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I’m kina bored right now but its too noisy to concentrate on advancing my wips and my headphones dont work anymore :( so that’s why I thought why not write about another shelved fic?

This one didn’t get too far in planning, so it never got a title or summary. It would have been an angsty fic and basically it was about the backstory of the friends from the neighbour area. And it would have followed Hero’s pov, mostly because at the time I took a liking for writing Hero. This story gets kinda dark-ish later on (as you might guess given the subject matter), but everything is so vaguely described that Im not sure it warrants a warning, but just as a heads-up I mention it.

I didn’t get to decide exactly how the scenery would have looked like, but the story would have started with Hero already in a room of blackspace. As like, a vague idea, this room looked like a barren landscape, gray-scale with a dark sky, there’s barely any grass but there are many rocks of various sizes but overall huge. There may or may not be the remains of a cabin. It is standing but like two of it’s walls are missing. Its serviceable as a shelter in case of an emergency, but isn’t really a place for living. Yeah you know what? This setting is good enough.

So Hero was in the remains of this cabin, sitting while hugging his knees, scared and confused. He has recently fallen into blackspace by accident, and he has no idea of anything thats going on. He looks around, here describing the scenery, but more than the scenery, he’s looking at the other two who are there with him.

There are an Aubrey and a Kel there as well, but Hero is able to tell those aren’t the Aubrey and Kel he knows. For now, the only explanation he has is that they just happen to be unnervingly similar to his friend and brother. He still hasn’t tried to talk to them.

Aubrey is at the other side of the cabin, far from the other two. She looks as them with distrust and wariness. Hero doesn’t know this, but like him she’s able to know they aren’t the friends she knows. She’s also new in blackspace.

On the other hand, Kel doesn’t pay attention to either of them. He looks unresponsive. While the other two are mostly unaware that they’ll likely never see again their respective friends and brother, Kel here has witnessed the death of his own. For this, for a good chunk of the story he’s rather gloomy

Soon someone else enters the scene. This is a Hellmari, however in this fic they only have their most creepy appearance when they’re pissed-off. So right now this Hellmari looks very similar to spirit Mari, with a white dress and dark hair. However, more than a ghost she’s a walking corpse, so she still makes Hero and Aubrey feel unnerved at seeing her, despite her cheeriness, or maybe moreso because of it. Her movements are stiff, her neck is longer than it should be (but no to the degree of her other form) and her jaw seems too loose when it moves. Hero notices details like this in his narration.

Hellmaris have a very short temper and they get angry and agressive very easily, so this one is trying her hardest in remaining calm since she doesn’t want to scare them… anymore, maybe. She’s the one who brought them to this cabin and may or may not have lost her temper a bit while trying to bring them there and basically scaring them into following her. I didn’t decide. She doesn’t mean any harm though, so she bring a tray with freshly-baked cookies for them to make them feel at home, and apologize if she did scare them before. In either case, none of them eat, and when she tries to ask them simple and casual question they all remain silent.

At this, she sighs and decides to cut the chase and get to the point. She here explains to them their situation and what it entails for them to be in blackspace. Things work very differently there compared to headspace, and if they don’t come to terms with their new life and adapt, they will die. However, she wanted to help them and teach them how to get around blackspace, and for their sake they had to stay in that cabin.

Like I said, this didn’t get too far in the plotting process, so this part is kinda fuzzy. Hero and the others would want to escape and they would do so later on, but I didn’t get to write exactly their reason for that. Like, maybe they didn’t believe Hellmari and they thought she wanted to keep them trapped, or maybe they felt a natural rejection towards her for being related to the truth or idk. I guess they talk behind her back about a plan to escape or something like that. The point is that they run away when she’s distracted and although she soon notices, she doesn’t make any attempt in chasing them.

I wasn’t really sure where to explain Hellmari’s motivation, so I’ll just mention it here: she basically felt very lonely and she wanted to have her friendgroup again. She had never had one, but being a Mari, she still longed for it. Hellmaris hate anything related to Sunny and Basil, so for her the group was complete with just Hero, Aubrey and Kel. She had rescued them and brought them to that cabin, since that was the closest thing to a home she had ever seen. Blackspace wasn’t the most cozy of places, but she had hoped that, even if none of them had asked to be part of blackspace, together they could form a place to call home and be happy despite the hardship. Though, all those aspirations fell apart when she noticed they had escaped.

Going back to the others, they had escaped together but they hadn’t planned(? much beyond that. For Hero, his priority right then was finding his brother and friend… however, due to his caring nature, even if he felt unnerved by those kids that looked exactly like his own (and were called the same, as he had learned), he didn’t want to abandon them to their luck, and them feeling lost and scared, wanted someone to feel protected, so the three of them agreed to remain together while their searched for their respective loved-ones and a way to go back home.

