The Literature Club.
Located halfway across the school in the second floor.
So far there are only 5 members in the club, myself included.
I know for a fact, that unless you actually like reading stuff or doing stuff related to reading or literature itself, no one's gonna wanna join (unless you were blackmailed like me.)
It's already been a full week since the first day of school, and so far no one's wanted to join us.
No one.
Absolutely no one.
Not a single fucking soul…
Bitch: "You're a loner loser, fuck off!"
Also Bitch: "Please let me join the Literature Club!"
As of right now, Bitch was right in front of me bowing down and asking me let her join the literature club while some of the members were just watching.
Me and Monika were surprised to say the least but suspicious, Yuri and Natsuki were confused about who this person was, and Sayori was late to club...again.
Excuse me what?
17 hours before the Bitchening
It has already been a couple of days after nearly getting caught by a snitch from my graffiti spot and after looking outside the front yard occasionally, no police officer came by my house or even towards it.
Of course, because of my paranoia, I did check the window every 2-3 hours for the past 4 days, so it might be safe to say that the police may have given up on searching for me, if they were even searching for me in the first place.
I spent the last 3 days of me being in suspension not only doing late school work (since Sayori was nice enough to bring them to me) but also making fliers for the Literature Club.
Why?
Well because Monika decided to black mail me again by using my graffiti spot and seeing me do graffitti herself as leverage.
That along with her logic of "Just because you're suspended, doesn't mean you can't do something productive" kind of mentality...
Since the one they originally had was a disaster, my skills of being artsy came in handy as I made a couple of drafts and gave them to Sayori so she could give them to Monika.
For some reason, she's somewhat convinced that the fliers they had originally were too "eccentric" and that it didn't give off the feel of an actual literature club.
If I were to make a better, more friendly version of the flier, we'd get more members.
I know Monika's smart, a top student, literature club president, and a rat bastard of a woman…
So by that logic, she and I both know that no one is gonna join the club because of a flier.
Part of me wonders if this is something she made up just to get me to do something while I was gone or if this was an actual attempt of getting new members, either way it kept me busy and away from online gaming where I'd call my teammates assholes because they were assholes.
So far, the only thing I was able to come up with was old calligraphy style letters saying "Join the literature club" with my drawings of books stacked upon each other with teacup right next to it.
I've adjusted this idea multiple times since this was the design Monika liked the best out of the 4-5 different designs I made from the past couple of days.
I finally got up from my bed after lying on it for the past 3 hours and closed my drawing pad as I looked at the time.
It was already late enough where I just wanted to get some decent amount of rest for the night.
I put most of my stuff away as I started to crack my back and arms.
While I wish I could've had more time to be lazy as fuck, I was being blackmailed into doing more work than I originally wanted to do.
Not to mention that everyone will probably start to avoid me from here on out since word about the argument and suspension me and Bitch had will have already spread out within the school.
I headed towards the bathroom, brushed my teeth and got ready for the next day.
Next day came by fast, morning routine, blah blah blah. Food and getting dressed, yadda, yadda, yadda.
I exited the house early in the morning with some sleep fatigue since it was almost an entire week since my suspension.
To my surprise, Sayori was waiting outside right next to the gate in front of my house.
"Morning!" She said happily.
"Hey…" I said tiredly
Very weird that the moment I get sleep fatigue from sleeping in for about a week, Sayori is somehow able to wake up bright, cheerful, and on time.
"You know…" I said as I yawned, "...it's very rare for you to leave the house before me. What's the special occasion?"
Sayori pouted as I asked her that, "Hey, that's rude. I can get up earlier if I wanted, I just want to stay home more since it's comfy…" she replied.
Press X for Doubt…
"Besides, you're out of your suspension so that's good enough for celebration right?" She continued.
"I don't think me getting back from suspension calls for a celebration, especially the reason why…" I said as we walked down the street.
It's bad enough that people already talk shit about me, but I already made it worse since I got rough with Bitch.
"Well...it's not as bad as you think…." Sayori said in a slightly convincing tone.
"Really now?" I questioned.
"Yeah," she said, "Not a lot of people were talking about the 'Incident' that happened between you and that blond girl. So I guess it just blew over, over the weekend…"
Well that or Monika used her authority to keep the student body quiet just so no one would talk about it…
"Well, I got a feeling that people might start to talk about it again today since my suspension is up." I said, "Won't take long for them to startup or something just to get some attention…"
"Hmmm, you might be right…" Sayori said a bit sadly.
