=== A SI Pro Gamer that likes to game and can tolerate the gremlin, Amelia Watson from Hololive ===
"I'm gonna ground pound your mum!"
"Sweep, light, light, light, launch aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand level 3."
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Hacks! I call hacks!"
"Run it back?"
"....nah, chat are saying their ears hurt. Do you want to do duo with me against chat instead?"
"Sure, I got time, I'll modify the room real quick."
"Ah-Ha! Hear that guys! I'm now gonna ground pound your mums! Join and prepare to be dominated! Remember to leave once we beat your ass!"
….How did I even start playing with this goblin from Hololive, Amelia Watson?
Well, it all started when I was playing GTA V online, before she joinedHololive.
My usual heist friends weren't available yet so I wasted time joining different randos companies and heists. And in came the goblin herself doing a Fleeca Job heist and I took the role of driving while Amelia was drilling and hacking.
It was a fine job, I thought to myself.
Nothing could have gone wrong.
….We were sitting in the car in front of the Fleeca bank for nearly two hours all because Amelia couldn't do the hacking, ragequit to take a shower, came back refreshed and still failed until I begged to vc her. I didn't care at that point who she was, I wanted to finish the job and go to sleep. I could have quit, but I was not a quitter, and I would've rather helped a hopeless player than ragequit. And also because she didn't want to leave without finishing the job.
So after forcing her to vc and backseating the hacking minigame, we failed the heist three times before finally running off with our hard-earned cash of a measly 100k. The whole thing took around a total of four hours, and would've made it on the slowest speedruns!
It wasn't much but at least I got to hear the gremlin roar in happiness when we cashed out with Lester.
"Thank you for the game."
"No worries, Imma hit the hay now."
"Um, can we do another heist another time? I'm kinda new because GTA went free on Epic Games and it has been pretty fun."
"Sure, but we need more people for the other heist. I got some buddies, here's the server and ping me when you are free. The guys are mostly available for most games, we have a list on one of the channels. Good night, Ame (GamerTag)."
"Good night, Ash (GamerTag)!"
The next day passed by with two guys, CumLord and AngelP, ready to do heists with Amelia and me. We smashed through all the heists and completed the heist storyline with her. Amelia was excited, and happy with her progress as she previously had to partner with diverse randos. She had a try on those GTA Heist discord servers but they went a little crazy when they heard her voice.
"Decent amount, but we are gonna dip out." (CumLord)
"Yeah, we need to grind the ranks for a bit. Wait till we beat your ass and hit Champion, Ash" (AngelP)
"Alright, take care." (Ash)
After the two left, Amelia sounded concerned about her game session today and asked me.
"Was I a bother?" (Amelia)
"...Pardon, what was that?" (Ash)
"Um, like…ah. Was I too low-level that those two didn't want to play GTA anymore?"
Oh, was she worried that she was deadweight to my friends?
"Oh them! Nah! Don't worry about them. It's cause we got a tourney this month."
"Tourney? Tournament?"
"Yep, our group is very competitive and we used to play League of Legends but it got stale since, in a 25-ish people server, we would always fight each other in ranked."
"Oh, LoL….I'm not too good at that."
"Nah, that's fine. Anyway, so we came up with an idea to get Comp Games like CSGO, Valorant, and DOTA2, rotate them along each month and see the ranks and make teams."
"Wow, that must be hard to organise."
"Um maybe, we just make sure everyone grinds out and we can fight it out. Oh, and each week, we randomise for League ARAM. I'll try and get a slot open for you."
"Nah, that's fine! I don't want to impose."
"It'll be fun! You're already a part of the server and Cherry just approved."
"Cherry?"
"Best Gamer of the server and can drive her teammates like sled dogs."
"Oh….she sounds cool."
"Yeah, let's do some Cayo Perico heist prep and we might have to do it ourselves if no one else is on."
"OKAY! Let's make some bank!"
Most of the week was a constant grind of heists with the occasional R6 with the sweatlords, but Amelia never took the initiative to play GTA with the other gamers and only partnered up with me.
