Sean:
Height: 177 cm
Weapon type: HBG
Preferred weapon: Pecopius Gun
Armour: Kaiser armour
Monster: Azure Rathalos
Age: 22
Place of origin: Yukumo Village
Hair colour: Black
Hairstyle: Spiked, short
Eye colour: Green
Trivia: One time he was really hungry and assumed that he was about to die so he bit into a live kelbi.
Alicia looked over to her Pink Rathian.
Alicia's Pink Rathian looked back.
"Why are ya still called Pink Rathian?" She wondered aloud.
"Like seriously, every other monster has a name. Even the new ones like Zino. Why have I still not given you a name?"
She stood up dramatically "Well, just you wait! I'm gonna give ya a name right here! Yup, any minute now! ...on the tip of my tongue… seriously… I got this…!"
After a few minutes of procrastinating in style she gave up.
"I'm… not that great with names, alright?"
The Pink Rathian just stared in response.
Alicia couldn't handle the pressure and went to go ask the others.
"Well," Joseph started "The reason behind Daimyo's name is a secret, so I won't just go around revealing it at the drop of a hat-"
Zach interrupted "He couldn't think of a good name and just named him after the first part of his species."
"Shaddup!" Joseph yelled in response "He wasn't a Daimyo Hermitaur when I named him, ya know!?"
"But…" Zach argued "You knew that he would turn into one, didn't you?"
"...No."
"He means yes." Zach answered.
"And as you can guess, Plessy's an abbreviation of Plesioth." Ben cut in.
"Well, I get that, but what about the other two?"
"Well actually I didn't think of Sanchez' name. Originally I wanted to call him John. However, he didn't want to be called John, which he expressed very clearly." Callum said, shuddering slightly, as if this had brought up some distressing memories.
"Got… got it. But what about Zappy?"
Zach shrugged.
"Wait seriously?"
"Yeah I dunno."
"How?"
"Dunno."
"That's uh… probably not that helpful. I don't think that something like that'd work, to be honest." Alicia thought.
She then went onto Anthony, who started an incredibly long story from which she understood something, something, betrayal, something, food, something, waves.
The general gist was that he named wave after the scenery that was there when they first became a team, but calling a monster "Field" wasn't that catchy.
Also it was kinda stupid.
Zino had already been established to be an abbreviation of Zinogre previously, so no point there.
That left Sean, who had Azure.
While it would be nice to match with him, the name of "Pink" didn't sound as cool.
Which left with her with pretty much no idea.
"Fuck it." Alicia said, writing out a bunch of names and throwing them into a hat, ready to be drawn from.
"STOP!" Zach yelled, jumping through the window and falling to the ground, picking himself up, now covered in cuts from the broken glass.
There was a few moments of silence solely disturbed by the sound of Zach's blood slowly dripping to the floor until he yelled "You can't just decide a monster name like that!"
"Uh…" Alicia replied "How am I supposed to decide, then?"
"I DUNNO!" Zach yelled in response, jumping out of the other window. But as he jumped he yelled "GO GET HELP FROM EVERYONE ELSE!"
Everyone else was then gathered, except for Zach, who had gone missing after jumping out of the window.
There was a long silence while names were thought up.
Finally Ben spoke up with "What if we called her 「Sweet Poison」?"
"Um…" Alicia replied "Isn't that a stand name?"
"What are you talking about? 「Sweet Poison」isn't a stand name?"
"Well yeah, but it sounds exactly like a stand name."
Joseph then interrupted with "Yeah, it sounds exactly like 「Stone Free」?"
"I thought it was called 「Stone Ocean」?" Riko asked.
"Shut up." Everyone replied in unison
"Well anyways," Ben continued "It'll be fine."
"No," Joseph disagreed "If we continue at this rate the universe will get destroyed."
"Don't worry," Ben responded "Much like everything in life, so long as religion doesn't get involved it'll turn out fine!"
"Wait a sec… are we allowed to publish this conversation…?"
"What do you mean?"
"Won't this be, like too offensive?"
"What are you talking about, humour needs to be offensive!?"
"Yes, I do agree, however it needs to be funny. You see the idea behind it is that the amount of offensiveness must completely feed into the humour of it, the exchange needs to be equal, anything lost in the reaction is bad."
"Don't worry, no one will ever see this."
"...?"
