Y/N has always lived in the static between reality and something else-something darker. Haunted by hallucinations, fractured thoughts, and a mind that feels more like a haunted radio than her own, she keeps to herself, burying her pain beneath layers of silence, sarcasm, and scars no one sees. Trust is a fragile thing, and physical touch even more so-craved in secret, flinched from in daylight.
But when a strange, glitched game file appears on her laptop without explanation, the boundary between hallucination and reality begins to blur. The game-an eerie version of Majora's Mask-seems alive. Watching. Waiting. Speaking.
And then he appears.
BEN, the infamous entity behind the cursed cartridge, isn't just data. He's aware. Intelligent. And for some reason... he's drawn to her.
What begins as a glitch spiraling out of control becomes something else entirely: a connection. Twisted. Tender. Dangerous. As the two damaged souls begin circling each other-one digital, one breaking in flesh-the question arises:
Can two broken beings learn to trust when the world itself seems glitched beyond repair?
Or will they both drown in the static?
(Y/N) buys an old Majora's Mask cartridge from a thrift store, unaware of what horrors await when she plays it. When she meets BEN Drowned, (Y/N) wonders when the boy would kill her. But maybe, he just so happens to show mercy on her. Maybe there's something more to him than she thought...
Everything begins to feel like a puzzle for (Y/N) to solve. What happened to BEN? And why does everyone in this town have something to hide?
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