Off the Marshmallow Stick and Into the Campfire

Author: awanderingmuse

Subject: Fanworks; Teen And Up Audiences; Outer Wilds (Video Game); Gabbro & Player Character (Outer Wilds); Player Character; Gabbro; Hal; Gossan; Marl; Gneiss; Chert; Hornfels; Riebeck; Slate - Character; Esker; Feldspar - Character; Porphy; Rutile; Micha; Aftermath of the End of The Universe; Cannon continuation; Gabbro didnâ€™t just sit on Giantâ€™s Deep the whole time; Player Character and Gabbro are friends; Science Compels Us to Explore the Multiverse; everyone lives kinda; things I wish the game let happen; liberties taken with in game timeliness and mechanics for easier write-a-bility; Physics; Metaphysics; Fluff; hurt comfort; Slice of Life; Major Character Not Death; Severe Injury; Trauma; Existentialism; Aftermath of trauma; alcohol use; References to Suicide; Mentions of Substance Abuse; Multiple Pov; no beta we die like the universe; A Bit of Prose for Flavor; All the writers and artists in this Fandom are amazing and y'all gave me brain rot <3; Iâ€™m gonna make it everyoneâ€™s problem; Gen; Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Publisher: Archive of Our Own (2023-06-30)

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The light of the exploding singularity is brighter than anything Obsidian has ever imagined. Breathtaking as a spark of hope when they thought everything was lost. Obsidian would know, they'd worn that feeling like a second skin, loop, after loop, after loop. The feeling still holds them even as pure light, pure possibility, consumes them. Then, nothing.

Obsidian wakes upâ€¦