see what i've become (i will no longer feed the machine)
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i had strings (but now i'm free) by Star_Going_Supernova
Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's
21 Feb 2022
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Vanessa is Vanny, but not by choice. In their final confrontation, Gregory frees her—and the other animatronics, incidentally—from someone else’s control. This is the aftermath.
Healing doesn’t always come easy.
(A three-part story about uncertainty, healing, and hope.)
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i can't escape this now (unless you show me how) by Star_Going_Supernova
Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's
07 Mar 2022
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She’d only been asleep for a little over two hours, then. Exhausted, she limply rolled back into place and closed her eyes. Vanessa didn’t think she’d had any nightmares yet, so she had no reason not to go back to sleep.
Except she couldn’t. Because today was off.
It felt like something was crawling around beneath her skin, and she reflexively clapped a hand to the back of her neck. The small scar there, made only four short months ago, was no different than it’d been the last time she checked to make sure it was untouched.
(Healing doesn't have to happen alone.)
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my pain is a memory (won't get the best of me) by Star_Going_Supernova
Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's
25 Apr 2022
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“It is over,” Freddy had said when she woke up. And while no child had fallen victim to their teeth and claws since, it didn’t feel over at all. Not to Roxy.
Not to any of them.
(Sometimes, things get worse before they get better.)
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if you're still bleeding (you're the lucky ones) by Star_Going_Supernova
Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's
16 May 2022
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He decided in that moment to never let her think he feared her or hated her or blamed her. Vanessa was broken enough, and who did she have to help her? No one; her home was empty of pictures of friends and family.
Gregory would help her. He might not understand how it felt to be mind controlled, but he at least knew that it happened. And he’d gotten her to talk earlier, so she—she wasn’t a lost cause, though she probably felt like one.
He knew he had, years ago.
(Healing is not linear, and for some, never really ends.)
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the blood i taste (all my scars will fade) by Star_Going_Supernova
Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's
11 Nov 2022
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Vanessa struggled to simply exist sometimes. Not as much anymore; it’d been a while since silence made her feel like she was on the verge of drifting away. Peace was welcome now that it was balanced with laughter and chaos and Friday soccer games and their quest to try all the different ice cream/frozen yogurt/custard/gelato places (she swore Gregory was just adding more categories to keep the game going) and dogs and just simple life.
The return of life, her return to life… how impossible it had seemed, just months ago.
(Healing comes in different forms, delivered by different people.)
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running from the devil (but the devil takes hold) by Star_Going_Supernova
Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's
21 Dec 2022
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Once Vanessa completed the training course, she’d be an official night guard at the Freddy Fazbear Mega Pizzaplex. Oh, she had a good feeling about this!
The future, she thought as she bounced out of her front door, is looking bright!
(Once upon a time, Vanessa had nothing to fear. A monster is about to change that.)
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fight till the end of me (this ain't a tragedy) by Star_Going_Supernova
Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's
22 Jan 2023
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“Look at you,” he gloated. “You are nothing. Small. Pathetic. Weak. This version of you… so dreadfully inferior to what I turned you into. What I will turn you into again.”
Vanessa wanted to protest, to deny it, to do anything other than cower there. She couldn’t even stand to look at him. But—he was right, wasn’t he? She really was pathetic and weak.
(The journey of healing is ongoing, with ups and downs. Facing their demons hurts some. For others, it becomes catharsis.)
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