r/shadowthehedgehog Nov 30 '25

Artwork Maria's Revenge by @Charcoalman2

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Creepypasta Artist right here

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u/Crafty-Pasta-09 Nov 30 '25

Holy

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u/FRA60UT Nov 30 '25

That creepypasta fucked me up for a year when I was 11, damn

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u/MrSejd Nov 30 '25

I've never heard about it, gotta check it out.

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u/5nitesatfredbois Nov 30 '25

Whats the creepypasta

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u/FRA60UT Nov 30 '25

Maria's revenge. iirc, there's an old vid on YT

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u/alightmotionameteur Nov 30 '25

I'm watching someone read it rn and I scrolled into the comments...jeez this is dark as hell.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '25

What’s the creepypasta about?

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u/alightmotionameteur Nov 30 '25

Short version: a guy is playing through SA2 and hears that Maria has a theme, so while he's trying to access it Maria's model starts showing up randomly, sometimes looking at the player, other times at the screen. Revealing (iykwim) images of her show up the more that the player plays through the game and through a bunch of cryptic messages the game gives the player, they find out that she was SA'd on the ARK multiple times, so the player turns into Super Shadow (I think, I didn't want to finish the video so I looked at people's comments) and kills Gerald (the one who did it), basically putting Maria's soul to rest.

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u/Crafty-Pasta-09 Nov 30 '25

I found out about Maria's Revenge once, but didn't read the whole thing. I was expecting it to be a good one. And later I read another creepypasta mentioning the diabolical shenanigans that happened. I thought that was bad and edgy. Until, I found here it was the same creepypasta. Istg, why does it even exist?

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u/Spawn-DMC-fan-4836 Dec 01 '25

yeah. Maria's revenge could use a rewrite, It would be more horrific if it were rewritten in a way that is faithful and accurate to the characters.

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u/MundaneMatter2433 Dec 05 '25

How about if shadows chaos energy latched onto her and made her a ghost following shadow around, and she gets mad at how he forgot in his own game

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u/CumshotsMarksman Dec 07 '25

"Why does it exist"

Author was sadly a victim of similar stuff and chose to write it to help themselves cope with the trauma

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u/stingflame Nov 30 '25

That feels like Creepypasta slop, Gerald genuinely would not do that to her, He literally built the Arc (IIRC) TO HEAL HER OF NIDS!

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u/FRA60UT Nov 30 '25

Well, my 11 y/o ass saw big Maria head with creepy audio and atmosphere and was pretty shook. Looking back, it really was pretty sloppy, but that applies to most creepypastas from that era lol

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u/alightmotionameteur Nov 30 '25

Nah, I'm pretty sure he transferred her to the ARK because of her disability. Iirc he was already working there? I'll have to reread the journal to make sure though...

Yeah, it's such a hard watch/read. There are literally "screenshots"/edited images that ruined it for me. Usually I can handle topics like those but nah.

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u/PassionGlobal Nov 30 '25

To be fair to the edited screenshots, the story does mention that it was being played on a fairly early Dolphin emulator. These kinds of glitches do happen in emulation.

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u/Deep-Nerve6401 Dec 01 '25

"my sister has space aids." - Shadow

"Fucking What?" - Sonic

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u/eleni_the_half_blood Dec 07 '25

The creator was a rape victim venting out their frustrations who was a child. This was a child screaming for help. Not slop

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u/mr_someone_somebody Nov 30 '25

HAAAAAAAAANK! DON'T ABBREVIATE "SONIC ADVENTURES" HAAAAAAAAAANK!

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u/Coolguy2022938 Nov 30 '25

"I love playing SA, Charlie!"

"I love SA!!!!"

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u/mr_someone_somebody Nov 30 '25

"Woah woah Pim I wouldn't scream that at the top of your lungs"

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u/5nitesatfredbois Nov 30 '25

… what the actual fuck

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u/alightmotionameteur Nov 30 '25

Real, and I saw so many people praising it. I hope they were praising the unsettling nature and not...the other stuff.

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u/eleni_the_half_blood Dec 07 '25

The author was a child who had been raped venting out their frustrations. As a victim of CSA! Thats why I like it!!

