No Contexts. Just Kris And Susie.

People, especially games, get eldritch madness wrong a lot and it’s really such a shame.

An ant doesn’t start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness.

Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does.

It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then…

It’s an ant again.

Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters.

This is madness.

hey man what’s wrong with you

the usual

Summary:

(noun): phenomenon in which the sudden introduction of air into a fire that has been depleted of all available oxygen results in an explosion

Teru confronts the reality that his relationship with his parents isn’t as rock solid as he thinks it is.

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hi everyone!! its been uh. a pretty crazy few months since the last update and everything has been super busy so we've made a lot less progress than we'd have liked. but we wanted to share this chapter as a christmas/new years/holiday gift!! gonna be a while till the next one though sorry ToT but thank you all so much for the comments you've left in the last few months, i'm going to try and get to some of them today!!! and as always thank you for reading and enjoying backdraft :D i hope we can get back into the swing of things soon. -mint

happy new year! hope you enjoy this little break in hiatus :] big shout out to mint for writing the majority of this one. she’s been going ham on these chapters while I’m still waiting for the writing bug to bite me again. thanks always for reading! - rose

happy new year! Thank you so much for coming back for this update. The biggest of thanks to Mint, who wrote a staggering portion of this chapter and did an absolutely incredible job!! All the best from all of us! - currant

me: do you guys like my evil thorned plate armour and bloodred cloak? is the ominous glow of my visor slit too much?

my manserpent minion: it'ssss sssslaying absssolute penisssss, ssssire

my shambling zombie: uuuu 👍

captured gnome i keep in a birdcage: golly gee willikers it's sure some scary!!!

my straight manserpent minion: looks pretty good boss

i have hired this fucking thing to stare at you

everything mike :)

this ant is pulling a huge dead fly across the pavement and none of his friends are helping this country is fucked

laptop overheating?? pour water on it to cool it down!

twisted sword, musou no hitotachi style