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[A Hat in Time] Moonjumper x Reader

[ok, I've wanted to write for this fella for a while...]

Subcon was always a place to be avoided.

That was practically common knowledge to you at this point.

No one wanted to end up missing like everyone who went into that cursed place.

Well almost everyone...

They were the one person who you didn't exactly have a choice when dealing with, and the only person you knew who had gone into that starlit forest and lived to tell the tale of a noodle-like ghost with a jack o' lantern face.

That kid with the hat, who everyone called Hat Kid.

She had basically dragged you to her spaceship one day and now you were her friend and basically the only adult figure in her recklessly lived life.

Usually you spent you time cleaning up after her and helping the Rumbi get unstuck of corners it magically seemed attracted to.

When Hat Kid would get back from that day's quest, usually bringing a magic hourglass with her, she'd tell you all about the place she visited. You could describe the Alpine Skyline in detail that didn't seem possible considering you'd even never been there, Dead Bird Studios was a place you could probably infiltration and not get caught from her descriptions of the birds, Mafia town sounded like a horrible place to live if you hate eating fish and the smell of the ocean, but Subcon Forest was what terrified you most when you heard about it.

You had been told all your life, living in a small village off the map of the planet rather close by to the dark place, to never accidentally enter or even think of trespassing in Subcon Forest.

So when the child with the hat told you that she went there and lost her soul to a ghost, you panicked.

She was fine a few days later, got her soul back and everything, but the thought that someone COULD do that terrified you.

She told you that you'd be fine to wander and investigate the forest as long as you stayed clear of her new BFF's traps for poor wandering souls. She told you that they were circles of purple thorns and that in the event you were put under contract, she'd have "a word with the noodle." She had said this holding her umbrella in a threatening manner.

Something told you this wasn't a willing friendship.

So now you were here. Subcon Forest, feeling like you were going to die any second.

You had made sure that Hat Kid had told Snatcher what she had told you, and introduced you to Snatcher just in case you weren't as careful as you should've been.

So now that we've established where exactly in your planet you are, let's talk about what you're doing.

Exploring a dangerous forest is no simple thing. That is, unless you're an alien child with magic hats. 

You aren't.

You had made it to a dark and rather sad area full of castle like structures. It felt far more blue and way darker than any other area in the forest. Whether that was due to the canopy of the trees or the amount of buildings was unclear to you.
But at one spot at the bottom of a sharp not very tall cliff side was a beautiful view of the moon. You had probably been staring at the space rock for twenty minutes now and it kind of felt like it was staring back.

Leaving now would mean you lose the staring contest you had started with it or something.

Maybe it was just a very intense stare down and leaving would mean something horrible would happen to you.