Um... hello, everyone?? As you can see, itâs been a while since I last posted, ahaha-. Studies and my mental state have just DEVOURED me, which is why Iâm just... well, I donât even have a meme to describe my current state(maybe this...?)
I decided to break the silence with an old prepared post that was originally meant for Halloween, but it ended up surviving... until Christmas, ahaha-. Gosh, Iâll need to write a post for the holidays eventually, but for now... letâs dive into something old, horror-themed, and unsettling.
Since October is approaching... itâs time for some weird horror AUs before the Halloween post.
Have you ever heard of the game Neverending Nightmares? If not, donât worryâhereâs a quick dive into my favorite childhood horror game.
Neverending Nightmares is an indie horror video game released on September 26, 2014. The plot is brief: the protagonist, Thomas, wakes up time and again in a nightmare that grows worse and worse, bloodier and bloodier. And keep in mind, the game has three endings: a false happy ending, a neutral ending, and the true ending. We... will be interested in the last one.
The AU itself revolves around Bruceâs endless nightmare, encompassing all the horrifying moments of his life.
The murder of his parents, from which he cannot escape, depicted in a grotesque styleâtoo bloody, too loud, happening too often. In his nightmare, this event is always the starting point, regardless of subsequent events or the ending. The death of his parents will always be Wayneâs origin, from which he cannot flee. Nextâthe events with the Robins. One after another, with each new dream, each of them changes at an indescribable pace. Dickâalmost killed by Harvey Dent (ironically, the older brothers share a similar fateâbeing beaten half to death by... âspecialâ villains), Jasonâby the Joker and fire, Timâagain by the Joker, and Damianâby those close to him. And itâs not like he just wakes up from each nightmareâthey only get worse and worse. And, given that the game features heavily distorted versions of monsters and deaths... I think you can imagine what Bruce has to face during these nightmares and his attempts to prevent the deaths of his loved ones and family.
Only... which ending will Bruce reach? Maybe itâs the false happy ending, where he truly has the chance to save everyone, heâs happy with his family, the Robins are alive and by his side, with happy childhoods and bright futuresâbut... all of this is just the dreams of poor Bruce. Or perhaps itâs the neutral ending, the one we still see to this day in the comics, where everything depends... simply on Batmanâs fate and luck. But instead of the true ending, we have pure horrorâBruce, who couldnât save anyone. Who wakes up time and again after the most terrifying nightmare, where everyone is dead, where each one blames Wayne for their death. âYou couldnât save us. Why didnât you avenge us? Were we just soldiers to you? Pieces of flesh to achieve your goal?â
A bit of a chaotic train of thought, but I really like this AU with the Batfamily, because essentiallyâevery comic with a less-than-happy ending is just one of the dreams in an endless nightmare, only in a more grotesque form. And now... I recommend you watch a playthrough of this game or play it yourself, if, of course, youâre not as scared as I still am-.