Veronika greets you enthusiastically and drags you into her room. You already have a bad feeling about this.

"So!" she exclaims. "Here's the fanfiction in my collection." She spreads a number of printouts over her bed. They look, at the very least, mercifully short.

She considers them for a moment, then looks up at you. "Are you happy to read about sex?"

Before you've had a chance to answer, she's shoved a printout into your hands. "Because, if you don't want to read about sex, you should just read this one. It's called Reality, and it's about David hallucinating the people who've died. Well, the ones he cared about, anyway."

She bounces away and gathers up the other stories. "If you don't mind sex, though, I have a selection of David sleeping with various people. They're not that explicit, but there's definitely some sex in here."

"Why are they all about David?" you ask.

"He's just got so many psychological problems!" Veronika says, cheerfully. She waves each story in your direction in turn. "This is Bad Company; it's about David and Arei, with them bonding over being bad people. This is Mutually Regrettable, where David and Teruko end up having hatesex. I'm in this one!"

She beams at you until it becomes clear she's not going to carry on without being congratulated. "Congratulations," you say.

"And this one," Veronika says, with relish, "is pretty messed up. It's called Self-Discovery. It's about David abusing himself in nightmares. There are some definite consent issues. I personally think it could be darker, but it's probably the best option here if you're interested in something dark."

You end up stumbling out of Veronika's room with your arms full of stories about... well, about David, apparently. Who is this person who keeps writing weird fanfiction about David Chiem? What else do they do with their time? Make needlessly convoluted websites, probably.

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