"But…" Her tone brightened up when she said this, "You've got me and the club, and we're your only friends right?"
I...can't tell if that was an insult or reassurance...but damn did that sting…
...Damn Sayori, you've grown for the better…
"Well you I can deal with, but I'm not so sure about the club though. Monika is nice, but is a blackmailing Bit-..., nevermind...Yuri is socially awkward and is a pain to be around, and pinky just sucks…" I said as I unfiltered my opinions for a moment.
Sayori stood there with a slightly shocked face, "Wow...I...didn't think you felt that way about them…"
Alright, time to explain myself before my only friend actually makes me friendless…
"Well!" Sayori said with a determined face, "It doesn't matter! I'll make sure you can make friends and converse with them like a normal person!"
oof Ok, now that honestly hurt me.
Coming from Sayori of all people, that really hurts….
"Sayori I know you're my only friend and all, but you could've said that a bit more subtly, you know?" I said as part of my dignity started to crumble…
She looked at me confusedly for a moment, "But didn't you say one time that you were a deadbeat and wasn't considered a normal person by any standard?" She asked me.
...shit, she got me there…
"Alright, point proven…" I said in defeat.
I really need to shut my fucking mouth, it's just gonna fuck me over even more in the future...
After walking another 5-8 minutes we finally reached the gates of the school, and Hey! Surprise, Surprise! People are already talking shit about me…
It didn't take long for people to whisper to themselves while giving me a glance every once in a while…
And it was the second week of school too, so that shit might as well be written in my permanent record cause they don't seem like their gonna stop any time soon…
By the front entrance of the school was Monika and Yuri who were the only ones not shittalking about me and came over to greet us.
"Good Morning Sayori, Welcome back Jun." Monika said in a 'professional' tone.
Yuri said the same thing but half as loud and twice as shy.
While Monika did have a customer service kind of smile, it instantly turned into a neutral face as she looked at someone behind me.
"Oh, Rika. Welcome back." Monika said sternly as she walked up to her past me.
Bitch, surprisingly, wasn't wearing anything as eccentric as she probably would've worn during all the other days.
Normal school uniform that wasn't tucked in, no hair clips or ties in her hair, no severely vibrant nail polish colors or highlights, and her blond hair was tied up in a ponytail.
It was also strange that her little gang of bitch followers weren't with her, or around the entrance to welcome her back.
"T-thank you, Monika…" Bitch said as she looked down, almost as if she was ashamed.
The Students around us and outside the school were silent as they eavesdropped and watch Bitch squirm where she stood at.
"While I would make you and Jun apologize and make up for the recent events that took place, I doubt that you two would say anything honestly. So, I'll just have you two shake on it, and not talk to each other for the rest of the week. That sound Fair?" Monika said as she scolded me and Bitch.
Monika stepped aside as she made me and Bitch face each other.
To make this awkward silence between everyone end quicker, I was the first to hold my hand out.
Did I forgive her for saying those things about Sayori? No.
Would I forget the things she said about me last thursday? No.
Am I gonna forgive her in general? No.
I just want to get this over with and not talk to her for the rest of the year as much as possible. I'm not gonna care for what she and step-douche does as long as it doesn't involve me or Sayori.
I stood there with my hand out for a solid minute or two before Bitch sucked up her pride and also shook my hand.
"Good." Monika said as she gave out a small sigh of relief.
She then turned to everyone else around us and said in a loud voice, "Everyone get to class, nothing else to see here!" She said while trying to shoo away the students standing around.
I released my hand and tried to get to class, but Bitch hadn't released her grip yet.
"You gonna let go anytime soon?" I said to her.
All she did at that point was let her arm drop as she looked down and headed to her class in a slight hurry.
Well, that's one problem down I guess? Now to face the rest of them.
Everyone that was around me started to leave one by one while they whispered to their friends, in a matter of minutes it was only me and Sayori left by the entrance.
I sighed to myself and sucked up my teenage angst as me and Sayori headed to our classes.
I really wasn't looking forward to heading to class…
The moment I entered the class for first period, I could already feel the atmosphere change from a casual talk to, "Oh shit, home dude's here!" in a flash.
