.whoami I thought.

"Who are you?" a synthetic voice groans.

Shaken and bewildered by the depths of all hell, I look around and see nothing but the void. I feel the void senses my heistation, and calls for my attention. A bright flashing strobe of contrasting white now appears in every degree around me.

This is not Morse Code I think to myself.

"What is this?" I mutter quietly.

The Stobe gives away as the synthetic void from earlier replies. It's being accompanied by text. "XY, "Xavier W. Longbottom" Age: 29 years, 4 months, 20 days, 17 hours, 8 minutes and 19 seconds. (Since last refresh) Status: Present In Konsole Mode".

"Am I in my computer? What is going on? Am I dreaming or really fucking high?" How could this be possible I thought.

Owl-eyed I stood there still in disbelief. I had to continue blinking fervously to believe it. I was looking at my own command prompt, the strobe light turned out to be the text cursor! I was to command my person from the inside. The possibilities ran limitless in my thoughts.

But if you could believe it, what happened next should come as a warning to those who feel envy for what's happened so far.

I went to work modifying my personality, habits, and interests. If time existed in here, I don't know how long it took until I had the perfect version of myself. After getting used to the system I started to consider myself God's apprentice. With all my changes I was looking forward to logging out back into reality.

However, after applying the changes I was interrupted by an error message. "This archetype is already taken."

"Shit. well, guess I can't be perfect right?" I laugh to ease the pain, knowing I'll have to find another.

After changing and re-changing of different values and variables I find myself at the same error message again, and again. "This archetype is already taken."

This wouldn't have been so bad if there was a restore to default setting.

So here I am, I don't know who I am or suppose to be, cant go back to who I was and I don't know how to get out.

Fin

(Note)First time sharer here. New to writing, welcome to ALL grammar and writing criticism. Kinda went off topic from OPs a bit as I'd always wished for this scenario Also my only coding skills come from Mr. Robot being my favorite TV show

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