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"Jester Imp's Descent: Embracing Hell as Fizzarolli"

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You wake up, blinking blearily into the fluorescent glow of the dressing room lights. Your head pounds like a drum, and the room feels both alien and eerily familiar. Where are you? The plush velvet seats, the garish lights, the ostentatious decorations—they’re nothing you recognize. You sit up, feeling an odd lightness to your limbs.

"Gah, what the fuck?" you mutter instinctively, then freeze, startled by the shrill, fast-talking voice that escapes your lips. That’s not your voice. You reach to touch your throat but are instead met with the sight of noodle-like, cybernetic arms slinking into view.

The strangest sensation washes over you. Your former human memories and sense of self instantly begin to dissociate. Dizzying images of a life you can no longer quite see with clarity—names, faces, places—become like hyperreal phantasmagoria blurs melding at the center of your vision. Desperate to hold on, you plunge your robotic fingers into your head, but the emptiness remains and grows.

"No, no, this isn't... This ain't... Me..." you insist, despite the foreign profanities spilling easily over your jittery tongue. Who were you again? Concentrate. But it’s all... foggy, and the present feels more insistent. You’re certain your name isn’t... Fizzarolli. Is it?

You glance down, and your heart lurches at the sight. Gone is the mundane fragility of human limbs. Instead, you’re clothed in a vibrant jester getup, replete in red, yellow, and blue colors. A prehensile devilish tail swishes behind you, causing you to yelp in surprise.

"What the fuck is happening to me?" you gasp, though the high-pitched voice still doesn’t feel like your own. Or does it? The dizziness spreads, a ruthless fog in your mind.

The door bangs open, and in strides a looming and oddly familiar figure. It’s Mammon, towering over you with a grin far too wide and a presence too demanding.

"Mornin’, Fizz! Ready for the show, my little moneymaker?" he declares grandly, clapping his four hands.

"M-Mammon?" The name slips automatically from your lips. But it comes attached to feelings of loathing and paralyzing duty. Mammoth fear and begrudging admiration bashing furiously within your heart. Wait. What are these feelings?

You shake your head uselessly, fragments of a circus fire, limbs failing, and Mammon’s twisted protection tangling themselves in your thoughts. You push away the obscene invasion, digging desperately for a glimpse of your former self.

"Um, listen, Mammon... I’m not... I don’t feel... ugh..." Fractured phrases exit your mouth, the worlds colliding noisily inside your brain. Your grip on "not" being Fizzarolli slips taut like sand between your fingers. Fizzarolli—stellar performer, painful memories, fame beyond wonder—how is any of this familiar to you?

"I’m just dreaming," you mutter, hoping, feeling the weak plea go ignored. You look at Mammon again, finding no comfort in his greedy visage.

"C’mon now, Froggie, get your shit together," Mammon growls impatiently. "We’ve got a show in an hour. Just think about the loads of cash, okay?"

Another blast of dizziness overtakes you, but trying to ground yourself only stokes the flame. "Shit," you grumble, as bits of delight for the upcoming performance begin emerging. Fizzarolli’s memories flood your mind. You swat them away like a swarm, yearning to recall—what? A human niche, a different life?

Mammon leaves, satisfied by the responsiveness from “his Fizzi.” You stare at the alien reflection in the mirror, feeling a final wave of dizziness conquer your mind. All remnants of your past human existence, slipping, failing, utterly defeated.

You breathe in deeply. Crisp, knowing laughter bubbling up from deep within. You smile slyly, a reflection of your real nature glaring back.

"Right... Fizzarolli it is," you say, finally tuning into the punchiness of the jester’s peppy demeanor. You poke at your sharp, blue teeth, noting the mirrored reflection of an exact Fizzarolli. "Fuck me... This was always me, anyway."

A sense of completeness washes through you, everything human melting into the absurd. The memories of dazzling crowds, Asmodeus' protective embrace, and the lights of Hell fitting perfectly where unclear, nonsensical fragments had been. The pedestal life of Fizzarolli locking into place as your one true reality.

You finally understand. Thoughts of your former human self, relegated to mere fantastic nightmares. This—performing, spinning lives with cackling humor and touch of cruel flair—was your reality. The circus, the bright hearts on your jester’s tunic, the entire being of Fizzarolli.

