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Tear Jerker / Friday Night Funkin': Corruption

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    Week 2 

General

    Week 3 

General

  • Week 3; it's been confirmed that Pico and Boyfriend used to be a couple. This is the only reason Pico, an Ax-Crazy hitman, didn't carry out a hit on Boyfriend when he was contracted to do so. Pico tried his best to save the corrupted Boyfriend, who he still valued more than Daddy Dearest's money, and went down in the process. In his final song in particular, Pico is visibly straining against his corruption, his gun hand is shaking, and his singing is noticeably more desperate and faster than Boyfriend's own singing. He fought valiantly and painfully against the corruption to try and save Boyfriend, to no avail.

    Week 6 

General

  • Week 6 as a whole. It begins with Senpai growing visibly afraid of the slowly growing corruption, only to then declare that he's going to protect Girlfriend from Boyfriend just to immediately realize she's part of Boyfriend's plan. When Boyfriend takes control over the game, Spirit intervenes to try defeat Boyfriend as the entire world crumbles to pieces. At the end of "Roots", Spirit's Slasher Smile fades away and becomes hopeless, with the cutscene immediately after showing that Boyfriend's request to delete Senpai was accepted, meaning that Spirit gave up struggling and allowed Boyfriend to delete him.

    Week 7 

Deathmatch

  • The final video of Week 7. Daddy Dearest puts up a hell of a fight against Boyfriend, Pico, Skid and Pump, and he seems to be winning... until he faces off against his now-corrupted wife, causing his will to instantly die out and giving way to his corruption. With Daddy Dearest successfully corrupted, Boyfriend soon corrupts the whole world. What makes this even worse is the health icons: when Mommy Mearest shows up, Daddy Dearest has a white twinkle in his eye and still seems to be resisting. When Boyfriend tags back in to finish the job, said white twinkle is gone, and Daddy Dearest stops resisting. All of Daddy Dearest's hope has been completely crushed with seemingly no way to recover.

    Week 8 

Neuroses

  • The second video of Week 8. In the final part of the song, Soul Boyfriend fades away, leaving Boyfriend alone in his thoughts. The rock track slowly fades into an eerie silence as Boyfriend begins to sparingly vocalize, smile fading before he drops his microphone and reaches out, only to be met with nothing. Cue Fade to Black.

Discharge

  • The Precious Photo in Week 8 implies everyone got their happy ending together after the base game, only for the Corruption to take it away. And as the Corruption itself suggests, there isn't even a guarantee that Boyfriend and Soul Boyfriend will be able to take any of it back even after escaping.

    Week 9 

Allure

  • In the middle of the first song of Week 9, Girlfriend is (seemingly) freed from the corruption, and Boyfriend happily approaches her as she requests. However, Boyfriend (and likely the player) realize this to be a trick, and he backs away before Girlfriend's tentacles can stab him. The fact that the corruption would toy with Boyfriend's feelings like that is definitely a low blow.

Estrange

  • It only gets worse in the second song, with the corruption casting more illusions that make Boyfriend believe that his efforts to reverse its hold on Girlfriend was All for Nothing, and the guy is left grasping his head and falling into despair. If it wasn't for Soul BF still being present to keep Boyfriend going, it would've ended then and there.

    Week 10 

Headshot

  • Week 10, Boyfriend manages to put up a fight against the corrupted Pico only to get shot. After which a part of Pico becomes uncorrupted. That uncorrupted part looks in horror at Boyfriend, and he can't do anything about it as the rest of him is still corrupted and laughing. Thankfully for both of them, the bullet only went through Boyfriend's left hand, allowing Boyfriend to press on.

    Week 11 

Null and Void

  • After the song, we are treated to a scene of Girlfriend looking for Boyfriend. She clearly doesn't know he is trapped in the game again and is crying about not knowing where he is. If that wasn't enough, she runs into her corrupted mother.

CHKDSK

  • At the beginning cutscene, we see Evil Skid feasting on his mother's corpse, which is enough to gross Pico out and force him to lock the kid in to keep him from being claimed by the Harvester.
  • Throughout the song itself, we see Spirit flying into an outright rage, which is mixed with heartbreak when discussing some of the Analog Horror elements, like his pained cry for help.
  • Either Boyfriend or Spirit try to break back out of the game after this song, but those commands and a cry for help are silenced by an unknown admin (possibly Null) holding control over the game.

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