Have you seen anything about Lethal Company? The idea of your cryptid lads watching over and protecting y/n while y/n looks for scrap in their territory makes me smile. They always make sure Y/n meets their quota to avoid any repercussions with The Company
I have seen so much about Lethal Company and this ask makes me go crazy because AUGH I've been chewing on a sort of AU with the DCA in a Bracken-esque role but, perhaps, a bit more interested in Y/N than a monster otherwise would be.
You're just a measly intern. That's all too clear with how the company sends you the utmost dangerous moons searching for loot and scrap. The hauntingly empty facilities and lifeless manors hold the keys to fulfilling your quota for the week, but you're not alone.
On the occasions when you get separated from your crew or find yourself left behind, you feel the hair on the back of your neck rise, aware of something—someone watching you. You carry a piece of scrap that most likely isn't worth the effort (but how could you return empty-handed?) The sinking feeling that, as much as you dread isolation, it would be safer than the near-silent footsteps following just behind you.
Your mouth grows dry. The pulse in your ears begins drowning the metallic echo of your picked-up pace, and then panic takes hold. You burst into a run, racing for the door, and when you frantically grab the handle, a cold, long-fingered touch seizes the cloth at the back of your neck before you throw yourself outside.
In the dusty air of the moon, you turn back to the door, now slammed shut. You drop the scrap to touch the back of your neck—the orange jumpsuit is torn into ribbons just below your helmet. Claws, you think. Claws so close to grabbing your neck and never letting go.
The next day, with only your flashlight and a walkie-talkie, one of your fellow interns abruptly cuts off mid-sentence (was that a scream or just the static crackling?) Left without even a voice for the company, your skin prickles with full-body goosebumps under the eerie weight of eyes watching you.
You turn slowly to look up the stairway you had just descended. The air in your lungs freezes. You clutch the flashlight tighter. Your helmet system blinks across your vision.
New creature data sent to terminal!
In the darkness engulfing the upper platform stands a dark figure with two piercing, white eyes. You whip up your flashlight and beam it on the terrifying being, catching strange frond-like petals of yellow surrounding a flat, disk-like face. Rooted to the floor in terror, you stare. It tilts its head, petals ruffled, in a snap of agitation. It grumbles low in warning.
You drop the walkie-walkie and run deeper into the darkness, your flashlight beam swinging over the walls with the pounding of your steps echoing horrendously through the deep belly of the facility. The primal instincts of your mind take hold, impulses firing to stay alive.
You come to a dead end. A lone light flickers along the ceiling. Cornered, your palms slamming against the bricked wall as if you could push it down, you start to tremble. You turn back, back pressed against the wall, your helmet softly clanking against the stone.
The beam of your flashlight cuts off. You drop that, too. A whimper of fear escapes you when a shadow moves at the end of the long hallway. Though darkly swathed, pale eyes pinning you in place, the figure crouches, creeping forward on hands and knees. The petals about its face have shifted, dropping to the back of the head and swinging down like a tapered tail. You can't look away. The creature tips its head to one side, the appendage trailing over its shoulder like a nightcap. It grumbles low, displeased.
You turn your head away, pressing deeper against the wall. Your every heartbeat is a swing of a sledgehammer chipping away at your ribcage. Bile rises in the back of your throat.
Then silence.
You clench your hands. Slowly, you carefully lift your eyes and gaze at the end of the hallway.
It's gone. The sunflower face and now nightcap head creature vanish like a bad dream in the morning.
You don't move for several seconds, and when you finally straighten and hug your shaking self, you carefully make your way through the darkness. The sinister awareness of being watched doesn't leave. It never does. You find an emergency exit. A chance to live yet. You feel something cold and heavy standing at your back.
You reach for the door when a large hand grabs the back of your neck. A scream jams itself in your throat. Breathless, frozen, you stand very still. It squeezes lightly as if testing the bones of your spine. Its shadow falls over you. Its other hand enters the corner of your vision, reaching for your face as if to smother you through the helmet. It begins tugging on your throat, pulling you away from the door.
"Stay... friend..." it rasps near-silently.
The flashlight in your grip is heavy. Before the creature captures your head, you throw it back at the beast. Light flares when the plastic hits, sparking with one drop of juice still left, and then you rip yourself free. A quiet grunt of pain echoed under the flash. You throw yourself outside, only turning back to slam the door and unwittingly catch a glimpse of the creature clutching its face. Petals twist and writhe around and behind its head in a clash of its early appearances. Between its long fingers, a face, half yellow and half dark with a static grin peeking out at the corners, twists in shock.
The resounding shut of the door reverberates in your head. You escaped. You gasp and clutch your chest. Somehow, your heart is still within you, fluttering like an injured bird in front of a cat. Your system sent new information to the bestiary catalog.
You keep breathing and unsteadily make your way back to the ship, carrying the searing imprint of the monster's hand on the back of your neck.
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The creeps playing Lethal Company bc I am obsessed with this game
How do I move
Slender (this spot is reserved for him at this point)
Scared shitless and refuses to move at every little sound
Liu
Helen
Hobo Heart
Jeff
Eyeless Jack
Nina
Puppeteer
Jason
Clockwork
Lost Silver
The Leader
Ben
Tim
Offender
Kate
Lies and says every monster is friendly
Kagekao
Sally
Splendor
Laughing Jack
Jeff
Ben (They all believe him)
Constantly screaming and running
Toby
Liu
Trender
Laughing Jack
Hobo Heart
Jeff
Ben
Nina
Jason
Lost Silver
[Pointing at a dead body] "There's danger afoot!!"
Sally
Brian
Splendor
Slender
Tim
Eyeless Jack
Jason
Makes smoochie sounds at all of the monsters (except Thumper because let's be honest it's fucking terrifying)
Kagekao
Splendor
Laughing Jack
Ben
Nina
Dark Link
Jason
"Oh hey doggie! How are yoOOUAAAAA-"
Toby
Laughing Jack
Hobo Heart
Jeff
Tim
Eyeless Jack
Nina
Lost Silver
The dumbass that gets killed by bees within the first minute of landing
Kagekao
Helen
Trender
Slender
Jeff
Eyeless Jack
Nina
Kate
Spends all of the money on cosmetic and furniture items
Toby
Helen
Splendor
Trender
Nina
Puppeteer
Jason
The Shovel Person (tm)
Brian
Laughing Jack
Jeff
Ben
Kate
The person who stood in front of the shovel and got bonked to death
Trender
Toby
Splendor
Jane
Tim
Nina
Jason
Clockwork
Lost Silver
Terrible sense of direction
Toby
Helen
Laughing Jack
Jane
Eyeless Jack
Nina
Dark Link
Jason
Clockwork
Always falling
Sally
Brian
Helen
Slender
Nina
Kate
Lost Silver
Takes everything way too seriously/roleplay's to death
Brian
Offender
Laughing Jack
Jeff
Ben
Tim
Nina
Dark Link
Jason
Clockwork
Lost Silver
The designated ship guide
Brian
Liu
Helen
Slender
Hobo Heart (he's bad at it but they love him anyway)
Jane
Ben
"ITS WINDING ITSELF! IT'S WINDING ITSESLF!"/"She's doing the fuckin griddy…"
Brian
Trender
Laughing Jack
Jane
Jeff
Ben
Tim
Kate
Dark Link
Clockwork
Lost Silver
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