Why can't he remember?
Everywhere at the End of Funk
is a Friday Night Funkin' Game Mod. A Dark Fic if ever there was one, it features Boyfriend a little over a decade after the events of the base game suffering from dementia for unspecified reasons. Girlfriend is away trying to get help for her beloved, and Boyfriend slowly forgets every trace that she, or anyone he's ever met, ever was there in the first place.The mod is notable for being incredibly depressing, featuring music from The Caretaker's album series Everywhere At The End of Time (which depicts the effects of dementia in music form) and dealing with Boyfriend slowly losing his grip on reality as his memories fade away.
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This mod provides examples of:
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In the original game, Daddy Dearest loathes Boyfriend and actively attempts to make his life miserable; here, he seems to have warmed up to Boyfriend as part of the family, and is genuinely concerned about Boyfriend's deteriorating mental state.
- Amnesiac Hero: Boyfriend, due to his memories crumbling as a result of dementia.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: With the exception of a cameo in the form of a painting in the background of Week 1, Senpai and Spirit are completely absent, despite their week being the finale of the mod (although their icons are still present, just distorted). The most likely explanation for this is as a result of the mod being set far past the events of the original game (as Senpai was Killed Off for Real and Spirit might have escaped by then), but it could also be as a consequence of Boyfriend's condition, or the console malfunctioning that he cannot perceive them. Likewise, the Monster is also missing, though this is more likely to be a decision made for the sake of maintaining the mod's tone.
- Dark Fic: The mod is a Distant Sequel where Boyfriend suffers a rare case of being a younger victim of early onset dementia, forgetting everyone he's ever known and eventually deteriorating into losing his grip on reality.
- Death by Adaptation: Because of the nature of the mod's narrative, Boyfriend is fated to be killed off by his dementia, one way or another.
- Despair Event Horizon: Boyfriend reaches this near the end of Week 6, when he starts regressing into Post-Awareness. He knows he is about to succumb to his dementia, and yet he accepts this fate.
- Distant Sequel: Daddy Dearest mentions Boyfriend is now in his thirties, meaning the mod takes place at least eleven years after the original game.
- Downer Ending: Week 6 sees Boyfriend find the old game console he and Girlfriend played during the original Week 6. After singing Chiptune versions of "It's just a burning memory" and "Misplaced in time", the console breaks, and Boyfriend is confronted by static. Realising he's alone with his thoughts, he equates the static on the screen to the 'static' in his mind, and begins the start of his decline into Post-Awareness while "Libet's Delay" begins to play, the static gradually getting louder and louder. Considering the only outcome of dementia, he will only experience more confusion and despair as his disease leads towards its inevitable end.I-It appears the old thing is broken...
...
Static, what an old friend of mine...
Within my mind of repeating deteriorating words... It is almost familiar...
Static...
I seem to be stuck in my head again......
Was it truly meant to be?
Whilst there was no good... or bad ending...
I seem quite content.
...
The sound of static. It's calming, almost...
...
As confusion is continuously present...
And as strangers pass me by...
I can say I feel at peace within this faint and disappearing mind.
Even if it is lonely...
Thank you. - Foregone Conclusion: Given how the mod itself deals with dementia, it's not a matter of if Boyfriend will die, but when.
- Gloomy Gray: The bright colors of the game arrows are now a dull gray.
- Hell Is That Noise: The howling wind at the start of the final stage of Week 6, accompanied by the static, which Boyfriend realises is close to the sound of the 'static' within his own mind.
- Interface Screw: Much of the game's interface depicts gray, faded static, to visually portray how Boyfriend's reality falls apart.
