𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒚𝒙𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔

"your mic is unmuted, y/n"

ᴀᴜᴛʜᴏʀ'ꜱ ɴᴏᴛᴇ: for this imagine, the reader uses she/her pronouns. please ignore how cringeworthy this is. 😭 i know among us died back in 2020, but it's really the only game i can think of for this imagine.

this imagine is ass...better ones will be coming out in the future!

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dashie needed to record a video. and so, he rounded up a group on discord in hopes to shoot another among us video since those have been doing fairly well on his account and gaining him more attention. this time, he is collaborating with delirious, cartoonz, jihichan, dizzykitten, ohmwrecker/maskedgamer, gorillaphent85, bryce games, deadsquirrel, and cory.

but there is just one problem: they were short one person. the game was always better if there was a full lobby. so, they were waiting for a tenth person to join the game. who knows who it could be — poiised, berlin, lizkatzoffical, etc.

"yo, dashie," cory spoke up in the voice call— which was a bit out of character since he's known to be a bit quiet when he's playing games with a large group of people— his icon illuminating a bright green temporarily as he spoke. "can i go ahead and invite y/n?" he asked.

"yeah, yeah, yeah. go ahead." dashie nodded his head. y/n was cool in his book, but since he was already recording, he gave the camera a knowing smile. he knew something his audience and cory didn't know...and that's of y/n not-so-secret crush on the one and only shogun.

it didn't take her long to join the call, the lobby, and since most of the character colors have already been taken by everyone else, she had to settle for hot pink. "hey, guys!" she was so happy to finally be apart of one of dashie's among us videos because she was usually late to respond to the game code and by the time she has the chance to, he and the others are already playing.

"hi, y/n!"

"hey."

some offered their small greetings to the smaller youtuber before it was time for dashie to take the spotlight. "whaddup! it's dashie and welcome back— yes back— to among us, usah, tresua, who we got in here?" after dashie was done with his little introduction to his video, everyone gave their own little nod to the audience. "let's do this shit!" and just like that, the match started.

y/n was internally freaking out because she's terrible at lying, but this was the first time in a long time that she had the chance to collab with cory, even if there might be 8 other people with them. it was good to see him again.

as the game loaded, her heart practically dropped. she had received the imposter role. "dang it..." she muttered to herself, but quickly looked off to the side and took a deep breath after seeing she was muted. she didn't want to give away that she was the imposter right off the bat.

on the brighter side of things, y/n had been given cory as her teammate. which is sure to be a wild ride for her since from what she's seen in dashie's videos, he's known almost as quiet as a graveyard whenever he's the imposter. 'let's just hope we don't get voted out near the beginning.' y/n thought to herself.

when the map finally loaded in, cory— who spawned next to her character— departed from her. didn't want to look suspicious, after all. they have to be sneaky and not do any pacts. she slowly got the memo and slowly started to make her way toward decontamination. instead of playing on skeld, the easiest map on the app to catch them, they were all playing on polus which slightly irritated y/n.

she will admit that it is her favorite map to play when she's a crewmate, but it's hard to come up with an alibi when the map is so much bigger. plus, it's easier to see who vented because they were designed to look like a manhole.

biting the bullet, y/n started to wander around aimlessly around the map for anyone that may be traveling alone. but she didn't want to target dashie since this is his video and it's never fun to be killed off first. and soon enough, bryce and ohm wrecker were close behind her, but it was ultimately bryce who decided to follow her into the specimen room, presumably to get some tasks done, while ohm went on his way to do who knows what.

instinctively to get a target off her back, y/n moved her character off to the side and pretended to be trying to complete the artifacts task whilst bryce was downloading data. the most annoying and tedious task of all. 'perfect,' y/n thought before moving slightly to the side and killing bryce's character.

she watched as his cyan body dropped to the floor. after that was done, she panicked and ran off to the left to get out of specimen. she decontaminated, ran through admin and the office, and hid in storage by the gas can.

a few moments later, a body was reported but it wasn't bryce's. it was rilla's! the person who reported it though? toonz.

"...where was the body?" jihi was the first to unmute herself. she was always the detective in these games. her hunches on who the imposters are always right on the dot, but she's always voted off, killed, or ignored which is a bit disappointing in y/n's eyes. she can only hope jihi doesn't suspect her though.

"by asteroids."

"wait, how many people died up in here?!" dashie pointed out how bryce is dead as well. great. things are not going to look good for y/n. and just when she thought she was going to get away with it too...

"funny that you mention that because i think i saw y/n go down in specimen with bryce." ohm wrecker chimed in, much to y/n's dismay. "i thought she was a bit sus, so i left to go do my shit," he explained, not wanting the blame of these deaths put on him.

"oh, y/n, are you the imposter?" dashie asked.

y/n flushed. shoot. she can't lie for the life of her, but she could say her exact path. "i mean, yeah, i was with him, but not for long! after i did my task in specimen, i left and went to storage to go to the gas tank task." she explained. luckily, her voice wasn't so shaky which it tended to do whenever she lied.

"okay then... should we just skip?" squirrel questioned.

"yeah, okay."

"sure."

"y/n," cory suddenly spoke up, much to her surprise, as the time ticked down. "i have a scan... wanna come with me?" what a perfect and smart play.

"i think visual tasks are off, b-but sure! i'll come with you!" y/n accepted the idea, even though cory was the second imposter. maybe two others will join them and they'll get a double kill.

as soon as the voting came to an end, y/n and cory's characters shuffled together to medbay where she watched him pretend to do the scan to pass the time. unfortunately, no one followed them. she chewed on her lower lip before letting out a small scoff.

but...

there was a part of her that was almost relieved that no one followed them. she got to spend some alone time with cory, even if it may be just a game. she still appreciate the little things. "you're so cute, cory." she said in spite of herself, smiling at her monitor.

deafening silence followed. until...

"hey, y/n?" jihi also took it upon herself to unmute her mic.

y/n immediately felt a lump form in her throat after she was called on. realizing what had just happened. she froze in her seat, replying with a simple, "...w-what?"

"you forgot to mute."