Looks like Harlan/Lake (offscreen) just discovered the reason why his entire life was a roller-coaster of angst and pain. He's not taking it well...

Ashley and Creator!Heisenmorg (in his Delusion form) spectate Harlan's breakdown offscreen, both of them are concerned and highly disturbed.

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The gist of the Discord Dilemma Au is that Ashley, before the events of the first game, stumbles across her world's "Reverse World" called the Backstage. No one knows how this was even possible in the first place as the Backstage and Narrative are meant to stay separate. So far no negative effects have been observed so Ashley can visit periodically when she has nothing else to do. She befriends the entire community inhabiting the Backstage and discover they come from another world, our world.

The Discord like chat screen, that enables her to access the backstage, helps her keep in touch with everyone during her day to day life. From helping her with her homework to avoiding killer animatronics that have personal beef with her mere existence. Things get more chaotic when she realises that those within the backstage can actually cross into her world, resulting in some interesting shenanigans over the next two years.

This Ashley is also a lot more well informed and prepared for her week at Lake's Funland, though she pretends not to in order to get the job done and free the souls trapped within.

Unfortunately, whether due to the presence of the community, voice actor cast and creators or just plain butterfly effect. The animatronics end up deviating from the script when a certain someone possessing a certain animatronic has the bright idea of taking the demons power for himself... and, for some unfathomable reason that even Creator!Heisenmorg could not see coming, he succeeds.

Together Again and related Characters by @SirMemphisto , Billy Walker and Skooks/Raymond

Discord Dilemma Au and its character designs by Me.