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• Wearing the Writer by nellroshe

  Fandoms: Alan Wake (Video Games), Alan Wake II  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen, F/M, M/M
  • Work in Progress

  31 May 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Original Female Character/Original Male Character
  • Original Female Character(s) & Alan Wake
  • Alan Wake
  • Alex Casey (Alan Wake)
  • Old Gods of Asgard (Alan Wake)
  • Saga Anderson
  • Nell Marlowe (OC)
  • Thomas Zane
  • Tor Anderson
  • Odin Anderson
  • Ahti (Control)
  • Original Female Character(s)
  • Original Male Character(s)
  • Mr. Scratch (Alan Wake)
  • Bodyswap
  • Angst and Feels
  • Sharing a Body
  • Body Horror
  • Identity Horror
  • Possession
  • Psychological Horror
  • Reality Warping
  • Manipulation
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst
  • Survival Horror
  • Trauma
  • Dissociation
  • Not Beta Read
  • Loss of Identity
  • Gender Confusion
  • Identity dislocation
  • Identity Switch

  Summary

  The story did not ask Nell Marlowe before it took her.

  It gave her a face everyone recognized, a name that was not hers, and a nightmare that kept writing itself around her.

  Somewhere else, something wearing Nell’s body opened its eyes.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  27,924

  Chapters:

  7/?

  Kudos:

  1

  Hits:

  54