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"Is something wrong, Ash? You spaced out after getting that ace." one of the guys asked me when I wiped out the opposite team in R6 but didn't celebrate the kills. I even lost some prep time for defence.
"Is it that Ame person?" another guy asked as he spawn peeked at the enemies.
"Yeah," I admitted as I C4 a rat player, "Feels like she isn't used to you guys yet. She only heists if I'm around."
"Oh, the girl that's playing GTA. I asked twice before on Monday but she was busy up until you came online fuck! Shotgun!" one of the girl gamers commented before dying, "Left side of showers, move to bomb."
"Target down, but yeah. She might be just a little shy. Got any ideas? Cherry?" (Ash)
"Hold up," Cherry focused up and melee'd the enemy to humiliation, "We can get her in the LoL Thursday, open comms with Ame role ADC. Ash can go Support and give her enough pressure where she can't leave but also keep Ash close enough that she feels fine."
"Can we do it next week? Grim and I want to duke it out Jungle and we can't gank bot if Ame is hopping on. Who the fuck forgot to reinforce this wall?!" another guy started to hammer the wall quickly.
"No, this week." Cherry quickly shut down the poor jungler, "Next week is R6 tourney and everyone is just gonna grind R6. Ash, duo with me after this game for scrims so you can refresh the support role."
"But Cherry, I should be fine without any scr-"
"No excuses," Cherry interrupted me, "I am making sure you are supporting Ame with 110% of your skills."
"I was going to anyway!"
"Alright, girls and lads, speed round so I can get this scrim done ASAP! Get moving and dunk these noobs! Get in my way and I'm showing no MERCY!"
….Did I mention Cherry was ruthless? Top dog of our server and makes sure the server is proper for all of us to have fun, even if she becomes an asshole in her methods.
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Our weekly League of Legends In-House arrived quicker than I imagined and I went through the hellish support training by Cherry. Ame was worried since she wasn't that good at the game but persisted when it was promised that I would be supporting her.
"Wait! Isn't ADC the hardest and the carry of the game? I can't win against you guys!" Ame complained when she was informed of her role.
"You'll be fine, they ain't gonna Faker mechanics you," I assured her as we started to load into the game.
"Ok….isn't that suggesting that you guys are as good as Faker?"
".....So what champ are you thinking of playing? We turned off bans since it doesn't matter for us."
"Maybe Miss Fortune?"
"Sweet, I can pick my support main!"
"Who do you usually play?"
"BRAUM!"
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"Fuck you, Braum!!" The enemy ADC Jinx was trapped by my crowd control and led into Ame's Ult, "Why is my Pkye top side?!"
"I am swimming in gold with this Pantheon top." (Enemy Pyke)
"Aatrox, I got a fish to help me." (Enemy Pantheon)
"Well, Pantheon, allow me to send you a monkey to bring you to your doom!" (Ally Aatrox)
"Spinnnnnnnnnnnnn." (Ally Wukong)
"Coming in hot!" the enemy Yi crashed into the topside party, ready to duke it out.
"Let's go, Ame! We can take the tower down before Jinx comes back." (Ash)
"Y-yeah!" Amelia agreed excitedly and started to chip the tower into a rumble.
"Pyke, help me!" Jinx cried as Ame and I dived her under the tower.
It was an easy match since Cherry was on our side and the enemy Pyke fooled around with the topside. The enemy Jinx could have easily killed us as Ame didn't have the quickest reactions, but I made sure to cripple any kill opportunity.
"Man, I don't want to go against Ash anymore," Jinx complained.
"That's what you get for not practising enough." Cherry took notes and started to lecture as we started to rewatch the VOD of our games, "Over here. Using your E here would divide the team and suitable cc if they wanted to support their straggler. Using it as your defensive tool is too slow and…."
Ame was embarrassed as we watched her beginner skills, which I teased about as she threw a playful fit.
"Hahaha! Look at that ult at the start of the drag fight." I pointed out to her specifically.
"Oi! I thought it would have lasted longer!" Ame pouted.
"It's funnier that you managed to still kill Jinx!"
"Fuck off, Ash!" the Jinx was tempted to mail a pipe bomb to me.
At least Ame is more comfortable with the group now.