With a strangely spongy and fluffy feeling now pressing on my feet and a feeling of no longer falling, I open my eyes hesitantly.
"Am I… Standing on a cloud? How does that even work, clouds are made of water droplets and dust or something, they aren't things you can stand on… Oh wait, this must be a dream. Odd, I usually have more interesting dreams than cloud walking. Also odd that I'm aware I'm dreaming, I don't usually have lucid dreams."
As I look around I notice other unique details, like how the sky has a sun shining brilliantly (to I'm guessing west as it is taking a pleasant orange hue at the moment) yet I can see the stars. Or that between all the clouds faaaar below, I could see mountain tops, a whole handful in fact.
『Welcome to the Rehatch system: where we do our best to help make the world a better, brighter place.』
『Please Begin Character Creation』
『Please enter a name』
『_______________』
In front of my face appeared a window, like how a window would pop up on a computer screen but it was under my nose and wasn't on a physical screen. Mainly though, it was because I could still see the clouds behind the window, or rather, through it.
"This is… very strange." Hiro thought with a tilt of her head, 'Even if you ignore the weird company slogan thing, this dream seems quite odd, must've been playing too many character generator games lately.'
Reaching out a finger I try poking the window only for my finger to go through it.
"Well, that worked well."
Tilting her head to the side, Hiro then tries waving her hand through the window. Once her hand hit the lines under the 'enter name' line. Another window popped up below the first and at an angle.
"A keyboard? Oh, we need a name then? Well… how about… Charlynn McBarcolow? Has a nice sound to it."
Hiro types in the name on the keyboard with the letters appearing on the first window as she taps them.
『Please enter a name』
『Charlynn McBarco』
*tap*
*tap*
*tap tap tap tap tap*
"Whaaat? Seriously? There's a character limit? Aw man, this stinks, what about my totally boss name?" Hiro says after tapping multiple times once the keyboard stopped adding letters even as she continued hitting them.
Hiro frowns a bit before leaning back from above the keyboard and taps her chin, in thought.
"Well whatever, that name was too cool for whatever this is anyways. How about if I try my oc from eighth grade? I remember liking that character cause I had made a point to give her a short name…" With an internal cringe at the memories of that dark and oh so 'dangerous' time when the FBI was after me and I had to always wear my sunglasses and 'cool' black jacket in order to hide from the secret organization.
With a tilt of my head, I think back to those dark days back in eighth grade, with a shudder.
`Mah… So embarrassing… Not to mention a story for another time.`
As I type in the name it once again appears on the window above.
『Obsidian Amir Ash』
*tap* 's'
*tap* 'h'
With a final tap on the 'H' I tap 'enter' and wait to see what happens.
『*Ding*』
『Name accepted.』
The two windows disappeared and were replaced with two more. 'Uhm, there's an entire window for a "ding" that wasn't even auditory?' With a brow raised Hiro frowns a bit at the lack of an apparent point for the window. Before swiping a hand through the windows horizontally with her right hand. The windows seemed to shatter silently into small cubes that broke into smaller cubes till they eventually disappeared. Then a new larger window appeared, it was just barely wider than Hiro's shoulders and started at about her knee-length and ended just barely above her head.
Inside the window was the shape of a black and white woman dressed in shorts and a t-shirt slowly revolving, on a slate, in a circle. At the top were instructions.
『Character name: 'Obsidian Amir Ash' accepted. Please design 'Obsidian Amir Ash' (Protagonist) character appearance』
Next to the image of the woman, there were multiple words pertaining to different physical features like eyes, eye color, hair color, height, etc, etc with a 'next' button sitting at the very bottom
'Oh? I'm designing a protagonist, am I? Interesting! Well then, let us go for a classic Female Lead appearance then; fine blond hair that looks like falling sunlight, Sky blue eyes that sparkle like the ocean, shorter height, rosy cheeks, and a bright angelic smile…' Trailing off, Hiro went through all the options available and chose them according to her mental image and with each alteration, that part of the woman turned from black and white to the color or design chosen. Once Hiro was happy with the appearance she had created of a sweet and angel-like character, Hiro tapped the next button that was waiting at the bottom of the window.
Upon doing so the window changed to one of an almost identical appearance except instead there was a man spinning slowly, that was also black and white and in shorts and a t-shirt. With similar instructions as before at the top of the window with a few different details.
『Character name: '_______________'
Please design "?" (Protagonist #2) Character Appearance 』
'Do I subconsciously miss character generator games or something? It's been forever since I played one but this seems pretty similar like I'm making a whole cast or something.' Hiro mused as she went on to make a stereotypical male protagonist down to the little beauty mark just below the right side of the mouth.
She then looked back up to the top of the page at the blank line for the name. Tapping the line with a finger she watches as a keyboard window appears in front of her once again and pauses to think for a bit about a good name. 'So this will basically be a male lead for the female lead so they are going to be heroes for the story. I should go for an ironic name. Let us see, what was the word for hero again?'
Hiro holds her right elbow with her left hand as she taps her chin with her right. Hiro had family from Croatia so she grew up learning bits and pieces of the language whenever she was over visiting. With that thought crossing her mind, Hiro saw the metaphorical lightbulb above her head light up.
With a snap of her right hand, Hiro starts to type in the name she oh so cleverly thought of, with a grin.
『Hiro Junak』
'Or in other words, Hero Hero, a perfectly redundant and catchy name.' Hiro thought to herself as she typed in the name and taped enter. Which then caused the large window to also shatter into progressively smaller squares eventually disappearing alongside the keyboard leaving me the view of the fluffy clouds that gently rolled by.
'Is that all?' Hiro thought looking around in front of her incase a window was hiding from her.
Finding nothing Hiro shrugged and walked around the cloud she was on for just a few steps before another character window appeared in front of her.
『Please design "[皿]" (Main Antagonist) Character Appearance 』