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Thriller Worldbuilding #6
This world is beyond dark now.
This world is malignant, inescapable, and steeped in dread.
It doesn’t just warp reality. It warps minds.
People living here don’t simply endure fear. They become it. They breathe paranoia, bleed distrust, and slowly lose the ability to distinguish between truth and illusion.
1. The Detective: Unraveling into Obsession
In a city where evidence rewrites itself, bodies disappear, and surveillance moves faster than memory, detectives don’t seek justice. They seek validation, proof they aren’t losing their minds.
They question everything. Not just suspects, but their own recollection. If a case file changes, did they read it wrong? If a witness contradicts themselves, are they lying? Or did the world shift around them?
They spiral into paranoia. Check their doors, change their passwords, watch for shadows that stretch wrong beneath streetlights.
They become trapped in a loop. If nothing in this city can be proven, what separates reality from delusion?
The longer they fight for truth, the more they dissolve into madness.
2. The Criminal: The Slow Death of Identity
