jus cogens

yeah like rn i'm leaning towards either SOMA theory or the fact that the digital circus players' bodies are probably dead by now but like. can you imagine if they weren't. if, like, their bodies just got zapped into the computer with them or someshit. like imagine one day a group of ~6 people bust out of an old abandoned building screaming "WHAT YEAR IS IT" and when the authorities check them out they realize that they're perfect DNA matches to these people who disappeared, except several of them disappeared DECADES ago and they're somehow the exact same age they were when they disappeared. and all of their stories are exactly the same, they got sucked into a fucking video game but nobody can double-check this because they fucking murdered the AI running it and then probably smashed the computer console when they got out for good measure. every now and again they do something stupid and dangerous and say some shit like "oh yeah i forgot we don't operate on cartoon logic anymore." one of them saw a picture of a gummy crocodile and is crying. dude this would be the biggest news story of the year like nobody would be able to talk about anything else

“i never see you at the club” ok well i never see you on ao3 at 2am reading about the same two bitches falling in love for the 1000th time in the 500th way