Nomanalive

How long can one ignore the voices in their head?

Nine years. To Mark, that was the limit. 

For the majority of his life, Mark White has been fighting a constant battle for his sanity. The voices in his head pushed him toward madness one whisper at a time, and the music he used to ward against them was gradually losing its effects. 
As his mental state slowly deteriorated, Mark spent more of his time working on a game he had been developing and lamenting his lack of romantic experience. 

One night, the voices dealt him a powerful blow, bringing their battle to an end. To his surprise, Mark won the battle, but that came at a great cost.

The voices might have disappeared, but a visual hallucination arrived to replace them, taking the form of a character from his game: Maids VS Apocalypse. Little did he know that the real apocalypse was already coming for him.

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Maids VS Apocalypse

Ridiculous, that's what Mark thought of Ramsay's theory of the events they were going through being a loop. They might share some similarities, but each were distinct enough to be considered separate. If there really were a loop things would have gone differently against King Scorpion, like the others suddenly getting busy which would force him and Lara to fight the Demon until help arrives.

In conclusion, the similarities shared by the events were coincidences and had no special meaning behind them. It was a satisfying conclusion, one Mark saw himself accepting if not for that part of him which insisted that he was the protagonist of a novel.

His mind kept going back to the matter as if trying to see through the plans of the author, and his obsession led him to look at every clue no matter how small.

F*ck the loop.