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The villain jolted upright, tears still falling down their cheeks. Two splattered in their bloodstained lap, one after the other, and rolled slowly down the waterproof material. They’d probably end up pooling in their socks with the rest of the blood. Gross. 

Their eyes widened, black pupils swallowing their irises. Blue? Green? The hero had never seen them without their mask before. The villain had freckles too, a deep coppery-brown against the sudden pallour of their skin. They weren’t usually that pale–oh god, were they sick? Dying? Maybe that’s why they were crying, maybe the Surgeon had told them-

“Hero?” they whispered. 

“That’s me! No need to look like you’ve seen a ghost.”

“I think I am seeing a ghost.”

The hero twisted to look over their shoulder. Nothing but fluorescent lights and bright white corridors now dotted with blood. Definitely no ghosts. “No, just me. Am I missing…something?” Oh. Ohhhhhhh. “Wait, am I a ghost?” They bunched their hands into fists, their nails biting crescents into their palms and their bruised knuckles threatening to split. They seemed pretty solid, but weirder things had happened. 

“Well, you might be. I did kill you.”

I love how chill the Hero is, like “I died, yup, no biggie” and the Villain is SO SOFT. Stopping their villain life because you think you killed your nemesis???? S O F T.

Full credit to the creator @ ThePandaRedd on TikTok for this fantastic video he created