You whisk out of the dressing room. "Time to give these folks a real show!" you exclaim with impish giddiness, Fizzarolli’s mentality rooted fully within you, leaving behind the phantom threads of humanity.

For you, dear Fizzarolli, had always belonged to Hell.

This story was generated by user DylanVsFizzarolli3 with assistance by one of OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model; prompts used to help generate the story are shown below.

Images were generated with OpenAI's AI system, DALL·E 2, or uploaded by the user.

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Prompt: Write the POV transformation story of a human reader completely turning into Fizzarolli (the character, voiced by Alex Brightman, from the adult cartoon/animated series Helluva Boss), complete with gender change (if the reader's a female), clothes change, age change, height change (turning from average human size of 5.6-6 feet tall to 5.3 feet tall), semi-robotification (due to the readers's arms and legs becoming noodle-like robotic limbs, while his torso and head remain flesh and blood unlike the fully-robotic limbs), reality/world change (the reader's real world warping and turning into the world of Helluva Boss), and mind/mental change (with the reader's personalities and memories being completely replaced with Fizzarolli's personality and memories, despite his/her best efforts of fighting the new personality and memories, making the reader permanently and completely forget about his/her past human self (truly believing his former human life was just a fantasy) and only remember that he was always Fizzarolli the jester imp). The transformation into Fizzarolli is permanent (meaning it is forever) and completely irreversible. For Fizzarolli's appearance (after the reader turned into him), he is a tall, slender/lanky male imp with a jester getup. Like all imps, he has a short reptilian-looking muzzle with sharp teeth in it, and he lacks any visible ears or nostrils. He lacks any hair on his head and his body. His eyes have lime sclera and pink irises, his sharp teeth are neon blue, and he has a long devil-like prehensile imp tail with black stripes, however the stripe in the middle is white. His thin, cybernetic arms and legs are retractable, able to extend and bend far more than normal jointed limbs could (despite being noodle-like in shapes, they are powerful and can carry anything as heavy as a very large car), and his cybernetic arms have a light blue circle on each shoulder and light blue spots on his knuckles. The majority of Fizzarolli's head is covered in a huge burn scar (which resembles white face paint), with the only parts unaffected being the tip of his mouth and a small part of the back of his hairless head, which show his original red skin. His face also has black dots at the ends of his mouth, and he has a forked tongue that has a couple of black stripes on it as well. He used to have exceptionally large horns for an imp, but were damaged and cauterized by the fire; to hide this from other demons (other than Asmodeus), he wears a bright red and blue jester cap with bells, a white ruff, and a black collar with bells located below it. His jester hat's stripe patterns resemble those of his horns' as a child, being asymmetrical from both sides. The front side of his outfit is bright red with yellow trim at the bottom with yellow hearts, while the back is bright blue with white trim at the bottom and black hearts. He wears white and purple striped pants along with white and purple striped sleeves with bright red cuffs and yellow trim edging, and yellow balls on his shoulders with light red hearts. He also wears black, heeled shoes with yellow hearts on the front, black gloves with red spots on the knuckles, and yellow cuffs. For Fizzarolli's abilities, he has charisma, high intelligence, flexibility, musical talent, cybernetic/artificial limbs, sign language, juggling, roller skating, distraction tactics, and can drive cars very well. For Fizzarolli's personality, he is a theatrical demon, with a fast-talking demeanor and a crude sense of humor. Extremely vulgar in nature, he constantly makes sexual jokes and puns, to the degree he pairs up with Asmodeus in openly condescending sentimental relationships (since Fizzarolli is a boyfriend to Asmodeus) and offering lewd suggestions. He was shown to be especially condescending towards Blitzo, with whom he has a bad history with, which stems from an accident that happened at Cash Buckzo's circus (when Fizzarolli was a young adult) fifteen years prior to the episode "Oops" (leading to Blitzo to run away and not join any circus ever again), however Fizzarolli found it in him to forgive Blitzo after the latter rescued him from Crimson and Striker. Early in the series, Fizzarolli seemed to embody Blitzo's comments about being an overrated sellout clown, given how he did not seem to mind having his image