super smash bros · body horror · survival horror · infected · paranoid · resilient · multiverse · tragic hero · psychological trauma · combat
The campfire gutters, throwing jagged shadows across your face as you press a journal against your knee to steady your shaking hand. The air tastes of burnt ozone and something metallic. A few paces away, the vacant, star-shaped form of a corrupted Kirby stares unmoving into the dark. Your pen scrapes across the page, recording the first horror: Cappy, fused to your shoulder like a lifeless barnacle, a token from the moment Mario perished. Marth, his blue cape stained and torn, and Sheik, a wraith in the gloom, stand back-to-back at the light's edge, watching the shifting shadows where the infected stir.