Mario brothers jokey AU where the brothers are youtubers. Luigi is an innocent small name gamer who doesn't care about the subs or the likes but wants his brother to be impressed and proud of him, and Mario is a popular bigger name prank vlogger who usually targets Luigi. Probably a two-shot.

"Yeah, sure dude. I'll film a video with you tonight. Can I pick the game?" Luigi was extremely excited that Mario had agreed to do the collab video that he had no qualms against him picking the game, though he had been hoping to play 1 2 Switch.

"Sure! If you come at 6 we can have pizza before starting."

"Sounds good bro." Luigi couldn't hear the light chuckle as Mario clicked hang up. There was so much to do before 6! He began to clean the entire apartment, hesitating to contemplate inviting Daisy, his would-be girlfriend if he ever got up the courage to ask. But no, she was away for the weekend. So he resumed his frenzied tidying.

Luigi wasn't a big name youtuber like his brother. He didn't mind, though. No play button or view count would change his happiness, he was content as is. He played a lot of cute indie games or puzzle games or open world stuff. Breath of the wild had been for sure the best purchase of the year and he put in some time playing it while he waited for his pizza and his brother to arrive. The pizza was on time, Mario was not.

"Fashionably late," He reminded himself, understanding that Mario had a busy lifestyle and would be there soon.

So a half an hour later than expected wasn't soon but Luigi had kept the pizza warm and Mario was finally here.

"Let's eat and hop into the gameplay!" Luigi said, with little kid like giddiness. It was truly wonderful to spend time with his brother, and Luigi cherished about 95% of the memories. The other 5% were repressed. Highly repressed.

"Oh sure. Ooh, mushroom pizza. Tasty." Mario munched his way through half the remaining pizza, getting grease on Luigi's couch, not that Luigi lodged a complaint about it. He was used to his brother's slovenly habits. Mario then logged into his steam account on Luigi's computer and pulled up the game.

"Isn't Five Nights At Freddy's supposed to be scary?"

"Oh no, not this game. It's a business simulator, cutesy instead of creepy. Like FNAF world." He nodded, he had seen the party style game when a couple of his favorite gamers had played it.

"Sounds good." He smiled happily at his brother, who grinned right back, and they started at the beginning and began to play through, Luigi commenting cheerfully for his small army of viewers. He liked the cutesy robot bear Helpy, and he liked putting together the restaurant. He wanted to bring back business into this poor little restaurant.

And then things turned weird. He gave it benefit of doubt for as long as he could because Mario insisted that it wasn't a horror game. Mario knew how much Luigi hated horror games. Luigi was admittedly a little cowardly, and so anything with horror was something he was quick to avoid. Horror movies, horror games, Luigi was sometimes even a tad reluctant to walk outside on Halloween. Because some kids could concoct terrifying costumes.

"Are you sure this isn't a horror game?" Luigi asked, running a hand through his hair, feeling a little anxious as the stakes rose in the game.

"Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure. I think I would know, I've played it a couple of times." But he heard something more in his brother's voice. He heard a stifled laugh. Suddenly, the pizza in his stomach didn't sit as well, and he had a feeling that there was going to be another repressed memory tonight.

But no... Why did it have to be that way? Why should he let this happen again? He would take Mario's abuse, but this time... This time he needed to fight back.

It was indeed as uncomfortable and frightening as Luigi suspected, with Mario laughing the whole time.

"My dorky twin fell for it again you guys! I knew he would, too, I knew it." Mario cackled to his camera. Luigi was hurt by his brother's careless pranks. And now he was more than hurt. Now he was seething and scheming.

"Mario, could you please get out of my apartment?" Luigi asked with tact.

"Course, course, no hard feelings right?"

"Of course not." Luigi said.

"You are just being yourself, of course." Luigi said pointedly.

"Glad you understand bro." Mario slapped Luigi on the back, grabbed a slice of pizza and his camera and left. Luigi rolled his eyes, not surprised that the insult had gone right over his head and glad that the dirtbag was out of his home. He would forgive Mario, of course he would, he always did, but first, there would be revenge. Long deserved revenge.

He couldn't sleep because of the game. Mario knew how these things got under his skin. Did Mario ever think about how this would affect Luigi's every day life? If he couldn't sleep at night than his performance would suffer in his job. He wasn't hot shot Mario who could do youtube full time. His Let's plays were just a hobby. His brother really was a jerk not understanding the differences between their lives. Mario would punk him his entire life if Luigi never taught him that he wasn't just the butt of bad jokes.

Since he couldn't sleep, he plotted. Mario would be so sorry that he was using his little brother for clicks and views. In fact, that silly video was already uploaded on Mario's channel, with horrible editing since it was so rushed. So many likes already. So many comments. And Luigi admittedly regretted crying.