The Bipolar Gallery
This is the Domestic Bipolar Disorder Gallery.
─Let's all reflect on ourselves...
─I'm trash... I'm trash... I'm trash... I'm trash...
The chat atmosphere felt strange. Why? I was sure I hadn't said anything weird.... Had some odd details slipped out because I mixed stories from my previous life with the other world? It didn't feel like they were calling me out though.... No, why were they apologizing to me in the first place?
“Um, uh.... Everyone, if I spoke strangely, I'm sorry.... I'm not particularly good with words, so....”
─Why the fuck are you apologizing at a time like this?
─Where the hell did you even live...?
─I'm finally starting to understand all the shit you've done until now, holy fuck...
─Thank you for growing up so well, you absolute idiot...
─That time you said you dropped out of middle school because of family circumstances... was that also...?
“Ah, yes.... I ran away from home, so I only finished middle school.... But when I think about it, there were far more days I couldn't attend class anyway. I was probably absent around eighty percent of the time.... No school would have accepted me regardless, right?”
─Why the hell are you saying something that heavy so casually, fuck...
─Isn't elementary and middle school mandatory education? Is it different overseas?
─It's the same abroad...
Why did the atmosphere keep getting weirder the more I talked? Even though my communication skills were rock bottom, I thought I'd improved a lot from streaming all this time. Was that improvement all in my head? Had I actually been regressing?
“E-everyone! Should we play a game? I-I prepared some games I want to play together with all of you...!”
─Do whatever you want, Lene...
─If you wanna do it then just do it ㅇㅇ
─I'll support anything Lene says she wants to do
“Um... is Jumping Up okay too?”
─You fucking idiot
─No, not that you dumbass
─Please just spare us...
─The Lene fans hereby declare that the Jumping Up hell arc has officially restarted...
─(Torn Taegeukgi - Shameful Self-Portrait meme)
─Have mercy!
While wondering what their standards even were, seeing the Lene fans react like that strangely put my mind at ease. How should I describe it? It felt comfortable, like friends playfully insulting each other? I'd never had friends before, so I wasn't exactly sure what the feeling was.
“Then, um.... Should we do a bit of PVP?”
─Let's go
─Ranked matches?
“Ranked matches... I probably won't do those....”
Or maybe I should? Looking at the current mood, it seemed better to do at least something the fans wanted. When I checked the chat with that thought in mind...
─Normal matches are fun too ㅇㅇ
─There are tons of weird builds so it gets pretty funny sometimes
─Ranked is stressful because you have to focus too hard
For some reason they didn't seem particularly obsessed with ranked matches. ...I really don't understand why everyone is acting like this.
Abused by her parents until she nearly died and ran away during middle school. After that she entered some kind of facility (she didn't give exact details, probably to avoid being identified). It seems they made her do some kind of work there.
That work was probably the heretic inquisitor stuff she always talks about. It clearly wasn't easy—she got badly hurt and nearly died many times.
While living like that, a sponsor (not sure if they were Korean) sent her to Korea, saying she'd suffered enough. Since she mentioned mementos, it looks like that sponsor has passed away.
Because of everything she went through, she developed hikikomori tendencies. On top of being a foreigner with zero career experience, she got rejected from every part-time job.
She eventually started streaming and that's how we got here.
Personal speculation: When she raided Albion she seemed used to the cold, so maybe she's from Russia? The inquisitor work sounds like some kind of mercenary job...
(Counselor certification photo.jpg)
Didn't want to get identified so I'm posting anonymously. When people tell stories like this, there's usually a big difference in their voice between truth and lies. I listened to it multiple times, and I didn't get any sense that she was lying.
If anything, hearing that story makes her past weird behavior a bit more understandable. People who weren't properly socialized tend to show certain traits, and the gallery master has displayed those quite often.
(Lene Donation Reaction.mp4)
[Ah, thank you for the 5,000 won donation, Mr. Kobo.]
[‘I've been having such a hard time lately that I wanted to die, but watching your stream gave me a lot of strength. Thank you. I hope Miss Lene can keep having fun and stay strong too.’]
[Oh... it sounds like you've been through a lot...? If there's anything I can do for you, I wish I could...]
[Ah, you say just cheering you on is enough?]
[Umm.... Mr. Kobo, fighting...! Let's both do our best. You know that saying, right?]
[The opposite of suicide is let's live...! If you keep working hard, good things will definitely happen...!]
[What? You think I've suffered more than you?]
[No way. I don't know about that.... Everyone has different standards for what counts as hardship....]
[And while I did go through a lot, it wasn't particularly hard for me....]
(Rough sketch of an eyepatch-and-mask edgelord character.jpg)
Then how about you flip this rotten world first
(Rough sketch of an eyepatch-and-mask edgelord character.jpg)
Ah... those are such warm words... From now on I shouldn't think about suicide and just live hard...
Goshajin has donated 10,000 won.
But Miss Lene, do you not play AOS mode? So far your PVP win rate is 3 wins, 0 losses. A literally perfect record.
─Now that you mention it, I think I heard the streamer used to play AOS mode too
─She never did it on stream though, right?
─She never played it on stream
─Info) She was famous in AOS mode for only hunting priests
─Info 2) Even if she was supposed to go top, if there was a priest in bot she'd go bot instead, the crazy bastard
─Lmao
─That's so Lene lol
─Anyone who wants to see it drop a like lol
AOS mode, huh. Come to think of it, I hadn't played it once since I started streaming. But the chat seemed to have some misunderstandings. I never moved just to kill heretics when I played AOS. In PVP it didn't matter since I was the only one taking damage, but AOS is a five-person team game. If I moved just to satisfy my personal desires, we'd lose. In other words, I didn't keep chasing and killing only heretics. I killed to win, and it just so happened that the opponents were heretics.
“Umm.... Everyone. Do you want to see me play AOS mode...?”
─A little?
─I want to see it a lot
─Anything you do will be more fun than that other game...
─I'm honestly curious lol
─This girl is 100% a top-lane main ㅇㅇ
The chat reaction wasn't bad. Well, there were some weird slanderous comments mixed in here and there... but still. It was much better than earlier when every single thing I said got strange reactions.
With that thought, I considered ending PVP here and moving on to AOS... but when I checked the time, the broadcast had already gone over two hours. No wonder I felt tired. Thinking about it, I'd been talking nonstop ever since the explanation broadcast. It would have been weirder if I wasn't exhausted.
“Everyone. Then I'll end today's broadcast here. I'll play AOS mode tomorrow.... See you next time....”
─?
─No you fucking idiot, of course you have to do it now
─You think ending the stream after three PVP matches is acceptable?
─You idiot
─Are these the same Lene fans who were just apologizing to the streamer earlier???
─Angry then sorry then angry then sorry again lol
─The chat mood is literally bipolar lololol
─This is the Domestic Bipolar Disorder Gallery
─I swear this bastard keeps provoking us??