"The Thing in the Pineapple"

Welcome to Bikini Bottom.

You think you know it-the jellyfishing, the Krabby Patties, the laughs echoing from a pineapple under the sea. But something ancient has woken in the depths below, and it wears a familiar face. When strange behaviors and eerie copies begin to infect the residents of Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob SquarePants starts to realize that not everything with a smile is his friend.

Something has begun mimicking him.

At first, it was just a copycat voice in the hallway. Then came the second SpongeBob-identical down to the giggle. Then came more.

As friends disappear, buildings fuse together like coral tumors, and the sea itself becomes aware, SpongeBob and Sandy must descend into the blackest trench in the ocean to uncover a mind older than time-one that feeds on joy, wears memory like skin, and only needs one thing to become unstoppable:

A host.

This is not the Bikini Bottom you remember.
This is the sea remade in horror.
This is The Thing in the Pineapple.

Dive into a long-form, chaptered psychological horror that blends SpongeBob's bright world with cosmic dread, body horror, identity loss, and reality-bending nightmare fuel. Think SpongeBob meets The Thing, Annihilation, and Lovecraft-all drenched in saltwater and dread.

The ocean is smiling.
But not with kindness.
With teeth.