Into the light

This is a fan made work. Lucky Star is the property of Kagami Yoshimizu ans Kyoto Animation. I own nothing.

Otaku.

That was her label. She was a freak. It was unavoidable.

Konata didn't understand why this was a bad thing. All it meant was that she loved anime, manga, games….but his was bad?

Ever since she'd started high school, Konata had been the "disgusting Otaku". In middle school, everyone watched anime. It wasn't especially weird. But now it was some perverted habit. To be an "otaku" was worse than being a loser. A loser would have loser friends – an otaku had only the fictional worlds that enthralled them.

Konata had no friends in her class. She saw Patty and Hiyori outside of class at her part time job, and around the otaku hotspots. They were nice, and Konata enjoyed spending time with them.

But it was lonely in class. She was an outcast. The girls thought she was a strange freak, and the guys thought she was a fugly loser. Konata knew everyone in class laughed at her behind her back. Sometimes the urge to cry and cry in the middle of class was overwhelming. Doing that would just make it worse.

The teacher knew about it. She'd tried to push Konata into making friends with the different cliques, but that made no difference. The Hiiragi twins and that Miyuki girl were the worst. They talked about her openly while she was there and laugh about it. When Konata's desk had been vandalised with graffiti, calling her a freak, a waste of space, that she should just go die…she knew it was them, from the way they looked at her. They wrote it all over her textbooks too. Konata wouldn't tell on them though. They had enough of a vendetta against her in the first place. She just said she had no clue who'd done it.

They made digs at her family too. They spread rumours like, she's this way because she doesn't have a mom, and her dad's an even bigger freak, that he's a creepy pervert. She wished her mom was still around to comfort her. Konata loved her dad, and knew that he loved her back, but sometimes he felt distant. Sometimes Konata wondered if he blamed her for her moms death.

Sometimes she thought about giving up watching anime. Then, maybe, she could go into the normal world. If she did that, would they accept her? Would she be able to become friends with all of them and be a helpful member of society? At this point, maybe it was too late. Her existence had been tainted and there was no turning back. They'd still hate her.

Her hobbies were the only thing that made her happy. But still, the desire for friendship was there, and for once in her life, she wanted to be a normal girl.

It looked good there, in the light. Konata wanted to be there, and smile.

So this is inspired by something I saw on Danbooru. While I love Lucky Star, it can be pretty tough being an otaku, especially with the negative connotations it has in Japanese society. So this is kind of a "Lucky Star in real life" story. I hope it isn't terrible. I haven't wrote anything in a while, so I might be rusty!