FV3: Break the Ice
Original Prompt:Karina has a love/hate for Hero TV's forum. Love because she is popular on the forum but hate because Blue Rose fanfics tend to be either smutty porn, OOC romances or Blue Rose being used as a Mary Sue character. Which makes her jealous of other heroes that get more normal fic written about them even if it's a bit slashy.
When she notices that it's hard to find any fic with her in it with the influx of Barnaby/Tiger fic she decides to finally take matters in her own hand to write her own fic. So she writes male!Blue Rose fic in hopes of not only regaining popularity but to also have fanfic about her that won't make her want to bleach her eyes out.
This was a hobby that Karina was not allowed to speak of to anyone. She promised herself of that. She could feel impending embarrassment if anyone ever happened to find out that she enjoyed snooping around the HeroTV forums to see what the fans were saying about her. As a hero, she wasn't supposed to let anything that anyone said about her effect her, but the truth was that she was still just like any other high school girl. She wanted to know what people thought, even if she knew that it may hurt.
But this didn't really hurt so much as it... just confused her deeply.
For the past few months, she had become a frequenter of the forum, sometimes posting under the name of “yukionna”. It was a nickname Kotetsu had given her once upon a time after they first met. She looked it up and liked the name a lot when she found out where it came from. She thought it was pretty and feminine and if it seemed to suit her so well in person, she figured that it would probably project a good image of herself to others online.
Usually, she only participated in Blue Rose discussion posts. Most of the time, she could tell when a post was being made by another girl, but it seemed like most of the posts were from men. It was pretty easy to tell when so many of them referred to her as their “waifu”. At first, she was offended. She didn't quite know what to make of all of these men acting like they owned her. It seemed similar to the disgusting men she encountered in person who wanted her phone number and tried to follow her around. But then she realized that these were people who seemed different... more content to stay at their computer screens and fawn over her picture than to do anything about it in real life.
The more she read from these people, the more fascinated she became. They really looked at her as an ideal woman for some reason. She personally knew all of her own flaws and faults, but these were people who could only see Blue Rose. They liked her cold attitude and outfits and slightly clumsy nature. They called it “cute”.
Karina wished there was a way for her to give them even more hints about what Blue Rose was really like if it wouldn't risk her from being outed or, worse, accused of coming up with false information. (Apparently that was a crime on the forum punishable enough for banning.) She didn't want to get herself banned, but she also wanted to point out the things they were getting wrong. It was frustrating that they didn't even know when something was totally off-base.
For instance, all these stories about her and Ivan. Rather... Origami Cyclone. That wasn't adding up in her mind. She didn't understand where it was all coming from. It wasn't like Ivan was a bad guy or anything. She knew him in person herself and she could say that he was really nice, but... he really wasn't her type at all. He was quiet, kept to himself most of the time, and he was an anime-freak to say the least.
He hardly ever came to exercise with the others at the gym and it was probably because he was behind his computer at home, watching anime.
But maybe now Karina couldn't blame him anymore. She had this obsession of hers, too. She was trying not to let it effect her personal life, but now it was why she was sitting at home on her laptop instead of at the gym with the others.
“I hope I'm not getting like him...” she muttered quietly to herself.
What was one day? The other heroes could live without her presence for a bit. It wasn't like they all had to be there at the same time, even if it had become a bit of a habit. They'd surely understand if they knew the kind of crime she was fighting online right now anyway.
That crime? Fanfiction.
Okay, so maybe targeting all fanfiction was a little unfair and too broad. There were some that were actually really good, but it was hard for her to shake how weird it felt to read them when she knew the people involved in them in real life. It was hard enough to imagine herself hooking up with Ivan, but for Antonio and him to be together? That sounded...
She was conflicted about that one. And about Tiger and Barnaby because that one made way too much sense in all the weirdest ways possible.
But that was besides the point. The longer she was there, the more she felt convinced by their writing, but what she never wanted to get used to was the porn. It was ridiculous how many of their stories involved Blue Rose doing sexually explicit things. There were a lot of similar stories that paired the men together, but they were usually pretty tasteful and some of them even sounded cute, but she found the ones about herself to be absolutely degrading most of the time.
