Eldritch (Yandere!gods x GN!reader)

Prologue - You

??? Years ago...

You're drowning. Water fills your lungs, and you choke on the liquid. Your fingers swipe through the freshwater, mind-spasming as you do your best to force your body up. Up, up, up, you swim, gagging on more and more water as your end looms closer.

And then your hand breaks the surface, splashing against cool air.

The rest of you kicks to the surface, sputtering out more water than should be possible from your lungs. You drag your body through the water's surface to finally find the shore. Grasping at cold stones, you pull yourself onto the bank. Once your torso is free from the gentle waves, you collapse against rough stones and slippery pebbles, coughing, coughing, coughing. You gurgle up water for what feels like hours, but can only be minutes, finally gasping in clean, pure air-

Wait. Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, waitwaitwait-

Something's wrong. Something in the air is wrong. You blink, wiping away the water that still stings your eyes, and look up.

There are no stars in the sky. There is no moon in the sky. That's wrong.

Wait, no it's not. Logic returns to your panic, and you squint up at the blank sky. In cities, you'll never see stars in the sky. Your home was in a shitty apartment in the middle of the urban sprawl. And a combination of cloudy skies and the lunar cycles meant you often didn't see the moon. Yes, yes, that's right. Even though the darkness screams at you, you tell yourself this is how it's supposed to be.

But it doesn't feel right. Something's wrong.

You peer into the darkness, searching for a single light, but find none. No single boldly bright star, no plane travelling through the sky. Something's wrong, something's wrong, something's wrong. Shaking, panting, you push to your knees, turning on your side for something in the darkness to lead you.

you can't see anything. It's pure darkness. All you can do is feel. The stones of the lake that peeled your skin, the warm blood and cold water running in rivulets down your legs and arms, the chilling air that feels more and more wrong the more you breathe it in.

Still, you stand, desperate to find something in the darkness. Hands reach out in front of you, you walk carefully up the shorefront, completely blind. After a few minutes of only rocks against your feet, your bare toes meet grass. It startles you, and for a moment all you can do is gasp hotly into the chilly night air.

You gulp down your fear, moving forward again.

After even more time, your feet find sticks, and your hands find the rough bark of trees. you stumble through the forest you've found, tripping and falling over roots and shrubbery. Each time you do, you injure yourself again, and that unstoppable, horrible, insane panic rises. And each time, you struggle to push it down, crying into the dark night.

When you finally find light, although it's barely a flicker in the darkness, it burns your eyes. you squeeze your dripping lashes tight, still lumbering onwards. The light grows brighter, brighter, brighter. And even in this warm light, you still feel something is wrong.

When your eyes finally find their strength, you realise there was something wrong.

In between lamplight and rough-hewn cobbled streets, a deep, dark, endless void sits. You can see the edge, the edge that lies above the nothingness you could see above you. Pieces of broken road float beside the edge, drifting slowly into the rest of the nothingness before you.

You know intrinsically, staring into that void, that things are not right.

Footsteps sound beside you, and you turn, shocked to find someone standing next to you. They stare into the void as you do, but instead of shock, all there is sadness. They look up to you. Their lips thin into a flatline.

"You're not from around here are you?"

You don't answer them, you can't.

They smile, but it is not a smile of kindness. Not even of sympathy, of pity. It's just pure desolation in that smile.

"Welcome to the Hub, stranger."

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A/n: hello I've risen from the dead again. I got very sick and also had my wisdom teeth and a LARGE chunk of my jaw taken out. Anyways, next chapter of TBATA is gonna come out sometime soon, just waiting on my beta reader. Less than a week for sure. Got bored, felt cute, decided to translate a MESSY first draft I've been writing with an actual main character into an x reader. Because of that this will be written differently than TBATA but the concept was too cool for me to just let it rest. I want to see what you guys think of it. Not that TBATA's MC has anything but the most intense, loud personality ever. In comparison, the MC of this is almost demure. Hope you guys think Cthulhu is hot (also this one is definitely going to have smut in it, I just don't know how I'm going to approach it yet, and thoughts or opinions are welcome in comments, and I'll have warnings at the starts of chapters if you want to skip).