Jan, 01 2112
New year new goals. I thought it would be good to lay out what I wanted from the new year. I think 4 goals are appropriate, because of the 4 me's. 4 I's? How do I plural self? Selves? That sounds both right and wrong.
Whatever.
I think I want to stick to my schedules all year. Secondly I'd like to not stick out so much. Thirdly, I think I'd like to compete in a martial arts tournament if at all possible, or fight against someone else to see if I am any good. I think I am, but I've been the only judge and I think I'm rather biased. And fourth... I need to think about.
Which I have actually done quite a lot of since Christmas, and I've realized a few things. One I find it very odd that my family never celebrated any holiday. That was probably part of my Dad's doing. His fixation upon his dream probably caused both him and my mother to forget. Second, I should come up with a more reasonable schedule. Unfortunately, I ended up neglecting my other schedules to play videogames. With myself. On a four person team I can be every member. So any mistakes are my own and I get better four times faster than I normally would.
I guess fourth goal could be get good at games. It seems excessive, but kinda fun. Okay really fun.
So I guess my plan is to have two days where all 4 of me play videogames. So 2 rest days leaves 5 days during the week to do... Something. History sounds useful and like it would help me fit in. I learned on New Year's Eve that apparently humanity stagnated during the emergence of powers. It shook the whole world up, lives, technologies, history, and so much more was lost. Fortunate the internet was not completely lost, and has slowly been re-established in much of the world. Recovering sever banks have help recover much of what was lost. So it was described to me like humanity hit a large, 100 or so year, speed bump.
So history, 100 years of fighting and power struggles sounds fun, but also local history. I stick out like a sore thumb, with my lack of basic cultural things. So I think I should just have reading be a schedule. Maybe I should make that part of my weekend, like Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Reading, video games, and video games. That sounds productive.
Kidding.
At least I will not be tempted to waver from these schedules. That leaves 4 days in the week with 4 me's. I still want 2 selves to train, leaving 2 selves for me to do... something. Ugh, maybe my fourth goal should be to use ellipses less. I just don't know what to do with my other two selves I don't want to daily play video games because that will lead to the same problem as last year. Maybe I should try and make some more friends.
I briefly mentioned that I met some people on New Year's Eve, I was out and about running through the underground city when I met them there were four of us and four of them. They looked tough and like they wanted to fight. Apparently gang's are a thing, and they thought I was one. Small fry like them. But when I reduced my duplicants to just me and my brother they relaxed a bit. Especially because I told them I wasn't looking for any trouble.
One thing lead to another and we all started racing around the underground duplicants and all. They had a lot of good tips and tricks, which I picked up fast. Originally when they saw my height and face they put off, but I told them about living everyday twice so really I was about 20 years old they seemed more okay with me. Really I'm a bit older but it was nice to not be looked down on just because I look 12. They were very interested in my power until I told them how garbage it was. I know they wanted to use me like a weapon, but they were friendly enough even though I wasn't interested in fighting for them.
The underground city is one of movement and fast thoughts. I love it down there. It's like the darker twin of the upside, but at the same time it's its own entity with its own rules. Orderly chaos versuses chaotic order. There are unspoken rules of the underground that can apparently only be experienced, but I think they were just trying to get me to come back.
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Maybe that's what I'll do then. Join a gang with my last two selves. It sounds bad, like really bad, but I am still technically underage it's not like anything really bad can happen. Plus I can always just say that I am my twin. It'll be safer than going down on my own, and maybe it'll help me figure out what I am meant to do in this crazy world. I won't rush into anything, and I need some time to think about it. Time will tell.
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Feb, 28 2112
So not wanting to rush was a bad idea. That gang I initially met was hassled me every time I went down there, until I joined up. Frustrating, and if I had just immediately joined up it wouldn't have been annoying. Oh well it has been useful. It has been just about 2 months and I've got leaps better, I'm both faster and stronger. We have gotten into a few scuffles, and turns out I am pretty good at fighting. Though according to the group I am too soft, because I don't go for cheap shots.
Suppose that's fair. They call me the noble gangster, which I think is silly, but everyone has a nickname down there.
In other news my sisters have been talking me up at school, and their school wants me. Which I think is odd, so I told them no, but they haven't given up. I mean what would a hero school want with me?
Well they don't seem to just be a hero school. School doesn't even feel like the right word. They teach all manner of things including manners, martial arts, hero law enforcement, finances, personal business, history, art, music, and much more. It is an academic for the gifted of anything and everything, and I qualify.
Well it's not hard to see why they would think that I'm gifted. I'm 12 and I passed highschool. Technically I aced it, but I am not one for bragging. Thinking about it mentally though I am below average for 29. The worst part is that they are hassling me far more than the gang ever did. They want me and my brother to attend, because we both did so well. The duplicant version missed a few questions on the other test, but still it was extraordinary.
Actually, I lied the worst part is that I am considering going. I think I am becoming an anime protagonist. Secret Life lived in the shadows. Check. Going to a special highschool. Check. Tournament arc sometime in the future. Check. Powers only a select few know the full extent of. Check. Next thing I know I'll have a harem fawning over me and my mysterious life outside of school. Well a boy can dream right?
Oh I almost forgot. I got top 500 in the fps I was playing and I'm starting to get bored with the high intensity of it all. Fantastically fun, but so incredibly taxing mentally. So I started playing this turn based strategy game, and this colony manager to relax. It's still a bit of thinking but more relaxed, and this one is fun because I can play against my selves. It's surprising the moves you have to make when you're trying to not do the moves that think you would do. Plus there is a 16 player mode where we play 4 against 12. 12 hard A.I.'s against the 4 or me. We lose a lot, but it's a good learning experience.
Then there is also the history. It's so... so, well to use the antiquated term, extra. Betrayals, poisonings, infighting and rebellion. It's like we went back to the dark ages, only there was less religion and more torture. Then 30 or so years ago things rapidly went back to how it was in the 2000's. Very odd.
It is also weird that when powers emerged people just seemed to expect it. There was no panic, no abnormalities. One day there was nothing. Then for whatever reason, there were powers and everyone was okay with it. No record of any big event or anything like that, but within 5 years all the map lines were different and the population was cut in half.
My city was one of the few that has survived mostly intact since the event or whatever you want to call it. It managed to keep most everything running including parts of the internet. Instead of hoarding it my city offered as the olive branch to other cities and began relinking the world. Which just so happened to begin around the start of the new civil age. Again the whole thing is just very odd.
I also did some research about society before powers and it was weird. The internet was king of all back then and memes were everywhere, and I think I adore it.
Enough of the past though, back to my present dilemma. I want to go to this school, for a few reasons. One I'd get to be closer to my family. Two I'd have the chance to make friends. Three I could examine a more detailed history or ask some of the professors to help fill in the blanks. Four harem. Five maybe finally figure out what to do with my own odd life. Six I'm not sure but there is probably something. Seven this has been more than a few reasons, so I think I should go.
I think I'll leave my "twin" in the gang and spar with myself at school while attending classes. Then we can switch places every week.
Sigh maybe being an anime protagonist won't be so bad, even without the harem.