(Cover art is NOT mine.)
"Was I ever good enough? The other boys didn't care enough, and I hardly had any friends back then. I was always alone, and I was content to let it be that way. I didn't want to force my feelings onto anyone else. But I was alone. And I was hurt."
Phillup Pirrup, "Pip", as the South Park residents used to call him, isn't dead, or isn't dead now at least. Pip is back, much older and wiser, and he wanted to fit in better this time, something he couldn't when he was younger. However, the blonde boy is being watched by something, and someone, far more terrifying than seeing Eric Cartman again, and this someone knows a secret about Pip and his death.
"You're different from what I expected," she said softly.
"How so?" he asked, glancing at her.
"I don't know," she replied, searching for the right words. "You just... have this way of making people feel like they matter. Even here, in this... nightmare."
He was quiet for a moment before responding. "You matter, Y/n. Don't forget that."
OR
Y/n wakes up in the deadly Squid Game, surrounded by strangers and fighting to survive. What she doesn't know is that the mysterious Frontman is watching her every move through the cameras- and she's caught his attention.