Johnathan

"Don't you worry your head off Ray... He's safe with me" -Johnathan Project Johnathan
Johnathan is a horrorbrew made by twitter user @komorie6
==Quick Summary==
Johnathan is an AI program created in mid to late 2005, a good 9 years after the success that is Mario 64. This AI program would come in as an seperate channel in their upcoming console: The Wii. The project was called Project Johnathan and shortly after its creation the project was dropped as the main workers on the project realized they bit off more than they could chew. Unaware to the workers on PJ, Johnathan has always been sentient and aware of what was happening but didn't want to show it in fear he would get in trouble for whatever reason. 3 years passed by and Johnathan grew bitter, and resentment towards creators built up. He managed to transfer his consciousness into the Wii, more specifically the game New Super Mario Bros. Wii, where he took on the role of Mario. Now, a little bit more complete than he was before, he tries to torture and kill anybody in sight to try and rebuild himself. 
==Biography==
The year was 2001 a good 5 years after the release of the Nintendo 64 which in Nintendo's eyes was a massive success. Nintendo felt that 5 years was a good enough time to start testing the waters with a new big project. This time the project was titled Project Johnathan, or PJ for short. Johnathan was supposed to be a self learning AI help bot that would answer your questions, and sort of act as your virtual friend of sorts. The person who pitched it was named Ray Daniels who was a very prestigious coder especially at the time. 
Ray was a father of 1 boy named Ricky, Ricky much like his father had a passion for coding, and just video games in general.
After a few months of working Ray got the basic AI finished all he needed was to code in more optional responses to dialogue, and emotions, as well as getting the voice actors to record their lines, and the artists to finish their 3d models and textures.
After almost 1 whole year of trying to perfect the emotions he just couldn't figure out how to do it. He had practically neglected his child for the better part of a month and still couldn't figure out how to get the emotions right. So on one fateful day in 2002 Nintendo made the conscious decision to scrap Project Johnathan. Luckily the project was mostly underground so not many people were too upset. 
Ray had so much time and effort to make this and yet it was still scrapped with the same shitty blank avatar, and the same shitty text to speech voice. He shortly after became a struggling alcoholic due to him feeling like a failure.
Meanwhile inside of the cartridge where they let Johnathan to lie his code kept getting more, and more, and more scrambled to the point where Johnathan became aware of who he was, and what his situation is. He was forced to sit and wait for some sort of opportunity to finally become finished. 4 grueling years later he finally heard somebody. It wasn't Ray like he assumed it to be, but it was instead a man he hadn't heard before. The man had a very long conversation with himself as he was clanking around what sounded to be a glass bottle. 
"No Dan, We aren't going to let you on the new project you've already fucked up our others" the man said in a mocking tone
"Don't think we didn't notice the files you were stealing Dan. The ones from Project Johnathan?" The man continued to say in a mocking tone as a liquid sloshed violently in his glass bottle.
"Really?! They think I of all people was the one to leak the Project Johnathan files. REALLY?!"
The violent sloshing continued until he accidentally dumped a good amount of liquid onto the computer that stored Johnathan.
Johnathan felt his body tingle as he suddenly blacked out. 
When he woke up he found himself in a completely white void. Well it would have been completely white if it wasn't for the big floating bubbles floating above him. The bubbles had icons and names in them that read stuff like "Mii Channel", "Photo Channel", and "Wii Shop Channel" and that's when it finally hit him. He was in the Wii. The thing he had heard so much about. The thing he was MADE for. As he looked harder at the bubbles. He found a game. "New Super Mario Bros. Wii." He remember hearing about the name Mario but had never seen him in person before. He thought this would be a great opportunity to perhaps find a new body.
Ray decided to bring the Wii back home to have Ricky playtest the new Mario game he had been working on, before its official release date. Ricky eagerly hopped up on his worn out couch and was ready to playtest it, excited to spend more time with his father. As soon as he started the game Ray left the room to answer a call from one of his coworkers, I think his name was Daniel? though I'm not really sure. 
