18 Works by FearofForgetting in Welcome to Night Vale
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Cecil is drunk again. He is drunk and laying on his kitchen floor, which from this vantage looked like somewhere else completely. The ceiling is covered in static, which is probably because the void concentration in Cecil' apartment has been completely out of whack.
Cecil is trying to find patterns in the static. Squares and triangles, and even a face with no eyes—or maybe zee's started hallucinating. It's all a bit fuzzy right now.
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or; cecil and drinks go hand in hand. cecil and reality, unfortunately, do not.day eighteen -
“as the world caves in”, dystopia, ruins, environmental whumpalt prompt: unrealitytitle is from "Over & Over" by Rio Romeo
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did i exist if i was only ever thought? by FearofForgetting
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
19 Oct 2025
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Cecil has been missing for seventeen days. Carlos hasn't slept in two. Carlos has a sneaking suspicion he won't be getting much sleep for a few more days.
He finally knows where Cecil is, at least.
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or; carlos (and some others) save cecilday seventeen - “tell me there’s hope for me”, internal bleeding, coma, redemption
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when i learned about the tragedy of all of us // i lost it when i learned about the tragedy of all of us by FearofForgetting
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
16 Oct 2025
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Temporal displacements at the radio station were nothing special. Interns saw their dead siblings, or parents, or pets all the time. Sometimes you could faintly hear a conversation down the hallway that happened years ago—or hadn't happened at all.
Kevin's broadcasting equipment was old, and therefore more predisposed to such phenomena, so when it once again started giving him feedback from other times, he was not worried.
"Sorry, listeners! Oh! This wire looks a little loose—I'll just wiggle it a bit…" Kevin says, doing exactly as she narrates. The wire shifts, and suddenly there's another voice.
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or; kevin talks to a very different version of himself.day sixteen - “i’ve had the rug pulled beneath my feet”, repressed trauma, permanent marker, disorientation
title is fom "Small Red Boy" by AJJ
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night vale is not so lucky in every universe. sometimes, things don't go as planned.
day fifteen - “you can take a break, if you just tell me that it hurts”, failed rescue attempt, body part in the mail, live streamed torture.
title is from "Flesh and Bone" by Madilyn Mei
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i need a doctor // i'm not a doctor, but i think i might be able to help by FearofForgetting
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
14 Oct 2025
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charles, kevin, and their aches.
day fourteen - “in the end, it’s worthwhile”, ignoring an illness, body bag, wounded caretaker
title is from "Doctor" by Jack Stauber
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lately i think i've been stuck on the brink // afraid to leave all i know behind by FearofForgetting
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
14 Oct 2025
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Carlos and mortality have a rocky relationship on the best of days. He is acutely aware of his beating heart and all the ways it can stop. When the fainting spells started in college, he did everything in his power to get them to stop. And it worked, for a time. Then when he moved to Night Vale, with it's heat and sun and dry weather, they started again.
As a man of science, Carlos tries to explain it. Solve it. He knows what is wrong, on some level. On another level, he doesn't want to admit to himself what the problem is.
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or; carlos takes a week off.day thirteen -
“how dull is it to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished”, never enough, insignia, forced retirementalt prompt: “if all my days are numbered, why do i keep counting?”title is from "Call Me The Bard" by Madilyn Mei
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carlos runs out of his mood stabiliser, and other such introspections.
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“it’ll be for nothing”, cardiac arrest, sacred place, withholding medical treatmentalternate prompt: viraltitle is from "Hey Kids" by Molina, feat. Late Verlane
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i can feel your heart beating under my skin // and the beating of your heart is making me bleed from within by FearofForgetting
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
11 Oct 2025
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Carlos leans heavily against the wall, an arm curled around his stomach. He hears the vague sounds of a fight in the adjacent hall. Carlos screws his eyes shut and ignores the bangs and inhuman screeches coming from that direction.
He feels nauseous. No, not just nauseous. Like something inside of him has been taken out and put back in wrong. Carlos isn't sure if that is metaphorical or not, and he doesn't feel like finding out. He lets himself slide slowly down the wall into a sitting position and rests his head between his knees.
