[WELCOME]
The first thing he saw when he opened his eyes, was a big, floating transparent screen that looked like more like white glass than a hologram, but that was okay. The letters had each different colors, W being red, the E's being blue, L being yellow, C being Pink, O being green, and M being Orange. Every time you blink, the colors would change, becoming completely different colors, that changed at random. His finger slowly touched the screen in front of him, making the screen shatter like glass and every single little piece flew away, as if blown by an explosion, the white room that he was in slow turned into a sky, and the ground was a mirror that reflected the sky above, making this look breathtakingly beautiful...
[Welcome, Player, to the [Dream Life Game: Worlds and Wonders], would you like to [Create] a new world or would you like to [Enter] an already created world?]
[Create] [Enter]
His face kept expressionless, he knew she deleted all his previous worlds... All his previous lives, saying it didn't matter anyway, and when he simply kicked her out of his house, she still tried to guilt trip him into letting her into his house, so he just called the cops on her for invading his privacy, he also got a Restriction Order so she wouldn't get within 100 meters of his property ever again. It was enough everything she did to him in his childhood, now that he was doing better she destroyed everything that made him happy and tried to pull him back into the darkness with her so they could both drown on the sea of madness... But he refused to.
He swam with all his strength and left that abusive life. He was a survivor and survive he will. Not even if that monster that gave birth to him comes hunting him aa a fucking ghost, or a demon, she probably is a demon already...
His name was Harew, he was now 22 years old and lived alone in an apartment, he had his own work and things, he had a life of his own... But his mother didn't seem to notice that he didn't want her to be a part of it. So she pushed, and pushed, and pushed, she even began to try and take away his things so he would go to her to try and get hos things back... He ignored at first because ever since he was really young, it was drilled inside his mind very toxic things that made him ignore that he had a toxic relationship with his family, like how "Family always comes first" or "Always help family"... More than one time he was forced to take the blame for things his siblings did, he didn't blame them because they were still kids, but once they grew up and were old enough to know what they were doing... He hated them as much as he hated his mother.
His father?
Abusive, wouls punish him if he talked back, stood up for himself when his siblings were fighting and he was blamed for something, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, and of course, racist. He never wanted a f-ggot in his house, so they kicked him out when he was only 16 because he kissed a boy... Accidentally, but even so he was gay, siblings found out and got him kicked out, sadly they now had no one else to blame for their mistakes but themselves. He still remembers that day when he was put on prison because his younger brother stole jewelry from a jewelry store in a mall, he couldn't help himself because he would rather sleep on a jail cell than sleep at his own house. And that was when Harew knew that he had to get the fuck away from his family, and he did so as soon as he could, his siblings tried to call him, use him as always, but he left and never came back.
Due to his criminal historic, he couldn't get the job he wanted, so he got a job he could work from home and would only leave his house to buy things like groceries and stuff for him to eat, besides that, he never leaves. And when he is not working, his time is spent inside his Ultra Reality Chamber, or URC for short, where can basically dream anything and anything can become reality, because it connects with your brain and you experience it.
(A/N: Basically SAO)
There are many things you can do inside a URC, from working to gaming!
One of the most famous games is the [Worlds and Wonders], where you create a character and that character is thrown in a world of your choice. That character can also appear in other worlds as an NPC, and better yet, it updates to follow tour strength and skills/powers as well. Harew wanted to play once again! But first, he changed his password, the URC can be controlled from the outside, so that was how his mother deleted all his previous worlds and games, all his progress thrown away.
He used his finger to touch the [Create] option, the same thing happened again, the screen shattered to billions of tiny little shining pieces and flew away as another screen appeared to take its place. This was the [Character Creation] Screen, where he created the character he would take the form of to be thrown into another world! As always, the character took his physical form, that was the reflection of his own physical body, which was the default settings. Normally, Harew would change the model, but now he didn't care if people would see his real face or not, it didn't matter anymore anyway.
Standing in front of him was a 6'7 man, with short brown hair and a small, three-days-without-shaving beard, and not with a healthy appearance... He looked way too underweight for his size, and that is because most of the times, his family made him develop a eating disorder that he couldn't control, he sought therapy, but that was not easy to get rid of. His eyes were green, just like his birth-giver, and he had a short of round chin, just like his sperm donor! The very first thing he did was to make his appearence more buff and healthy, and just the thought of seeing the character in front him as buff and healthy, the character changed completely.
He now had a six-pack and body hair, oh, forgot to tell... His body was naked!
