[Not-so-Short Fiction] Character Study of a Sad and Delusional Woman P.1
Once upon a time, there lived a very lonely woman who lived quite the mundane and routine life. She was reserved and insecure with few people she could call friends. She had devoted so much of her life to her work and studies with hopes to become a doctor. Of course, this devotion hindered her social life; while her peers were out partying, she was at home studying. Eventually, the hard work had paid off: she became a fairly respectable physician. Unfortunately for her, her professional success did not positively correlate to her social success, and she remained the shy homebody with few friends. We’ll call this character Dub.
Now, in contrast to Dub’s real life persona, she had vivid images of what kind of person she wanted to be. In the pop culture of her town, glamour models and trophy wives were the trend. These women were idolized for their big hair, their dolled up makeup, and their fancy designer clothes. These women were lusted for by many of her male peers. These women were famous for being girly and glamorous. These women were everything Dub was not and everything she desired to be.
As much as Dub wished could just get out there and become a social butterfly, her personality and appearance held her back. So instead, she spent her free time on the internet. At first it was all harmless; perhaps it consisted of lurking message boards and LJ communities of her interest, but soon she became more active, got more comfortable, met more people, and it began to consume her life.
One of the communities she joined was a role-playing game that was themed around a recently deceased pop star that she idolized: Jichael Mackson. The moment she heard about the game. She instantly knew the one character she had to play: another pop idol of hers, Vadonna. Why did she want to play Vadonna? Well, again, Vadonna epitomized what Dub wanted to be… Vadonna had style, confidence, edge, sex appeal, and a legion of loyal fans.
As the role playing game progressed, it got much more popular and so were certain characters. The game had become a soap opera for the watchers and a temporary form of real life escapism for the players. It wasn’t surprising that people got very involved in the game, as they began to create complex storylines, one-upping different characters for the most dramatic and most talked about storylines. Dub took pride in having one of her cyber sex scenes voted as sexiest, dubbing her character as the “nastiest ho” on the game.
At that point, her ego was already beginning to inflate but it wasn’t until she brought on a new character, Crammy, that things started to get to her head. Crammy instantly gained fans and Dub knew it. People cooed over Crammy on flitter and drew fan pics of the character.
Now, the nasty part of the normally humble and friendly Dub had not come out until character identities were revealed. People were in awe of how amazingly she had played the characters, and it came out that she had experience in RP, seeing as she had spent some time role playing for a different fandom. She accepted compliments and began to gain more friends through flitter and the role playing game… and she was loving it. She finally had “friends”.
To Be Continued.....
ETA (but not really) disabled because I'm too chicken shit to actually read people's thoughts on what I wrote lololol (but srsly, you can comment in Part 2 >_>)