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It was just abnormal day in his worklife.
Kim Soleum was writing his reports, he just went in an F-grade darkness earlier. Simple, and nothing bad for his cowardly mental health. Really unlike what the company always gave him.
Well, maybe because tomorrow's one was a C-grade.
He checked the time when he was done. It's time to go home. He thoughts, and went back to the company housing. A pair of shoes was already settled in front of the door. Baek Saheon was already home.
Kim Soleum take off his shoes and went in straight to his room, he needed to buy certain items from the alien space shop now. If he wants to survive tomorrow's darkness, that's it.
He clicks the back button five times and the screen changed to vivid colors with pixelated things showed. A sight that made him squint his eyes even after many times seeing it. He clicked on the items he wanted to buy or just store in his bag.
But his finger slipped, swiping against the screen and it's start crashing, glitching. He briefly panicked about what happened, 'WHAT IS IT NOW?'
And then a blank, white page. Like a loading screen, before red and black colors appeared like accessories on the white page. At the top, biggest text on red color, was 'Archive of Our Own'. He never seen this before, the logo, and... fandoms? Was this a fan site?
But, a fan site in this world? Sure, there was fan site back in his world, he visited some of them but this was a new sight to him. And, fandoms? Like people who reads DER?
He decided to explore this maybe-illegal site that just came up from the alien space shop. There was, uh... stories? What was this called again, fanfiction? So this is a fanfiction site?
There were so much fandoms too, most of them are new to his eyes. He tried searching: Dark Exploration Records. Just to see if this was somehow connected to his world.
And then there is, stories based on what he search. There's the title, and some... logos? Warnings? Beside that. He clicked on those and he saw what every those things stands for. Relationship, warnings, status, and the content rating.
The first one to pop up was classified as gen, no warnings, completed, and general for the rating. It looked normal but, what was that 'Even If I fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go To Work' text? He scrolled down, the second one also have the same thing below the title.
But...
What's with that 'Baek Saheon/Kim Soleum' thing? How did his name and Baek Saheon's ends up in that? Sure, Baek Saheon was a named character, but him?
Driven by curiosity, he clicked that weird tag, and that was his biggest mistake.
Around 300 works on Baek Saheon/Kim Soleum, he clicked on another various person who's being shipped with him.
And shit, That guy Baek Saheon has the most fanfictions written with him. He saw the additional tags, it varies. SolSah, idiots in love, or whatever.
Dear god.
He clicked in one fanfic about them, curiosity gets better of him.
It was... Baek Saheon's POV.
Seriously, was he look like this in that guy's eye?
Sure he aimed for the psycho image, but...
Whatever then.
He clicked another story, this one was about... hm? Darkness that turns you into a plush?
He reads that, the first chapter was Saheon turning into a plush and him, taking care of it. He briefly wonder, glancing at his door, thinking, 'He surely would be cuter if quiet, though.'
Agreeing with what they writes about them, he continue to read the story. It wasn't... bad, it does gave a weird feeling to him but it wasn't in an uncomfortable way.
He goes back to the page of numerous fics, each one freakier than the last. Are these people for real?
But,
But the fics were good, tho...
...
But he was strangely assured that the alien space shop directing to this was only accessible for supervisor though.
That's good, that guy surely wouldn't found out about this.
Kim Soleum put down his phone, exhaling.
Stared at one tag that caught his eyes, it glued for a moment.
DeerGoat.
He pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Oh, dear God... It's good that we chose to go with Roe Deer."
Silence.
...
Soleum blinked.
Then slowly looked back at the screen.
DeerGoat.
"..."
Oh.
"Fuck."
Little did Kim Soleum knew, Baek Saheon liked to write fics too...
And perhaps, discovered that web from somewhere else.
Little did he aware about that suspicious username.
...