Tip the Scales

The Grayscale World

When Grian woke up again, the whole world around him was gray. No color whatsoever. Except for the strange red and blue figure floating next to him, which looked surprised to see him. 

"Oh! You're here already. Feels like you just got to this world." The figure chuckles while scratching the back of his next. One side of him was red and the other was blue, though the stranger thing about the figure was, he was transparent. Grian could see the wall behind him.

"Do we know each other?" Grian questioned. It seemed like the figure knew him, but he couldn't remember anything still. The figure didn't seem surprised at the question, more like he was expecting it.

"I-yes, yes we do. But you had told me I wasn't allowed to say anything about yourself till you remembered on your own accord. Call me T, I can't tell you my name right now." The figure, T, looked disappointed yet smiled. Grian was just more confused at this point.

"Okay? What about where are we? Maybe why are you transparent?" Grian had more questions, but was trying to choose what was more important. Of course his curiosity would get the best of him.

T just brightened up at the questions. "Those I can answer! I'm dead, so I'm just a ghost now. I'm stuck with you though. And this world, we called it the Grayscale World! Very creative, am I right?" He chuckled. "I think it was your idea actually."

Grian just stared at the ghost, trying to process this information. "Wait, what? I- what?"

"You know, I knew this would happen. I totally called it. Just look around at the world! Gray! No color anywhere!" The figure gestures with his hands around.

The two were still in Grian's ship which was most definitely supposed to be a brown color, not gray. But something didn't make sense to him. "Then why do you have color? You're red and blue, I can see that."

T seems to understand the confusion. "Well people don't lose their colors in this world, just look at yourself to see for yourself! While myself, I died here but only have those colors sense they were my main colors. If it was you, you'd only be red!" With mentioning himself, Grian looked down to see his red sweater was replaced by a dress?

"Hold on, why am I in a dress? This isn't what I was wearing." Despite the outfit change, there was still color on him. His peach skin tone, black shoes, even his dirty blonde hair was the same. The band on his arm was still its normal red and blue color, but his outfit was mainly different shades of red.

The blue and red ghost just laughed in response to Grian examining his outfit. "You came up with that idea! You wanted to argue about who looked better in a dress so we both put one on! I'm still wearing mine, but you can't see all the details anymore we put into. At least we can still see yours!" Grian realized that the ghost was right. He seemed to be wearing a dress, but his legs were more of a ghost-like tail. The skirt seemed to blend right into his tail. There was only one shade of blue and red on him too. Along with a band that looked similar to the one Grian wore, even on the opposite arm.

"Um, so what is this world exactly? Like, why is it gray?" Grian of course still has multiple questions about this whole place. He was quite sure where to start, so he questioned the world.

T floats around Grian carefree. "So we visited the world many times before. The world tries to steal color from the waking world, aka the world you're more familiar with. You'll find these crazy looking beasts which are what's stealing the color. We had to fight them, and now I can't do that so you're going to have too. But, we made it a way where there's more people that are able to help you, you just have to find them cause I don't know where the charm thingys we made went."