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Part 15 of fear's 2025 whumptober (except it's all welcome to night vale)
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2025-10-15
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in the end we all decay and rot

Summary:

night vale is not so lucky in every universe. sometimes, things don't go as planned.

day fifteen - “you can take a break, if you just tell me that it hurts”, failed rescue attempt, body part in the mail, live streamed torture.

title is from "Flesh and Bone" by Madilyn Mei

Notes:

ohhhhhhhh cecil.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Work Text:

"All you have to do," A cloying voice says, "Is comply."

Cecil slumps in the chair hy's been bound to. Hys head dips down to hys chest but hy can't find the energy to lift it. Breaths rasp through hys throat, and they feel wrong as they do.

Strexcorp already took hys voice, hys city, hys life—only metaphorically, on that end—Cecil was not sure how much more hy was willing to let them take. Hy shakes hys head, 'No' hy mouths.

There's a hand in hys hair—grown long and scruffy. It pulls, hard. Cecil's head is forced back and hy is once more made to meet his aggressor's eyes. "No?" They ask, words curling in upsetting ways. "That's okay." Hys hair is dropped once more.

Cecil shuts hys eyes, shielding hys retinas from the bright overhead fluorescents, even if only for a moment. Hy's prepared this time for the pain that follows their words.


Notes:

yeah. this was supposed to be way different but i literally wrote 4 other versions and none of them worked so. now it's like this.

alsoooo i think in this universe that strexcorp gave cecil a total laryngectomy. i sorta referenced that in the line about him breathing through his throat, but tbh that can be ignored if you want. i just think it would be silly if he had his voice box removed. also because i think if cecil had one of those collars that are sometimes used to hold lary tubes in place after strexcorp forcefully removed his voice that would be aoughh. is anyone listening. do you guys care. please,,,.,,