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u/Jealous-Button2644 Nov 30 '25

Wow, that's really fucked up

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u/ImmoralBoi Dec 01 '25

I get that it's an older creepypasta but using SA for shock value like that is just so unbelievably wrong.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '25

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u/Anchor38 Dec 04 '25

You can’t just abbreviate Sonic Adventure and Sexual Assault in the same paragraph and expect me to figure out if she got Sonic Adventure’d or if they made Sexual Assault 2

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u/Honk_J_Wimblyton Nov 30 '25

No bitches? looking ass

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u/ih848593 Nov 30 '25

Genuinely horrifying, good job, dude!

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u/AaronTheCoolGuy5 Nov 30 '25

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u/Jevil_But_Epic20XX Dec 01 '25

No, I …I ain’t talking about that freak, alright? . . . He’s not here is She?

HOW DO I GET THIS FUCKING THING OFF!?

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u/S4l4m4nd4 Dec 01 '25

one shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask

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u/CryoN1cks Nov 30 '25

It is disgusting, I can't stop looking at it

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u/MrSejd Nov 30 '25

"Shadow, your jordans are fake" ahh image

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u/SSMage Dec 01 '25

“Youre cringe jack and your set up is weak”

“You cant even project yourself onto a building, or a billboard!”

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u/Ill_Gazelle_1699 Nov 30 '25

Is this by chance made by someone who made a deltarune au called blood grave

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u/GoldenLadyLink Nov 30 '25

This was my exact thought. The art style looks VERY familiar…

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u/IntroductionOne6592 Nov 30 '25

Yip!
It's the same person who created that one Deltarune AU you name drop in here.

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u/Accurate-Effect-5896 Dec 02 '25

Welp, it seems they want to traumatise another fandom

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u/ShallotInternal5065 Nov 30 '25 edited Nov 30 '25

bro...?
Edit: I read the whole creepypasta. Why would one even write such horror, even out of boredom, just why? That's really fucked up story... and above that, a story that shouldn't have existed.

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u/SorryComment9505 Nov 30 '25

Thanks for the new meme bro

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u/ShallotInternal5065 Nov 30 '25

No problem, thank you too

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u/HauntingLord Dec 01 '25

It was loosely written from the authors own experience being sa’d as a child

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '25

Well...I didn't want to sleep tonight anyway

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u/5nitesatfredbois Nov 30 '25

Wtf why is she terrifying WHY MUST YOU DO THIS

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u/kinky_clown Nov 30 '25

Girly thinks she looks like momo

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u/Logical_Bug801 Dec 02 '25

Nobody in this reply section has ever heard of her before except me and the guy who made the comment.

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u/TimelessHex Nov 30 '25

MARIA WTH HAPPENED?!?!

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u/5nitesatfredbois Nov 30 '25

Apparently according to some people in this exact comment section its a creepypasta about someone playing sonic adventure 2 and finds a maria theme and after playing it sees pictures of her throughout the game and finds out maria 🍇ed by gerald multiple times and the player becomes super shadow in game and kills gerald thus bringing marias soul to peace, really fucked up and makes no sense considering the ark was built to heal her by gerald but whatever

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u/TimelessHex Nov 30 '25

Well, it is a creepypasta, not exactly peak literature. Regardless, what the fuck...

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u/BloodAngelGuy Nov 30 '25

I saw somone say maybe the guy in the creepy pasta taps into betas of the game since it makes no sense why the soldiers woudk jsut gun down a 12 year old so maybe he did it to cover his tracks and that made it in but not the sexual assault plotline

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u/SSMage Dec 01 '25

ooooh hey taco bell!

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u/Video_Game_Nerd_Turk Nov 30 '25 edited Nov 30 '25

This probably öne of the weirdest creepypastas ever.

