A/N: First fic! Hooray! Actually, there was another fic planned to be my very first (Gumball and Darwin being stuck in the boys' bathroom a la The Secret), but I have to postpone its release date because reasons. Plus this idea seems more interesting. It's also an one-shot.

Also, it might be unrelated to the fic, but am I the only one who sympathizes Frankie?! He at least felt bad for his actions.

Le Disclaimer: 99,99 percents of the people who write fics, including me, don't own the shows/books/comics/etc. they write the fic for. Unless they're working for that respective thing. That's very unlikely.

TRIGGER WARNINGS: Self-hate (technically), alleged (and possible) dissociation.

He replaced me.

I was the original one. Zachary. The one assigned at birth. Not this loser.

I was always the best, winning every single game I was in (that is, technically because I'm still Zach the Emperor of Elmore? Amirite guys? I have no idea how are "Gumball"'s memories, but I honestly don't care). I may seem repetitive, but I'm the best because I am the best.

And I was always like that.

Till it happened.

It was when we were three years old. I remember him having a fondness for anything gummy, jelly, those which you can't chew properly and it always stucks on your teeth. Plus Mom always told us we have that nice, soft bubblegum blue fur.

He insisted on changing his name to "Gumball", due to this very little, unimportant fact. People started calling him like that, till it became something normal. Usually when he met new people, he always insisted on referring him on his nickname.

And they slowly forgot about me.

Zachary was no longer his name. He was now Gumball. He's nothing like me.

But I returned. It was short-lived though. Just because he asked Mom what was his real name since he couldn't his on a stupid arcade game he won.

I started taking his brain over. Again. The family was trying to bring back those memories of him losing at everything, and that arcade game was some of the few things in his entire life he actually won.

They changed the name permanently when I was close to my full return. He is now Gumball.

Forever.

I was sent into The Void. A place nobody knows about. A place nobody wants to know about.

Because in this stupid Void there are stuff nobody wants to remember about.

I personally really hate him, and technically hate myself too. We're the same person. And we're apparently both losers, to be honest. For he, it's in his blood. For me, it's because I could return but I was defeated when the world was acknowledging my existence again.

Because they love him for whatever he is. He may be a loser, but he's the best in his family's eyes.

It won't last that long.

'Cause I'll return.

And I'll be the best again.