Ruby Rose x Darkness Reader

The End

I wake standing up. I'm not in the dorms... I'm... where am I?

I try turning, but I find myself in a white void. I'm no longer standing, I'm floating, aimlessly wandering through nothingness until I come across a gray door.

Hey, Shade?

Shade?

Come on... what's happening

With no response, I open the door, and am instantly greeted by a blinding light.

Now I'm in a room. There are posters of what appear to be anime and video games, shelves decorated with figures, toys, and other memorabilia. Finally, there's a desk, with even more memorabilia.

Yet before all that, what intrigued me the most was the boy sitting at the desk, with a disheveled set of pajamas and wild and/or stupid unkempt hair. He turned away from what I now realize was some anime playing on his laptop, and spoke.

Oh, so you're here

When he spoke, it felt... like more than just a voice. It felt like a force that resounded through my being

"Who, who are you"

Oh uh... you know

"No, no I don't"

His face then shifted, his eyes darted back and forth as if he wasn't comfortable looking at me.

I'm uh... I'm your creator

"Wait... what?"

*Sigh* You're not real. You're just kind of, a figment. I mean look

"He waved his hand and suddenly Shade and Ruby appeared"

Why did I say that? More importantly, why were Ruby and Shade now appearing behind him

Good questions

Ruby and Shade were suddenly gone.

"Who are you"

I'm the author

"You mean?"

You're a character in a reader insert fanfic, a pretty bad one at that

"Wh-what?"

Okay listen, I'm just going to make you understand

And suddenly, it all came together. I understood my existence, nothing more than text on  page to some website in the form of heavily irregularly released chapters. Only existing to serve as a vessel for others to live out fantasies in worlds they can never visit.

Is that even grammatically correct?

Probably not

Ok, but why. Why now? The name of the chapter is The End, but we're only on Volume Two. Do you really plan on leaving so much unresolved? There was all that heavy foreshadowing of what was to come?

I mean it was just Ironwood. This became cyclical really quick, and this is the final chapter

But why? Is this weird removal of the fourth wall really how you want to end things

Of course not. 

Then explain

Fine, but it might take a while.

It all started when I began reading fanfics in 8th grade, mostly out of loneliness. I wanted so desperately to have friends, to feel loved, to have adventures and become someone important like all the stories I grew up with. When I wrote you, I was basically writing myself.

Yourself?

You are... were the hero I always wanted to be. The mary sue who got to stay shy and awkward, but was loved by everyone and got to become a total badass who shot lasers. In real life, I felt like a nobody who would never amount to anything. Here, through you, I got to live out my dreams. My poorly written, self-indulgent, power fantasy of a dream.

Then why'd you stop? What was your plan?

Well I did plan on putting you through all 3 of the original volumes. Ironwood would come back, you'd fight, beast transformation and Frost dies, Ruby calms you down, you start dating and go through an emo phase

An emo phase?

Yeah I was listening to a lot of My Chem when I first thought of this, then it'd end with a big war and you'd get to live the rest of your days with you and all your friends finding love and happiness and Shade even got a body.

Huh, but why never finish? Why the slow uploads?

Two reasons I guess. The first was that I just kind of lost passion for this. I like telling stories, and I'd love to write something original one day, but this fanfic just kinda made me feel stuck. Like it was holding me back with all the baggage I'd inadvertently started putting in it. I kept telling myself I'd finish it someday, but I slowly realized I never wanted to, and the last 4 or 5 chapters was me trying to keep this alive out of what felt like obligation. I'm kinda over it, and rather than keep going with this whole 'not over until it's over' thing, I'm just ending it.

What's the other reason

The other is... I don't need you anymore.

How so?

You were born out of me wanting love, to hold and to be held. A vessel for the validation and comfort of others, even if it was just a collection of fictional characters that ultimately don't make much impact on me in real life. I still love the show and am a big fan, but I'm not in that state anymore. I have friends now, I've made relationships with people that have helped me grow as a person.

You helped me a lot when I was in a big transition in my life, but as I'm heading towards the next big change I realize that I don't need your help anymore. I'm ready to keep going on my own, face what life has to offer.

Are you really just going to leave like that?

Yeah, I'm sorry you never got to become the hero you were meant to be, but a part of you will always be a hero in my life, since inadvertently you helped me put myself out there and become who I am today. I'm sorry to the few who did actually follow this series and want to see it through to the end. So, while it is ending, I'd at least like to have this finale end with some semblance of what I wanted

What do you mean by that?

***

I woke up again. It's been years since the battle with Ironwood ended and we all moved on with our lives. I felt a stirring next to me in bed only to find that it was Ruby. I heard our children snoring softly from across the hall, and I felt myself begin to fall back into slumber and turned as I thought to myself how lucky I was to get an ending as happy as this.

As I held my wife closer to me and drifted off, I felt something that I've wanted to feel for so long.

Happiness.