You say you’ll step forward but you only stumble back

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• Choking on Frozen Blood by Sobasobs

  Fandoms: Unstable Universe (Web Series)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • No category
  • Complete Work

  13 Dec 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Ashswag & SpokeIsHere (Video Blogging RPF)
  • Ashswag (Video Blogging RPF)
  • SpokeIsHere (Video Blogging RPF)
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • Whump
  • Torture
  • Psychological Torture
  • Blood and Gore
  • Mutilation
  • Abusive Relationships
  • Manipulation
  • Emotional Manipulation
  • Voidling SpokeIsHere
  • Spoke’s blood freezes when exposed to atmospheric pressure and temperature
  • Self-Hatred
  • SpokeIsHere-centric (Video Blogging RPF)
  • SpokeIsHere Needs a Hug (Video Blogging RPF)
  • Post-mafia arc
  • Guilt
  • Blood and Injury
  • Broken Bones
  • Stabbing
  • Branding
  • Broken Ribs
  • Totem of Undying (Minecraft)
  • Episode: e083 Trapping Secret Bases on a Hardcore SMP… (SpokeIsHere)
  • The Author Regrets Everything
  • I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping

  Summary

  Spoke needs a way to relieve himself of his guilt. He goes to the only person he knows who’s ruthless enough to do what must be done.

  Or

  Spoke gets tortured by Ash for 3.8k words (please mind the tags)

  Series

  • Part 1 of You say you’ll step forward but you only stumble back

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,811

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  31

  Kudos:

  177

  Bookmarks:

  19

  Hits:

  2,048

• You Cannot Shed Your Sins by Sobasobs

  Fandoms: Unstable Universe (Web Series)  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • No category
  • Complete Work

  01 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Leow0ok & SpokeIsHere (Video Blogging RPF)
  • Ashswag & SpokeIsHere (Video Blogging RPF)
  • Leow0ok (Video Blogging RPF)
  • SpokeIsHere (Video Blogging RPF)
  • Ashswag (Video Blogging RPF)
  • SpokeIsHere-centric (Video Blogging RPF)
  • Leow0ok-centric (Video Blogging RPF)
  • Leow0ok is so done
  • SpokeIsHere Needs a Hug (Video Blogging RPF)
  • And to get his shit together
  • Episode: e083 Trapping Secret Bases on a Hardcore SMP… (SpokeIsHere)
  • Torture
  • Implied/Referenced Torture
  • Suggestive Themes
  • Question mark???
  • Misunderstandings
  • Trauma
  • Complicated Relationships
  • Friends to Enemies
  • Murder
  • Guilt
  • Regret
  • The Author Regrets Everything
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • Blood and Gore
  • Mentioned ClownPierce (Video Blogging RPF)
  • The Nether (Minecraft)
  • Escape
  • Trust Issues
  • Loss of Trust
  • Spying
  • Fear
  • The invisible mafia haunts the narrative
  • so does ash
  • Blood and Violence
  • Angst
  • Ambiguous/Open Ending
  • Branding
  • Broken Bones
  • Totem of Undying (Minecraft)
  • Voidling SpokeIsHere
  • Whump
  • Spoke’s blood freezes when exposed to atmospheric temperature and pressure
  • Confessions
  • Overuse of italics

  Summary

  Spoke can’t handle the weight of his own actions and the consequences that follow. He goes to someone crueler to convince himself he’s not that bad. Leo confronts him about it.

  Series

  • Part 2 of You say you’ll step forward but you only stumble back

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  4,986

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  38

  Kudos:

  219

  Bookmarks:

  26

  Hits:

  1,944