t going to abandon him again. Even now, sitting with his years later with the building burning around them. He tried to push her away, just like he did when he was ten and had a blood nose from taking a hard punch, just like every time she had gotten hurt and he tried to tell her that she was weak. Just like when Lizzie went missing and like when Evan was killed and when his father had left him alone and when time and time again something happened and he got hurt. Nickie wasn’t going to abandon him.
She nuzzled her thin nose under his chin, breathing heavily as the smoke filled her lungs and burned the tips of her fur. Her Mike, her kit, had his arms wrapped around her shoulders, hugging her close. He told her how much he loved her and she chirped to him under the roaring flames.
Nickie was a Thievul and she had a kit named Mike. She laid her head on his lap and stayed with him till the end.
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aftoonfamily · 5 months
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Fnafic Masterpost lol
Here’s a masterpost of all the fnaf fics I’ve written over the years. Gives you an insight on how I personally play with the storyline and the characters but like. Be warned. Some of these were made back in highschool and I’m well into college now so my ideas have changed a little lol.
Fnaf at Freddy’s
Little snippets of stories related to my fnaf storyline. They’re not in order and they are mostly cringey cause I was 17/18 when writing these. It has some good moments though like stories of William being a freak and Gregory being cute and sad. Good shit.
William Afton is a Weak Pussy
Okay this was never finished but it was a funny idea me and my friends had because my William is actually like. Super afraid of a lot of stuff. Specifically stuff related to death or dying. I might finish it one day who knows.
No One Lives Forever!
My first story in the Oxymoron series. This was a self indulgent story based entirely on a dream I had of Mike getting the shit beaten out of him and William going to jail. It got popular for some reason and created a whole au where no one dies. Which is also why this is called the Oxymoron Au lol.
Wake Up! (It’s 1983)
Second story of the Oxymoron series. This is a continuation of the idea of Henry taking in the Afton kids. 90% of this story is Mike being angsty and the other 10% is Evan and Lizzie being absolutely adorable. There are some moments I hate and would change but I’m lazy and have a real job.
Cinderella Undercover
Third story of the Oxymoron series. This was made entirely for my friend because I love them and I love their version of Mrs. Emily. Not the biggest fan of this story, but it gives you insight on Clara Afton and how each kid feels about their mother. Always fun.
Only a Lad
Fourth story of the Oxymoron series. This is also based on a dream I had lol. Mike reunites with one of the bullies he used to be friends with and it doesn’t end well. There is alcohol in this one, big ol underage drinking, and a bit of non consensual stuff but nothing too bad.
There’s Nothing To Fear (But Fear Itself)
Fifth story of the Oxymoron series. Based on that new book that came out confirming that William tested some freaky fear gas on his kids and that’s what fnaf 4 was about. Thought it would be fun to add that to the Oxymoron au and wreck these kids even more.
Fill The Void
Sixth story of the Oxymoron series and currently still being updated. This one is about 20 years later after the first story. Cassie and Gregory are here being cute and adorable and Mike has some serious problems still. Also William is getting out of prison soon but I’m sure that’ll be fiiiinnnee.
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