Alias watching the progress of the two, the progress of both Aria and Aiden. How are their paths going to go continue now that they both knew that the other was from outside of this world.
However, that was going to pose a problem, and one that he wasn't sure how they were going to navigate around. Aria's death. It seems like they had taken notice of her. She is disrupting the story too much with him knowing, with them knowing of the other.
But... This could be a good thing. They both could use an ally, if they can trust one another. Oh, I am sure that Aiden won't have a problem trusting Aria. He does have a bit of an obsessive personality.
Alias shrugged his shoulders and walked around the room. The way that things need to be set up is for him to not interact with Aiden. He was given the notebook, that is his part to play. Alias wasn't as involved with Aiden. He couldn't be. That was what his role dictated.
As for Aria? Well, it seems like he had chosen well with her. Elia wasn't just filling her role, she had decided to dedicate herself to it. She embraced the role and decided to live it, to the point where she had accepted this as her new life. He was grateful for this. Not only did Elia get to start over, Aria did in her new life as well. The open memory channel was also helping. Alias was pleased that this was a feature of this world he had recently become the god of.
Yes, recently. This hadn't always been his world. Not by a long shot. He had no part in creating it, in creating the rules. He was beginning to be able to modify it, thus giving Aria some video game elements, as well as the training for her. He was still working on that, but was almost done. She would be able to go through the training the next time that she died. As she was on a new route, and interacting with more people he was certain that her impending death wouldn't take too long.
How had Alias become the god of this world? Interesting and short story that.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The god that had ruled over this world had become resentful of his creations. He had been a god for a while, and was becoming jaded. Alias supposed that when you had been doing the same thing for so long one was bound to develop some hard feelings.
The god before him also had a mean streak. He was a cruel god. Once he became jaded he had decided that he was going to destroy his world. He began to corrupt everyone, shifting personalities. People that had been noble fell from grace. Rulers that had been fair and wise became cruel and suspicious. Friendships that seemed as though they would last forever began to crumble. Lovers fought and cheated.
The god before him had laughed. He knew that wars would start, and the corruption in people's hearts would keep the wars raging until the world was nothing but ashes. The council of the gods realized that this was happening though. They would not tolerate such behavior. That was not the point of this world. This was an otome world, he was an otome god. Sure, wars could happen, but they would be stopped by love and friendship. By the beautiful things in life. Once wars were ended, understandings were supposed to grow between the different peoples and races.
The council gave him one chance to fix the world, not telling him what the consequences would be. The old god was flippant, thinking that this was unimportant. He truly believed that if he continued to warp the world it would be taken away from him and he would be put in charge of a world that better suited his... tastes.
A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.
This was not the case. The council came to Alias, told him of what was happening and brought him in to watch the old god fall. They brought Alias in for a few different reasons. The first was that he was a new god. He had never been in charge of a world before. He had been in charge of writing some scripts for the story of a world, but wasn't given final say over those. This was something he hadn't seen. Many didn't know the punishments for such behavior as they happened so infrequently.
The second reason they had brought him in was so that he could see what had happened to this world, so that he could see the damage. He had asked why they wanted him to know this. That is when they had told him that he would be in control of this world. His first world. He thought his first world would be his own brainchild. Instead he was stepping into a mess.
Understanding the reasons he was brought in to see the punishment he steeled himself. He was brought into a viewing room. He couldn't hear what was being said. He could see the old god, self assured and cocky as he spoke. Alias then saw his face fall. Arrogance turned to concern, turned to fear, turned to... Nothing. There was nothing left of the old god. He was dead. He was let go not only from his world but from life itself.
Alias was afraid. After he saw the old god die the new gods came in. He was tasked with seeing this world set straight. Fix it. They didn't care if it followed the same story. Provide a new story. A correct path. A true route.
It took Alias a while to figure out how he could do that. Everyone was corrupted. How was he supposed to get corrupted people to fall in love with one another. That is when the idea came to him. The idea of how to fix this world. He needed to bring in people that weren't corrupted. How would be insert them into this world though. The world itself had taken on some of the old gods evil. He would have to trick the world.
He spent a little bit of time watching and researching. Not everyone had made it to the same level of corruption it seemed. Two hadn't been corrupted at all. Aiden and Aria. They had to see everything fall apart. Their flaws were highlighted, and so were the challenges in their lives. They tried to rise above it. They fought, they struggled. They ended their own lives. He put the world on a freeze at that exact moment. He was able to do that, but only for brief periods of time. He couldn't let the world know that he was doing this.
He worked quickly, creating a video game that he sent into the world. Not his world. A world called Earth. Strange name, didn't that mean soil? Dirt? What people walked upon? The person that named it must not have been creative. However, people in that world loved dating sim games. They were an entire genre that spanned many storylines. Often dark ones. He didn't understand that completely. But if true love won out in the end, who was he to complain about it.
He sent his game out and waited, and watched. Many played it, but thought that it was typical, a run of the mill storyline with cliché characters. Alias disagreed of course. They were unique to him. He had become worried until he noticed them. Two players. They somehow knew that there was a secret, a hidden true route. They combed the game, looking all over for it. They had their characters speak with everyone, played every route in every way they could. Nothing. But they became familiar with the world in a way that no other player had. They took notes on personalities, they compared responses through out the different routes. They fell in love with his characters, with his world.
He knew they were the ones. He switched their souls. The two that had died with the two gamers. He then used his oh so mighty godly powers to open up the memory channel. The switch was made and his die were cast. Would this work out? Could having new eyes and new souls change this world?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Alias let out a sigh. He didn't know the way that the world would react to them. Aiden settled in easily. He had been trained up to be a librarian. Alias knew that he was only a few classes away from graduating. That seemed to give him a leg up. Also, Aiden wasn't really close to anyone. No one could truly recognize that he had changed. He was a mystery to many people, one that no one seemed to care about. That did make it easier for Aiden to navigate the world.
However, his new Aria was having troubles. She had her own concerns, her own personality, her own trauma. However, the more that he saw, the more he realized that Aria and Elia were seeing connections and reflections between their traumas. He hoped that would help his new Aria. She was bright and kind and sweet. He liked her immensely. It hurt him every time that she died.
It seems that the world knew. The world itself was suspicious, creating suspicion in those that occupied the world. When she was found to have incorrect behaviors the world influenced those around her to kill her. By reducing suspicion and uncorrupting others, she will help uncorrupt the world.
Aria could also find the hidden route, but Alias wasn't fully certain that would uncorrupt everyone. He wasn't fully certain about a couple of things. Making a status screen that worked like a video game would help them both though. He could watch what progress helped, and what harmed.
He would keep rooting for his heroes. Together they would save this world. His world, their new world. Everyone would be freed from having to keep following the story. They could be free.