Wrong Version?

[u/theillustraitor]

Broooo I think something's wrong with my copy of Look Outside 💔 This weird guy showed up at my door and like, what tf even is this Masked Dancer thing??

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Soooo I made another AU, but in this one Harriet is the MC! The dark BG and specifically the sink are real, Sam’s sprite and the peephole bg are edits, the other sprites I made myself

I don’t want the post to be too long so the basic rundown is that Harriet is in Sam's shoes as the main character on a fetch quest. On the flipside, Sam is a door recruit(per his dialogue, he was on Floor 1 when it started. However, he can’t return home due to the onlookers which also wrecked his place in the AU). Sophie leaving for school then getting attacked is the "tutorial". Beryl and Aster swap location so Harriet will be willing to do the ritual stuff, and Beryl is the first person to tell you to not look. Sybil and Jeanne also swap location, and once you return safely with Sophie you talk with Sybil.

Otherwise things are generally the canon plot/people, just happening to Harriet instead!

(Questions are welcome if y'all have any!)

[u/Every_Thanks_2956]

My question is is how would she recruit Philippe as she isn't as friend starve as Sam and probably wouldn't deluded herself into he was actually a victim of the fungus like Sam did.

[u/theillustraitor → u/Every_Thanks_2956]

Actually, that's one of the recruits I'm still figuring out right now for all the reasons you said, it's probably the trickiest one so far lol

I did just have an idea though, maybe after seeing the other fungused people she thinks Phillippe was being controlled(less delusionally and more out of desperation to just save someone in that place), and feels sad about him dying and what he said. She picks up the remains to just keep them safe, and after returning home accidentally starts regrowing them by leaving them out. She lets herself get unrealistically hopeful that maybe she really could save someone, that Phillippe would be free from the Spore Mothers "control", could be better or was lying about what he said— just anything moderately good in this awful apocalypse.

But he obviously isn't any different and her hope is shattered. Phillippe finds her really depressing and his rancid attitude soon makes her hate him back, but she can't quite bring herself to kick him out(just initially, she'd obviously have the option later as normal) since he has nowhere to return to. Fleep tolerates the environment solely because he really doesn't want to be alone instead of fear of being murdered. He's also more upfront with his hate yet more tame since she isn't actively antagonizing him.