This twenty-chaptered story she found, for instance? As early as chapter two, Blue Rose is involved in a gang-bang and gets rescued by Origami Cyclone. By the next chapter, he's fucking her in an alley. It wasn't just unrealistic, it was vulgar. Half of the time, the writers didn't even bother with her characterization. What was the point of it being her then? Couldn't they just focus on...
“Oh...” she said. “Oh. Oh... There aren't any other girls. Unless you count Pao-Ling...”
She shook her head, trying to banish the thought. She didn't even want to imagine what they would try to do to Dragon Kid. Fortunately, she hadn't even tried looking at her section of the forum yet.
“What am I supposed to do about that, though?” If she didn't like that, how was she supposed to change it? It wasn't like there were any other girl heroes that people could pair up and she doubted that they would listen to her in the discussions if she told them how she felt about those kinds of stories. They would probably just laugh at her since they seemed so popular.
She had to get help.
Leaning over the side of her bed, she grabbed her phone and sent out a quick text message.
A few minutes were allotted to waiting... and then there came a knock at her window. Arising from her bed, she got up to answer the window. After unlocking it and pushing it up, in rolled Ivan.
“You called, de go- uh... You wanted me?” His eyes were darting all over her room, taking it in as if he would never see the sight again. If Karina had her way and her plan worked, then that would probably be the truth. “A girl's... room...”
“Don't freak out too much, geek boy. I have a task for you.” She had to wave a hand to get him from locating her underwear drawer. She could tell where his eyes were traveling.
He stood up straight and nodded. “Whatever you wish - within reason.”
“I need your help. It's in a territory that I think you would be more familiar with.” Sitting down on her bed, she patted an open spot for him to sit down and hoped that he wouldn't pass out at the offer. When he took a seat, she spun her laptop around for him to see what was on her screen.
“T-This is...! Ah- Um... I can explain!”
“No need to explain.”
“But...”
“No buts. You see this kind of story? This is exactly the kind of thing that I hate. It's driving me crazy that there are so many people on the internet who are into this kind of thing.”
Ivan nodded, looking a little bit pale.
She sighed. “I know you don't like talking about the things you're into in person. That's okay. But I really want you to help me out here. I want this kind of thing to stop. I don't have any writing skills and I can't really relate enough to the users to talk to them properly to get my point across. So... could you help me? I want you to do something that will convince them to stop writing these kinds of... dirty stories about me.”
There was a moment of silence where it looked like Ivan didn't even breathe and then he let out a huge sigh. Relief?
“Yes! Of course... I mean.” He stopped to consider her proposal. “It might be hard. Uh, as you can see... It's popular - stories like that. A lot of people read them and even if you convince one person to stop, it doesn't mean that they all will. I get your feelings now though, so...”
“So?”
He bit his lip and looked off to the corner of his room. What was with that strange aura of his? He always seemed a little weird, but this time it seemed like it was even more than usual.
“I can try to write something for you, I guess. N-Not like I'm a member of the forum, though...”
Karina raised an eyebrow. “Really? I thought you would be. But I guess you wouldn't be into the heroes so much when you are one, huh?” She laughed. “Yeah, that makes sense. Anyway. You're going to help?”
Ivan still wasn't looking very confident, but he nodded anyway. “I'll do my best. I'm thinking that the only way you're going to convince them is to try to inundate them with stories about the other heroes, though. You would have to convince them that Blue Rose just isn't popular anymore.”
“Wait, what?”
He shrugged. “Blue Rose is popular. People want to write porn about her.”
“But... But- what? I mean, I don't even... I don't do things like that in real life even! I'm not some porn star! Why are they doing this to me?”
Ivan smirked; just a small one that would've gone unnoticed if she weren't paying attention. “Just don't think of it as you,” he explained. “People write a lot about Origami Cyclone, but I'm obviously not him. I'm not that heroic in real life, but if they want to write me that way, then I won't stop them.”
“Because that's a good thing!”
“Look, I don't have the type to sit at my computer and write you a twenty-chapter story about you being a badass super girl. If you want to really convince people, then you either have to change their minds by writing something new and amazing or by trying to make them believe that Blue Rose isn't popular. It sucks, I know, but for you, the easiest option might just be the second one.”