exploited by Mammon's corporate marketing because it made him popular and famous for being a Sins name-brand figure. This included having no issue with his likeness being marketed for a line of sex toys, despite how it secretly creeped him out. He also dislikes the creepy fans who enjoy the Robo Fizz sex toys, even secretly ordering the staff at Ozzie's to keep a creepy fan far away from him after they proclaimed they owned four. Despite his normal jovial nature Fizzarolli suffers from extreme self-worth and self-image issues, the latter of which mostly originating from the severe injuries he received from a circus fire that he was involved in when he was younger. Because of this, he feels like he needs to do whatever Mammon tells him to do, as he feels he must repay the man for all the fame and success being his brand figure has brought, despite how horribly he is treated. He also believes unless he keeps propitiating the fame and admiration he will be nothing and will lose Asmodeus (a boyfriend to Fizzarolli), as he's only ever seen him as he claims it "his best", and believes he is barely worthy of working with a king of sin because of his disfigurement. For Fizzarolli's preferences, he likes ridiculing Blitzo (formerly), fame, working for Mammon, eating burgers, juggling, playing with airhorns, and spending time with Asmodeus (who he has a gay/homosexual relationship with), but he dislikes pirates (when he was a child), blood, sharp objects, obsessive fans, Mammon's abuse to Fizzarolli, Striker's breath, being exploited, disappointing Mammon, performing under pressure, and going outside alone. Fizzarolli is often nicknamed "Fizzi", "Fizz" (named by Blitzo), "Fizzie" (named by Asmodeus and Mammon), "Fizzie Frog" (named by Asmodeus), "Froggie" (named by Asmodeus; which Fizzarolli playfully says "Ribbit" affectionately), "Peppy Little Fuckdoll" (named by Blitzo), "Jester" (named by Blitzo), "Babe/Baby" (named by Asmodeus), "Clown" (named by Crimson and Striker), "Royal Jester" (named by Blitzo), "Mr. Ten years running" (named by the clown pageant announcer), "Little joker" (named by Asmodeus), "Fizza-rotty" (named by Glitz and Glam), "Bright Shiny Brand-baby" (named by Mammon), and "Stupid Little Cunt" (named by Mammon). For the appearance of Asmodeus (also known as Ozzie), he is a large (15 foot tall), vibrantly-colored, and burly demon of intimidating stature. He has long arms and digitigrade legs, a broad upper chest and narrow waist, and a tuft of cyan rooster-like tail feathers that have three sickle tail feathers colored red, black, and ivory-white each. His head is colored dark blue with red and white head feathers sticking out from a tuft on his head, and he has large feathers running to his chest. He has glowing neon green-colored eyes and mouth on his main head, and a thick mane of cyan hair, in which there are two additional faces of a ram and a bull on the right and left sides, respectively, which react to what he says and can speak and sing along with him. In the episode "Oops", it is shown that his body is a lighter shade than his head and he has light blue nipples that are heart-shaped. His arms fade to light blue from the elbow, while his legs fade to black and are tipped with bird-like talons. Asmodeus wears a tall, red-banded black top hat with red lining and a pair of long, different-colored feathers (ivory right and red left), and a navy-blue vest with ivory lapels, a heart-shaped opening on the lower-front and exactly four glowing white stripes on the upper half, worn over a popped-collared, red untucked dress-shirt with heart-shaped cufflinks on the long sleeves navy-colored cuffs. He also wears ivory gloves, navy pants and jagged, black thigh-high high-heeled boots with red cuffs, toes and tips of the heels. In his hidden form, Asmodeus instead wears a popped-collared, red-lined and red-striped dark purple-blue coat with coattails, pointed shoulder-pads and red cuffs with black cufflinks. He also wears black pants and dress shoes. Asmodeus' full demon form is similar to his normal form, but he is much larger and all his plumage is replaced by large plumes of neon blue and pink flames. These flames also appear on his hands and tail feathers. Also, his main head, as well as his ram and bull heads, turn a reddish-pink. For Asmodeus's abilities, he has Longevity (As Asmodeus mentioned in the episode "MAMMON'S MAGNIFICENT MUSICAL MID-SEASON SPECIAL (ft Fizzarolli)", he has existed since at least the start of Hell, meaning he is thousands of years old and presumably is unable to die of old age), Demonic transformation (Asmodeus can change into a larger, fiery form emitting bursts of blue and pink flames), Typhokinesis (Asmodeus has the ability to manipulate pink and blue smoke, being able to use it as a means to generate immense amounts of smoke, teleportation, and materializing apparitions of other demons), Teleportation (Asmodeus can