Forget. - DSaF OC Fic

Welcome to work! (Fredbear's)

Breaking through someone's mind is easy.

Mateo... he's an interesting one. More curious than I expected, but that might just be what makes him valuable. That curiosity-it's a tool, something I can use. I've seen the way he looks at things, the questions in his eyes. He wants to know what's happening, what I'm doing. And maybe... maybe that's exactly what I want.

You see, curiosity is a double-edged sword. It can lead someone to the truth, or it can drag them down a path they can never return from. Mateo's already started down that path. He's poking around, trying to understand. But he doesn't realize that every step he takes, every question he asks, brings him closer to a point of no return.

Hm.

I wonder how far he'll go before he realizes what's happening. How much of himself will he lose in the process?

I've been thinking a lot about the mind lately. How fragile it is, how easy it is to manipulate, to break. William was the first, and that went... well enough. But Mateo-he's different. He's not as submissive as William, not yet, but I wonder... How much can I tamper with him before he breaks? How much of him will be left once I'm done?

A lobotomy might be in order, at some point. William's turned out... adequate, but Mateo? The boy could be something more. Or less, depending on how you look at it. It would be interesting to see how his personality shifts, how much of that fiery curiosity I can extinguish with just a few well-placed cuts.

If he becomes a liability, well... I've dealt with those before. He's a backup test, after all, a second chance to refine my methods. They say the more tests you conduct, the closer you get to success. How much can I tamper with his mind before he's no longer recognizable? And if it all goes wrong, if he fails the test... well, disposal is always an option. I don't need him. Not fully.

I'll let him find what he's looking for, let him think he's uncovering the truth. But no... I can't let things end rapidly. I'll give it it's time.

There's no need to rush. Not yet.

...

On the other hand.

I've been digging deeper into the essence of what keeps him here, tethered to this existence, when by all rights, he should have let go. He's lost everything, hasn't he? I've already stated that. Nothing left to live for, nothing to anchor him to the realm of the living. And this is when things get fascinating.

At first, I had my theory it was just stubbornness, perhaps a refusal to move on, like William's. But it's more than that. Much more. Mateo's soul-it's fractured, broken in ways that I didn't expect. And that brokenness, that incompleteness, might just be the key to understanding why he's still here.

A broken soul... it doesn't fully depart. It's like a vessel with cracks, leaking out, unable to hold its essence together. And yet, those very cracks, those fractures, keep it from fully dissolving into nothingness. It's trapped in a state of limbo, not entirely alive, not entirely dead. A fragmented existence, clinging to whatever remnants of life it can grasp.

This brokenness, it creates an attachment to the physical world, a need to resolve, to heal. But when a soul is shattered as Mateo's is, there's no easy resolution, no healing. Instead, it latches onto anything it can find-memories, emotions, even the faintest trace of purpose. It doesn't want to move on, because it's incomplete. It's not ready to face oblivion, so it stays, desperately trying to piece itself together, even if that's an impossible task.