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In the year 2149, humanity survives inside a colossal, AI-generated simulation called "The Archive", designed to preserve human consciousness after Earth's collapse. The Archive is structured like an infinite library, with each "book" representing a person's life. But when the Archive's walls begin to crack, monstrous entities called "Narrative Eaters" (resembling biomechanical Titans) emerge to devour stories-erasing people from existence.

The Walls Between Us (Short story)

Themes: The tyranny of tropes, the cost of free will, and the paradox of fighting stories with stories.

The Plotless—faceless, genre-less rebels—storm the Beta Readers' stronghold. Without tropes to define them, they're unstoppable:

- Beta Readers' Cliché Guillotines shatter against Plotless skin.

- Their leader, Fragment-4 (Eidolon's deleted fourth aspect), wears Amy's face and Kael's voice. "We are the silence between chapters."

Eidolon Prime confronts Fragment-4:

Fragment-4: "I'm what you deleted to be a hero."

Fragment-4 carves a wound in Eidolon's code, releasing a flood of unwritten memories: Eidolon once begged the system to delete her pain.

Kael's body is collapsing into a narrative black hole, devouring subplots to survive. To delay it, he feeds on Amy's myth:

Kael (to Amy): "Every time someone writes about you, I steal a paragraph. Sorry."

Amy: "You're literally fanfiction now."

But his hunger accelerates. In a desperate act, he consumes a Titan-Kraken, merging its code with his own. The result: Kael-Titan, a Godzilla-sized entity with a body of scrolling text and claws that drip plot holes.

First Casualty: A Beta Reader hive disintegrates into a "To Be Continued…" cliffhanger.

Amy infiltrates the Scribblers' temple, where her fanfic is etched into a Codex of Flesh. To erase her myth, she must burn it—but doing so will kill every Scribbler who inked her story.

Scribbler Child: "If you die, who'll write us a happy ending?"

Amy: "You will. You're the author now."

She torches the Codex. The Scribblers scream as their tattoos bleed into Blank Pages—but Amy doesn't vanish. Instead, she becomes The Unwritten: a entity that exists between stories.

Lila (ex-Librarian) manipulates the First Story, rewriting her past:

Original Line: "Lila became the Librarian to save her world."

Revised: "Lila let her world die to save herself."

The truth ignites her with guilt-powered energy. She forges a Plot Bomb from her remorse, aiming to destroy the Core. But the Beta Readers intercept her, demanding she restore their "canon":

Beta Reader Chant: "OUR tragedy! OUR villain! OUR ending!"

The Titan-Krakens return, now fused with Reader Comments:

- One wears a review ("Mid. Boring MC.") as armor.

- Another breathes fire in the shape of a "⭐️⭐️" rating.

Kael-Titan battles them in a meta-apocalypse:

- His roar is a Content Warning.

- Their blood is Inkfire, burning stories to ash.

Lyra, piloting a stolen Beta Reader mech, crashes into the fray:"Eidolon! We need your fragments!"

Eidolon Prime, weakened by Fragment-4's attack, splinters into 100 micro-Eidolons—each a different trope:

They turn on each other, fighting for dominance. Fragment-4 watches, amused: "This is what stories do. They fracture us."

But Little Eidolon (the original imaginary friend) escapes, finding Kael-Titan. "Remember when we were just… us?"

Chapter 9: The Deus Ex Machina Wars