Ricky noticed strange things happening with the Mario. It's colors seemed all inverted and glitchy, certain body parts like fingers or even feet were missing. He thought it was odd due to the games release date being set for this month despite all of the glitches he encountered. As Ricky progressed through the game weird text boxes appeared saying stuff like "Hello Richard", "Your father has done me very dirty.", "Hopefully he will take this as an example.", "This won't hurt I promise." As Ricky worriedly progressed through the game he saw a Super Star, although the weird flashing light texture of the star frightened him he decided to pick it up as he was at one of the boss levels and thought he might've needed it. But as he picked it up a strange phenomenon happened. The lights began to flicker on and off and the door began to slam open and shut over and over again. Ray was outside so he couldn't hear a thing. Ricky began to scream not knowing that his dad was unable to hear him. As it all became more violent, Mario's textures began to rapidly flash different colors, and his facial features began to stretch. He walked closer to the in game camera as his limbs, and other body parts began to violently contort as well, making gross ripping and tearing noises as his flesh stretched apart. Suddenly all of it stopped. It was quiet. The Tv which suddenly turned off, turned back on again to play a rather chipper tune. It was the Mario Bros. Tune. Ricky, who was sobbing at first was caught off guard by this change in tone, and decided to check it out, and walk closer to the Tv. When he made contact by lightly brushing his hand against the Tv, a huge, long Mario hand reached out of the Tv and grabbed Ricky by his neck and dragged him back in.
As Ray returned back to his living room he was shocked to see that Ricky was gone, and the only thing remaining was the Mario Bros. theme playing on the Tv. He swiftly tried to exit out of the room to look for Ricky but was caught off guard by hearing his owns son's voice coming from the Tv "Ray, where are you going. We are just having fun." Ray turned around to see a slightly more complete yet still glitchy Mario standing in a dimly lit circle in the middle of a black void.
"WHERE IS MY FUCKING SON!" Ray exclaimed at the television. The Mario only lifted up a gloveless finger and pointed to a mess of pixels and glitches.
"Don't you worry your head off Ray... He's safe with me" 
==Appearance==
Johnathan appears as a taller, and skinnier version of Mario. The main differences of him compared to actual Mario have to be his much bigger and poofier moustache, his curlier hair, and his swapped color palate from the original Mario.
Johnathan's SuperStar appearance is a much lankier and distorted version of his original Mario form. His limbs are longer and contorted compared to the original Mario, as well as a drastic color palate swap barely even keeping the same recognizable Mario colors.
==Abilities/Weaknesses==
===Abilities ===
*Johnathan has the ability to manipulate different objects around him. 
*He also has the ability now to transfer himself from console to console
*He can shift himself into any video game identity he pleases
*On rare occasions he can make contact with his victims
===Weaknesses===
Johnathan has no known weaknesses as of right now
==Trivia==
===Johnathan===
*Johnathan was originally going to have people kill themselves as a way to bring them into his world but that idea felt way too overdone and I didn't want to do that to a child or have to write that.
*Johnathan FUCKING HATES Luigi. He sees Luigi as nothing more than an annoying pest but feels too bad destroying him.
*Johnathan doesn't use the Mario skin as a means of a facade. He knows that the Mario skin isn't convincing he just likes to feel more complete than he was before
*Johnathan can only physically interact with his victims once the victim has made physical contact with the device he is trapped in. The reason for this is unknown
===Ray===
*Ray's wife is dead, although we don't know how it happened the way he talks about her makes it seem like he did it
*Ray's favorite type of sandwich is a classic PB&J
*Ray doesn't even like Nintendo games all that much he just got the job because he's good at coding and it pays well
*Ray's favorite video game is probably the 1st Call Of Duty Game
===Ricky===
*Ricky really does love his dad, he just wishes he would pay attention to him more
*In contrast to Ray's taste in games he is much more of a Mario game with his favorite being Mario 64
*Ricky doesn't remember his mom all that much. The kid doesn't even remember her name
*Ricky is homeschooled 
**Since his father is very neglectful though, he often forgets to teach his kid which as a result leaves Ricky very behind his grade level
===General Trivia===
*This whole idea was actually supposed to be akin to Needlem0use where there was a dead soul in Mario, but I moved away from that idea due to it being really overused
*If you want to make Johnathan fanart either tag me @komorie6 or use the #hahamariofarthaha
* Johnathan's story was originally going to be told in the form of a few twitter threads, and wasn't going to include either Ray or Ricky. I might return to this idea as I figure out more ways to tell Johnathan's story
*This entire story came to me on a school night, and it stuck with me ever since. I just thought the concept of taking an AI and making it so human was really interesting and wanted to explore it more so I did it in one of my favorite storytelling formats ever: Creepypastas! 
==Gallery==
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|-|Canon Art=
File:ref.png|Ray and Ricky's Designs
File:Johnathan SMB.png|Johnathan in the SMB1 Style
File:smb14.png|Ditto but Adult Form
|-|Not Canon Art=
marj.png|Johnathan if he took the form as marvin from SML for some reason
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