Oh, wow. Finally getting to uploading this story.
This idea was in my head literally right after I watched "Inside Out". That was almost two months ago, and during those two months I worked hard, almost causing my brain to explode, in order to turn this crazy idea of what will happen if a human becomes aware of his emotions, into a story.
All of the characters in this story are either OC's, or OC versions of the emotions from the movie; just thought I'll point it out.
Hope you will enjoy this first chapter! Feedback will be greatly appreciated!
Friday night is, without a doubt, everyone's favorite time to hang out with their friends or families. Some of the activities people like to do at this time of the week include going out to a club and party until the sun rise, meet up with a few friends at someone's home for either a group chat or a few rounds of video game matches, and even going to the local movie theater in order to see one of the movies that are currently playing.
The latter of the mentioned hangouts was what a group of three people in their late teens choose to do that weekend. The group was consisted of two guys and one girl; all of them were slightly chubby, though one of the guys was slimmer than the other two. The two guys had black hair, but one had a simpler and smoother hair-style while the other, thinner one had shaggy hair while the girl had smooth brown hair which reached her shoulders.
All three of them wore shirts which made it clear to the observers that they were all movie lovers, especially animated ones. The guy with the shaggy hair wore a custom shirt a friend of his from college made for him, featuring various animated characters like Simba from "The Lion King", Woody and Buzz from the "Toy Story" franchise and Hiccup and Toothless from the "How to Train Your Dragon" franchise.
The other guy was wearing a white shirt with a Mickey Mouse silhouette which also featured a text saying "Disney Magic". The girl was wearing a shirt featuring Princess Merida from the movie "Brave", aiming an arrow, while above her the film's slogan "If you had the chance to change your fate; would you?" was written.
The three friends were just walking out of the movie theater after watching Pixar's latest movie, "Inside Out". The group was waiting for this movie ever since it was announced and they were really happy it matched their expectations, and even surpassed them.
"It's great to have Pixar back!" The guy with the shaggy hair, named Felix, exclaimed happily as they walked out the theater doors.
The other guy, John who was Felix's best friend ever since high-school, nodded in agreement. "I think it was one of their best movies, honestly."
The girl, named Sara, was agreeing with the statements while trying to wipe out the tears she had while watching the movie.
"Man, you're still crying?" John asked her.
"Oh, shut up!" Sara mockingly yelled at him, eyes all red. "The ending was SO touching!" She reasoned her crying throughout the movie.
"You were crying since the short before the movie played." Felix pointed out, causing Sara to roll her eyes.
"First of all, that short was beautiful." She proclaimed. "Second of all, you were crying as well, I saw you! You don't have the right to judge!" She pointed at Felix.
"I'm not judging you and I admit that I cried… twice" Felix confirmed. "But you said it was just the ending that touched you, while you were in tears before the movie itself even began." He told her.
"Point of the matter is you're both cry-babies." John told both of them, causing Sara to pout and Felix to laugh.
"Which makes you the heartless prick out of the three of us." He told him back.
As they were laughing and mocking each other, the group started looking for a place to sit down and chat as the night was still young and they weren't tired enough in order to go home yet. While walking around the area near the movie theater, all three of them were talking about the movie they had just watched and shared their favorite moments from it.
"If that bubble gum song isn't nominated for "Best Original Song", I will strangle the Academy." John declared. Though he wasn't really serious about that statement; it didn't stop Felix and Sara to somewhat agree with the joke and roll with it.
"To be honest, I can see this being nominated for "Best Picture"." Felix stated, causing Sara to agree with him.
"It will win "Best Animated Feature" for sure if it gets that nomination." She said, the others nodding in agreement.
"Even if it's not nominated for "Best Picture", it still has a ninety-five percent chance of winning the animated category." Felix pointed out. "I mean, regarding big animated films that came out this year, we have "Spongebob" which wasn't all that great, "Home" which was boring and… that's pretty much it right?"
"Isn't there another Pixar movie coming out though?" John asked and Felix nodded before fully answering.
""The Good Dinosaur"; which we barley know anything about so until that comes out, "Inside Out" for the win!" Felix cheered before realizing something. "Unless the Academy is full with idiots, which is a possibility judging from last year, but who knows?"
"Who cares about them? The movie's still amazing!" Sara interjected.
"That it is!" Felix agreed before he remembered something he wanted to ask. "Say, throughout the movie; were there parts where you thought to yourself "So that's what's going on inside my head in that situation"? Because I had a few of these."
"Yeah, I know what you're talking about." John answered with an understanding smile. "These guys at Pixar are geniuses, I tell you."
"Like there was any debate on that." Sara supported the statement.
"To tell you the truth, they did such a great job with how this concept works; I wouldn't be surprised if we're actually controlled by tiny emotion creatures that live inside our head." Felix told his two friends.
