The Weight of 'Real'
Now that we're finally doing RP?! (3) To make it feel less disconnected from reality, we should hold the coronation ceremony in VRChat. What do you think? Isn't that genius? Seriously, Seon-a. The EXP is exploding like crazy. After chowing down on all that, you've grown ridiculously fast. How did you even come up with this? You're incredible. Now walk around with your shoulders back, you little punk!! Hehe.
“Maru-nim, get in Discord!!” - [Mae][♥] Himaru: I'm scared Protect me
“I'll protect you, hooooo. Can you come in?”
I have to be granted an RP. Then I can finally become a proper VTuber. At last… I can go from fake VTuber to real VTuber!! And it's all thanks to Maru-nim…!! As expected, Seon-a's love is the Great Maru!! Hehe. She helps me every single day. I want to grow quickly too so I can help her back. Buy her clothes, treat her to delicious food… give her advice… My respect for her is leveling up like crazy!! I'll definitely make this situation work for Maru-nim. She risked getting roasted just to do this role-play with me… I have to make it succeed. No, I have to make it succeed. This role-play is more precious than my streaming life.
“What's wrong with my personality? What did I do.” What kind of personality do I have? Is there a side of me I don't even know? Let me find out too. What exactly did I do? These people are hilarious. Of course, no bad comments about my personality popped up. Because they're all forced hate, they don't exist. Mm… right, right.
“From now on, stop with the forced hate. I'm a very kind person.” I nodded as I spoke. Where else would you find someone as kind as me? I don't lie. I obviously don't swear. I try really hard to be considerate. Where else would you find someone like this!!
“Now then. So when are you coming in, Maru-nim? Can I call you now?”
“Ohhh!! Thank you.” I immediately called Maru-nim. It had been a really long time since we'd talked on stream. When was the last time? I don't even remember. Anyway, I'm excited.
— Ring. Ring.
“Hello~”
“My princess!!”
“Yes~ Knight Commander.”
“Hehe.” This is so funny. So this is what being a VTuber is. You have to do stuff like this without laughing to become a real VTuber. Maru-nim is seriously amazing. My respect for her is rising again. How can she hold back laughter in this situation? I'm cracking up and the laughs keep leaking out… She's a real pro.
“So, are you ready?”
“Mm… I'll tell you what I'm thinking, Princess.”
“Okay.”
“I want to do it in VRChat first. VRChat is a VTuber's reality, after all.”
“Ooh~” Maru-nim let out an admiring sound. Had I finally grasped the essence of being a VTuber? Was I getting praised? Hehe. Doesn't matter. It feels good anyway.
“So, you know. Let's do it in VRChat.”
“But do you have everything?”
“What do you mean?”
“Like outfits… or maps…”
“Dun dun…!! Shocking.” I hadn't thought of that at all. Can't we just do it? Ah… VRChat is reality for VTubers. Reality… I hadn't prepared anything in reality. Whoa… I'm still a fake VTuber.
“So if I put it in terms you can understand… right now… you're trying to go outside without any clothes on?”
“Ooh~ That's a good analogy, Seon-a-nim.”
“Heehee.” My feminine charm is goat-tier. She keeps showering me with praise and it feels amazing. No wonder I can't help worshipping her.
“Great. Woman. Feminine charm goat. Great. Maru. Hehe.”
“Hahaha. That's right~ Goat is right~ That's me.”
“Hehe. As expected.”
Hehe. I laughed for a bit because it was fun. Now I've laughed so much that no more laughter comes out.
“So what are you going to do~? Are you doing it today~?” Since Maru-nim was trying to move things forward, I pulled myself together and answered.
“Uh… Since it's our reality… I'll find some skilled people and make everything!! Maru-nim's princess outfit and my knight outfit… and the map… How about that?”
“You'll do that?” Maru-nim sounded surprised. Isn't that obvious? If I think of it as reality… doesn't everything make sense? Our reality is VRChat. If we're going to do it, we should go all out. I'm being reborn as a real VTuber now… so I have to prepare properly.
“Yes!”
“If you're going that far, shouldn't we start fresh? Gi Seon-a. With a sub-account. If you're committing to a concept… it clashes too much with your current one.”
“…Huk?”
“The moment you get an RP, you have to uphold that RP.”
“…Eh?” I was confused. Wait, what? Isn't it something you can just attach and detach? Pull it out when you want to use it and put it away nicely when you don't… Isn't that how it works? Once you summon it, does my Seon Seon Seon-a disappear? I didn't know that. I really didn't know. I didn't expect that much. Just becoming a real VTuber… Aah!! So the word “real” carries this much weight. I never even considered it.
“The weight of the word 'real'... is so heavy…”
“Hahahahaha. That's right. It's not light.”
“All I wanted was to become a real VTuber and play with real VTubers in reality… I never thought about stuff like this.”
