this is a slowly growing collection of short stories featuring creepypasta characters and, frequently, OCs. some of these may also be reader-insert, it depends on my mood.
read the preface chapter for more information on the setting! but otherwise...
Hello again! I have some things to mention before you continue.
Basically, there are two new branches of the AU these stories take place in! TNC: Epilogue, and TNC: Legends!
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TNC: EPILOGUE takes place starting in 2025, after the climax of the main AU. It's existence serves to give me plenty of room to write self-indulgent, domestic fluff til my heart's content. By this point, the defeat of Zalgo has more or less put most pastas in a positive light to the public, given that they were willing to put aside their differences to save a humanity that had only ever scorned them. So, like, Slender can go out in public, and stuff. ARC has EJ on house arrest, though.
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TNC: LEGENDS, on the other hand... well. It's a lot darker, as you can probably tell from this title card. LEGENDS is an AU of TNC that attempts to stay closer to Creepypasta "canon" while still allowing me the freedom of inserting my headcanons and such. Basically, the gist of this AU is that ARC was never founded, so pastas have been let to run loose. Slender and Casey's relationship starts much, much differently. Jeff's rehab didn't go well so he devolved back into a serial killer. The Tall House is now bonded to Splendor instead of Slender, and Splendor runs it like an orphanage for all the kids misplaced by Slender's shenanigans. And more stuff like that.
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The brothers also look differently. Slender and Trender have lost mouth privileges, and Splendor uses pins to keep his mouth in a permanent open smile. 'Fender.... is dead. Splendor killed him almost immediately after the rumors started, despite Trender's attempts to defend 'Fender (who, as a reminder, is innocent in all my writings where he's present...)
But yeah, you can expect to read stories taking place in these two variants of TNC in the near future.
That's all for now! Oh, yeah, also. If you wanna see more of my art and worldbuilding related to TNC and it's new branches, I recommend following my instagram @ MrMelvins. Plenty of art and animation to be had there.