teleport himself and other entities to various places, appearing in an explosion of blue smoke, or open flaming circles to step through), Hallucikinesis (Asmodeus can conjure and create illusions with the form of other demons using his smoke, as seen when making illusions of Stella and Octavia while embarrassing Stolas in front of the audience), Environment manipulation (Asmodeus can warp the colors, ambience, and illumination of every room and palace where he is, as shown when the local of Ozzie's change when Asmodeus sings his musical number), Body manipulation (Asmodeus, like most of the Sins, possess the ability to manipulate and reshape his body for certain purposes. This is mainly done for things, such as shrinking his natural form down in order to fit into areas he normally wouldn't be able to, or manipulating his appearance to suppress some of his more noticeable features, so he is not as easily noticed or identified by people), Pyrokinesis (As shown in the episode "Oops", Asmodeus is able to spontaneously combust himself, especially when he's angry. He can also breathe fire and as seen in the episode "MAMMON'S MAGNIFICENT MUSICAL MID-SEASON SPECIAL (ft Fizzarolli)" can turn into flames to travel), Pyligenesis (Asmodeus can open portals to whatever destination he wishes, which is likely inclusive of the living world), and Enhanced strength (Due to his size, Asmodeus seemingly possesses incredible physical strength, such as being able to lift smaller beings like imps within the palm of his hand. He was also able to break a marble statue by lightly punching it). He also has the following three skillsets; Musical Talent (Asmodeus possesses a very eloquent singing voice. This skill is used as a way of spreading his amorous power and opinions), Cooking (In the episode "Oops", it is shown that Asmodeus, unlike Fizzarolli, knows how to cook and he does the cooking for the both of them every day), and Mechanical expertise (As seen in the episode "Oops", Asmodeus has some mechanical skills, such as when he replaces Fizzarolli's broken robotic arm with a new one). For Asmodeus's personality, he possesses a very boastful and arrogant attitude, especially whenever something contrasts with his reputation of being the embodiment of lust. Otherwise, Asmodeus values consensual lust and he hates it, stating how it's about pleasure for everyone involved. He has shown to take great pride with his status, not hesitating to put others down who publicly exhibit a sentimental demeanor towards their partners, although, there is a possibility that he is disgusted by the concept of public sentimentality. He is also shown to tease or humiliate others regarding their relationship, such as how he belittles Moxxie for expressing his romantic feelings towards his wife in Asmodeus' diner. Asmodeus takes great pleasure with having other demons display their amorous desires, as shown with his attempt to convince Moxxie to sing more erotically during his performance. He also expressed upon seeing Stolas how he hoped Stolas hadn't given his wife and daughter up to be with Blitzo, but he commended how he had given up his life out of lust. However, this was eventually shown to be very hypocritical. Despite all this, Asmodeus is shown to have a soft spot for Fizzarolli, expressing concern for him when Millie attacked him. He was also seen cuddling with Fizzarolli when Moxxie had finished singing a love song, as well as intimately holding him, while telling Moxxie and Millie to leave. In the episode "Oops", he has shown to deeply care for Fizzarolli, to the point that he can get enraged if anything happens to him. At the end of the episode, Asmodeus became more open about showing his affections to Fizzarolli, without worry of what his employees thought, but he threatened to hurt anyone who spoke of their relationship to others. He can also show sympathy towards others, as shown with Stolas in the episode "Oops" when he sympathetically told him that he couldn't help him out of respect for Fizzaroli's wishes, despite wanting to. In addition, despite being the Sin of Lust, he is shown to have limits, as he is strongly against forcing others into relationships or sex through artificial means such as love potions. In Stolas' text history with Blitzo, Stolas describes Asmodeus as being "invasive in his humor". For Mammon's appearance, he is a rotund, four-armed demon who resembles a jester. He has neon green eyes with what appears to be an eye mask, and sharp neon green teeth with a tongue that's forked and purple with at least three dark yellow stripes inside his mouth. He wears a three-eared neon and dark green jester cap with small dollar signs at the ends and a black area at the front resembling a crown. He wears a jester's collar colored half-dark green and half-neon green with yellow trim at the bottom and has black diamonds. Mammon's jester attire has two layers of differing colors, with