“Then who exactly counts as a real VTuber?”
“That would be… the pure-blooded Japanese-style VTubers. Not Korean-style mixed-blood VTubers like me.” I said it confidently. I learned that today. Japan is the origin and we just copied it. VTuber culture belongs to Japan. It's not ours. We have proud K-pop, and they have VTubers.
“Ah~ But these days mixed-blood styles are more common.”
“Why?”
“It's hard to eat, isn't it?”
“Because it's cringy?”
“Mm… Maybe?”
“Then Maru-nim, are you like, I'm a 700-year-old fox spirit!! I'm a fox spirit who's 701 years old and I can use magic and I have animal ears and kyaaaak and in real life I'm actually a total beauty and the ultimate feminine charm goat but on stream I pout and do magic and we're friends and it was so hard?”
“…” Why isn't she answering? Did she not hear me? Did I ramble too much? Should I organize my thoughts and say it again… I realized the answer when I checked the chat.
Now it's not “why on earth?” It's just “why?” Don't ask. Memorize it. Ah… this is also a battle of wills. I shouldn't do that. Then it'll work. I've become a learning Seon-a.
“Aack. So that was performance art. I was asking seriously.”
“I know~ Of course I know~ Sometimes you poke right at the weak spot so I got stunned~”
“Ah…!! Right? You'll understand, won't you?”
“Ah~ Of course. That's Seon-a-nim's charm~ You have to keep pushing forward. Don't be scared.”
“As expected… I respect you. I worship you. Great. Maru. Kyaaaaak. Break my arm. Kyaaaaak. I'll do it.”
“Why would I break your arm~ Seon-a-nim, you break it once!”
“Kyaaaaak.”
“One more time.”
“Kyaaaaaaaaak.” I shouted with all my strength. After playing around like that, Maru-nim spoke again.
“So you're not doing it today, right?”
“I… I mean, then I'll prepare everything!! I'll make Maru-nim's princess outfit and the map too. I'll make them first, and then please do it during my RP succession ceremony later!!”
“Mm, okay.”
“I'll prepare really hard. I'll make Maru-nim into a perfect princess. So that people go, 'Maru Princess is so cute. She's so lovable. I want to kiss her. Her belly farts go brrr.' Trust only me.”
“Ooh… Scary.”
“Nooo~ Nooo~ It's not scary at all. I'll make chats like 'Our Maru hoohoohoo' pop up. Really. Is there anything you want? Should I make your height 120cm?” My specialty is daydreaming. What I'm even better at is chaining daydreams and expanding them. I'm the best at it. Once I started daydreaming, ideas came flooding in.
“Whoa, I'm getting dizzy.” I'll make sure you don't get dizzy at all. I have to prepare properly with full focus. Starting tomorrow I'll prepare like crazy and… turn Maru-nim into a complete baby princess. The day I become a real VTuber in VRChat. I'll become a cool knight commander, and our Maru-nim will become a complete baby princess. That's my wish.
“Trust only me. I'll turn you into our baby princess Maru, our soft and squishy baby princess Maru!! Trust only me. I'll really prepare hard.”
“This is bad…”
“Not at all. It's not bad at all. Don't worry, Maru-nim. I'll take care of everything. In my world setting, Maru-nim is the baby princess with belly farts brrrrr, our princess airplane waddadada. Hehe. Good, right? Happy, right?”
Maru-nim's room? That's not allowed.
“In Maru-nim's room it's not baby Maru. That's a different person. The Maru-nim in my world setting is the baby Maru. Please keep them strictly separate!” In my room. In other words, the baby princess in my RP world setting. In Maru-nim's room, there's the thirty-year-old Maru-nim. In that room, treat the thirty-year-old Maru-nim with respect. Behave politely.
“I just thought of a good idea~ Seon-a-nim.”
“Yes! What is it?”
“Let's assemble all of Seon-a's friends?”
“Ohhh!! That's good! I like it. I'll make all of them!!” She's giving me such a great idea, how could I not be grateful. Yeah, I'll ask my friends and put them all into my RP world setting. They'd be disappointed if I didn't!! Wow, I really underestimated RP. This isn't a one-day thing. It's at least a week-long thing. I need to think long-term. Yeah. I'll do it properly. Our baby princess Maru. And the great mage Melon with infinite mana in her massive chest. My hunter friend Raming. Also, Maem sealed in VRChat. Hehe. The world setting is good. Ideas keep coming. Now I'll flesh it out more. I'll get permission and become a real VTuber too.
“I'll prepare hard and definitely contact you later! Maru-nim! Really!!” Thanks to the original content that came out after a long time, my tension was way up. I couldn't contain it. So I kept holding onto Maru-nim as she tried to leave. We still have so much to talk about!! Don't go. Where are you going, baby?! If she does that again, I'll have to do the belly fart brrr, right?