Little did Felix know that inside of his own head, an actual group of five emotions, which were a part of him since birth, were watching the conversation and making him react appropriately throughout it. The emotions were consisted of the red Anger which resembled a fire brick, the purple nerve which was Fear, a blue tear like persona which was Sadness, the known yellow star with blue spikey hair representing Joy, and Felix's main emotion, the green Disgust. Despite their different colors, all of the emotions were wearing at least one piece of blue clothing; either it being a simple scarf or their actual outfit.
With the exception of Disgust, all of Felix's emotions were male. It seems kind of wired for a guy to be mainly controlled by the emotion resembling a girl instead of any of the other emotions, but what was set couldn't be changed. For years, Felix's emotions were controlling him just like the emotions control their humans in the movie, and for years this information wasn't supposed to be known for humans.
But it looks like things have taken a different turn with the release of Pixar's latest feature.
Felix's emotions were in shock once they've heard him say he started to think that something like them exists. When a yellow memory suddenly rolled inside the headquarters and was placed alongside the other memories the emotions made during the day, everyone was facing Joy for an explanation.
"What was that supposed to be?" Disgust was the first to demand answers regarding what just happened.
"Are you crazy!? Do you know how dangerous it could be for a human to know about us!?" Anger joined in.
"Calm down!" Joy defended himself. "I just made Felix enjoy the conversation like we agreed on. I didn't intend for him to say something so accurate. I wasn't even aware one of us was thinking it!"
"He knows about us!" Fear started panicking before running back to the control panel and pressing every single button on the console in an attempt to stop this thought from developing any further.
Suddenly, thanks to Fear's involvement in the conversation, Felix's smile disappeared as he thought about what he said more. "Actually, this is kind of creepy to think we could go to shit because of a mess inside our head. I mean, Riley's personality was almost destroyed because of this mishap."
After guiding the conversation away from the subject of the concept of the movie being real or not, a purple memory was created and it soon joined the other memories created that day. "Okay, we stopped this. Great job there, Fear." Disgust complemented before continuing to watch Felix with the other emotions, this time keeping a close eye on what will come out of Felix's mouth and choosing the next emotion more carefully.
After going through the rest of the conversation, Disgust remembered that Felix had some end-year projects he had to do for his last week of college and had a big finale test he had to study to. Realizing that, she dismissed him from hanging out longer into the night with his friends so that he could go back to his apartment and get some sleep before he'll have to work on these assignments and resume studying for the test.
When Felix came back to his apartment and went to bed, Disgust quickly sent all of the day's memories to the long-term memory, sighing in relief once all the memories were sucked away from the headquarters. "Okay, crisis averted. This memory is now inside of the long-term and the chances of Felix remembering it are slim." Disgust waved her hands sideways in order to emphasis her words.
"I don't want to be a buzz kill," Sadness suddenly said. "but there's still a chance of him remembering it tomorrow and bringing it up. It is a new memory, after all."
"Yes, I'm aware of this Sadness." Disgust sighed as she had to explain what she meant. "But Felix has a lot to think about tomorrow which has nothing to do with the movie. We just need to keep him focused on those things so that he would forget about this entire thought." She explained before assigning every emotion its job for the next day. "Fear, Anger, the morning is yours; make sure Felix is stressed with his projects for school to keep him distracted from the memory. Sadness, try and comfort him by making him think the semester is just about over. Joy, do your thing when it's required, but don't get TOO happy or else we might trigger another dangerous memory. Am I clear on all of that?"
Once Disgust finished her plan for the next day, everyone nodded and accepted what their boss had to say. "Good, now go ahead and rest. I'll stay for dream duty."
"Thanks for going easy on me, Disgust!" Joy told her before he joined the other emotions on their way towards their room.
The main emotion nodded at him at the same moment Felix's dreams started playing on the screen. "Just don't get too carried away or I'll throw you into the memory dump." Disgust replied with a sarcastic tone, causing Joy to giggle nervously.
"Were you joking right now or not?"
"I'm not telling." Disgust smirked to herself after she turned away from Joy, who was actually a bit creeped out by her teasing attitude.
Halfway through her dream duty, Disgust wondered about the memory of Felix starting to question if somethings like them do exist in his mind. She, along with the rest of the emotions, was amazed at how accurate the animation studio got at presenting their job when they watched the movie alongside Felix. In fact, maybe they have done it too well…
No one knew what will happen if a human becomes self-aware of what's going on in his mind, and no one really wishes to find out. But could it be that this new movie made other people question if it's all real? And what will happen if a human does find out about the emotions inside his head?
Disgust shook away the thoughts before continuing to watch Felix's dreams. She had kept him safe and properly functioning for nineteen years and no movie will make her work go to waste. This memory will not be brought up again and she will make sure of that.
Okay, so this was pretty much my two friends and I after we watched the movie. We really had this conversation and I really had this crazy idea that the entire concept of the movie might be real because of how well executed it was. I, of course, was joking when I said it in real life but it did got me to think about this story idea; and that's how we're here now.
Hope you enjoyed this simple first chapter and I hope you'll stick around for the rest of the story! Like I said at the beginning, feedback(Any kind of it) is always appreciated, espacially on this one.
Thanks for reading and I'll see you next time!