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• In My Mind's Eye (Momento Vivere) by aerial_terminal

  Fandoms: Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist - Wifies (Web Series)  

  • Not Rated
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  13 Apr 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • AveryTheMayo/Derek | d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist)
  • Derek | d3rLord3 & The King In Yellow | Hastur (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist)
  • Derek | d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist)
  • AveryTheMayo (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist)
  • The King In Yellow | Hastur (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist)
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Malevolent AU
  • Inspired by Malevolent (Podcast)
  • Derek Lives
  • Derek and KIY as the world's worst headmates
  • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
  • Doomed yaoi bruh
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Blood and Injury
  • DMS | Department of Metaphysical Sciences (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist)
  • Blind Character
  • Dissociation
  • Memory Loss
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Family Headcanons
  • POV Alternating
  • Self-Worth Issues
  • Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies

  Summary

  His mind is not empty, no; far from it. Although the pressure feels faint and distant now, it is swimming and writhing with all the same whirlwinds of knowledge as it was before, when he was confined to stare ad infinitum at that stupid, stupid computer.

  It feels.

  Kinda good.

  ⋆༺𓆩⚔𓆪༻⋆

  Or, Derek survives. Except now he's blind and the King lives on in his mind. Neither of them are happy about this.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  9,150

  Chapters:

  2/5

  Comments:

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