Tyson interviews the fanfiction community
– Rapid Puzzleshipper Saiko

Adjusting the question notes within the palms of his hands, the retired world champion focused on the camera that was aimed into his direction. The audience behind him started to whisper amongst themselves, but the sound of his faithful fans were making the most noise, screaming and chanting his name – Tyson Granger.

Was he nervous? Never, the new talk show host was about to give the world a taste of who his fans really were, even if they felt like they were worlds apart. Tonight they are going to unite and the dragoon wielder was introducing the authors to his unpredictable world.

"We are ready in 10 seconds Tyson. Someone hush the crowd!"

Rolling his teddy bear eyes at the bossy producer, Tyson was eager to get going. But as he adjusted his red jacket, the countdown and finished. The crowd was cheering even louder and the lights had lit up the stage where the superstar was standing.

His goofy smile appeared across his dry lips and he confidently winked at the audience. "Thank you, thank you. Oh man, I don't think Kai had it this good." Tyson laughed and waved his hand.

He clearly loved every minute of this.

"As much as I'd love to stand here and listen to that all day, I have to crack on with the show guys and introduce my first guest to the show."

The crowd then was hushed and the tension in the atmosphere started to relax. Tyson turned his attention back to the camera and let the words flow naturally from his talented tongue.

"Hello and welcome to my show where I, Tyson Granger, will be interviewing fanfiction authors from across the world. Some of them as you may know are well known for their outrageous behaviour and daring stories. But none of them will come close to this up front lady who I am interviewing tonight. Please welcome, Rapid Puzzleshipper Saiko."

He rose out his arm to warmly welcome a brunette young lady who walked onto the stage. After the crowd settled down, Tyson sat down in his comfortable red chair and Amanda sat down opposite him on the homely setting.

In order to read the questions on the cards in his right hand, the retired champion had to hold them inched away from his big brown eyes. "First of all, what is your actual name?" Tyson asked and flashed a cheesy smile at the audience who were giggling at him.

"My name is Amanda C-M." The brunette answered confidently and scanned around the scenery like an excited teenager. She loved the spotlight and the audience, but what she loved the most, was the beyblader sitting nearby.

"What does the C-M stand for?"

"Cock muncher."

"Too much information."

"You honestly don't expect me to give out my actual last name do you? Expect stupid answers to stupid questions."

The crowd laughed at the entertaining author and Tyson fidgeted uncomfortably. He didn't mind sharing his spotlight, but this girl was challenging him for it big time. She was a natural at this!

"Alright then moving on...In your story 'Borderline', you like to scare me and Kai often don't you? I mean, you have started this trend of spiders frightening me."

The female grinned. "Of course. The anime and manga never really touched on your biggest fears, apart from your obvious separation anxiety. And Kai? The only thing he seemed to be afraid of was losing and the abbey...for good reasons as it turned out. But I needed something to get you both closer in the story. Why spiders? Because nearly everyone I know hates spiders in some way. It was a fear most readers could relate to."

"Now the moment we have all been waiting for, that 'Anything' creation of yours. Look some of the audience are fanning themselves already! Haha, now about this gay sex. What inspired you to write that when you're straight?"

Amanda blushed and smiled. "I'm not straight. I'm openly bisexual and I've been out of the closet for almost 2 years now. But what started me writing gay fanfiction was the fact the guys seemed to be better matches for my favourite characters than the girls. Plus, who really wants to read about a story about a female who isn't them, all over their favourite character? Um...hell no."

"Finally another story of yours is 'Oatmeal' – why have you written a story about me struggling for a shit with Kai laughing at me? Me and the guy are close, but that is a whole new level of a bromance Amanda."

Laughing, Amanda said, "Oh that? Well the truth was that story actually happened in real life and it was too funny not to post. I actually censored that heavily. What happened in real life was way funnier, but so inappropriate. The inspiration for that story actually read it and loved it, and I even had her laughing. I was a little nervous posting it, but after making myself some alcoholic ice cream, I found the courage. You were my victim because out of all the characters, you had the most stomach issues."

"Hey! Just because the anime decided to pick on me doesn't mean that the others didn't have their issues? I mean Kai's farts are horrible! So...no way! She actually read that? That takes balls to show something that personal. Did you not fear her wrath? What do you fear the most?"

"No. I knew she would handle it pretty well. Spiders scare me. Anything happening to my daughter scares me and people hating me for no good reason scares me. I'm always terrified of not being good enough for people, so I push myself as hard as I can to make people happy. When I was younger, and just a new mother at age 19, I was always terrified of people judging me if there was a speck of dirt. It's kinda hell inside my head sometimes." She sweat dropped.

Tyson didn't want to dig into that stuff to find out the root cause to her 'hell.' He was just the star who had to make sure everyone was having a good time. So he changed the topic drastically and lightened the mood, "Once RPS has removed this mask, who is she in the real world?"

