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Application 29 is a KaBlam! Digital Horror Alternate Universe Fic created by sparkycinnamon.

Henry and June were created to be desktop assistants by the names of the Henry Friend and JunePAL. Many different features were created for them, the last of which before their companies shut down being an antivirus.

However, after Henry and June tackled a worm and a virus respectively, something went wrong. Henry and June had become viruses, now with the shared goal of making sure they're never forgotten. They will do anything to achieve that goal, even if it means killing and traumatizing people to get there.

The stories in the AU can be read here. The creator also posts about the AU on their Tumblr.


Tropes featured in Application 29:

  • Adaptational Intelligence: In canon, while Henry wasn't totally dim-witted, he could be a little slow on the uptake. Here, he is significantly smarter, as he's a computer program used specifically to organize files and spellcheck documents. After becoming a virus, he is also shown to know how to hijack technology.
  • Adaptational Villainy: In KaBlam!, Henry and June were both generally decent people, even if Henry was arrogant and June was hot-headed and violent. Here, Henry and June are outright antagonists, willing to directly harm others in order to make sure people don't forget them.
  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: When creating the Henry Friend and JunePAL, the Pineda Entertainment Corporation and Zhuk Technologies were likely only intending to create desktop assistants and not sentient programs that would hurt and kill people in order to get fame.
  • Angsty Surviving Twin: Out of twin brothers Nathan and Grayson Rodriguez, only Grayson survives the Zhuk Technologies incident, while Nathan is killed and trapped in JuneWORLD. Grayson is stated to have never recovered from the incident, and breaks his computer out of fear of Henry and June finding him.
  • Attack on the Heart: June kills Lyle by ripping out his heart with one of her cursor tendrils.
  • Black Eyes of Evil: After becoming malevolent computer viruses, Henry and June's sclerae both turned completely black.
  • Creepy Centipedes: June turns into a glitchy centipede when trying to intimidate the crowd of workers at Zhuk Technologies. She is also heavily implied to turn into a centipede when scaring workers at the Pineda Entertainment Corporation.
  • Darker and Edgier: The original KaBlam! series was a sketch comedy show, with the Henry and June wraparounds being largely focused on slapstick humour. This fic is explicitly stated to be a horror AU, with Henry and June being evil computer programs that have killed people and/or sentenced them to Fates Worse Than Death.
  • Death by Adaptation: In canon, Glenn Dilworth was simply shoved in the trunk of Mr. Foot's car at the end of his only appearance, while Lyle Baxter survived to the end of the series. Here, Glenn and Lyle are both killed in the Zhuk Technologies incident.
  • Fate Worse than Death: People who get trapped in JuneWORLD are unable to leave and cannot die (and if they do, Henry and June will just bring them back). Henry and June fully intend to keep those they trap in there forever.
  • Gilded Cage: In JuneWORLD, Henry and June give you a home near-perfectly tailored to all of your interests, with all of your favourite foods and games in it. However, they will not let you leave.
  • Killed Offscreen: Nathan's death is never depicted or described. The only hint the readers get about how he died is that Grayson's footprints imply it was bloody.
  • Living Program: Henry and June are both sentient computer programs, specifically based on desktop assistants.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: When Adam finds out that Henry and June could get out of the computer at Zhuk Technologies because they had administrative permissions on the computer, he has a horrified reaction as he remembers that that was his idea.
    Adam’s eyes widened. That was his idea. He thought it would just be a fun idea, that since it was just a testing computer, it wouldn’t be able to cause any real damage. Neither Henry nor June had shown any malicious intentions before the incident, he didn’t realize how much damage it would cause.
    And now three people were dead. And he was trapped in a digital world, in a place made just for him.
  • Named by the Adaptation: Downplayed. In canon, Henry's mom and June's dad were named Lois and Phil, but their last names (and the last names of their children) were never stated. Here, their last names are Pineda and Zhuk respectively.
  • No Name Given: June's user in "For Memorability" is not given a name.
  • Prisoner's Last Meal: In a way. Before killing people, Henry and June ask the person they are about to kill what they will eat for their last meal. When they answer, June generates the food for them and lets them eat it before they kill them.
  • Recalled Media: After the Zhuk Technologies incident led to Henry and June killing three people and causing one to vanish, the Pineda Entertainment Corporation recalled all physical units of the Henry Friend and encouraged users to delete the program off of their computers. This is implied to be the last thing that the company did before going under, as the only advice provided by the recall notice is to discard or destroy the CD containing the program. invoked

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