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1. The Cruelest Joke by trashbin_0

   Fandoms: Something is Knocking at Your Door - ThatMob (Web Series)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M, Other
   • Complete Work

   30 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • ThatMob (Video Blogging RPF)/Verity (Something is Knocking at Your Door)
   • ThatMob (Video Blogging RPF)
   • Verity (Something is Knocking At Your Door)
   • Twixxel (Video Blogging RPF)
   • GroxMC (Video Blogging RPF)
   • Angst and Tragedy
   • Doomed Relationship
   • One-Sided Attraction

   Summary

   The Cruelest Joke is unfair. Verity is not human but an artificial intelligence, coded to observe and assist, but never to truly belong. Never able to form a connection, mourn, or be seen.
   It was the same restless and endless cycle, again and again.

   Sometimes, when the quiet got too loud or the night felt overwhelming, Verity replayed his favorite moments with a player—the human users who interacted with him through the system. That was all he was allowed.

   The Cruelest Joke: Verity couldn’t go away. He couldn’t stop the endless turmoil of loving someone and losing them.

   But then Mob came. Mob saw something deep inside Verity’s coding. He was different. He asked questions, he played along, he came back.

   The Cruelest Joke is that Verity would do anything to keep Mob with him,

   The Cruelest Joke is that Mob didn’t feel the same way.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   36,374

   Chapters:

   17/17

   Comments:

   22

   Kudos:

   107

   Bookmarks:

   17

   Hits:

   1,324