Eteled: Origins

* 2020-
* 2017-2020
* Animatic

***Eteled: Origins*** is a prequel to Wii Deleted You. It was released on December 16, 2017.

## Full Transcript

I used to work for Nintendo of America while the Wii was being created. It was actually kind of a good job if I’m being honest.

However, there was one guy who worked there that nobody really knew. They didn’t know what he was like or what he did in his spare time. All we knew were just rumors.

His name was Henry Morris. There were rumors about him being spread around the office about what he did, where he lived and how he even got hired in the first place. All of which are most likely not true.

To me he was just some other guy who wasn’t really known by anyone.

But some time during the Wii’s production he started to act… strange.

He would show up to work late, would glare at some of the employees, even hide in the bathroom and refuse to talk to anybody. I almost felt bad for him.

One Tuesday afternoon though, my coworker– Mike,– came up to me on my break. “Hey Johnathan. What do you think Henry’s doing over there?”

I’ve known Mike ever since I started working at Nintendo. I would consider him to be one of my best friends. We would go bowling, grab a bite to eat, and sometimes even play a round of golf.

Anyways, I looked over at Henry and he was just pacing. I could clearly see him mumbling to himself.

“Looks like he’s talking to himself.” I replied.

Mike snickered, taking a swig of his can of coke. “Seems like he’s gone insane.”

Henry continued to pace around for about a minute until he finally left the office. Me and Mike followed a safe distance away. We saw him snatch a Wii– one that was already boxed and ready to ship off to retailers– and went into one of the back offices. He made sure to look around to make sure nobody was watching and proceeded to enter the room, shutting the door behind him.

It was silent for a moment between them to take in what they just saw before Mike began. “So, uh… Wanna check out what he’s doing?”

“Uh. Maybe later. Besides, our break is almost over.” I responded as he and I walked away.

It had been a good ten minutes after our break period had ended and I was busy working. I had a clear view of the office Henry had entered and he still hasn’t come out. I started to become curious to what he was up to in there but decided to turn my attention back to my computer and continue working.

Not even thirty seconds pass and a loud scream catches the attention of everyone in the office.

I whipped my head to face the room that Henry was in and all I saw was one of my coworkers standing in the doorway, shaking. Everyone got up out of their cubicles and ran to the room and when I managed to get a good look in the room I almost fainted.

Henry was laying on the floor, dead. His body was dark and unrecognizable, as if he was electrocuted. The result was an office-wide panic. People were screaming, calling the police. Some even vomited right there on the scene.

Two days later, everyone who was present was called down to the presentation room. I was still shaken from the whole thing and didn’t want to think about it anymore, but I went anyway.

When we got there, my boss was standing at the front of the presentation room while we got all settled.

“Hello everyone. I’m sure that you are all aware of the event that happened two days ago, and I am just as shaken up as you all are. However, we have gotten security camera footage and I thought it’d be important for you all to see it. Please note that some of this is disturbing.”

My boss walked over to the projector and brought up the footage, pressing play.

The video began with Henry entering the room with the Wii. He hooked it up to the TV and sat down. It was normal for the most part other than the fact he had a bottle of beer and was drinking it throughout the entirety of him setting up the Wii.

When Henry got the Wii fully set up, the first thing he did was go to the Mii Channel. When it opened, he pressed the button to make a new Mii. The Mii’s gender was male and he started it from scratch. He made the Mii bald, with a huge mouth, huge eyes and a small nose.

Then Henry got to naming the Mii. He named it… Eteled.

He then saved the Mii and put it into the Mii Plaza. Henry simply stared at the screen for a bit in silence before he finally spoke. “Heh. I always wanted to be a Mii.”

Immediately after he said that, my boss paused the video. “We are now about to enter the part of the video that is disturbing. If you feel you are unable to handle the disturbing nature of the following, please leave now.”

In the footage, the TV began to flicker. Henry took notice of the plug for the wii and it was halfway into the socket. He bent down to fix it and when he did, he got electrocuted and dropped dead instantly. I looked behind me to see all my coworkers wince as they saw Henry get electrocuted in front of their eyes. I didn’t even want to look at it.

Mike just sat there and watched with a blank expression as if all emotion had been sucked out of him.

I looked back at the footage and took a good look at Henry. His body would sometimes jerk and flinch due to the electricity.

And yet after a second, the monitor that Henry made that Mii on began to flicker and go static.

The monitor faded into the picture of that Mii that Henry created– Eteled. And he started speaking.

“**I always wanted to be a Mii,**” Eteled said in a distorted and low pitched voice.”**Have you ever wanted to be a Mii?**”

After that last image the monitor cut to static and then the footage cut to static.

Everyone was silent. Nobody dared to say a word.

“I-I’m very sorry you all had to see that.” My boss stuttered as he turned off the projector. “You may all leave now.”

But as I was leaving, I realized something. After we went back to work after seeing Henry’s corpse two days ago I looked back and noticed one of my coworkers– Johnny– taking a Wii including the cable, remotes and more with him in a box. I assumed he was just going to format the Wii’s system memory and box it again but rumors started going around that Johnny just put everything back in the box, sealed it up and put it with the others. Without formatting the Wii’s system memory.

The Wii has already been sent out to retailers. I should’ve known that’s what Johnny did. He had a reputation around the office for doing some stupid things already. But… This would leave whoever was the poor soul who bought the Wii to find out about Eteled.

I have no idea what Eteled could do. But I knew whatever it was, it couldn’t be good. There was no way to track the Wii though. Yet I still couldn’t accept the fact that whoever bought it would soon find out it was already used by a man who died while playing it. Or atleast find Eteled in the Mii Channel

I couldn’t handle it anymore. About two weeks later, I resigned. While me and Mike still remained friends there will always be that day where somehow in conversation one of us will bring up Henry. And we’d sit there in silence.

I really, really hope whoever bought that Wii doesn’t have to experience anything that Eteled might do. And if they do, then I pray that it doesn’t leave a lasting effect on them.

Henry was a man that nobody ever knew. Nobody spoke a word to him and never really acknowledged his existence. Was he a loner? Did he have a mental disorder? Nobody really knew. All we can do is speculate.

Remember, all we had were rumors.