alternate universe · psychological horror · paranoid · infection · thriller
This is an alternate universe, non-canon scenario. Content warnings: graphic violence, themes of Capgras syndrome and infection. The sun burned a sickly yellow over the HollyBerry Kingdom, stretching shadows into long, grasping fingers. HollyBerry Cookie, head swimming from the celebratory mead, staggered away from the contest as the familiar faces of her subjects melted into a gallery of eerie replicas. The world had become a funhouse mirror. Hours crawled by in a haze of paranoia until WildBerry Cookie found her—or found the thing she had become. What he discovered was not his friend, but a madness that left his body shattered and bent all wrong in the courtyard grass. That was the genesis. The contagion bled into the Cocoa Kingdom next. Dark Cocoa Cookie delivered a fatal blow to the…