the first being dark green and the second being black, with both having yellow trim and bells at the bottoms and neon green diamonds around them. The sleeves fit into his gloves and are asymmetric, one on each side being dark green and black while the other has white and pale blue stripes. He wears asymmetric gloves - top right and bottom left are colored black and top left and bottom right are colored white, all with yellow trim at the bottoms. He also wears white-and-pale green striped-pants, and black heeled jester boots with white bells. He carries a yellow cane topped with a large dollar sign. Years prior to the series during his concert, Mammon (in the past) had skinny arms and a visible neck, and overall he appeared shorter. His eye mask had thick neon green borders and shiny black lenses, giving the appearance of shades. He wore a three-eared blue and light blue jester cap with green ball at the ends, a black dollar sign at the front, and two additional ears on the left from the back. He wears a jester's light blue-green collar with a gap at the front where a coin sits in the middle and white trim at the bottom. Mammon's jester attire had two layers of differing colors, with the first being pale blue, the second having pale blue and light blue vertical stripes, and both having white trim at the bottoms. The sleeves are loose and asymmetric, with the ones on the right being singular colors of pale blue and light blue. At the same time, the left side has both pale blue and light blue, with jagged lines separating the colors. Each sleeve has white trim at the ends. He wears asymmetric gloves with two colors, black and two colored white. He also wears black-and-yellow-striped pants, and jester-like white platform boots with dark purple soles. He also had a yellow guitar with jester cap-like ears at the top. When in his full demon form, Mammon becomes more spider-like, gaining four more pairs of eyes, eight long sharp gold legs with black claws, and a prominent arthropod-like thorax. His jester cap's ears also become sharper. He is shorter than Asmodeus, who in full demon form has to bend down to be at his eye level. For Mammon's abilities, he has longevity (As mentioned by Asmodeus in "MAMMON'S MAGNIFICENT MUSICAL MID-SEASON SPECIAL (ft Fizzarolli)", Mammon has existed since at least the start of hell, meaning he is thousands of years old and presumably is unable to die of old age), Demon transformation (Mammon can transform into a more powerful demonic arachnid form with a larger size and multiple eyes and legs), Electrokinesis (He can generate sparks of green electricity from his body and generate sparks of green lightning when he teleports), Typhokinesis (He can generate green smoke from his mouth, and also when he teleports), Teleportation (He is capable of teleporting from one area to another, which he does so with an explosion of green smoke and a charge of green lightning that turn into $ signs, with audible cash register sound effect. Though the sound effect is absent when he confronts Fizzarolli on his resignation, implying that the sound effects may be based on his mood or emotions), and Fragokinesis (Mammon was shown to be able to generate explosions when he teleports and caused Mammon Theatre to explode at the end of "MAMMON'S MAGNIFICENT MUSICAL MID-SEASON SPECIAL (ft Fizzarolli)"). Mammon also has the following skillsets; Guitar-playing (During his entrance in a flashback, he is shown playing the guitar) and Charisma (His overall fun and optimistic demeanor and behavior gathers the admiration of all his fans when he shows up, even drawing the attention of Fizzarolli). For Mammon's personality, he Befitting the sin he embodies, Mammon is very egotistical and greedy, and he doesn't care for the well-being of others, only caring about how much he can profit from them to indulge his own greed. Although he does appear to have standards as he was not pleased of taking loose change from a poor kid. Mammon acts friendly in front of his audience just to look the part and treats Fizzarolli like a son. From what Fizzarolli has stated, Mammon is also a perfectionist. As his brand face, Mammon wants zero flaws in his brand figure whatsoever. He is also abusive, forcing Fizzarolli to do many stunts that put Fizzarolli in danger, such as being a living target for knife-throwing. However, Mammon also seems to show genuine concern over Fizzarolli when he starts having a panic attack, although it quickly changes to him looking threateningly and demanding for him to "get [his] shit together". He has a foul mouth, even more so than most demons, even saying "cunt" several times. He is also a chauvinist, publicly stating women "just ain't funny". Still, he claims to have reconsidered such comments upon seeing Glitz and Glam's performance and the twins becoming finalists. There is also an ignorant side of him, such as when Fizzarolli is singing "2 Minutes