I'm Kyle, and I have untreated PTSD. This is my story.

When I was seven years old, my dad gave me a Wii. I was so excited to play it, because young naive child me didn't realize the terrible things I was about to witness.

After my dad set up the Wii for me, I was starstruck by the Wii Remote. It was just like a TV Remote, but for video games. I was about to play Wii Sports, but then something caught my eye. The Mii Channel.

I only barely understood what a Mii was. From what I could figure out with my limited seven year old brain, a Mii was a tiny person inside a Wii that you could customize into almost anything you wanted.

I pressed on the Mii Channel, and gasped. "Gasp!"

There was a creepy-looking Mii standing in the middle of the screen. He was bald with huge black eyes, and a terrifying smile. But worst of all, he was eating a waffle with his bare hands. I didn't really know how since he didn't have any fingers.

I think it's worth noting that I hated waffles. I don't really mind them anymore, but as a child, I was terrified of waffles because my friend Nathan told me that they were made of cockroaches. It was probably just one of the lies that his mom told him to make him stop eating unhealthy food, but we both believed it back then, being kids and all.

The strange-looking Mii stopped eating his waffle and stared straight into my eyes. I suddenly felt extremely nervous. I clicked on him with the remote, and over his head was the name 'Eteled'.

"W-Why don't you eat a pancake instead?" I asked, trying unsuccessfully to stay calm. "Those a-are way better than waffles..." my voice trailed off as Eteled's eyes suddenly narrowed.

"Are they?" A deep voice sounded from the Wii. "Hmm. You remind me of someone. I guess that means I have to traumatize you for life." He pulled an axe out of nowhere, and I gasped out loud. "Gasp!"

"Why do you people keep saying 'gasp' out loud?" Eteled asked as another Mii walked onscreen. But something was off. The Mii looked nearly identical to the real life me... and it was holding a plate of pancakes.

"W-What are you d-doing?" I stammered, not even trying to stay calm anymore. I had a really bad feeling about what was about to happen.

Dread filled up my insides as Eteled smacked the plate of pancakes out of the Mii's hands. Then he chopped up all the pancakes until they were a bunch of pieces on the ground. Then he raised the axe higher, and brought it down onto the Mii, and shopped off its head in one swift motion, realistic blood spraying out from its neck.

I'd never been so horrified in my life. This monster, Eteled, had just wasted an entire plate of perfectly good food! Oh, and also he just commited a murder in front of a child, but I was mostly upset about the pancakes.

The Mii Channel suddenly began glitching, and the screen flashed a bunch of anti-waffle messages before abruptly returning to the Wii Menu. Right before it happened, I could've sworn I heard a high-pitched voice saying, "Oh, Henry. Did you think you'd get away with that?"

My hands shaking, I tried to return to the Mii Channel, but when I clicked on it, I dropped the Wii Remote with a gasp. "Gasp!"

A message popped up with three huge words on it.

WII LIKE WAFFLES.