Hello Everyone. My name is Thomas,Thomas Jefferson,Born in USA at September 5th 1990. You may heard of me from the Discord server and other social medias, but i'll tell the story of what happened late in night, I've always been an expert when it came to MUGEN, If some of you people don't know what MUGEN is then i recommend to just go Search it on Google. I was a skilled engineer with a deep love for custom fighters, i spent hours Downloading new Fighters, stages, and Screen packs. i could make anything work, tweak any code, and create the most chaotic battles the game had ever seen with full of crossovers. It was my hobby and my passion. But this time, something was different.
It started with a strange fighter i downloaded from the MUGEN Archive a character named Igor. The description said, "Igor Is Still the best since 2009. PS: this is a reuploaded/Archived Fighter plus with a stage", a cryptic message that seemed nostalgic but it was odd because that's just Salamon's quote from Godzilla NES but edited. Igor's design was simple, Igor looked like a smaller humanoid character that looks exactly like Isaac from The Binding of Isaac and Eden’s hair but to be more specifically edenhair29 but painted black, hes wearing a gray shirt, an orange trench coat, blue pants and brown shoes that he wore, his eyes are black with white pupils.
But it wasn't just Igor's appearance that gave me Confusion, It was the stage Named "The Red Eclipse", it was a hybrid between a dancing club and a bar, but something was horribly wrong. The floor was cracked, littered with shards of broken glass, and cobwebs hung from the walls like forgotten memories. Dust coated everything, and above, the roof had caved in, revealing a sky stained red with an eclipsed moon and sun.
i couldn't resist. i had to try it for myself.
As the battle begans, Igor's voice echoed in the digital arena, a distorted tone slipping through the cracks. "I used to live from this place once I called home of mine… They replaced me with some garbage edits and cheap fighters from all around the community.."
The battle with Igor was intense. He was quick, dangerous, and surprisingly skilled. But sometimes, he seemed to take things a little too far, As Igor had a habit of taunting me, and his words dripping with bitterness as i fought, i found myself growing more and more curious. This wasn’t the charming, slick OC that i rescently had downloaded. Something was wrong.
i started with Zombie, from Plants vs Zombies. Igor muttered, "Not a bad choice for a rotten freak." As Zombie burned to death, grunting in agony, i quickly swapped to Mario, hoping to put up a better fight. But Igor sneered. "I always hated that plumber. He can die just like the rest of them." Mario's body crumpled under the relentless assault, leaving Mario to bleed out from his blood.
Next I've tried Sonic the Hedgehog, thinking his speed would outmatch Igor's. But Igor moved with terrifying precision, Sonic was the Fastest thing alive but Igor Striked him down like a wounded animal. "you're too slow" Igor mocked at me.
Undeterred, I've picked Felicia from Darkstalkers Hoping that would stop his wrathful killing spree, but to no prevail, Igor Preforms a Fatality on Felicia, Watching her getting set on fire as she screamed in agony as she was consumed by the green flames,next i picked Bubsy the Bobcat that surely would stop him but Bubsy was been decapitated by a one swing of a sword, and then it was Shao Kahn's next fight. When Shao Kahn stepped into the ring, Igor scoffed. "Is this your best effort to defeat me? Picking a Mortal Kombat boss? How bold."
The first round i have won. Shao Kahn crushed Igor with a well-timed attack. But Igor only grinned wider as he staggered to his feet. "Not bad… Not bad at all for a newbies Like you.. Let's see if you can survive THIS."
That was when everything began to shift.
Igor's movements grew erratic, his form distorting as his true nature began to emerge. His body grew taller, his arms stretched unnaturally long, and his sleeves tore apart as he expanded. His eyes bled red, glowing with a ferocity that I've had never seen in a fighter. Igor’s grin grew wider that kinda like lord X's grin but more twisted. "I'm done playing games with you, boy…"
The stage around them seemed to warp, the broken glass cracking louder, as Igor’s form grew more monstrous. The corpses of my previous fighters such as Zombie, Mario, Sonic, Felicia, Bubsy, and Shao Kahn lay scattered across the ground, mangled and burned beyond recognition. Hellfire licked at their charred remains.
"Thanks to the power of the internet.." Igor whispered, his voice low and filled with disdain. "I'm more than just a fighter now, I'm alive in this hellish landscape.."
The screen flickered as Igor’s true form towered over me. His body stretched impossibly tall, his red eyes glowing with an almost malevolent light. "You are not the first I've met.." Igor sneered and his voice becoming a deep growl. "And you won't be the last. You think this game is just for fun? No... this is my home. You will never escape."
As my game crashed and my screen went black. But not before i found a strange file buried deep in the game’s directory after my komputer rebooted itself. It was a chilling discovery.
Igor’s Origin Story:
Igor had originally been conceived as a character in a concept art file, but over the years, his design evolved. He had been a work in progress fighter with few tweeks and balance differences and then he evolved completly as a fully developed fighter among with his stage and was being uploaded on website, a tribute to the early days of MUGEN and YouTube, until one day in 2012, disaster struck. During a testing session, a 12-year-old boy playing the game had a severe epileptic seizure due to the flashing lights in the stage, causing the boy to be rushed to the hospital. The character and his stage were removed from MUGEN for safety reasons.
But the story didn’t end there.
A group of scientists had gotten hold of the file for experimentation, hoping to understand the anomalies that were tied to it. Igor was dubbed "The Fighter Who Refused to be Erased," a name that stuck. They discovered that if a player was playing solo, the anomaly would trigger,Igor would become aware of the player and grow increasingly hostile. If a second player was present, the anomaly didn't occur.
The test results were chilling: one game tester had a heart attack after a particularly intense session with Igor, and another was hospitalized for PTSD from the overwhelming fear. Igor wasn’t just a fighter. He was something else. Self-aware. Hostile. Alive.
The file had been abandoned, but somehow, it had found its way back into the game. And now, Thomas had awakened Igor once more.
Igor had grown tired of being forgotten. He would never be erased again.