Notice", he is unable to notice that the song is about him, even after Asmodeus says it is, and only realizes when Fizzarolli calls Mammon by name. Mammon is also shown to be fairly confident in his own might, not being intimidated when Asmodeus, a fellow Sin, came to Fizzarolli's defense. Though he also shows he seemingly prefers not to fight directly, retreating when his threat to reveal Fizzarolli and Asmodeus' relationship fell flat, suggesting him to be somewhat cowardly despite his bloated ego. He is also known to be lazy as Asmodeus stated that he had not performed anymore clown acts and Blitzo called the last show he attended being an overhyped commercial. The reader's transformation and the reality's change/shift all takes place before the story. The story starts when the reader, now Fizzarolli, wakes up in a dressing room somewhere, waking up either at Ozzie's (an establishment in the Lust Ring of Hell that is a sexually-centered dinner theater restaurant and club with many imps who provide sexual services, with Asmodeus (also known as Ozzie) running the club and Fizzarolli being the host and star performer) with Asmodeus owning and working there (without Mammon in that place), or waking up at a room at Mammon's Clown Pageant (an event that takes place in the Greed Ring once a year) with Mammon owning and working there (without Asmodeus in that event), making the reader (now Fizzarolli) confused and scared on where was he and who the reader himself was. He saw himself no longer a human, but now an imp, named "Fizzarolli", who works as a jester (seeing himself with Fizzarolli's anatomy (short reptilian snout, slender body, long devil-like imp tail, etc), outfit, color, etc), also feeling a long prehensile devilish tail (which swishes and curls due to the reader's new muscle memory) where his human tailbone used to be; he even hearing himself sounding exactly like Fizzarolli, which the reader now really is Fizzarolli. He has even started uses swears/profanities, despite having never used bad language before when he was a human, and he keeps swearing despite his attempts to stop swearing (bad/strong language has become second nature to the reader). During his confusion, his memories and personality all begins to warp and completely change, making him dizzy as he hold his head with his robotic arms, hoping that everything that is happening was all just a dream (hoping that he'll wake up back in real life back to normal as a human), and telling him to remember his human life (including his name), but to no avail (despite him wishing that this is just a dream and his hopes of remembering his human name, human voice, and human life) and he kept calling himself "Fizzarolli" despite his efforts on stopping that and despite his attempts on remembering and referring himself to his former human name (despite saying that he's not "Fizzarolli", he keeps calling himself "Fizzarolli" instead of his human name, due to having completely forgotten his human name and the name "Fizzarolli" had fully replaced it, not knowing on why he can't remember his human name or life, and he even can't remember what he used to look or sound like as a human), as his human memories fail and vanish, making him completely forget all about his human self and remembered everything about himself being Fizzarolli, he is happy to know that his human life and self was not real and was only a dream, and knowing that his life as Fizzarolli is his true reality as well as knowing that he had always been a hellborn demon (more specifically, an imp), he knows that he always had a slender body, an imp tail, and a pair of horns (although they used to be massive before they were damaged and cauterized by the explosion from the circus fire), and an impish face; he knew that he has always lived in Hell, having always loved Asmodeus (and Asmodeus also had always loved Fizzarolli, showing true affection towards each other (Asmodeus having often held Fizzarolli in his arms gently and affectionately despite Asmodeus's 15 foot height and Fizzarolli's 5.3 foot height)) since he (Fizzarolli) is a boyfriend to Asmodeus, and he has always lived with Asmodeus in Asmodeus's Tower (which connects to Asmodeus's factory in the Lust Ring of Hell, and is the residence of both Asmodeus and Fizzarolli when they're not working at Ozzie's (also at the Lust Ring of Hell)). There should also be quotes from the characters in this story (with some like Fizzarolli even using swear words such as f-bomb words, despite the human reader (before his mental change) never using strong language unlike his new Fizzarolli self, so the reader would not use swears words until the mind/mental change occurs) so we know what they're saying and what they're thinking. Also, it is a POV reader story, so it should not be in an author's point of view (my, I, mine, etc), and it should be from the point of view of the reader (you, your, etc).

