FTF UNIVERSE: EPISODE II-CASCADE COLLAPSE
- facethyfear
- May 1
- 2 min read
FTF UNIVERSE: EPISODE II
CASCADE COLLAPSE
LOCATION: Cascade Road Corridor – Southwest Atlanta
ENTITY: SHINKURO
PHASE: Form II – The Cracked Truth
EVENT TAG: The Echo Surge
REPORT AUTHOR: Dr. K. Nevarez, FTF Rift Taxonomy Division
[OPENING SCENE]
Cascade Road used to be a memory lane.
Church bells. Distant lawn mowers. The kind of neighborhood where Sundays still meant something.
That changed after The Fourth Fold.
The air shifted.
Not cold. Not hot. Just… off.
Phones froze at 3:17 AM. Cars refused to start. Every streetlight flickered in sync with no power source connected.
Then came the stillness — like the city had taken one last breath before it caved in on itself.
[SCIENTIST LOG — EXCERPT 001]
“He didn’t walk into Cascade.
He bent it.
People didn’t run. They froze — mid-step, mid-sentence.
One woman was pouring coffee. She’s still standing there.
The coffee isn’t.
It’s been in midair for two days.”
“This is no longer a Kaiju outbreak.
This is a psychic genocide.”
[FIELD REPORT – SHINKURO ABILITIES
EXPANDING]
1. DREAM SKEWER
Victims fall asleep in real-time. Standing. Cooking. Driving.
Eye movement rapid. Brainwaves record two timelines.
2. GUILT PROJECTION
Emotional group regression.
Residents turn on each other, screaming forgotten arguments and confessions no one should’ve known.
3. MEMORY RESIDUE
Surfaces replay historical trauma.
1996 church shooting. 2013 overdose. 2020 protest.
The sidewalk becomes a screen. The walls bleed names.
4. MIRROR BLEED
Reflections show alternate versions of the viewer — often injured, addicted, or already dead.
Reports say some were smiling.
[SURVIVOR STATEMENT – UNVERIFIED]
“I thought it was my uncle talking to me.
Until I remembered he died when I was ten.
But that voice knew things only I knew.
And when I looked again —
it was me.”
[CLASSIFIED FILE 03 — DR. NEVAREZ SUBMISSION]
RIFT TAXONOMY DIVISION — FTF
“This is the official threat classification framework.
The world deserves to know where he stands.”
FTF ENTITY THREAT TIER SYSTEM
Tier V – Null-Class
Harmless. Dormant. Can be approached under supervision.
[0 known]
Tier IV – Repeater-Class
Localized. Predictable. Sometimes killable.
[1 known: The Shard of Tulsa]
Tier III – Breacher-Class
Interdimensional. Causes digital static and mild psychic bleed.
[2 known]
Tier II – Echo-Class
Causes memory loss, small-scale emotional ruptures.
Belief-altering, but stoppable.
[2 known]
Tier I – Ω-Class
Uncontainable.
Multi-form.
Capable of folding identity, timeline, and location.
Reality-bending. Soul-breaking.
SHINKURO is Tier I.
“And he’s not alone.
Two others match the radiation pattern.
One is dormant in a desert.
The other?
I think it’s already listening.”
[FINAL OBSERVATION]
Cascade didn’t explode. It folded in on itself.
Like a memory being forgotten on purpose.
Shinkuro doesn’t destroy.
He reminds.
And what he’s reminding us of… is killing people.
[NEXT EPISODE TAG – FILE PENDING DECLASSIFICATION]
Location: South DeKalb
Subject: Phantom Grid Malfunction
Entity Echo: Unconfirmed
Survivor testimony suggests Shinkuro may no longer be alone.
Face. Thy. Fear.
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