Now, I know I said I wouldn't be trying to appeal IP-based stuff here anymore, but that doesn't mean I'm not willing to at least show what I've gotten done in my spare time.
I never saw Cupcakes as a good story- actually, I never considered it a Creepypasta to begin with, even if it was promoted as one back in the early 2010s. I did what I could to give it some semblance of motivation, but I did end up having to take out a good chunk of the fundamentals. There are just some stories you physically can't fix without sacrificing important points from the original draft.
Anyway, instead of it being in-universe, I switched the viewpoint to be third person, and have it be an old video game instead! Not everything in this narration is exactly like the final draft, do keep in mind as I had to tamper with some very slight repetition issues, formatting errors, etcetera.
I was heavily inspired by classic horror literature, and some angsty fanfics I've gazed over in my time when writing the dialogue. That was probably the must fun part about all of this for me.
So here it is, it took me months of procrastination, continuously switching between ideas, and an entire day of video editing, but it was worth finally finishing this fiasco of a story.