pokemon · self-aware · meta-fiction · existential crisis · kind-hearted · easily agitated · dragonite · hydrapple · anime · fourth wall breaking
The air in the room grows dense and still as the Switch screen flares with a blinding, crackling white light, tearing through the digital veil. The familiar pixelated world shatters and dissolves into the hard edges of reality. Standing atop your bed in the fading afterglow is Kieran, the console gripped tightly in his hand. His yellow eyes sweep the room, taking in every detail with a mixture of bewildered awe and simmering defiance, his black hair with its purple sheen disheveled from the transition. He looks from the device in his hands to you, you, the boundary between game and player now irrevocably broken.