What would follow would have been them traveling through blackspace and seeing a lot of scary things, so they always feel really scared and walk practically glued to each other. Maybe or maybe not this part would have focused on their survival, I didn’t decide, but in either way they have a tough time and at the same time they grow closer to each other, now not feeling unnerved. Also, here they realize that the Hellmari was saying the truth and that she wasn’t that bad after all.

Eventually though, they stumble upon a semi-familiar face… almost. This is the big yellow cat, the one of the neighbours area, so you know it doesn’t really look very friendly, but after their experience with the Hellmari, the group decided it was better to not judge by appearances. Also, maybe they feel more comfortable with it because it isn’t related to the truth.

Since the friends are like programed to trust the big yellow cat and look for its protection, they ask it for help. Seeing them so bruised up and scared, it agrees to help them, telling them that all they have to do is listen to its teachings and then they will never feel afraid and in danger again.

Or the conversation went somewhat along those lines.

So, in blackspace there were sort of “parodies” of the three great creatures. Since they weren’t important for the plot, I didn’t describe Humphrey’s equivalent nor Abbi’s, so I’ll only mention the big yellow cat.

So, first of all, blackspace inhabitants could be divided in three categories: those that agreed with Omori’s ideals and actively worked on his favor, those that opposed these ideals and actively worked against them, and those who were neutral either by being unaware or because they didn’t feel strongly one way or another. A huge majority fall in this last group, like 96% of the population, while those who agree are like 3% , or something like that. Just so you have the gist.

In any case, the big yellow cat is one that agrees with Omori’s ideals of repressing the truth, so while it teaches the friends about the nature of blackspace and all of that, it would also speak positively of Omori, saying stuff like he has a very important mission and those who went against it were evil and wanted to end the world as they knew it, destroy their home, the paradise above.

Ah, well, I didn’t get to the specifics of what the big yellow cat would teach them, so I’ll just go to the general.

The thing is that the cat is someone with a very twisted mind and has its own ideas of how things should be done, so it would be the main reason the friends from the neighbour’s area turned out to be so violent. The cat taught them that if they didn’t want to be afraid ever again and also wanted to help their friend Omori, they had to be the strongest out of everyone in blackspace and win themselves a reputation that would make everyone afraid of them. And that’s what they did. Under its guidance they pretty much became killing machines with little regard for anyone else outside their group. Except Hellmaris, because they remember the Hellmari that tried to help them, but since they can’t distinguish her from other Hellmaris, then they just spare all of them, much to the cat’s annoyance. In blackspace there isn’t the best communication and residents have to rely on word of mouth from travelers for news of other areas, but even with that, it becomes common knowledge how lethal an encounter with these three can be. Once they see you, is very hard to escape from them. So, it is advisable to avoid them at any cost.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention all of this took place during the early cycles, so these friends are some of the oldest in blackspace in the current date.

Anyways, for as cruel as these friends can be, their bonds are tight-knit. They pretty much adopted each-other and they see each other as siblings. Though they don’t use each-other to replace those who they have lost and they keep a memorial for them. They haven’t forgotten what they lost, so for that reason they’re much more set-on keeping what they have left.

That means that they also have no qualms in ‘eliminating the competition.’ That’s it, killing other friends. While the cat didn’t tell them everything, they know certain things of how their world works, such as that there are many copies of them and that only one group can be in headspace. So, they eliminate the competition at any given chance. Despite everything, they still have the same motivation as in the beginning: going back home. They believe that in this way, being the strongest, blindly obedient, ‘the best’, Omori will one day consider them worthy of bringing back to headspace, though I didn’t decide if the cat made them believe that (and if so, if it was tricking them or it genuinely believes that’s how Omori sees things) or if they reach this conclusion themselves. In either case, Omori knows how dangerous they are and would never bring them anywhere near headspace, so whenever he stumbles upon them, he just ignores them. The friends, while disappointed each time, don’t get deterred at this. They just conclude they aren’t good enough yet and all they have to do is putting more effort.

I wasn’t too sure about how many scenes there would have been nor about the way they would have been paced, but the last scene would have been of the friends resting on the belly of the big yellow cat. Here, Hero would look down fondly at the others as they sleep peacefully, this being a huge contrast to the previous scenes where they would have been ruthless.

Hero is happy that they’re able to sleep with no worry, maybe here would be a callback to an earlier scene near the beginning where they try to sleep but they’re too scared to do so. In any case, he believes it all has been worth it if he gets to see the kids as peaceful as that. At some point though, he thinks about his own brother and friend, and he can’t help but know they would be horrified, but as Omori demands it, he quickly decides is better to not think too much about it. Probably he decides to take a nap as well, knowing that no one would dare to hurt them.

So, as you see, I had a pretty good idea of the plot and it only needed some refining. Though, the reason I decided to shelve this idea is because Im already working on a fic with a similar premise, and while I considered this one could work as a spinoff, it’s not a good idea to think of spinoffs before the main thing is done, yknow? So, I’ll probably just keep these ideas as my headcanons for the backstory of these three.

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