The Quiet World

The Quiet World from an outside perspective

**The Quiet World** is a pocket universe that exists outside of the normal universe, located somewhere distant and isolated within the multiverse, containing different 'zones' within itself. It serves as the main setting for the *Dennis* series.

## Description

This bizarre pocket universe is best described as a dark, nightmarish, surrealist fantasy world which negatively affects those either forced to go there, born within it, or living within it willingly. As such, most of the inhabitants are mentally unbalanced, potentially dangerous men, women and creatures trying desperately to survive its isolated, morbid, and cold landscape. Although it resembles the normal world on the surface, The Quiet World is especially dark underneath, particularly during the night, causing people within it to descend slowly more and more into madness, mainly with disturbing hallucinations and foreshadowings of one's activities, or worse, their fate. Even on a good day, no one is safe from something potentially going horribly wrong and potentially threatening them.

Natives to The Quiet World are more equipped to deal with its naturally brooding and gloomy habitat, but this does not stop them from becoming potentially insane individuals, with Green Man being the best example of someone who has fared terribly due to the world's hold and affect over him. Many of the individuals that had their own physical forms at one point have been reduced to hallucinatory images and barely mobile flashes of their former selves to the world's future victims, subjecting them to the same torture they endured in their living years.

It is unknown if the universe itself is evil, or if a greater power such as a Devil or even a corrupted God looks over it, and it is impossible to know since nobody who has arrived or been born there has ever been known to survive trying to leave, never returning to tell the tale. If the universe itself is a living entity that knowingly tortures its inhabitants, it seems to know how perfectly well, using teleportation, manipulation and false security in an effort to control the individuals within itself and subject them to even harsher psychological and physical torment. if a higher power controls these events, it is unknown what their motivation is.

The Quiet World gets its name from the fact that people very seldom speak within it, with Dennis only audibly speaking words once while singing to himself, as well as yelling a few times, most notably when an also yelling Green Man interrupted him from watching television. It is usually a silent world, with any ambience being fairly low volume, such as the sounds of industrial action coming from a place that only gets further and further away the more you try and find it. This would also imply it is a very broken, warped reality that has few laws that abide to basic laws of physics.

The Quiet Zone was apparently affected by its own COVID-19 epidemic, and seems to have four seasons, the same as the standard universe. Lycra Entities appear to be the only beings capable of dipping in and out of the universe, but given they are not standardised people and are naturally as autistic as one comes, they do not speak about their journeys away from The Quiet World, instead continuing to play into, fall victim for and even encourage the torture of the world they reside in.

## Locations

The Quiet World is split up into various individual, loosely connected, potentially dangerous areas known as 'zones', with their own distinct appearances, settings and themes. They are as follows:

* **House Zones** - House-like zones made to seem comforting, but just as vulnerable to danger and increasing anxiety as any other zone.
	+ House Zone One
	+ House Zone Three

* **Street Zones** - Street-like zones with pavements, roads and houses, with street lamps that glow bright and deadly in the dead of night.
	+ Street Zone Eleven (Newland Road)

* **Park Zones** - Park-like zones, some more natural, others with more semi-industrial or straight up dirty designs.
	+ Park Zone Fourteen

* **Shadow Zone** - A dark, isolated, morbid, truly horrific zone of completely blackness, leaving those unfortunate enough to be trapped inside unable to do little more than struggle as they are engulfed in blinding horror.

## Known Inhabitants

* Dennis (formerly; deceased)
* The Dog
* Hockey Masked Man
* Pandemic Freak (possibly)
* Green Man
* Screaming Man
* Braces Shark
* Creepy Woman