Her shoulders fell, her ego now totally deflated. This really was Ivan playing on his home field. It sounded like he knew more about how to fight the internet than how to fight real-life criminals.
“I can't do it. If I make them think that she isn't popular, then... Then I won't be popular. I'd lose my fans... my sponsors... my job... The fans really are everything.” She flopped back on her bed and threw her hands over her eyes. She had the perfect ally on her side, but it seemed like even he was powerless to bring about the kind of change that she ideally wanted.
“If they want porn, you just have to let them have it. You can let them know how you feel and I could help you with that, but if you really want something to change on the forum, that would probably cause problems in real life.”
While she stayed in her defeated pose, she peeked open an eye to look up at him. “I did have one idea. I thought that maybe if there were another girl that people might pay more attention to her instead. But... We don't have any other girls except for Dragon Kid and it would be really weird for people to write about her. I don't know. Maybe if I invented a new character...”
Ivan's head shot up and his eyes widened as if an idea had literally struck him at that moment.
“Did you think of something?”
“N- ...Uh, maybe. I... dunno.”
She sighed, resuming her previous lounging pose of defeat. “Thanks, Ivan.” That sounded like it would be a good enough cue for him to leave now. She didn't want to sound impolite about it, but if there was nothing left for him to do to help her, then they would just have to call it a day.
She could hear the bed's springs creaking and felt the weight on the bed shifting as Ivan got up.
“I'll... see you later then. Sorry I couldn't be much more of a help and... Yeah.”
By the time she sat herself up, the window was closed and Ivan was already gone.
That night, she checked back to the forum and clicked into the fanfiction section. There was something kind of masochistic about it; just the fact alone that she kept going to it even when she knew she was going to be horrified by the number of porn stories she'd see. Although, this time, amid the sea of new Barnaby/Tiger fics and the usual NC-17 thing featuring Blue Rose, one new thing seemed to be gaining popularity.
_origamically:
[fic] A new kind of Blue Rose fic!
Title: On Thin Ice
Author: _origamically
Pairing: Male!Blue Rose/Origami Cyclone
Rating: NC-17 (genderswap, dubcon)
Summary: Origami Cyclone and Blue Rose attempt to stop a mad scientist who has a mysterious new biological weapon.
Disclaimer: HeroTV blah blah I don't own it, you've heard it before.
So, minna. I heard today from a friend of mine that they love Blue Rose... but they're tired of seeing porn with her. But we totally don't have any other girls on HeroTV! (Don't say it, pedos.) Although, I don't think my friend has any problem with yaoi... So I think I found the loophole? (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
Blue Rose as seme! ヽ(≧▽≦)/ Tell me this is not the hottest fucking thing you've ever heard of? Hnnnngh. Don't worry, I'm not going to stop writing the Tiger/Barnaby stuff now, but I thought I'd give this a shot. Hope you like it!
Karina couldn't believe her eyes. She, Blue Rose, was the one in charge in this story. She - “he” rather, was the one saving Origami and it was all...! It was all really...
“Why is this hot? I don't even like Ivan like that.” She guessed that it was fine if male!Blue Rose was the one who liked Origami. They were just characters, after all.
It seemed that Ivan had managed to do it. Even if it wasn't in the way she expected, she realized that it wasn't something she had to be so upset about. If it was just a character, then it wasn't like she was being effected by any of it in real life as Karina. Not to mention, now it seemed like male!Blue Rose was going to make her more popular than ever before.
Now she knew she had nothing to fear about these new Barnaby/Tiger stories.
She feared to even touch those things as they grew in number by the day. Out of all of her hero friends, that pair seemed the most real to her and it felt absolutely too weird to read about them. She knew how close their “characters” were to their real personalities, so those were off limits.
She sighed, feeling a lot more content about things now. She'd have to thank Ivan, though. Or rather, “_origamically”.
“Wait...” That name was ringing a bell. “Isn't that...”
The person who wrote that 20-chaptered thing about Blue Rose slutting it up with Origami Cyclone.