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or; carlos gets on station management's bad side, which of course puts station management on the Voice's bad side.day eleven - “can you get through all the pain inside you?”, hidden injury, laceration, forced reveal
title is from "Under My Skin" by Jukebox the Ghost
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what's that puppet boy? // i'm not a freak like you by FearofForgetting
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
10 Oct 2025
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"Kevin, Kevin, Kevin. What ever are we going to do with you?" A voice leers from somewhere unseen behind Kevin. Kevin's eyes—or at least, the two that still work—try to look, to see where the voice is coming from. The voice, no longer just a voice, steps around the chair that Kevin is currently bound to, and grabs his face, forcing his chin up, exposing his neck.
Kevin tries to jerk vaer head back, but their grip holds steadfast. "Fuck you."
"Oh Kevin," They sigh, and it sounds affectionate as they do. "It's okay! You'll feel plenty better once you've gotten all this unproductive energy out of your system. And everyone here is happy to help you do so!"
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or; we here at SrexCorp Synersists Incorperated want to help everyone become the best version of themself that they can be! (no mater what it takes.)day ten – “there’s nothing you can ever say, nothing you can ever do”, without consent, secrets, lips sewn shut
title of from "Puppet Boy" by Devo
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your parasympathetic nervous system reacts // and you're in fight or flight mode by FearofForgetting
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
09 Oct 2025
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All it took, Kevin noted in the nebulous space between panic and emotional detachment, was a silly comment after a long day.
Sie was fine, honestly—a little tired, maybe—until Donovan had said, "I bet birds have mind control powers" whilst they were watching a documentary. Kevin had choked out a laugh, excused Himself, and immediately fell into a full-blown panic attack as soon as the bathroom door was shut.
It was stupid, Kevin knew, to be panicking over something a five-year-old said. Five-year-olds weren't exactly known for being the most socially knowledgeable, Donovan hadn't meant anything when he'd said that—he was just five, after all.
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or; even radio hosts need comforting sometimes. luckily, theologists are very good at doing said comforting.day nine - “we’ll make it alright to come undone”, touch, flashbacks, scalding
title is from "People II: The Reckoning" by AJJ
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and i let the blood our of your throat // and i smashed those tiny mirrors inside of your skull by FearofForgetting
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
08 Oct 2025
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Somewhere far away, The Voice was aware of words spilling from it's lips. It couldn't stop speaking, narrating hys (hys? was it really hym? what was "hym?") undoing. It's eye, always seeing (always seeing.), saw pasts, futures, and presents, none of which made sense, none of which had happened. (or did they? how was hy so sure what had really happened?)
Even when The Voice Knew (it always Knew) the broadcast (why was there a broadcast?) had ended, it spoke. Now, rather than to a town unseen (unseen by whom?), it spoke to a universe vast and uncaring.
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or; after the broadcast ends, someone has to help put cecil back together.day eight - “oh horror, oh horror, what did you see?”, self inflicted injury, held at gunpoint, dissociation
title is from "Bad Bad Things" by AJJ
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blood, didn't they want your blood? // so don't apologise for being blue and cold by FearofForgetting
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
07 Oct 2025
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There was a memo sitting on ciirs desk, bright yellow and covered in blood. When Cecil picked it up, the words were hardly legible underneath all the gore.
"Be Nice To Your Co-Host Today!" It tells him.
"Cooperation Is Productivity!" It tells him.
"Fuck off," Cecil replies.
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or; cecil and kevin have to broadcast together. cecil has some revelations about the whole thing.day seven - “tell me that you’re okay, and i’m fine”, trapped with the enemy, elevator, pushed beyond breaking point
title is from "Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture / Love Me, Normally" by Will Wood
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amnesia was her name, she had beautiful eyes // and every word she said, it was a little surprise by FearofForgetting
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
06 Oct 2025
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Carlos starts his morning like any other—wakes up, took his StexCorp regulated medications, scarfs down breakfast that was already prepared for him, and goes to his lab, which is located conveniently near his sleeping quarters.
His entire morning routine takes maybe 15 minutes, depending on how bad his brain fog is when he woke up. (He's been told it's an unfortunate side effect of whatever happened to him in Night Vale. His psychiatrist is sure it will fade with time.)
