Zyair observed his character avatar with a smile on his face. Using the mouse, he moves and rotates his character to have a better view– left, right, back and front. Up and down. Observing every inch of his character, right from its equipment to the golden brilliance of its eyes. Zyair named this handsome tall avatar– RiverSun.
RiverSun came from his name, Zyair Solis. If Zyair's name was spelled 'Zaire', it would mean river in a different language. Zyair forgot which language it is though. And Zyair's surname Solis– Sol meaning sun– was given by Qantas. Even though Zyair liked his name, when Qantas gave him that surname he protested at first. He wanted to have the same surname as Qantas.
Qantas Fliege, that's Qantas' full name. It sounded so cool, Zyair was really obsessed with it. "Zyair Fliege, how's the sound of that!" More importantly, it was Qantas' name, Zyair wanted it to be his name also. Thinking about it, he can't stop his lips from raising, smiling stupidly.
'It's like being married to Qantas! I will have his surname and be his wife. Hehehe'
Yet, this beautiful dream of his was immediately shut down by Qantas himself with a smile! Recalling that day, Zyair's stupid smile turned into sneer, and couldn't help but ridicule Qantas name. "He's just an airplane, and like his name he always flies off somewhere." He gritted his teeth controlling the speed of his beating heart, calming down his almost erupting temper.
(A/N : QANTAS Airlines, popular airlines in Australia. Fliege is a German word meaning fly. I thought Qantas was cool. So, I made it ml's name. Also, Qantas is the embodiment of pride, so he should always be on top.)
Looking back at the screen, Zyair squinted his eyes, observing his avatar more. Zyair never really looked at this avatar of his carefully before.
This game; Märchen: The Grimm's Tale– despite being a single player RPG it has this unique character customization that is usually seen in MMORPGs. And this character customization, Zyair is very amazed. And this is the only thing that he likes in this game. Because his avatar is handsome, tall and strong.
Speaking of Zyair's avatar, Qantas is the one who made it. Since Zyair hated the game at first glance, he didn't dare to look at it for fear of having a heart attack due to extreme irritation. Now looking at it...
"...this character seems to look like me..." He murmured. "It was tall, like it was the same height as me. Its hair is...the same bright golden blonde. And it's eyes are...weird?"
Zyair's eyes are also weird in color. His eyes were not the usual amber. Zyair's eyes were bright amber that seemed to light up even in the dark. However, looking at Zyair's eyes closely, you can see two different colors in them. It's like how many anime eyes were colored. Many of Zyair's classmates called him anime boy because of it.
Amber is colored in between orange and light brown, going to yellow and gold. In Zyair's case, instead of only having that color, he has specks of bright red surrounding his pupils, making his eyes somehow look beautiful and captivating, like the image of the sun preparing for its slumber.
Staring at his avatar, Zyair noticed that this avatar is the same. Which made him quite a bit surprised and happy. After all, Qantas made this character. It meant that Qantas knew every little detail about him. This made Zyair's mood lightened a bit. Even more so, the clothes equipped in this avatar are all within Zyair's tastes of clothing. It's like he was cosplaying!
Laughing "hehe" while dressing his avatar in new clothes, Zyair can't help but think of himself as this avatar. Zyair always wanted to wear this kind of clothes– military goth and punk fashion made Zyair's eyes brighten like a sun at its peak hours. However, with his skinny figure and sickly appearance because of his congenital heart disease, this fashion style won't make him look cool but funny instead. He might as well just wear goth or emo fashion that will look good with his sickly pale complexion. With his deep and dark eye bags, Zyair doesn't need to wear makeup.
But this avatar is different. It looks like him but it didn't look like him. This character has a fair complexion and a body full of beautiful muscles.
"Look at that deep outline of abs! That mermaid line! Oh~ those beautiful biceps and triceps." Zyair wanted to look like this as well. However, a minute of jog will make his heart go thump! thump! thump! Zyair felt that his heart wanted to hammer off his ribs and fly out of his chest.
While feeling envy over his avatar's healthy looking body, Zyair begins to equip a new outfit for it. Zyair picked a black steampunk style trench coat with a hood. A fitted black pants full of chains, and leather buckled combat boots.
After dressing his avatar in a satisfying and handsomely cool way, Zyair exits his character settings.
RiverSun was standing in his own customized room in the Dream World. 'Dream World' is the world that was in the introduction video that looks like the gloomy and creepy version of mirror dimension. Qantas said that Dream World is a safe zone– the city where all players live. Zyair doesn't understand it though. This game is a one player RPG, does this Dream World really that necessarily?
Anyway, Qantas also explained to Zyair that the lower the player's rank the more frequent they have to play. Like how Zyair played for the first time. Zyair was only a measly E rank, beginner player, and he had to play everyday until he improved his rank. Zyair did that for seven days. He played seven tutorial instances that almost made Zyair explode the entire moon.
Qantas said that every new player has to play seven tutorial instances in order to identify player classification.
This is a must for every player and they all have to successfully accomplish all seven tutorial instances. That's why after a player completed all seven instances, the huge door will open for them and they will now be able to walk onto the Galaxy Bridge and enter the Dream World.