-Goal: Seeing the "Outside," trying "Peaza?°" and finding his origin.
-Why Him: There's a strict age limit, and the capsule won't start if the user is under 18. In the raid, he was put in a capsule that they thought want broken. Due to breach charges going off, the capsule somehow managed to regain functionality. Seeing as how he was in it, it transported him to VitaNova. Due to his young age the system had an error. You see, whenever a user first enters into VitaNova, they are injected with AIDS* substance that enhances their bodies compatibility with VitaNova, and it prevents them from moving in the capsule when the brain sends inputs, more about the capsules later. The game read his age and made a logic statement. If entity is under 18, not player. If not player, NPC. If NPC, then increase AIDS substance. Due to the MC being forcibly classified as a NPC, a character was Automatically created, and his brain was flooded with that character's personality, which then became his.
-(Split) Personality: The MC is simultaneously Stanford Lionsroar and Stan Leonel, with Stanford occupying his brain when in game mostly, and with Stan occupying it IRL, although either may burst through. This is due to the trauma and the forcible transformation.
-Stanford Lionsroar: Bold, dashing, confident, witty. All words that Stanford would use to describe himself. He is generally lighthearted and even rude to some, but can also fall into deep contemplative slumps over philosophy at the oddest times. This strong personality is a method that Stanford uses to cover up his own insecurities, which is because of his fear of his other personality, and of his witnessing of his mother's death.
-Stan Leonel: The traumatized child that saw his "family" brutally murdered before his eyes, and that has two polar opposite faces. One which embodies childhood and the intense desire to please for attention. And one which embodies the trauma he suffered, one of intense pain and hatred, one that even Stanford fears.
-Timeline: The timeline most educated people use is the Global Unification Calendar, or GUC, which uses the day that the government's united and refinished the corporation as an equal entity as year 1. This is due to middle class and up people finding the government's interests to allign better with their's. Many lower class people use VitaNova Release Date,°° or VNRD as 1 on the calendar, due to them holding the corporation in much higher regard than the governments. There is a 10 year gap between GUC's start and VNRD's start, with VRND's coming first. The head of the family, which will be discussed next along with the rest of the family, was born 15 years before GUC's°°° start. Stan's parents were born on GUC's start year, and Stan himself was born in 35 GUC. The story's main plotline takes place in 55 GUC onward.
-The Family: Think Manson a/o Jesus Christ. The head is one of the oldest members of "The Way," and grew up Amish. At 5 VitaNova was released, which within one year revolutionized all life. He is viewed as "The Prophet" due to his invigorating sermons and his talks of life before VitaNova. On the outside he preaches that materialistic objects are insignificant, yet secretly when he sends out the family to beg and steal, he uses the money for himself. The capsule that later transported Stanford was originally damaged by The Head himself when a Saint walked in and happened to see a light on it in a hastly shut closet door that happened to bounce back open due to a broken mechanism. The Head proceeded to show his "hate of such things by throwing an explosive at the capsule. The Saint never questioned The Head about the bomb, the capsule, nor the sanity and reason behind setting off high explosive ordanance in an inclosed underground space. This shows the entire families religious fervor and belief, along with a high usage of stims. The family is composed of a celibate Head/Messiah/Prophet along with 13 Saints°°°° and then the Saint's families. The Head tells the Saints where to send their families to beg and where to steal from, a the Saints manage them and the specifics.
AN: Seeing as how I'm on vacation and my laptop is somewhat destroyed, I'm using my phone, which means I can't do superscript, so I'm doing degrees symbols.
°Yes, I know how to spell Pizza, but the MC will only ever hear it, and why that is will be explain next chapter.
°°Yes, I know VitaNova Release Date isn't an actual title of a calendar, it's a specific date, but keep in mind the users of that calendar aren't highly educated... at all.
°°°As a rule I as the author will use GUC, but certain characters will use the calendar that corresponds to their role.
°°°°Yes, I also know that there is 12 saints, not 13, but this is to serve as a reminder that The Head is not omniscient about the past and is even quite sketchy on many details, seeing as he was only 5 when VitaNova was released. It accentuates his role as a false prophet.
AN: Every chapter from this point, with some exceptions, will be parallel chapter for chapter with the main novel, which will be started the day after this chapter's publication.