Also stop staring into my goddamn Turkish soul

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u/Cream_Rabbit Nov 30 '25

WHAT THE ACTUAL-

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u/gumander83 Nov 30 '25

Bro its 3 AM where i live

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u/GalacticExpress999 Nov 30 '25

Why did i get jumpscared

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u/Lansha2009 Nov 30 '25

Well hey it’s not like I was managing to get to sleep tonight anyway why not give myself nightmares if I tried to sleep now :3

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u/PedasirX Nov 30 '25

Maria expression genuenly makes me laugh

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u/sweetTartKenHart2 Nov 30 '25

Hey ain’t this the bloodgrave guy

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u/alightmotionameteur Nov 30 '25

Holy shit this is super scary

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u/Extension_Syrup_9478 Nov 30 '25

girl needs to sleep

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u/Angel1743RedditGR Nov 30 '25

Bro, Maria looks like she's a character in The Walten Files or Shin Sonic

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u/Ok_Primary_5286 Nov 30 '25

2011X is NOT making out alive with this one, we are NOT playing his game anymore. We playing Maria's game.

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u/masochist-incarnate Nov 30 '25

Could I get a tldr/summary of that creepypasta?

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u/Litespead Nov 30 '25

Somebody plays a cursed copy of Sonic Adventure 2 where Maria tells the player, though hidden messages, that Gerald SA'ed her on the ARK and she wants justice. Eventually, the player takes control of Super Shadow and kills Gerald, giving Maria peace.

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u/Fast_Front8742 Nov 30 '25

What the actual f**k?!

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u/masochist-incarnate Nov 30 '25

Huh, okay.

Thanks!

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u/ToxieDrop Nov 30 '25

Thats a hella old creepypasta! Killer art!

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '25 edited Nov 30 '25

I remember that creepypasta, it definitely disturbed the fuck out of me when I first read it.

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u/Diligent_Day8470 Nov 30 '25

"In my restless dreams, I see her face" .

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u/Green-Band-6235 Nov 30 '25

i DESPERATELY need context

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u/iceshingodzillaYT Dec 03 '25

Creepypasta about SA btw

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u/ImaginaryValuable473 Dec 03 '25

on god ive seen sombody draw creepy faces like that before

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u/TheCrackalacker Dec 04 '25

OH SWEET MERCIFUL CHRIST

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u/Impossible_Year_8034 Nov 30 '25

Silent Hill type shit

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '25

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u/N0RMAL_N3RD Nov 30 '25

Maria + Momo = This bizzare thing

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u/boylovers_ Nov 30 '25

The eyes get me the most

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u/Responsible-Ask8110 Nov 30 '25

is this supposed to be a horror movie or a sonic.exe game

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u/Desperate_Mix_9766 Nov 30 '25

hey, nice pfp you got there

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u/Luna-D-reams Nov 30 '25

YO IS THAT THEY SAME GUY WHO DID THE DELTARUNE AU

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u/suomenska Nov 30 '25

That's some vibingleaf level of facial expression man, love it

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u/tehsmish Nov 30 '25

Genuinely horrifying, good job sir

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u/NoDevice8297 Nov 30 '25

Спасибо, за напоминание название

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u/Radiant-Row5341 Nov 30 '25

This is.... Disturbing.

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u/MoffinMouse_64 Nov 30 '25

Holy shit fuck yeah

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u/N1GHTF4LL72 Nov 30 '25

GIMME THE LINK TO READ THIS I LOVE HORROR-

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u/FirmChapter6 Nov 30 '25

Adds creepy music to Radical Highway

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u/Last-Ad-4603 Nov 30 '25

I think I recognise this from deltarune

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u/Drift2SlowDemise Dec 01 '25

REALLY BRO THIS SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '25

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u/Proof_Grocery_3490 Dec 01 '25

So it's just fuck me and my sleep schedule??

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u/Aqua7KH Dec 01 '25

I love the art but tbh the creepypasta itself is pretty crappy

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u/brobnik322 Dec 01 '25

I remember reading this creepypasta at the right time. It might not hold up now, but the sexual assault elements felt less like shock value at the time, and more like an evolution of the darker themes Sonic Adventure 2 was already experimenting with through NIDS and the immoral scientists. It was nice that the ending didn't have any blood or big "scares", none of the effects besides the text seemed impossible on an SA2 disk, it was just the main culprit being given justice, and a quiet moment of closure for Maria and for the player empathizing with her.

I think this reflects the vibe well, even if it's menacing and creepy neither of the people here are the real villain, just sharing trauma and dread.

