A well-lit gray room. An unfamiliar ceiling. And yet, the young woman---Yonah Curtis----could not see her hands in front of her face. Did she even have a face...?
Looking down, in a chair, she found her body waiting. Her body seemed vacant, unoccupied... It was as though she were going through an out of body experience. Correction, she was.
WELCOME TO CHARACTER CREATION.
A kind jingly voice announced as it ran through the basics of where Yonah was and what Yonah was capable of doing.
“Eh? I could even be a guy?! No no no no that’s crazy...”
Yonah nervously laughed. Her doll-self was currently seated in front of her, completely still, wearing nothing but the most basic of underwear.
“So I can just touch ‘it’ right, I mean me... and become someone else...”
The voice answered in the affirmative. She could indeed sculpt herself like clay if she wished. But there were others way to go about it as well.
Yonah bit her lip...
“No... not someone else. It wouldn’t mean anything if it wasn’t ‘me’ that was doing this, playing this game, I mean...”
The voice said nothing. It wasn’t a therapist after all. Yonah felt silly.
“Right... but maybe at least... well... wouldn’t it be interesting if...”
Yonah approached her own body as her cheeks glowed a soft shade of pinkish red. Something about the whole process felt awfully awkward, perverse even. Even if she had seen her own figure in the mirror countless times, this was something else. It was more like touching a twin. Peeking through one eye and with a great deal of flinching hesitation, Yonah gingerly, nervous reached for ‘her’ chest.
“It’s just... in real life I’m always working out... and that... comes with costs as well as benefits...”
Yonah studied her toned body, it was merely a side effect of day in and day out training, but even so, she was proud of the efforts it represented. However, a certain area was now quite a bit bigger than before...
“Woah...”
Yonah held a ‘hand’ to her chin nodding.
“And if that’s like that then...”
Yonah stood Doll Yonah up and gently pushed in at the sides giving herself an hourglass figure. Then, spinning it around she looked at her rear...
Was bigger always better?
WOULD YOU LIKE TO ENABLE PROPORTIONAL CORRECTION?
“Eh? Ehhhh? This isn’t...? ...Ah, okay, yes please...”
Perhaps knowing what aspects of the character model that players would like to favor retaining the most, Doll Yonah grew taller before Real Yonah’s very ‘eyes’.
“Wow...”
What stood before her was a statuesque beauty, an athletic super model,
Yonah’s dream adult body when she hit maybe around 26 years of age. 19-year-old Yonah was at a loss for words. She merely stood there gazing until gradually, she began to shrink away from the overwhelmingly feminine, adult, and maybe even a little sensuous aura.
“Uhm... un... undo...”
ARE YOU SURE YOU WOULD LIKE TO UNDO YOUR PRESENT CHANGES...?
“I-I get it alright?! I’m just a banana!”
Real Yonah sobbed at the Adult Model Doll Yonah. Life just wasn’t fair. Truly Yonah didn’t know the merits of her own figure, yes, she lacked curves and maybe a few inches of height, but other women would kill to have what she did. Yonah was cute, but it would seem that she dreamed of being sexy.
Alas, Adult Model Doll Yonah poofed back into plain ol’ cutey face Yonah causing the real deal to sigh.
“Maybe this is for the best, there’s something that just feels considerably dishonest about making use of ‘that’ form. Not that I’d blame anyone else for doing so. Maybe in a few years...”
IS YOUR DEFAULT SELF ACCEPTABLE?
That was a fatal question to a young woman but after considerable thought, Yonah nodded.
“Yes. My default form is acceptable.”
Yonah affirmed.
PLEASE DECIDE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SELECT YOUR MASTERIES FROM A PRE-DEFINED CLASS TEMPLATE, UTILIZE ATTRIBUTE RECOMMENDATION MODE, OR ENABLE FULL-CUSTOM MODE.
“Hmmm...”
It was a tough question, Yonah considerably lacked experience in video games, much less VR Games. Her painful backstory was a sore reminder of that.
“As long as I can use a sword, could we maybe use recommendation mode to start?”
THAT IS POSSIBLE, ADDING SLASH TO THE LIST OF MASTERIES AND BEGINNING BRAIN SCAN TO FORM A PERSONALITY PROFILE...............
“...”
SCAN COMPLETE. BASED UPON YOUR ATTRIBUTES OF ‘SUSCEPTIBLE TO LONELINESS’ AND ‘UNEASE IN NEW SITUATIONS’ IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED THAT YOU INCORPORATE SUMMONING INTO YOUR CHARACTER BUILD. THIS WILL GIVE YOU A PERMANENT COMPANION.
Yonah flinched at the brutality of the assessment but none the less...
“I can have a friend?”
YES. SUMMONING WILL GRANT YOU ACCESS TO A PARTNER CHARACTER THAT WILL ACCOMPANY YOU UPON YOUR JOURNEY.
“That sounds really nice... I think your words left some emotional damage, but you’re right, I think I would like that, thanks for looking out for me...”
WOULD YOU LIKE TO ENGAGE IN A TRIAL SUMMONING NOW TO DETERMINE YOUR FIRST COMPANION? THIS COMPANION CAN BE CHOSEN FROM A LIST OR CAN BE RECOMMENDED FROM THE SCANNED PERSONALITY PROFILE.
“Ah... well... recommend... maybe...?”
ACKNOWLEDGED. PLEASE ACTIVE THE HIGHLIGHTED SUMMON BUTTON IN YOUR UI IN ORDER TO BEGIN A TRIAL SUMMONING.
Yonah looked at her UI. Sure enough, there was a new glowing button, ‘summon’, so Yonah pressed it. Symbols and light followed and from there was a kind of poof. As the little smoke cleared, Yonah saw a floating... cube... droid... thing...
(~~~whir whir whir~~~)
“Huh?”
PLEASE HIGHLIGHT YOUR POTENTIAL SUMMON AND VIEW ITS STATUS.
“Okay.”
Name: Friend Cube
Type: Support
Species: Automaton
Element: None
Personality: Helpful
Difficulty: Beginner
THIS IS THE SUMMON RECOMMNDED TO YOU BASED UPON YOUR CALCULATED NEEDS CRITERA. IT WAS SELECTED BASED UPON THE FACTORS OF-----
“That’s okay.”
WOULD YOU LIKE TO CEASE THE EXPLANATION?
“Yes. You’re probably going to say something super depressing...”
IS THIS SUMMON ACCEPTABLE?
The hovering cube bounced around as it flapped about on two little cherubic wings. It was about the size of a basketball. The wings seemed more for show, they shouldn’t have been able to support its weight. Could Yonah really reject a friend specially selected just for her? What would she say? ‘This isn’t good enough?’ ‘I don’t like this one, so just get me another?’ As if. Yonah knew the pain of being cast aside. If this was the very special friend who answered her summons then...
“He’s perfect. Of course I’ll take him!”
WOULD YOU LIKE TO DECIDE ON A NAME NOW?
“Hmm... Cubey.”
(~whir~whir~whir~whir~)
Cubey acknowledged her.
WITH THIS STEP CHARACTER CREATION IS NOW COMPLETE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO REVIEW YOUR CHOICES?
“No. I’m ready.”
Cubey hovered over to Doll Yonah’s side.
ACKNOWLEDGED. STARTING GAME.
“See you on the other side Cubey!”
*Shupt* The light in the room went out.
