nirvanna the band the backrooms… i want to put these two guys in a situation.
when jay stumbles into the backrooms first, he doesn’t really know what to do (he was on the couch trying to reach for a soda on a side table, and his hand phased into the wall). after many jumps between the outside world into the backrooms, he barely thinks of grabbing an item from the backrooms to take with him as proof that it wasn’t some dream.
but what does he take? what are features of the mattjay household that would stay after many memory iterations? could it be a key from the piano? a childhood picture or poster that isn’t quite right? a tape for a movie that’s so low-quality it might as well not work??
jay spends a long time in the backrooms until he meets backrooms!matt. he’s taller than real matt. his hat is bigger, his muscles are oddly distributed everywhere (buff arms and legs remembered from their wrestling matches, he has a big stomach bc jay doesn’t truly understand how much matt exercises to offset his binge eating, and his jeans are basically four strips of fabric hanging from a belt. after the skydome plan, jay really sees matt’s suicidal tendencies shine through (more than after the both hanging prank…). backrooms!matt is always running towards jay but never hurts him (he turns left at the last second and runs into the wall hard enough to bleed or break a bone, he runs directly into floor entrances to other rooms, etc). he Does hurt the other backrooms-made people because nobody’s allowed to be close to jay.
idk if jay would want to stay or leave. i think maybe what would attract him to stay is the weird versions of musical instruments he finds. pianos with multiple layers of keys (like an organ), weird mashups of instruments like a melodica, a contrabass guitar that reminds him of when he was shrunk down during “the book”… eventually he leaves and honestly forgets everything (the pillow he took fell behind the couch, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ whatever)
he gets really excited about finding the backrooms and wants to pull jay into them so that they could explore together! he tells himself he’s committing everything to memory, and jay doesn’t believe him, but somehow, matt IS a great tour guide through the backrooms.
he only really gets upset by the backrooms!jay. the creature is loud (always singing or playing the small keyboard attached to his hands), and it crawls everywhere. it almost looks scared, like touching something would mess up its long hair, hurt his big nose, or stain his blazer.
the duo don’t realize that the backrooms are based on one or both of their memories, so they decide to leave, forget about the needy homunculus jay they saw together, and put a tall bookshelf in front of the portal to the backrooms :)