“N-Nah,” she tried to tell herself. It had to just all be a coincidence. After all, Ivan said that he didn't have an account. “This can't be Ivan. Unless he... lied.”
Her horror was as cold as ice.
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When she notices that it's hard to find any fic with her in it with the influx of Barnaby/Tiger fic she decides to finally take matters in her own hand to write her own fic. So she writes male!Blue Rose fic in hopes of not only regaining popularity but to also have fanfic about her that won't make her want to bleach her eyes out.
This was a hobby that Karina was not allowed to speak of to anyone. She promised herself of that. She could feel impending embarrassment if anyone ever happened to find out that she enjoyed snooping around the HeroTV forums to see what the fans were saying about her. As a hero, she wasn't supposed to let anything that anyone said about her effect her, but the truth was that she was still just like any other high school girl. She wanted to know what people thought, even if she knew that it may hurt.
But this didn't really hurt so much as it... just confused her deeply.
For the past few months, she had become a frequenter of the forum, sometimes posting under the name of “yukionna”. It was a nickname Kotetsu had given her once upon a time after they first met. She looked it up and liked the name a lot when she found out where it came from. She thought it was pretty and feminine and if it seemed to suit her so well in person, she figured that it would probably project a good image of herself to others online.
Usually, she only participated in Blue Rose discussion posts. Most of the time, she could tell when a post was being made by another girl, but it seemed like most of the posts were from men. It was pretty easy to tell when so many of them referred to her as their “waifu”. At first, she was offended. She didn't quite know what to make of all of these men acting like they owned her. It seemed similar to the disgusting men she encountered in person who wanted her phone number and tried to follow her around. But then she realized that these were people who seemed different... more content to stay at their computer screens and fawn over her picture than to do anything about it in real life.
The more she read from these people, the more fascinated she became. They really looked at her as an ideal woman for some reason. She personally knew all of her own flaws and faults, but these were people who could only see Blue Rose. They liked her cold attitude and outfits and slightly clumsy nature. They called it “cute”.
Karina wished there was a way for her to give them even more hints about what Blue Rose was really like if it wouldn't risk her from being outed or, worse, accused of coming up with false information. (Apparently that was a crime on the forum punishable enough for banning.) She didn't want to get herself banned, but she also wanted to point out the things they were getting wrong. It was frustrating that they didn't even know when something was totally off-base.
For instance, all these stories about her and Ivan. Rather... Origami Cyclone. That wasn't adding up in her mind. She didn't understand where it was all coming from. It wasn't like Ivan was a bad guy or anything. She knew him in person herself and she could say that he was really nice, but... he really wasn't her type at all. He was quiet, kept to himself most of the time, and he was an anime-freak to say the least.
He hardly ever came to exercise with the others at the gym and it was probably because he was behind his computer at home, watching anime.
But maybe now Karina couldn't blame him anymore. She had this obsession of hers, too. She was trying not to let it effect her personal life, but now it was why she was sitting at home on her laptop instead of at the gym with the others.
“I hope I'm not getting like him...” she muttered quietly to herself.
What was one day? The other heroes could live without her presence for a bit. It wasn't like they all had to be there at the same time, even if it had become a bit of a habit. They'd surely understand if they knew the kind of crime she was fighting online right now anyway.
That crime? Fanfiction.
Okay, so maybe targeting all fanfiction was a little unfair and too broad. There were some that were actually really good, but it was hard for her to shake how weird it felt to read them when she knew the people involved in them in real life. It was hard enough to imagine herself hooking up with Ivan, but for Antonio and him to be together? That sounded...
She was conflicted about that one. And about Tiger and Barnaby because that one made way too much sense in all the weirdest ways possible.
But that was besides the point. The longer she was there, the more she felt convinced by their writing, but what she never wanted to get used to was the porn. It was ridiculous how many of their stories involved Blue Rose doing sexually explicit things. There were a lot of similar stories that paired the men together, but they were usually pretty tasteful and some of them even sounded cute, but she found the ones about herself to be absolutely degrading most of the time.
