#fictoobjectum

So, let me begin by laying out their...

...omniverse, first. Because this is all on a multiversal scale!

Entire universes are sentient beings. It's like if a game or physics engine was alive, creating a simulation that lasts forever (or as long as they want it to) that is... themself. The way they do this is by creating laws, laws of physics, that slowly defines the universe the more they add. But, it also limits them.

It's all on a scale of mobility. Immobile universes have all their shit laid out, everything is detailed and they no longer need any hands in their "simulation." However, that means that they can't directly control anything. Mobile universes have some laws, maybe really finicky laws that don't cover everything, that allow them to directly control or influence what goes on in themselves, but that means that a lot more things are now constantly their responsibility.

For example, something like gravity. If you have your law of gravity in, then everything falls, you don't even need to think about it. But what if some Thing you really liked falls, and shatters to pieces because of it? You can't stop that Thing from falling, unless you break your own law and everything goes to complete shit because of it - you can't break a law just once, you have to completely remove the law because a law just states something that will always happen, and removing it jeopardizes everything under the influence of it, which is: everything! If you don't have a law of gravity, then you can you can stop that precious Thing from falling. But that means you have to go in and make everything fall. You have manually to bring everything in the entire universe down everytime it falls, which is exhausting.

Universes can have relationships with other universes. They can't effect anything in the omniversal void that they're all in, but they can effect themselves and eachother.

They can be friends, lots of universes can be friends and they look in on what what their universal buddy has going on in there, but ever interfering or influencing what goes on in someone else's universe is considered a MASSIVE dick move. Immobile universes are generally immune to any influence but themselves, but semi-mobile, really detailed but not completely hands-free universes can get into fights and literally destroy everything in eachothers' universes until there is nothing left but a massive void inside of eachother.

Universes can also "reproduce." They can create a whole new universe from scratch, a little "baby" universe that's comparable to those basic physics engines where they're just figuring out how to define themselves. Universes can mitose into "parallels" where everything is the same except for one thing, so that they can share a conciousness and try out something new. And then there's buds, where a universe can bud a universe off themselves that are connected, and have some influence on their host and either be independent or share their conciousness. Budding universes are a very popular choice by Immobile universes because, well, shit, they're proud of their work and all but sometimes they get bored of being a bystander to everything, and that is the case with our universe.

This is Miguel, Cameron's wife, and it is a budded and very mobile universe from ours. Just like our universe, it has no actual name, so it has multiple aliases from its inhabitants. It was named Miguel by Cameron, and it is the first one that it has personally used to refer to itself, but it's also known as "Hell," "The Subterranean Maze Matrix," "The underworld", or the one you might be most familiar with: "The Backrooms."

(Names by Cameron. Supernatural levels are otherwise realistic levels with a supernatural element - Ceptolumne is a regular ballroom, but is completely black and white unless the hanging lights are turned on.)

Miguel functions a litttle differently to the general consensus/mythos of the backrooms, though. For one, Miguel is unable to create her own life, though she can readily support ours since she's connected to our universe - There's no entities except for her, though there are fake ones, often fish or flocks of birds, that are more like an object displaying a graphic. Miguel is too full of finicky "it works because i say so" laws that're too weak to properly simulate something like our cosmos or to naturally conjure life, but Miguel's laws make for a wonderful collection of enclosures, though it's not flawless reconstructions of Earth - Water is breatheable and you can't cook within Miguel, due to a lack of knowledge and miguel's limitations, respectively.

Miguel's levels are mostly not interconnected, either. When someone falls through the cracks of our universe through the invisible peepholes that Miguel has open, you only go to one random level, though it's random one each time you enter (unless she wants you going somewhere specific). Some levels do have doors that can transport you to other levels, but that's not ubiquitous. You exit Miguel to the same instant you entered in our universe, so your time in Miguel doesn't pass in ours (the minutia for how this works i still need to figure out). But as for how you exit, before Cameron, the exit was as inconspicuous and unmarked as the entrance was, so you just had to wander an entire level for maybe years before you got lucky and stepped on the exit by chance. Now the exit's marked, because Cameron informed Miguel that no, they could not see their exit. It's actually visible in the Ghost Hills picture as that red dot.

OMNIVERSE-BUILDING OUT OF THE WAY: LET'S GET TO THIS WEIRD ROMANCE.

The "literal butterfly effect" in question was Cameron following a butterfly off his usual route to work. Once again, Miguel's peepholes into our world are in random places and are completely unmarked/invisible, and by that slim chance, he stepped on one of the entrances to Miguel, falling through the earth and spending 3 months wandering a level before finding the exit.

This is, for most ordinary people, not a particularly enjoyable experience. But Cameron already fucks around abandoned buildings for no good reason other than yearning for the buildings so for some reason he exited Miguel thinking "wow, that was a cool dream. It felt so real." So real, that, the next day, in our universe, he tries again, just to confirm that was just a dream, and confirms... the exact opposite! This time, with a surprise.

Cameron likes urbanex as said before, but his favorite place to explore was this one abandoned mall that he had been around to see while it was still open, for he had fallen in love with the place during and after its prime - its gaudy neon colors, the crazy wavy ceiling the bowling-alley carpet - it charmed him dearly and he was utterly devastated when it was destroyed. So imagine his surprise when he's standing right at the fountain in the center, while the mall's at its prime. Miguel usually takes inspiration from places and adds her own spin to it, it's why she's so anthropocentric when it comes to her levels, but nonetheless, the chance that she took inspiration from the mall that Cameron had the biggest fattest crush on that Cameron also happened to end up in is... staggering, to say the least.

He spent 6 months in there. Mostly out of his own volition. But by the time he left, he had piqued Miguel's interest for his sudden monologuing towards her. Cameron has no idea Miguel was actually sentient but he likes personifying the objects he likes, romantic or platonic, and treated her as if she was alive, eventually giving her the name "Miguel" and internalizing the "she/her" pronouns, even though Miguel is as genderless and as much of a person as a rock is.

He began visiting Miguel just about every other day, and this also greatly interested Miguel since Miguel is used to only getting 3 or 4 visitors every decade or so (mostly random wild animals). Miguel can't feel romantic love, but Miguel is still very touched by how Cameron is actually acknowleging them directly and being physically affectionate to the objects within her. Miguel can't really embrace Cameron directly since one big rule with Miguel is being unable to change objects within someone's field of vision, but she tried to show her affections for him through food and trying to incorporate what he could notice into the levels. Cameron took notice, and although he didn't know about the greater forces at play, he praised her for it and just made whatever feelings that Miguel had for him worse (positive)

Miguel decides to semi-directly tell him her feelings with a little pie and a note that had his name in hearts. Which scared the everliving shit out of Cameron for a few seconds, considering he didn't really think Miguel would ever reciprocate. But immediately afterwards, he was estatic that his feelings were actually mutual and the rest is history.

A lot of this is lore I've said before, but I did want to update that Cameron and Miguel actually do now talk directly to eachother! Miguel can't speak but they now have a book that she responds directly to him through.

They got married via Cameron ceremoniously putting a ring on the floor, and now that ring is in a random spot in every level in Miguel -Cameron has the personal goal of always having to find it before he leaves Miguel. They've been married for 32 years within Miguel's time, but for a little under a year on our universe. It's also a personal routine for Cameron to bring Miguel food (Miguel doesn't need to eat, but Miguel can simulate human feelings such as taste and enjoys being brought things) everytime he comes in to Miguel