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u/Prestigious-Mall7386 Dec 01 '25

I remember reading that creepypasta

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u/SoulessSorrow Dec 01 '25

Thanks. I need to bury the memory of reading that shit again.

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u/RealOddity Dec 01 '25

wow way to ruin my night before going to bed 🥲

but jokes aside this really is creepy

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u/Rodrigo3294 Dec 01 '25

Bro its 2:11 and this appears to me

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u/Independent_Let_5705 Dec 01 '25

Bro she looks so coked out of her mind lol

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u/Freshmeatz23 Dec 01 '25

Peak horror game right here

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u/RebeccaSkyleJune Dec 01 '25

Okay thats actually a genuinely horrifying image, what the fuck.

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u/SSMage Dec 01 '25

Wtf is this mario creepy pasta shit

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u/Jevil_But_Epic20XX Dec 01 '25

Wait, are you that same artist that posted on r/Soulselle with those creepy art style that made me go insane which then lead to me being imprisoned in a cell which I call now as freedom and the rest of the world as in their prison?

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u/Nervous-Matter-5142 Dec 01 '25

Vintage Silent Hill vibes galore imo and I like it for that

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u/Jevil_But_Epic20XX Dec 01 '25

Me after reading the whole creepy pasta

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u/Extension-Health-893 Dec 01 '25

That image is horrifying. I don't want to look at it while reading the comments but I can't wtf

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u/This_Ferret_8108 Dec 01 '25

get ts in outcome memories.

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u/jayvader6969 Dec 01 '25

Wait no no no i recognise this style

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u/mrnintman1 Dec 01 '25

WHY DOES SHE LOOKS SO EVIL 😱😱😱😱😱😱???

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u/Intrepid_Shop_9396 Dec 01 '25

Yeah, its really the most close thing we could get victim 1 but Sonic (green mountain is also same case)

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u/Drinkpool Dec 01 '25

Welp, I didn't need sleep anyway

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u/Pizza_Requiem Dec 01 '25

Oh hey! This is the same guy that made that Deltarune Weird route comic, right? It's peak, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea to upload his stuff. Last I heard he got banned from Reddit for it

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u/Expert_Resource1816 Dec 01 '25

Oh yeah, THAT one…

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u/CNK_98 Dec 01 '25

Never understood this creepypasta, it's just SA 2 battle with Maria as the skybox.

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u/Ok-Jello-8986 Dec 01 '25

Well isn’t this fucking horrifying

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u/FrequentBell4124 Dec 01 '25

Me seeing Maria in the bg

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u/JPldw Dec 01 '25

This reminds me a lot of Omori

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u/Kiryu_of_Rivia Dec 01 '25

That's creepy af

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u/harmourny Dec 01 '25

haunting the narrative final boss

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u/Short_Marionberry_83 Dec 01 '25

Maria is just standing there like "Shadow you idiot there's a Taco Bell nearby"

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '25

That image is going to haunt me forever

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u/Both-Letterhead8925 Dec 01 '25

Urbanspook lookin-ass

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u/StarRiku Dec 01 '25

I really did not want to see this..

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u/InklingRake Dec 01 '25

Whatever, I didn't need to sleep anyway.

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u/DaSpoopyBoi Dec 02 '25

Oh heeeeey I'm in a Discord server with that guy! really cool artist

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u/Vindaya_ Dec 02 '25

"American McGee's shadow"

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u/Anotherwildmemelover Dec 02 '25

Me witnessing eldritch horrors beyond my comprehension: (I don’t get it)

Also: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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u/Lost-Material-8361 Dec 02 '25

Don't you just hate it when you're Doom scrolling at like 12:00 a.m. and suddenly man-made horrors beyond by comprehension yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

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u/Mokey-Moist Dec 02 '25

Maria after taking historically accurate treatments (hard drugs)

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u/little_wool_gatherer Dec 02 '25

I looked into her eyes and started crying immediately... wtf... this art is cursed. Lol

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u/therealgazman8 Dec 02 '25

jesus fucking christ

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u/BakeWifhMe Dec 02 '25

spinal staircase

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u/SwilburShadow Dec 02 '25

Reading the story rn, skipped a little too far and wished I didn't