This twenty-chaptered story she found, for instance? As early as chapter two, Blue Rose is involved in a gang-bang and gets rescued by Origami Cyclone. By the next chapter, he's fucking her in an alley. It wasn't just unrealistic, it was vulgar. Half of the time, the writers didn't even bother with her characterization. What was the point of it being her then? Couldn't they just focus on...
“Oh...” she said. “Oh. Oh... There aren't any other girls. Unless you count Pao-Ling...”
She shook her head, trying to banish the thought. She didn't even want to imagine what they would try to do to Dragon Kid. Fortunately, she hadn't even tried looking at her section of the forum yet.
“What am I supposed to do about that, though?” If she didn't like that, how was she supposed to change it? It wasn't like there were any other girl heroes that people could pair up and she doubted that they would listen to her in the discussions if she told them how she felt about those kinds of stories. They would probably just laugh at her since they seemed so popular.
She had to get help.
Leaning over the side of her bed, she grabbed her phone and sent out a quick text message.
A few minutes were allotted to waiting... and then there came a knock at her window. Arising from her bed, she got up to answer the window. After unlocking it and pushing it up, in rolled Ivan.
“You called, de go- uh... You wanted me?” His eyes were darting all over her room, taking it in as if he would never see the sight again. If Karina had her way and her plan worked, then that would probably be the truth. “A girl's... room...”
“Don't freak out too much, geek boy. I have a task for you.” She had to wave a hand to get him from locating her underwear drawer. She could tell where his eyes were traveling.
He stood up straight and nodded. “Whatever you wish - within reason.”
“I need your help. It's in a territory that I think you would be more familiar with.” Sitting down on her bed, she patted an open spot for him to sit down and hoped that he wouldn't pass out at the offer. When he took a seat, she spun her laptop around for him to see what was on her screen.
“T-This is...! Ah- Um... I can explain!”
“No need to explain.”
“But...”
“No buts. You see this kind of story? This is exactly the kind of thing that I hate. It's driving me crazy that there are so many people on the internet who are into this kind of thing.”
Ivan nodded, looking a little bit pale.
She sighed. “I know you don't like talking about the things you're into in person. That's okay. But I really want you to help me out here. I want this kind of thing to stop. I don't have any writing skills and I can't really relate enough to the users to talk to them properly to get my point across. So... could you help me? I want you to do something that will convince them to stop writing these kinds of... dirty stories about me.”
There was a moment of silence where it looked like Ivan didn't even breathe and then he let out a huge sigh. Relief?
“Yes! Of course... I mean.” He stopped to consider her proposal. “It might be hard. Uh, as you can see... It's popular - stories like that. A lot of people read them and even if you convince one person to stop, it doesn't mean that they all will. I get your feelings now though, so...”
“So?”
He bit his lip and looked off to the corner of his room. What was with that strange aura of his? He always seemed a little weird, but this time it seemed like it was even more than usual.
“I can try to write something for you, I guess. N-Not like I'm a member of the forum, though...”
Karina raised an eyebrow. “Really? I thought you would be. But I guess you wouldn't be into the heroes so much when you are one, huh?” She laughed. “Yeah, that makes sense. Anyway. You're going to help?”
Ivan still wasn't looking very confident, but he nodded anyway. “I'll do my best. I'm thinking that the only way you're going to convince them is to try to inundate them with stories about the other heroes, though. You would have to convince them that Blue Rose just isn't popular anymore.”
“Wait, what?”
He shrugged. “Blue Rose is popular. People want to write porn about her.”
“But... But- what? I mean, I don't even... I don't do things like that in real life even! I'm not some porn star! Why are they doing this to me?”
Ivan smirked; just a small one that would've gone unnoticed if she weren't paying attention. “Just don't think of it as you,” he explained. “People write a lot about Origami Cyclone, but I'm obviously not him. I'm not that heroic in real life, but if they want to write me that way, then I won't stop them.”
“Because that's a good thing!”
“Look, I don't have the type to sit at my computer and write you a twenty-chapter story about you being a badass super girl. If you want to really convince people, then you either have to change their minds by writing something new and amazing or by trying to make them believe that Blue Rose isn't popular. It sucks, I know, but for you, the easiest option might just be the second one.”
