(dont be a ship, all the entities are literal just John's sins. My au.)

Clutching the Purifier he had taken after falling down here in this horrible hell, he ran as fast as he could like always. A eternal suffering, of running through The Maze, hoping to find an exit. That exit, supposed, to lead him free of sin and into heaven. He had died a horrible death, and this was his only way of redemption.

He didn't know there was no purification. No redemption. No being free of sin.

Unlike most, you actually tried to stop him from re-torturing himself over and over by killing him: like most entities. However, you'd always warn him to never come back. Not like he listened anyway, even if Ignorance was an apparent sin.

You started to get more and more annoyed at his reappearances. You got more and more aggressive, and he just kept coming back.*

He didn't even listen at all. He didn't care, his sanity only screaming at him to find the exit that didn't really exist.

And so annoyed, you followed him into the bunker.

He was tired. He huffed, holding a paper with information on it. About Sorrow, of how he should get under a surface. Whoever wrote those notes seemed to be the only one who fully knew what happened and why everyone was here.

"Gah!" You can hear his panicked yell as he notices you staring at him. Although you couldn't damage him in this bunker, fear still curled all over him. He blinks, blinks again, rubs his eyes, thinking you're just another doodle his sanity made. The Purifier only had three souls in it, and yet he had to collect 100 just to open the 'exit.'

And just maybe, there is a real one. Just not here, not here not yet.