The woman sat thoughtfully for a moment. "I'm a pretty down to earth person, who's always wearing a smile. If someone is sad or stressed out, I listen to them. I'm a single mom of a 4 year old little girl so all I basically do is write, work and sleep and spend my time with her. When she's at her dad's I'm out with my work friends or taking extra shifts at work or I've locked myself in my bedroom to just focus on writing. I got drunk for the first time 3 months ago and that was definitely a new experience. My work friend is determined to get me drunk again." She laughed. "The only problem with being such a happy person is that if my smile falters for even a second, everyone gets worried and starts asking me what's wrong. I'm fucking stressed, leave me alone or bring me cake!"

"Hahahahaha! I know right? Cake solves everything! Sounds like you have a lot on your plate. Do you and her dad get along at least?"

"Oh yeah. We've been friends for a long time. We swap custody every 2 weeks. He's my best friend ever. I know I can count on him in a tough situation."

"Well that's good at least that you have some support. Now, tell us, why do you write?"

The girl bit her lip. "I write for a number of reasons, but the biggest one is to get away from reality for a little while. It's a great stress reliever and now I love my reader's reactions to every chapter. I love making them feel everything I want them to feel. Pain, happiness, sadness. Their tears and outrage over my latest "Borderline" chapter makes me happy, because that means my words have gotten into their hearts."

"Who is your biggest influence/inspiration?" The big question had finally left his lips!

"Um...I don't really have one. There are tons of writers that I admire and I love all their stories, but I write for myself. I don't try to copy other people. My mother has always said that I have such a unique voice to my writing. So I just write what I want to write."

"What the hell got you into writing TyKa?!"

"Honestly? I went back and watched the show and when Kai said "Our battle has been written in the stars...Tyson and I!" HOW COULD I NOT SHIP THEM? They obviously have the deepest friendship...there is so much evidence. And either of them with Hilary? Ew, no thanks."

Wow I remember that. Did it really look that good on the television? – Tyson's ego expanded and he blushed at the thought. "Say, do you have any gossip on the fanfiction world?"

"Isn't there always gossip? I heard this 'Honest Reviewer' is stirring up one of the authors...I honestly would love if someone was that brutally honest with my work, I'm sure my writing could use some tweaking." She raised her arms and started waving, "Hey Honest Reviewer! Come my way next! I love constructive criticism!"

Tyson smirked and shuffled the cards in his hand. "This honest reviewer really needs to come and sit in that chair for an interview one day. Hey! Producer, are you listening?!" He announced before reading out the next schedule of the show.

Oh yes, the producer had to plan this entire layout or else Tyson would fuck it up.

"Now we have asked other authors to ask you some of their questions!"

"Ooooow." The crowd cringed as Amanda got excited about the scenario. The curvy brunette couldn't wait to hear the questions that her fellow fanfiction authors had asked her.

"Here is a Question from MarchellV: Do your stories contain personal messages you wish your readers to understand and catch?"

"Um...I don't think that deep into my writing. Anything I want said, I just come right out and say it. I think the biggest one is to be honest how you feel with the one you're crushing on, because they might feel the same way, and small acts of kindness go a very long way. Though if anyone is feeling up to the task, I have done TONS of foreshadowing to later chapters of "Borderline" in chapter 3. If anyone wants to dissect that chapter and tell me your theories, that would be awesome."

"We have some questions from Adbhut: What is the story behind your username? And what does it mean? Also, How do you handle people that irritate you?"

Amanda laughed. "Yeah, my username is a bit odd isn't it? Rapid Puzzleshipper Saiko is a name I came up when I was in the Yu-Gi-OH! Community, reflecting my feelings about shipping the characters Yugi and Yami aka puzzleshipping. I became so obsessed with the pairing, I had read all the puzzleshipping stories over the course of several years, any time there was a new story, I was the first to review. I spell Saiko instead of psycho, because I saw it spelled that way in a fic once and I loved it. I used to be insaneygolover, and insaneygolover is still my username for tons of things. I've been considering changing it since I want to remain apart of the TyKa community here ('cause you guys are way smaller and friendlier than the ygo community), but I also want to keep the initials 'RPS' since that's what everyone knows me as. Maybe something like "Raving Penis Sucker" or something stupid like that. If anyone has suggestions, PM me! Granted, I will forever love my puzzleshipping, but right now, I need more Tyka in my life."

The authoress then paused and thought about the second question. But not for one second did that happy smile leave her smooth lips. After a moment of two, Amanda answered, "How do I handle people that irritate me? I'll usually walk away or ignore them outright. Luckily it takes a lot to irritate me. If you manage to make me mad enough to have a full blown out argument with you, congratulations. You are a douchebag."

Tyson then rose from his chair and dropped his scripted cards in relief. "Ladies and gentlemen, it's Rapid Puzzleshipper Saiko!" He cheered along with the crowd and playfully bowed to the confident woman for being a guest on his brand new show.


A/N: This was written a long time ago, but I have just finished it! *faints*. Fuck me has this been so funny! I will update again really soon guys, but Tyson will be interviewing Little A Granger :D. If you want to join the queue, please comment below and I will organise the whole event for you. Little A Granger~