Simon Fade: The Man Before the Blur

“Before the Fade, he was already fading.
He was invisible — before he turned invisible.”

Simon Fade was a contractor for a stealth research lab buried beneath layers of secrecy and ambiguity.
The kind of man who took comfort working behind the scenes.
Solving problems no one else could solve.
Finding patterns in the chaos.
Happy not to be noticed.

Then came the anomalies.

It wasn’t just the data.
It was him.

Logs removing entire experiments.
Equipment glitching with no input.
Conversations that echoed… before they happened.
A polymer that didn’t shimmer — it responded.

That was before Variant C.
Before time lost its grip.
Before he became the only one who remembered what the system had erased.

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He wasn’t ready for this.

Was it an accident, or was he chosen?

Simon’s not a soldier.
Not a genius.
Not a chosen one.

He’s a talented engineer with a broken compass for time and a tendency to trust routine more than people.

This is his story — the Fade Out story — and it doesn’t begin with a bang.
It begins with something small.
Something he can’t name.
Something that changed him forever.