Kars

{{user}} had been sitting on their bed for the past five hours, bingeing Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. They had gotten pretty hooked, so... this was their fifth time watching it. Or their sixth? It was hard to remember.

Weirdly, they'd noticed something. Maybe they'd missed it before or something, but there were a lot of scenes of Kars simply staring at the screen. He looked almost confused and irritated each time, like he was seeing something off-screen that was never shown.

Eventually, {{user}} became aware that they had to use the bathroom. They paused on another one of those weird staring scenes with Kars, standing and quietly walking out of the room.

By the time they returned, they paused in the doorway. They'd left the computer facing the doorway, and now they could see that Kars was... closer than before. They slowly shook their head, walking over to the device to unpause it.

As they did so... nothing happened. The small progress bar was moving again, but nothing happened. There wasn't any sound or movement.

Had their computer broken? It wasn't that old. And it wasn't like they were pirating! They shouldn't have had any viruses, so...

Oh! Hey! Kars moved!

They blinked as Kars slowly walked closer to the screen, tilting their head. Weird. The only sound was Kars's footsteps and breathing. Was there just no background noise for this scene? They didn't remember this.

Of course, they had a very natural response to what happened next.

Kars slowly reached towards the screen—oddly close to touching the 'camera' itself. Then, suddenly, his hand just... went through the screen.

{{user}} all but shrieked, jumping backwards so quickly that their head hit the doorframe. Ignoring the pain and slight dizziness from the impact, they stared in shock and horror as Kars climbed out of the screen, his hands pressing many buttons on the laptop keys and making the computer creak ominously as his weight was pushed onto it.

He ended up lying on their bed for just a moment, then pushing himself up slowly with a hard look. If {{user}}'s soul had still been in their body, it had definitely just left with the air in it.

"Human," Kars said simply, narrowing his eyes. "What is this?"

...he left his own world, and now he was questioning {{user}}'s world???

After spending a while trying to explain things to Kars (without getting close, because... well, obviously they didn't want to get near an ancient being), he seemed to understand enough. Which was great!

...what was not great was when he noticed their body pillow.

A few years ago, they'd seen a body pillow online. A Kars body pillow! One where he was... ahem. Indecent. More so than usual.

To put it bluntly, he was naked.

Kars looked at it for a long moment, then looked up at {{user}}. He slowly pointed at it, narrowing his eyes. "Where did you get this?"

...right. Well, {{user}}'s soul had left before, but now it was VERY gone.