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or; what was supposed to be just another tuesday does not, in fact, turn out like a normal tuesday. unless being kidnapped is on your list of usual tuesday activities.day six - “no grave can hold my body down”, caught in a net, medical restraints, pinned to the wall
title is from "Amnesia Was Her Name" by Lemon Demon
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if we grow old together // will you talk to my headstone? // that is assuming that i die first by FearofForgetting
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
05 Oct 2025
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He saw Kevin in their shared bed. Kevin looked so peaceful, like vox was asleep. Charles reached out to touch her cheek with a shaking hand. There was so much blood. “Please,” Charles breathed, resting his forehead against Kevin’s. Voices skin was cold—Everything was cold. Kevin’s face dissolved into blood and ash, and their house was empty and dark. He didn’t know where he was anymore. How did he get here? He needed to find—
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or; charles isn't to being surrounded by the living. he's also unused to the possibility of said living losing said lives.day five - “my panic’s at the ceiling, but i’m face down on the carpet”, quivering, dream journal, phobia
title is from "Becoming The Lastnames" by Will Wood
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well, here is the church, here is the steeple, open the door, see all the people // alright, that's enough, let's get you home by FearofForgetting
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
04 Oct 2025
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Carlos' phone was ringing. That usually wasn't cause for concern, except it was late at night, and it was Cecil calling. Cecil, who should have been home hours ago. Cecil, who always told Carlos if something held him up. That Cecil.
"Hello? Cecil? Where—" Carlos starts, and then stops just as fast.
"Carlos…" Cecil breathes, and Carlos' stomach drops because Cecil's voice is weak and small and those two descriptors should never be used on Cecil's voice.
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or; cecil's third eye is taken.day four - "dont be scared, i’ve done this before”, non-human whumper, iron rod, loss of powers
title is from "That's Enough, Let's Get You Home" by Will Wood
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can i beat it? // if it swallowed me whole, would i see it? by FearofForgetting
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
03 Oct 2025
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If you asked Cecil, dae'd deny having any sort of ‘problem’, drinking or otherwise. If you asked anyone else, they’d say dae had a drinking problem, among others.
Cecil knew he drank too much. He just thought of it more as a solution than a problem. It helped sair stop thinking. It helped sair forget. The cons could be ignored if it meant he could just forget.
So he spent most of nights either blacked out, or hugging the toilet wishing dae was blacked out.
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or; cecil will face his problems head on one day. today though, carlos is here to pick up the pieces.day three - “i look into people windows, transfixed by rose golden glows”, isolation , candlelight, found family
title is from "Coffee" by Jack Stauber
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what kind of milk were you? // what kind of life did you live through? by FearofForgetting
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
02 Oct 2025
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Cecil was holed up inside the station, hoping Carlos was safe at their home. Hy felt an endless pit of dread in his stomach, completely unrelated to hys worries for Carlos; Carlos was a scientist, and a scientist was always fine.
Hys dread was not the government mandated kind, Cecil decided. Something was coming. Cecil wasn't sure that was a good thing right now. The last sandstorm in Night Vale had brought Kevin, and something about this one felt… Worse.
Cecil felt a little nauseous.
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or; a second sandstorm in Night Vale brings a familiar face—only he's not the same as cecil remembered.day two - “you’ve got a lot of nerve to dredge up all my fears”, prophecy, sewer, taking accountability
title from "Milk" by Jack Stauber
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digital god // digital pain by FearofForgetting for unguibus_et_rostrom
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
01 Oct 2025
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"Kev, darling? You're not doubting the will of our great Smiling God, are you?" Lauren asks. Her voice is lilting in such a way that Kevin feels like if he says anything other than 'Of course not, Lauren!', then she'll have his head on a pike.
Kevin complies, if somewhat weakly, "I wouldn't dream of it!" It smiles, and its teeth don't fit right in his mouth anymore. His composure is slipping and oh Smiling God she's about to kill him for real.
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or; the smiling god needs a vessel.day one - “please don’t cry”, lamb to the slaughter, ceremony, beg for forgiveness
title from "Digital Silence" by Peter McPoland
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