Her shoulders fell, her ego now totally deflated. This really was Ivan playing on his home field. It sounded like he knew more about how to fight the internet than how to fight real-life criminals.
“I can't do it. If I make them think that she isn't popular, then... Then I won't be popular. I'd lose my fans... my sponsors... my job... The fans really are everything.” She flopped back on her bed and threw her hands over her eyes. She had the perfect ally on her side, but it seemed like even he was powerless to bring about the kind of change that she ideally wanted.
“If they want porn, you just have to let them have it. You can let them know how you feel and I could help you with that, but if you really want something to change on the forum, that would probably cause problems in real life.”
While she stayed in her defeated pose, she peeked open an eye to look up at him. “I did have one idea. I thought that maybe if there were another girl that people might pay more attention to her instead. But... We don't have any other girls except for Dragon Kid and it would be really weird for people to write about her. I don't know. Maybe if I invented a new character...”
Ivan's head shot up and his eyes widened as if an idea had literally struck him at that moment.
“Did you think of something?”
“N- ...Uh, maybe. I... dunno.”
She sighed, resuming her previous lounging pose of defeat. “Thanks, Ivan.” That sounded like it would be a good enough cue for him to leave now. She didn't want to sound impolite about it, but if there was nothing left for him to do to help her, then they would just have to call it a day.
She could hear the bed's springs creaking and felt the weight on the bed shifting as Ivan got up.
“I'll... see you later then. Sorry I couldn't be much more of a help and... Yeah.”
By the time she sat herself up, the window was closed and Ivan was already gone.
That night, she checked back to the forum and clicked into the fanfiction section. There was something kind of masochistic about it; just the fact alone that she kept going to it even when she knew she was going to be horrified by the number of porn stories she'd see. Although, this time, amid the sea of new Barnaby/Tiger fics and the usual NC-17 thing featuring Blue Rose, one new thing seemed to be gaining popularity.
_origamically:
[fic] A new kind of Blue Rose fic!
Title: On Thin Ice
Author: _origamically
Pairing: Male!Blue Rose/Origami Cyclone
Rating: NC-17 (genderswap, dubcon)
Summary: Origami Cyclone and Blue Rose attempt to stop a mad scientist who has a mysterious new biological weapon.
Disclaimer: HeroTV blah blah I don't own it, you've heard it before.
So, minna. I heard today from a friend of mine that they love Blue Rose... but they're tired of seeing porn with her. But we totally don't have any other girls on HeroTV! (Don't say it, pedos.) Although, I don't think my friend has any problem with yaoi... So I think I found the loophole? (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
Blue Rose as seme! ヽ(≧▽≦)/ Tell me this is not the hottest fucking thing you've ever heard of? Hnnnngh. Don't worry, I'm not going to stop writing the Tiger/Barnaby stuff now, but I thought I'd give this a shot. Hope you like it!
Karina couldn't believe her eyes. She, Blue Rose, was the one in charge in this story. She - “he” rather, was the one saving Origami and it was all...! It was all really...
“Why is this hot? I don't even like Ivan like that.” She guessed that it was fine if male!Blue Rose was the one who liked Origami. They were just characters, after all.
It seemed that Ivan had managed to do it. Even if it wasn't in the way she expected, she realized that it wasn't something she had to be so upset about. If it was just a character, then it wasn't like she was being effected by any of it in real life as Karina. Not to mention, now it seemed like male!Blue Rose was going to make her more popular than ever before.
Now she knew she had nothing to fear about these new Barnaby/Tiger stories.
She feared to even touch those things as they grew in number by the day. Out of all of her hero friends, that pair seemed the most real to her and it felt absolutely too weird to read about them. She knew how close their “characters” were to their real personalities, so those were off limits.
She sighed, feeling a lot more content about things now. She'd have to thank Ivan, though. Or rather, “_origamically”.
“Wait...” That name was ringing a bell. “Isn't that...”
The person who wrote that 20-chaptered thing about Blue Rose slutting it up with Origami Cyclone.
“N-Nah,” she tried to tell herself. It had to just all be a coincidence. After all, Ivan said that he didn't have an account. “This can't be Ivan. Unless he... lied.”
Her horror was as cold as ice.
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