"Well think about it though. First off, this is a fanfiction, so we only have a maximum audience of about 100. Not only that, but this is a sequel to a shitty fic, so we've lost at least 90 of those potential readers. We also update on fridays, so we're often overshadowed by other, good fics that update on saturday, as most people come here on saturdays. The author lives in a different, earlier time zone than those guys, so to get above them on the page he needs to update at four in the morning, and he's too busy off shitposting on twitter all night to do that shit. The only way we have a chance of getting popular is if we broke 100K words, which would put us in the top 15 longest fics in this community. But at our current rate, that'll take around 25-ish chapters, and there's no way our author is good enough to think of 15-ish ideas after, all he can do is copy Gintama. I predict that by chapter 12 he'll abandon this and go write a serious fic, he's already started talking about Danganronpa in the author's comments, despite the series' humourous elements it still makes for serious stories, which is exactly what this sick bastard wants!"
Joseph tried to think of a comeback, and eventually responded with "Say what you want, but this is still probably the most popular T rated ongoing fic that's a sequel with under 40K words on this community at the minute!"
"That's a bit too specific, dontcha think?" Alicia interrupted "Now can ya bastards stop giving that goddamn author chances to complain instead of just dealing with it, and get back to discussing what we're here to discuss."
"The wall of text made me forget, what was it again?" Joseph asked.
Alicia spent a few seconds staring at them.
She then simply said "Get out."
"E-eh?" Joseph asked
"Get out."
"No, I-I mean, it's a jo-"
"Get out."
Joseph was then thrown out.
Ben started laughing, but Alicia threw him out too.
"Why!?" Ben asked.
"I just wanted to have a focus chapter." Alicia replied "Yet, here I am, with the two of ya, who do nothing but get screentime. Think about it, you were both in the first chapter, as well as the following chapters and…"
She pointed at Ben "Ya only didn't appear in four chapters out of the 28 we've only had so far, and…" She continued, turning to point at Joseph "YA GET AN APPEARANCE IN EVERY CHAPTER BAR ONE!"
Joseph appeared shocked, and tried to stammer out something about how he was the main character, but Alicia wasn't done.
"So, I've decided that I'm gonna overthrow every one of ya! That includes the two of ya, as well as Zach, wherever the fuck he went!"
"Wait, shouldn't Callum be in there." Ben pointed out.
"What are ya talking about? He's gotten the least screen time out of any of us."
"Fair point."
"Well, anyways. Here's my plan. We exclude you main characters from the chapter, so the author forgets about ya. Then we keep doing it until the author completely forgets about ya, effectively writing you out of existence by accident."
"Wait a minute," Joseph had now calmed down and was trying to argue "at that point all of ya would become the main characters and we would become the side characters, which would just continue the same way it was with things flipped, basically nothing changed in the universe. Then, we would try to take over again and if successful things would reset to the way they were. Then ya would come in and set things back to the way they were for ya before again. Then this would continue, creating an infinite loop of rising and falling screentime."
"Don't worry," Alicia replied "I'm sure someone's bound to break the cycle at some point."
"So then shouldn't y-"
"But it sure won't be me." Alicia replied, slamming the door shut.
"..."
Someone dynamically appeared before them "Have no fear, for I shall save us from this screentime drought!"
Alicia came back to sit down and plan, but as Anthony was about to suggest something Ben and Joseph burst through the wall.
Anthony was shocked by this and was getting ready to yell an exclamation of surprise, but was then hit by a Royal Ludroth jumping forwards, with a hunter using a gunlance riding on his back.
Zach then yelled out "WE WON'T LET YA ASSHOLES TAKE OUR SCREENTIME AWAY!"
Anthony was then caught by Wave and brought back to the others.
Joseph and Ben drew their weapons to fight, running to Zach's side.
Anthony got back up and drew his hammer, accompanied by Sanchez, Callum and Riko getting ready to fight as well.
Riko then yelled back "Don't worry! The five of us will hold them off here! You guys go on ahead! I believe in you! Get your own focus chapter and become main characters for us!"
The three of them charged forwards into battle, looking kind of like the Great Gurren Squad before they all got killed by the anti-spirals in space.
Alicia, Sean and Alexandra just kind of walked off to get to a safe place, while Sanchez destroyed half of the town during the battle.
A few hours passed, but she was unable to come up with any ideas.
Eventually the earthquakes stopped, which probably meant the battle was over, so she decided to go home and go to sleep.
She woke up in a place unable to see anything.
A small girl was there, sitting in a corner, crying.
"Ah… so I'm having this dream, aren't I?" She thought to herself.
She watched the girl cry for an unspecified amount of time. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years? She didn't know, all she knew was what would happen after.
A great light filled the world, and she saw a hand outstretched.
After some fearful hesitation, the girl reached out to grab it, and was in a world of colours with three people.