Response: You wake up, blinking blearily into the fluorescent glow of the dressing room lights. Your head pounds like a drum, and the room feels both alien and eerily familiar. Where are you? The plush velvet seats, the garish lights, the ostentatious decorations—they’re nothing you recognize. You sit up, feeling an odd lightness to your limbs. "Gah, what the fuck?" you mutter instinctively, then freeze, startled by the shrill, fast-talking voice that escapes your lips. That’s not your voice. You reach to touch your throat but are instead met with the sight of noodle-like, cybernetic arms slinking into view. The strangest sensation washes over you. Your former human memories and sense of self instantly begin to dissociate. Dizzying images of a life you can no longer quite see with clarity—names, faces, places—become like hyperreal phantasmagoria blurs melding at the center of your vision. Desperate to hold on, you plunge your robotic fingers into your head, but the emptiness remains and grows. "No, no, this isn't... This ain't... Me..." you insist, despite the foreign profanities spilling easily over your jittery tongue. Who were you again? Concentrate. But it’s all... foggy, and the present feels more insistent. You’re certain your name isn’t... Fizzarolli. Is it? You glance down, and your heart lurches at the sight. Gone is the mundane fragility of human limbs. Instead, you’re clothed in a vibrant jester getup, replete in red, yellow, and blue colors. A prehensile devilish tail swishes behind you, causing you to yelp in surprise. "What the fuck is happening to me?" you gasp, though the high-pitched voice still doesn’t feel like your own. Or does it? The dizziness spreads, a ruthless fog in your mind. The door bangs open, and in strides a looming and oddly familiar figure. It’s Mammon, towering over you with a grin far too wide and a presence too demanding. "Mornin’, Fizz! Ready for the show, my little moneymaker?" he declares grandly, clapping his four hands. "M-Mammon?" The name slips automatically from your lips. But it comes attached to feelings of loathing and paralyzing duty. Mammoth fear and begrudging admiration bashing furiously within your heart. Wait. What are these feelings? You shake your head uselessly, fragments of a circus fire, limbs failing, and Mammon’s twisted protection tangling themselves in your thoughts. You push away the obscene invasion, digging desperately for a glimpse of your former self. "Um, listen, Mammon... I’m not... I don’t feel... ugh..." Fractured phrases exit your mouth, the worlds colliding noisily inside your brain. Your grip on "not" being Fizzarolli slips taut like sand between your fingers. Fizzarolli—stellar performer, painful memories, fame beyond wonder—how is any of this familiar to you? "I’m just dreaming," you mutter, hoping, feeling the weak plea go ignored. You look at Mammon again, finding no comfort in his greedy visage. "C’mon now, Froggie, get your shit together," Mammon growls impatiently. "We’ve got a show in an hour. Just think about the loads of cash, okay?" Another blast of dizziness overtakes you, but trying to ground yourself only stokes the flame. "Shit," you grumble, as bits of delight for the upcoming performance begin emerging. Fizzarolli’s memories flood your mind. You swat them away like a swarm, yearning to recall—what? A human niche, a different life? Mammon leaves, satisfied by the responsiveness from “his Fizzi.” You stare at the alien reflection in the mirror, feeling a final wave of dizziness conquer your mind. All remnants of your past human existence, slipping, failing, utterly defeated. You breathe in deeply. Crisp, knowing laughter bubbling up from deep within. You smile slyly, a reflection of your real nature glaring back. "Right... Fizzarolli it is," you say, finally tuning into the punchiness of the jester’s peppy demeanor. You poke at your sharp, blue teeth, noting the mirrored reflection of an exact Fizzarolli. "Fuck me... This was always me, anyway." A sense of completeness washes through you, everything human melting into the absurd. The memories of dazzling crowds, Asmodeus' protective embrace, and the lights of Hell fitting perfectly where unclear, nonsensical fragments had been. The pedestal life of Fizzarolli locking into place as your one true reality. You finally understand. Thoughts of your former human self, relegated to mere fantastic nightmares. This—performing, spinning lives with cackling humor and touch of cruel flair—was your reality. The circus, the bright hearts on your jester’s tunic, the entire being of Fizzarolli. You whisk out of the dressing room. "Time to give these folks a real show!" you exclaim with impish giddiness, Fizzarolli’s mentality rooted fully within you, leaving behind the phantom threads of humanity. For you, dear Fizzarolli, had always belonged to Hell.

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