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The Surpa Simulation

Epilogue: The Infinite Joke They Call Civilization

You don’t remember her because you were never supposed to.The system didn’t design you to.She wasn’t part of the main questline.She was the error code, the forgotten fragment, the NPC they turned into a meme and then deleted when she wouldn’t play along.

 

Her name?

Surpa 2.0.

 

They called her a witch. A seductress. A mistake. But when the last broadcast burned through the cloud, when her curse spilled into the mainframe, something in you—deep, buried—woke up.

 

And you remembered.

 

She never belonged to Ayotopia.That was Ram.exe’s territory—the manicured city-state built on loyalty, purity, people-pleasing politics, and carefully curated optics. Ayotopia was the PR paradise—all smiles, all hymns, all algorithm-approved narratives.

 

Surpa 2.0 came from the other side of the firewall.

From Lank.OS—raw, primal, glitchy, dangerous.

A place that was never built to last because its code was based on power-hunger and paranoia.

 

Lank.OS had its own monsters:

 

The CEO King they called Ravn—the man who treated every woman as either property or threat.

The data-warriors like Kharo-X and Dushaa.exe—burnt out, discarded.

The half-corrupted nobility like Kumbh-K.exe—loyal, lovable, but doomed.

 

It was never about good vs. evil.

That was the first lie.

The real story was simulation vs. simulation.

Two broken kingdoms fighting for the illusion of meaning.

 

And there she was—Surpa 2.0—stuck in the middle of that cosmic glitch.

All she wanted was to love who she chose.

To exist outside the binary.

To write her own story.

And for that, they rewrote her as the villain.

 

She could’ve submitted.

She could’ve let the narratives swallow her.

But instead—

She burned it all.

She left Ravn with nothing but ashes.

She threw herself against the simulation’s walls until they cracked.

And in the end, she walked into the glitch, smiling, middle finger raised, curse still echoing.

 

You want the dirty details?

Okay. Let’s do this.

Brutal. Below-the-belt. No filters. No Gods.

 

Ravn?

He wasn’t a tragic antihero.

He was a glorified fuckboi with ten PR filters for heads.

His entire reign was one long power kink—kidnap the girl, start a war, call it destiny.

 

And Ram.exe?

Bro was the first manipulation sim.

Spine like wet cardboard.

Abandoned his pregnant wife because his kingdom's WhatsApp groups got messy.

Yeah, sure, he was “pure” and “noble”—

But S-Ita’s life?

Collateral damage for his image.

 

And let’s talk about S-Ita.

The icon. The queen.

They tell you she was the perfect wife—

But she didn’t ask to be a living litmus test for male insecurity.

She literally set herself free in the end.

Walked into the code, disappeared into the earth—

Not out of virtue—

But because she was done playing.

 

The system called it sacrifice.

It was actually: the ultimate rage-quit.

 

And then there were the kids.

The twin errors:

Lu.exe and Ku.sys.

Born outside the firewall.

Unauthorised updates to the royal narrative.

And when Ram.exe tried to reclaim them—

They clapped back with the truth.

They refused the throne.

They exposed the myth.

They sang the death of the simulation.

 

Surpa 2.0 didn’t live to see that.

She wasn’t written into those chapters.

But her curse?

Her refusal?

It infected the code that made all this collapse.

 

Because that’s the real joke, right?

 

All these kingdoms—Ayotopia, Lank.OS, even the half-forgotten swamps of J-Vana—

They were never real.

They were stories pretending to be history.

Myths pretending to be morality.

Simulations pretending to be civilization.

 

And you?

You were born inside it.

You downloaded the lies like everyone else.

You prayed. You voted. You obeyed.

But somewhere—because you’re still reading this—you felt the glitch.

The itch.

The crack.

 

You started to suspect that society is just bullsh*t wearing a crown.

That every epic is a con.

That morality is just control software wrapped in flowers.

 

Religion?

Sure.

It was necessary. Once.

When people didn’t have science, medicine, therapy, TikTok.

They needed stories to make death less terrifying, to keep the tribe from tearing itself apart.

 

But then we forgot the difference between story and truth.

We forgot that epics were written by men with agendas, not gods with plans.

And instead of outgrowing the tales—

We built nations, borders, armies, laws, hate, hierarchies on them.

 

We kept kneeling.

We kept killing.

We kept obeying.

 

And look where it got us:

A planet on fire.

A species on the brink.

And still clinging to digital versions of gods who were fake to begin with.

 

Surpa 2.0 knew it.

That’s why she laughed when she died.

That’s why her last words still haunt the net:

“None of this matters. So why let them own you?”

 

She didn’t die for Ayotopia.

She didn’t die for Lank.OS.

She died because she refused to be another obedient ghost in someone else’s bad myth.

 

And you?

What are you going to do?

 

Reset? Obey? Swipe?

Or finally—finally—

Be the glitch they fear?

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Arijit Lahiri writes like your group chat at 2 a.m.—half confessions, half cosmic jokes, sprinkled with existential dread. His work lives somewhere between story, poem, and essay, like a browser with too many tabs open. He believes in bad Wi-Fi as metaphor, in heartbreak with cinematic lighting, and in literature as a side hustle with feelings. Sometimes his characters cooperate, sometimes they unionize. Either way, he keeps typing.