A boy with short, black hair and green eyes alongside two similar looking adults, his parents.
Time continued to pass, the two continued to get older.
Despite how grey the world surrounding the colours were, they continued to shine brightly.
The two adults turned into nothing.
The colour surrounding the boy drained, becoming the uncomfortable grey that was outside.
The world's safeplace turned into nothing.
The boy acted as though he had turned into nothing.
For a while, they wandered emptily, meeting new people.
The slightest amount of colour surrounded them along the way.
The girl thought that he was empty, that there was no point to following him around, she seemed to only be doing it to survive.
But then, the boy left, on the back of a wyvern, seeming to soar to greater heights.
Armour grew around him, he grew stronger and stronger, but she couldn't see his emotions recovering.
But, he took the colour with him.
The girl realised something.
That colour was from him.
He wasn't empty, there was still a way of saving him.
She had cared about him.
But by now he had soared out of her reach, gone among the clouds.
Despite everything else, her heart was empty.
She tried to soar after him, but she wasn't able to grow wings to leave the ground.
She crumbled to the ground, nothing.
Once again she wandered.
On an empty field of nothing, she found hope.
A Pink Rathian, appearing as wounded as she was.
The two were drawn to each other they took off from the ground.
They caught up to him in what seemed like no time, eventually reaching him in a new land.
The colour had been reached again, but it was just the same as it was before, but it made a change from her world of grey.
But still, the girl was now resolved.
She would bring out that heart.
Half a year passed, and sure enough she got to where she was now.
More people appeared, and at this point it was where Alicia was now, having run through the past 15 years of her life.
This is the point where it ended, nothing changing. The last thing she would see would be the 8 other hunters and herself disappearing into the greyness.
But, this point, something different happened.
She and her Rathian turned to look at her.
She smiled at Alicia.
The smile continued, unfaltering, but not getting awkward.
After a while, Alicia knew what to do.
The smiling herself was met with a response of a smile back, at which point she and the Rathian turned to walk into the grey.
The grey… wasn't that hated.
It was a part of life, Alicia guessed.
But still, she wasn't just going to let herself be swallowed by it.
She needed to stand out with colour. But… she couldn't get anywhere by just relying on others. She wanted to bring Sean back from that grey he had drowned in, but being grey herself wouldn't do that.
So she wouldn't just stop here. She was going to create colour herself, so she could spread it into the world of greyness, so she could at least have the place that she had before.
That was what she thought, so she would start by giving her monster a name.
Her Rathian, she was her eternal teammate.
She at least deserved a name for letting her soar out of the place she found herself in, so she would start repaying her with this.
Alicia woke up, and looked at her sleeping Rathian.
She walked outside, her Rathian getting up to follow her.
The others were standing by the quest counter, checking to see if there were any good quests today, as one does when standing by the quest counter.
Alicia ran up to them, looking excited.
"Guys!" She yelled "I finally thought up a name!"
There was a silence, until Callum started to ask what it was and was instantly cut off.
"Well it all started last night when I had a exposition dream that gave a decent impression of my past but left enough out to the point where if the author suddenly has an interesting idea he can retcon it in to my past, which gave me the idea to do some kind of name based around colour. I then went to the library and researched names to do with colour and inevitably found decided on her name…!"
There was a silence as Alicia looked to her Rathian, knowing this was the last time anyone would have to call her that.
"The name I decided on was Ayano!"
Everyone let out their responses which came across as a general "Huh, cool."
They finally got a good quest to do and started heading to the gate, but while they did Alicia stood in place and reflected silently, seeming down after her high a few moments ago.
After a few seconds she was interrupted by Ayano hitting her on the back playfully with her tail.
Alicia let out a yelp and fell to the ground, before laughing it off and getting on her back, flying up into the sky, prepared to soar to greater heights to bring out as much colour as she could in this world that she used to only be able to see as grey.
TO BE CONTINUED
Holy shit I've written ten of these things now.
It's been like almost half a year now.
I'm actually in shock right now, I didn't think I'd be able to hold down a schedule this long with only one hiatus.
I'll probably end up gushing like this again if I reach a year of releases, but thank you very much reading so far, all three (?) of you.
On the subject of not taking that many hiatuses, I'd like to announce that I'm taking a hiatus next update as I'm going to Ireland for family related stuff, as I happen to have one of those.
Other news is that recently Persona 5 came out, but my only understanding of Persona is that it's a Jojo reference, so I'll probably end up trying that sometime after I'm done with NDRV3. I don't know where to start, but I'm friends with enough people who do so I could probably find out pretty easily, so I mean there you go.
See you next update.