Curate, connect, and discover
I honestly wanted to write this part between Chapters 1 and 2 but I figured it also works pretty well as a prologue to the story. Anyways, hope you enjoy reading 😀
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After my AU … got destroyed, I was left there as a lone survivor. I first needed a moment to realize that everything was gone. I was trapped in that white abyss that was left of my home. I tried to recreate my world by coding each part from what I remembered, but all my attempts ended in failure and growing despair. Over and over and over again ... Once I started to hear voices, I realised that I was finally going insane.
Eternities later, as I was at my lowest point and had already given up, I saw someone. At first, I thought that I was hallucinating, seeing Sans with a giant paintbrush on his back in front of me. His outfit was also completely different to what he wore before and as he introduced himself as Ink, I realized that he also acted differently. He told me that he was the guardian of the multiverse and ended up showing me what he called the doodle sphere, an accumulation of Alternate Universes, or short AUs.
I kept travelling around with Ink through several AUs and learned so much from him. He explained to me that the voices I heard were not in my head. They were the voices of the creators and he was able to hear them as well. The more AUs Ink showed me, the more my hope grew to eventually find a world that was similar to mine. I wanted to take that world and copy it to use it as a base to rebuild the one I had.
One day, as Ink and I tried to figure out which AU to visit next, I noticed that another AU that we visited not long ago, looked a little odd. We went over to investigate further and found it completely devastated. Ink explained to me with a sigh that this happened to a lot of places that he visited. I was shocked. I asked him why he was still visiting AUs since he knew he was putting them in danger. He told me that he was mostly curious, but after he said something about the creators wanting it to progress that way, I snapped. I shouted at him about how he could simply accept something terrible like that. I didn't wait for his answer and just left.
That was the last time I saw him. I stayed back in my world to avoid any other AU being dragged into trouble. Since I couldn't stand that white emptiness anymore, I created a fake room to be able to ignore it. I still kept searching with my screens for a suited AU to rebuild mine but my motivation sunk, due to constant failure. By now it just became a habit to observe other AUs. Well … but everything changed, as I found that boy …
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