That is because he is 22 years old, so nudity was possible for him, for those under 18 they would look like black voids, nothing there to see at all. He decided to do minor changes here and there, make his eyebrows just a little trimmed, his hair a little bit bigger, and his dick... It was at the right size, he didn't want to kill anyone, plus, he is sure he isn't going to use that anyway! With a slight blush, the virgin Harew focused on his character background and other informations!
He had to write a backstory for the character, choose the character's background, and choose the origin as well.
Backgrounds are little things you can use to get starting skills for your character! Like, for example, a character with the [Police Officer] Background would have skills like [Long Range Weapon Mastery I] or something. Oh yeah, skills and powers have this categorization that uses Roman numerals, it goes from [I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X], X being the highest level someone can get! When it comes to magic, or Magic Domains, the domain itself has no rankiing but has a whole different ranking system that uses mastery. [Apprentice, Novice, Trained, Experienced, Master, Grandmaster, Sage], spells, however, use the same ranking as skills and powers.
So, back to [Backgrounds], Harew began to look at the enormous list, he could look at this list for months and he would not read everything in detail! Many did it though, because time outside the URC and inside the URC are different! 1 hours outside are 7 days inside, going more than 24 hours outside can cause Over Immersion, an effect that many people have suffered from at least once before, which is when you start to get reality and the game mixed because you spent too much time on the URC... But relax, taking a pill of OIE and sleeping can resolve that easily! OIE is short for Over Immersion Eraser, which removes the effects of Over Immersion easily and without side effects. Looking over at his Character, Harew sighed... He was unsure of what he wanted.
He had an Assassin Character before, it was heavily focused on stealth and, you guessed it, assassination! He liked playing that character because the world he was thrown in was the world of the anime Naruto, so he basically was a ninja. He had chosen the [Reincarnated] Origin as well as the [Assasin] Background, his backstory was as cliche as you could get, died being hit by a truck, bla bla bla. Talking about Origins, there were 5 Origins and others Sub-Origins he could choose after choosing his Origin!
[Reincarnated] is the origin in which you basically create another character, and the character must have the [Mundane] Origin, unable to choose any supernatural [Background], and have at least 2 [Drawbacks]. This character, then gets transferred to the [Reincarnated] character, this is just useful to get double the [Background] skills and powers, depending on the build you make, this can be really powerful! However, there are drawbacks that you need to get, the most picked are [Dense] and [Stupid], because they don't change much about the character itself, but there are others who pick the [Misfortune] or even [Tragic] drawbacks that make your backstory have a tragic event that lead to someone you loved dying a horrible death, or you suffering something horrible.
[Mundane] was the most basic origin, because you are just a normal human. You get four non-supernatural [Skills/Powers]... That's it. And most of the time they are simple skills like, [Computer I], or [Paperwork I]...
[Meta-Human] Is the Origin in which your character awakens the power within their gene, you get two skills and power of your choice, one active and the other passive, however they are both [I] rank.
[Alien] With this origin, your character comes from another planet, making them a stranger in a strange land! No matter which world your character is thrown into, with this origin, they will be from another planet. You aslo get two active skills/powers and you cam choose a Sub-Origin related to your race and their costumes, like they are barbarians who love to battle and kill ([War Seekers]) or adorable creatures that would not hurt even a fly ([Peace Makers]), and many othee options!
[Magical] is the origion that, you guessed it, gives you magic... Yay! You select one Domain of Magic that you can learn spells from, you start with one spell though. You also have to choose how you get that magic, it has 5 sub-origins:
[Acquired]: You learned this magic through constant training and sweating.
[Borrowed]: You got your magic from a stronger entity than you, from demons or even gods.
[Awakened]: Magic was always inside you, it just needed a little push to manifest itself, be it good or bad.
[Stolen]: You stole magic, great job. The owner might want it back though...
[Born]: You were born with it. Since you were a baby you can use it.
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It took Harew some time, but he created his character backstory and chose his [Background].
Name: Erick Bright
Gender: Male
Origin: Magical
Sub-Origin: Awakened
Domains: Holy [Apprentice]
Spells: [Heal I]
Background: [Doctor] (Gives [Medicine I] and one extra non-supernatural skill/power)
Skills/Powers: [Medicine I], [Cooking I]
Backstory:
His parents died when he was young, he was adopted by a couple who tortured him, he didn't know why or that it was torture, but he kept living on that toxic environment. Later he visited his parents one last time before he moved on with his life, but before he could leave his parents revealed themselves to be Demons who were slowly corrupting his soul so they could consume him, but his magic sealed itself inside and protected him, turning him into a shy, gentle soul with low self-esteem, anxiety, and trauma instead of making him into a complete monster that they wanted him to be. At last resort they attacked him, it was then his magic awakened and it exploded outward, making everything around him explode and killing his "parents", the incident was later reported as a gas exploding.