misguided ghosts
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Wash has had Epsilon for a grand total of two days, and he still isn’t used to the feeling of having someone else in his head. Well, two days of being conscious. When they’d implanted Epsilon, Wash had been in and out for five whole days before he could wake up without kicking and screaming and needing to be sedated and restrained so he didn’t break something.
Wash struggles to deal with a newly implanted Epsilon. During a training session to prove they’re battle-ready, Epsilon loses control, and Wash starts seeing things that aren’t there.Series
- Part 1 of misguided ghosts
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“What do you think Sleeping Beauty will want to do when he wakes up?” York asks, propping his feet up on the end of Wash’s bed. Wash has been out for over a day, and York keeps hearing whispers about it being a "difficult implantation" but no one will explain exactly what that means. He just hopes Wash isn’t about to pull a Carolina and fall into a coma.
York’s POV of some scenes in part 1.Series
- Part 2 of misguided ghosts
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“Look who’s finally awake.” Wash turns his head, already confused because that voice sounds familiar and wrong at the same time but he can’t figure out why. “Feeling better?” York asks dryly, a knowing grin on his face. He’s in full armor sans helmet yet is somehow draped across a chair, one leg kicked up over the armrest.
Sometimes, Wash hallucinates his dead teammate. Teammate, singular, because he’s only ever seen Connie. Then he gets shot in the back and ends up in a hospital, and York and North are there and he knows something is wrong but he can’t pinpoint what.Series
- Part 3 of misguided ghosts
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“I promise I will take the bestest care of your body while you are gone,” Caboose says solemnly—Church figures there’s a 50/50 shot of his body being intact by the time he returns to it. If he returns to it. No, of course he’ll return to it because he’s a ghost and not a fucking AI like Wash seems to think.
Church doesn’t care what Wash thinks—being a ghost makes a lot more sense than being an AI. He’d think Wash would agree with him, given what he sees while inside Wash’s head.Series
- Part 4 of misguided ghosts
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“What the-” Wash says, before he catches himself—that can’t be CT’s helmet. He has to be seeing things again. Except when he glances at Meta, it’s also staring at the helmet. Well, if he’s wrong, Meta isn’t exactly in the position to judge him for being crazy.
Sometimes, Wash hallucinates his dead teammates—but he didn’t hallucinate the floating robot. He’s not crazy, okay? Well… not that kind of crazy.Series
- Part 5 of misguided ghosts
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“I couldn’t sleep,” Wash admits.
“Do you ever sleep?” Tucker asks. North laughs, and Wash glares at him. Tucker follows his eyeline and sees… an empty chair. Wash feels his face flush and he drops his head, staring at the table.
Sometimes, Wash has trouble distinguishing between his memories and Epsilon’s. And sometimes, he thinks he sees his dead teammates. But he’s used to it and he has it under control so there’s no need to worry! Right?Day 16: disorientation
Alt prompt: unrealitySeries
- Part 9 of whumptober 2025
- Part 6 of misguided ghosts
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“You can’t ignore me forever, Wash,” Carolina says. Her ghost keeps up with him as they descend—and yes, he knows she’s not actually a ghost, but that’s what Caboose calls the ones he sees, and it’s a lot more succinct to say “ghost” than “hallucination caused by Epsilon leaving electrical burns in my brain.”
Sometimes, Wash hallucinates his dead teammates. That’s what he assumes is going on when he sees Carolina loitering outside of Blue Base, but then Caboose and Tucker see her as well, and unless Wash somehow figured out how to share hallucinations there might be something else going on.Series
- Part 7 of misguided ghosts
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“Put him in storage or something,” Wash says, determinedly not looking at Epsilon as he speaks. For a second Wash worries that he’s going to have to carry Epsilon. Epsilon was his AI, after all, so it makes sense to stick them together again.
Except for the fact that Washington absolutely cannot under any circumstance carry Epsilon again. It doesn’t matter if it would only be in storage, that Epsilon wouldn’t really be in his head. He can’t.
Sometimes, Wash hallucinates his dead teammates. He knows his brain is messed up, but he also knows it’s Epsilon’s fault, so when he has to help Carolina rescue Epsilon, he… well, he’ll do it. He does it. He’s over it. Except then Carolina goes and implants Epsilon and Wash realizes quite suddenly that he isn’t over it at all.Series
- Part 8 of misguided ghosts
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monsters in the closet and they just won’t leave by idkimoutofideas
Fandoms: Red vs. Blue
03 Feb 2026
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One soldier in camo armor goes down in front of Wash, quickly followed by another. Sarge is unmoving on the ground ten feet away, Freckles is in critical condition and sparking up a storm, and Tucker’s escape route is a good fifty yards away. Something heavy settles in his stomach; he can’t run that far, not with the way the world keeps spinning around him.
Sometimes, Wash hallucinates his dead teammates. And sometimes, he wakes up screaming from nightmares. Neither of those leave him particularly excited to spend quality time with Donut and Sarge while “rescued” by the Feds.Day 3: ghost
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- Part 9 of misguided ghosts
- Part 2 of febuwhump 2026