Author’s Notes~
A little heads up on how to read some lines. I hope that you guys get used to it!
Text Inner dialogue
*Text* something is happening/Third person narration
“Text” First person dialogue
[Text] Time stamp/Location update
(Text) POV indicator
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“Steve, wake up! It’s time for breakfast!”
*rustle rustle* “Five more minutes bro…”
“We’re going to be late! Come on man… haaaaa if you don’t get up this instant I won’t accompany you in the game, do you want that?”
*Whooosh! Steve gets up and runs past his brother to eat breakfast*
[At the Dinner Table]
“Don’t leave me alone in the game, i had heard that it’s hard to get a badass animal as a starter form without someone equally strong to tame it for him”
“Why do I have to carry you? Can’t you just find the nearest rabbit out there and imprint on it? Hahaha!”
“Tch, I hate you bro! You know that more than anything I hate cute thing! Taking on the form of a rabbit will be a death sentence for me…”
“Now, now you know that I didn’t mean that but... pffft! You’ll definitely look cute as a bunny!”
“Damn you… pffft! Hahaha stop making that bunny pose, it doesn’t suit you”
(Steve POV)
[On the way to school]
My name is Steve Eden, I am a 16 year old with a height of 5’4” I’m a mix of Jap and Brit but I lean more on my mother’s side whose Japanese, added to my features closely similar to a girl’s is a nightmare to live through wait, did I mention that I’m a dude?
Living here in Europe and looking most definitely Asian with a few of my father’s features was a terrible experience With a not-so-short raven hair ending just before my shoulders, delicate porcelain skin that seems to have been polished by the finest of sculptors; big round blue eyes that seem to reflect innocence, a cute face and succulent lips that.., okay that’s enough I’m not a narcissist! I’m just parroting what some Latino dude who’s crazy about beauty who said this to me when he was hitting on me and not believing that I was a boy and throwing in some cringe flattery lines to woo me blegh!
Well my appearance did change now that I’m in high school; right now my hair is longer reaching to my back which I had to tie it up into a ponytail just like Japanese Samurai did in the past, at least I’d look a little but more manly with this hairstyle which is why I don’t cut it short anymore.
Anyway, all thanks to my appearance I had a rough childhood especially in middle school which most definitely traumatized me because c’mon dudes are out to bone you! And the girls treat you like a rival or something and sometimes because of me, dumped girlfriends act like b1tches and ostracize me while some even resort to bullying…
Well I guess that the upside to this is that even though I didn’t have a friends since guys can’t treat me like a guy and girls just outright hate me, I had more time to myself. And so I poured it all in my studies that by the time that I got to 2nd grade of middle school I already had a reputation as an honor student and gained some degree of protection from the wolves and b1tches, however the real reason why I was able to cope for that long was because of my brother Adam.
Adam is the complete opposite of me; blonde hair, clear blue eyes, handsome face, towering at 5’11” and ripped muscles albeit always hidden in his uniform and polo shirts, not only that but even though he’s not as smart as me he has traits of a natural born leader with his sound judgment and charisma, he’s just the perfect boyfriend!
Wait, isn’t he one of the reasons why I get bullied in the first place? Having a brother like him does elicit much hate from the girls. Well it does even out since no one can touch me while he is on the watch, especially now that he became this year’s student council president.
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But to tell you the truth, my brother and I are not related at all, my real father died early when I was just 8 years old. In the past, my mother and I lived in Japan but we had to move to Britain because she couldn’t move on and wished to at least live in my father’s country, little did I know that she would find love once again thus and that’s when our family gained two new members.
It was when I was 13 years old when it all happened. Our first impressions with one another are what you’d expect, I envied my brother and him and his dad taught that they now had a cute daughter/sister. I’m surprised that despite not being blood related and being near each other’s age, we unexpectedly became close, my brother however became a doting sibling my dad included, Well I do like the treatment and I love both of them so i'll let that treatment slide, besides they've always been family in my book.
[In front of the school gate]
“See ya li’l bro! Be careful of boys since i can’t always be with you and please don’t drop a bomb saying that you got someone pregnant behind my back, OR maybe it’s you who gets pregnant?”
“F@ck you! Stop joking around like that, it’s not like i can get laid when all the girls see is another girl...”
“Then be careful of the former hahaha”
Seriously, he acts like a different person in front of others, pretending to be a responsible role model but when it comes to me he’s quite a pain in the a$$ to deal with when he feels like teasing someone, especially me.
[Homebound]
What happened at school you ask? Nothing much, same o’l same o’l and it’s not like I have friends to introduce hahaha... haaaa *cough* cough*
Right now me and my brother are hurrying home to try out my Game pod that’s about to be delivered along with the limited game that’s still in beta testing called “Races Online” a good thing is that my brother has his connections and he got his hands on both even though there’s only 500k copies of the disc of the game since it’s still in beta, he did however get his 3 weeks ago so it’s unfair that he got to play first.
Races Online is a Virtual Reality game that has a unique concept of playing the role of a “beast-kin” it’s kind of weird when it’s titled races but we could only play one race even though there are a lot of them in the game.
It is said that there are no humans in the game except for us players when we still didn’t have our animal forms in the game but the other races are elves, demons, dwarves, fairies, celestials (angels) even orcs and goblins! I guess the Ai will be playing them.
Well it doesn’t really take out anything from the game for not being able to play other races, why? because being a beast-kin is awesome! My brother said that you can take on the form of any animal albeit only features of them like where you gain claws, scales, animal ears, eyes, it isn’t even limited to mammals since you can be a bird or a sea creature as well! blend those traits with different kinds of weapons you would most definitely have the best recipe for fun in playing.
The only challenging part here is how you have to find these animals and something about compatibility with them. It’s like the popular game that my parents used to play when they were young, and if i remember right it was called Pokemon. But in this case without the ball, the battles but the encounter and the capture itself is where it’s at.
According to my brother the encounter and the testing for compatibility after fighting the animal is called “imprinting” where you get the traits of the said animal but only if he accepts you and if not better luck next time because either way after the encounter, the animal respawns and runs off and you can’t try it on the same animal again as you get a notification that it’s off-limits. Nonetheless i'm excited to go off an adventure with my one and only best friend and and family, my brother.