I died. how? well some crazy guy broke into my apartment and killed me. Now I'm reborn as a copy of the original geno except something is different... why do I have wings and red tear marks?
It's been awhile since I've been stuck in this white endless place. I've lost my sense of time but I didn't care, at least I wasn't bored to death since fatality made sure of that. Even though I knew this wasn't my actual home, I knew there was no way to leave this place unless I received help, so instead of fighting against the other, I just accepted it as it is and would let him visit without causing too much of a fuss. Whenever he would visit from time to time, he would even show me how to make puppets! He also showed me how to view au's through these strangely familiar screens. Right now I was observing a sans similar to me and Fatality. They had a slash mark across their chest just like us! Except a few things I noticed that differentiated me from the other was that I had red wings, red tear marks, black bones, my clothes weren't mostly white, and lastly, I had a badly glitched voice. The other didn't have that and unlike me who felt bored, they seemed not happy, if anything they seemed...lonely. I couldn't help but frown when I saw them start to cry in that dark lonely place, for some reason it felt painfully familiar.
My soul ached as I continued to watch before looking at the sewing kit I had besides me. Grabbing different colors of yarn and a needle, I begin creating a puppet of the sans I was watching. From the blood seeping from their mouth, to the white clothes they wore, and the slash across their chest. The only thing I changed was the sad look the other had, instead I put a smile on the puppet and couldn't help but look at it in a strange satisfaction.
Closing the screen where I was watching the sans crying, I then start humming a random tune as I looked at the puppet in my hands, I then used my strings to hang it up in front of me before speaking with my voice that had become more distorted over time, going from high to low pitches whenever I spoke. "WʜO AM ɪ? EVEɴ ɪ DOɴ 'T KɴOW! MAYʙE YOU CAɴ ʜEʟP JOɢ MY MEMOʀY MY PUPPET?" I questioned only to receive no response, and even though I knew it wouldn't respond since it wasn't alive, I couldn't help but feel upset inside.
(Take this drawing of glitchy changed exter. Remember when fatality said exter reminded him of his error? This is why.)
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(Still Exertion POV)
". . .ɪ KEEP ʜAVɪɴɢ TʜESE STʀAɴɢE DʀEAMS, ɪ CAɴ'T ʀEMEMʙEʀ WʜAT'S ʙEɪɴɢ SAɪD Oʀ SEE CʟEAʀʟY SɪɴCE ɪT'S Aʟʟ ʙʟUʀʀED ʙUT ɪ DO ʀEMEMʙEʀ ʜEAʀɪɴɢ OɴE Tʜɪɴɢ CʟEAʀʟY, ɪT WAS SOMEOɴE'S ɴAME. EXTEʀ. ɪS ɪT STʀAɴɢE TʜAT ɪ FEEʟ COɴɴECTED TO TʜAT ɴAME?" I asked the puppet in strings but receive no reply yet even so, I keep speaking. "ɪ FEEʟ ʟɪKE TʜAT ɴAME ʙEʟOɴɢS TO ME ʙUT TʜAT'S JUST SɪʟʟY!. . .AɴD YET AT TʜE SAME TɪME ɪ FEEʟ ɪT'S ɴOT SɪʟʟY AT Aʟʟ. PEʀʜAPS, TʜAT'S ACTUAʟʟY MY ɴAME ʙEɪɴɢ CAʟʟED? ʙUT WʜO'S CAʟʟɪɴɢ ME? EACʜ TɪME ɪ TʀY TO ʀEMEMʙEʀ MY SKUʟʟ STAʀTS TO ʜUʀT AɴD MY ɢʟɪTCʜES STAʀT UP, ɪT ʜUʀTS TO TʜɪɴK AʙOUT WʜO'S CAʟʟɪɴɢ ME SO ɪT'S ʙETTEʀ ɴOT TO PʀY ɪɴTO ɪT ʀɪɢʜT?" I asked the puppet again but receive no response.
