Virtual Eyestrain

Virtual Eyestrain is a Mario EXE, it was created on May 29 2022 by Twitter user @JObjects.

Biography
Virtual Eyestrain was created by a rouge Nintendo employee by the name of Howard Victorson, a cultist leader who had been overcome by demonic forces. Using Howard as a vessel, the demon tampered with the prototype of the Virtual Boy, making it so it could inhabit it, as well as have a small piece of it inside of every complete Virtual Boy going forward.

Now the demon, calling itself Virtual Eyestrain (or VE) can appear within any Virtual Boy game, if encountered, VE will force itself into its victims eyesight, like when you stare at a light for too long, making it so that VE can torment it’s victims forever, until the day they die. No matter what they do or where they go, Virtual Eyestrain will follow.

Abilities

 * Afterimaging: The ability to burn itself into its victims eyesight pretty much permanently.
 * Ubiquitousness: The ability to exist in multiple Virtual Boys, as well as victims vision at the same time.
 * Virtual Control: The ability to interact with and manipulate the games it manifests in.

Weaknesses

 * Blind “Victims”: VE cannot infect anybody who is blind for obvious reasons
 * Hard of Seeing: Despite its main gimmick, VE actually has less than stellar vision without its extra set of eyes on its cap.
 * Exorcism: Though difficult to do correctly, it is possible to remove VE through an exorcism.

Trivia

 * VE’s original conception was based on an AI generated image of a “Mario EXE themed around fire”
 * VE took the form of Mario due to the first came it encountered being Mario Clash
 * VE is not actually Mario, but rather just takes the form of him.
 * VE’s demon form has 4 eyes, which is why the cap has its own pair, as well as the pair beneath it.