This is very lengthy and very rambly and I apologise if I've said anything that makes you uncomfortable. English is also not my first language but I really want to just pour my heart out.
When I saw this on itch.io, I felt myself almost tearing up. Almost. Which is more than I can say nowadays with mental health kicking my ass and my body shutting down. I got into the Creepypasta fandom at 13, in 2020. Right during the Pandemic and was predominantly active on the Creepypasta Quotev community. While searching for Creepypasta RP quizzes, I stumbled upon this little gem. I immediately got hooked. I don't think it was the first Creepypasta RP quiz I took, but it was the first Creepypasta RP quiz that was completed and I could actually complete. I spent nights hidden in my room, huddled under blankets and my Ipad hidden under a pillow doing this quiz. The writing, the character portrayal, the passion and immersive storyline got 13 year old me hooked. Now let me tell you, this. This was the shit for me then. You know how some Creepypasta Quotev writing can be, and Room Without A View was one of the few Creepypasta works with proper grammar, no cringey lines (at least for 13 year old me) and a somewhat more mature storyline. To say this warped my view of Creepypasta fanfiction would be an understatement, it became a staple, the standard I compared every single Creepypasta work I came across. When I completed Room Without A View for the first time, I felt empty. Because so far, nothing could compete. Nothing came close to this Creepypasta work. Till this day, I still would give everything and anything to experience Room Without The View for the first time. I scoured, I compared, I dug deep into every crevice of sites that had Creepypasta works on them or a Creepypasta RP quiz series that could hold even a candle to Room Without A View. I found none. And when I tell you I dug on Quotev, I dug. Wouldn't be strange to find my Quotev handle on Creepypasta RP quizzes or Creepypasta quizzes in the comment section during 2020-2021. So I mourned. Room Without A View became a comfort piece. An all time favourite. A first. Something special that had become apart of me. I'd retake the quiz, read the other results, pray day by day that the sequel would be continued.
At 15, I fell out of love with Creepypasta, left the fandom. But Room Without A View still had a special place in my heart, I still thought about it from time to time. Room Without The View is one of the reasons I started writing for the Creepypasta fandom. One of the reasons I started publishing fanfiction I wrote. Whether the fandom is Creepypasta or not, it inspired me to write. It was a major push for me into wanting to share a piece of myself with the Internet. Seeing Room Without A View gave me that want to share something on the Internet, whether that something be good or not. I just wanted to share. It made me want to share. It gave me some of the confidence to.
Throughout the years, I fell in and out of the fandom in random bursts. Never for long. Nothing could compare to my 13-14 Creepypasta craze.
Till this year. I'm finally 18. Woah, big change. College. No longer a teen. Not a minor now, young adult now. Woah, very scary and life altering. Moving away from home finally. I've been suffering from a major depressive slump for more than half a year now. I'm failing college. My nostalgia and want for escapism pushed me back into Creepypasta. Of course, my obsession wasn't as heavy as back then, but this time I stayed and lurked in the fandom on Tumblr. I used to retake the quiz from time to time, jumping from random chapter to random chapter. But in March I think, my birthday month, when I finally got into the fandom again. I retook the entire series for the first time. I cried. The comfort, the nostalgia, the familiar memory of being 13 and curled up in bed and kicking my feet over Room Without A View. I was suddenly 13 and stupid and younger and happier again. That was the kind of joy Room Without A View brought me. For a brief moment, I could forget about all the dullness of my new life and feel like a young wide eyed girl again. Room Without A View did that for me. I still take the quiz from time to time sometimes when things get rough, or when I simply want some serotonin boost. It always makes me happy, it always reminds me of sweet 13 and being in the Creepypasta fandom where I found out so much about myself. Alt culture that had me learning being different was okay when I was trapped in a rigid, close minded environment growing up. Learning about the world more through social media as I finally got my phone. Meeting an online friend I've kept in contact on Quotev for five whole years because of Creepypasta. The friends I made in the fandom. I'd give anything to be 13 again, and Room Without A View makes me 13 again.
My words are failing me. Haven't slept in a day lol. I have homework due and I'm still rotting in my apartment. But the genuine joy that sparked through me when I saw this up on itch.io? That was real. That was warm. That was nice.
Even with all this, there's so much I want to say about Room Without A View that I can't properly articulate into words. And this might be silly to say, and might be too heavy, but Room Without A View has played a small part in making sure I'm still here today. It's pulled me through some of the nastiest of times just by being there for me to enjoy. It's more home than my home has ever felt.
5 years is a long time. Or not. I've grown fascinated with many different media, but ever since 13, Room Without A View has changed me as a person so fundamentally that I can't really think about how to seperate it from the me today. It was there. And just by this piece of fiction being there, I found life a little easier to live. Everything for a moment didn't seem that bad.
So, thank you again. Even these words can't express how much gratitude and love I have for this work. No matter the path this series takes, I just hope to enjoy it if I can, while I can, when I can.
Room Without A View is endlessly special to me, and everyday I am grateful I've gotten to witness this work you've decided to share with the Internet.