GAME OVER (BEN Drowned x Reader)

Y/N has never truly lived in the waking world. Born with the ability to walk through the dreams of others, she spends her nights wandering through strangers' fears, desires, and hidden memories. She has never dreamed herself, never felt the warmth or terror of a world her own mind could conjure. Reality feels thin, distant - like a place she's only visiting. Emotions are puzzles she cannot solve. Sadness, anger, love - she watches them in others, but cannot touch them herself.

Her closest connection is Liu, a soft-spoken classmate who always seems to watch her too closely, who answers her absent-minded questions about what it means to feel. Y/N doesn't know his secret - that beneath his gentle smile lies the fractured, dangerous soul of Homicidal Liu.

But her quiet, drifting existence begins to unravel the night she buys a worn, unlabeled cartridge at a flea market. It loads Majora's Mask, but the game isn't right. There's no music. No title screen. Only Link's empty eyes, staring back at her - and the name: BEN.

Soon, the game begins to speak to her. To follow her. BEN's presence creeps into her devices, her room, her borrowed dreams. But instead of terror, BEN finds fascination. Y/N is unlike anyone he's ever haunted - untethered, unreadable, unreachable.

Start: 1/10/2025
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