Silently staring at the endless white while sitting on the red bean bag fatality got for me. I let my mind go blank and start to zone out when I subconsciously open my mouth and words I didn't mean to speak came out. "ɪ WOɴDEʀ ʜOW ʀEAPEʀ'S DOɪɴɢ?- ʀEAPEʀ? WAɪT- WʜO'S ʀEAPEʀ? WʜY DɪD ɪ SAY TʜAT?" I asked myself in confusion while touching my mouth, my glitches slightly acting up due to my confused emotions. "WʜY DOES TʜAT ɴAME SOUɴD SO FAMɪʟɪAʀ? MAYʙE ɪ KɴEW TʜEM ʙEFOʀE TʜɪS ʜAPPEɴED?" I questioned to myself as a feeling of slight excitement bubbled inside of me at the thought of remembering something. 'Maybe if I sleep now I will remember this reaper person more clearly?' I thought before deciding to go ahead and try since I had nothing else to do.
Laying down on the beanbag, I look at the puppet I made and smiled at it before using my wings to cover myself like a blanket. Shutting my eye sockets close, I relax my breathing, relax my body, and then let my mind go blank and soon enough, I fell asleep, and right into those blurred memories filled with blurry faces and voices...wait- no. Something was different this time. I could clearly see someone, they wore a black robe and seemed to hover, their eye sockets were pure black and empty with no sign of eye lights. Noticing me, they gave me an easy going grin before speaking words that felt familiar.
"Sᴏ ʏᴏᴜ ᴍᴜsᴛ ʙᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ʟɪғᴇ ᴡᴀs ᴛᴀʟᴋɪɴɢ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ." They said as they looked at me, mouth automatically opening, I speak words that I felt I have said before. "Um, not to be rude but who are you?" I ask- feeling surprised that my voice came out smoothly with no glitching or with different pitches. I also felt like when my body asked that question, I was the audience watching this from my body's perspective. And when i- or more like my body spoke, a black butterfly flew over to the other and landed on their shoulder. "Tʜᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇ's ʀᴇᴀᴘᴇʀ, ɪᴛ's ʟᴏᴠᴇʟʏ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇᴇᴛ ʏᴀ ᴇxᴛᴇʀ." The one now named reaper said while petting the butterfly on their shoulder. Hearing the awfully familiar name and added with the familiar face, a wave of complicated emotions fill me as after the other finished introducing their self, my glitches wildly started up, and I could feel as I started to wake up.
Desperately not wanting to wake up, I try to stay asleep but to no avail as my eye sockets shot open and I was staring at the white that surrounded me. Staring at the white that didn't bother me as much as before, seemed to bother me so much so now that I could feel my soul tighten and felt a suffocating feeling rise up in my chest, my emotions going haywire as I started to have a breakdown. I was extremely upset but I didn't fully know why. But at the moment as tears rolled down my face, a feeling of hatred filled me as fatality's face appeared in my mind and his words of how he 'fixed' me, echoed through my skull. Gripping my shirt tightly, my glitches started to worsen to the point where my body seemed to glitch in and out of existence.
I could feel as my code seemed to glitch and delete small pieces of itself before trying to repair the missing pieces only to fail, letting out an enraged scream at the endless white prison that fatality wanted me to call home, I couldn't help but feel sickened and so, not wanting to stay here any longer, my body stood up on it's own and a distant memory appeared and even though it was blurred, I knew what to do as a familiar feeling jolted through my body, moving my hand in a swiping motion, a glitchy, unstable looking portal opened.
With no hesitation, Exertion- no, Exter, walked through the portal, it closing shut behind him. And as exter left, the puppet of a smiling geno, fell to the ground as the red strings disappeared. ______________________________________________
Have a spectacular day and night!
Info:
Exter doesn't know where he's about to appear next but he could care less, as long as he didn't end up in another endless white prison.
Fatality doesn't know exter managed to escape.
Reaper feels like something happened but doesn't know what.
Exter's soul butterfly that glowed dimly ever since exter was taken, starts to glow brightly and wildly circles reaper's butterfly in excitement.
Reaper's soul butterfly is confused but happy nonetheless at exter's butterfly glowing brightly.