I made it to my seat near the middle of the room as class started, and I could already feel a couple of stairs burning a hole in the back of my head.
The first half of the day went by painfully slowly as I sort of ignored the teachers and what they were teaching. I feel like at one point I might've fallen asleep with my eyes open as the teachers taught their lesson.
My mind was wandering as saw people starting to gossip and whisper to each other as they snuck a couple of glances at me.
I heard a couple of those whispers saying that I was an 'abuser' who got rough with girls if they didn't listen to me and that I wanted some 'Favors' from Bitch and that she refused to do so.
Other whispers was that I used to be a bully in my last school and that was the reason why I had no friends last year.
While these rumors and whispers did annoy me from time to time to the point where I tried to ignore them, I did catch an interesting rumor about Bitch and her falling out with some 'friends' she had.
From what they heard, it sounds like step-douche came up to the girls a week before the school year started and offered them 5,000 yen monthly to be her friend so he wouldn't be bothered by her at home as much.
While some of the students say that a scenario like that is too manga-like, considering that he tried to do that to me last week, that rumors doesn't sound too fake.
I made sure to make some mental notes of the things I've been hearing, especially the Bitch rumor.
If what I heard is true, then I might be able to use this against her if she tries to bother me today or tomorrow…
Third period came by just as slowly as the last two class periods and as the students who had this class came pouring in, the same group of girls that shit talked Yuri last week started to shit talk her again while the teacher wasn't here yet.
Some of them sat in the same spot, while a couple of them went over to Yuri's desk for this class to write on it with sharpies.
They were able to get back to their desks before both the teacher and Yuri came into the class.
The only thing weird thing in all of this was the fact that Yuri had a clear sight of what was written on her desk on and just ignored it entirely.
Of course, this put the girls in a bad mood as they muttered to themselves and left Yuri alone for now.
I wasn't sure what was going on in Yuri's head.
I know she can see the writing on the desk, even if she's nose deep in a book, no one is blind enough to not notice it when they're in class.
Class went by a bit quicker than the last two classes and the rumors died down for the most part.
Yuri sat in her seat unfazed from the writing on her desk and continued to pay attention in class as if everything was normal.
Class went by as if everything was almost normal with nothing to unusual happening.
...Well, it was normal until it was time for lunchtime.
Most of the class left and went to the cafeteria while some stayed in the classroom and ate with their friends.
I stood up from my seat and was about to head towards the roof where I'd eat my lunch until I saw Yuri stand up from her seat as she was about to leave the class with her nose in her book again.
One of the girls stuck her foot out from the desk and tried to trip Yuri as she tried to leave.
Yuri, being oblivious to the world around her tripped on the girls' foot and had her book fall down.
"Oops, my bad." One of the girls said sarcastically, the rest of the girls snickered as they watch Yuri.
Yuri stuttered to herself as she tried to get up, "s-sorry..."
She tried to stand up on her own for a couple of minutes, but winced in pain as he grabbed her book and tried to hobble her way out the door.
I sighed to myself as I followed her out the door and helped her walk towards the nurse's room.
She seemed surprised when I wrapped her arm around my shoulder.
"H-huh!? Oh..it's you Jun, thanks…" she said quietly while blushing a bit.
"Tell me something," I said to her, "Are you a Masochist?"
She seemed surprised to hear that, "W-what?"
"Do you get off to getting hurt? Of people bullying you?" I continued to ask.
"w-well no…" she said
"Then why the hell are you letting yourself get pushed around?" I asked
"W-well…" She was about to explain herself until I cut her off
"You know what, never mind, forget the question." I said. "Yuri, you know you're getting bullied. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it.
"It's bad enough that this is happening to you, but the fact that you haven't done anything yet to stop it from happening again just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
"Grow a backbone already."
Yuri looked a bit shocked and sad as I sort of vented out on her. She hung her head as we continued to walk towards the nurse's room.
"Look, I've nothing against being weak, but if someone if gonna stay weak and let people walk over you without a fight, then that person doesn't deserve pity from everyone else."
Yuri stayed silent after I said all that until we reached the nurses office.
I don't like being 'that guy'.
I don't like beating people down verbally when they've already been beaten down.
I don't like making social suicides on people that I can tolerate to an extent.
But at this point, Yuri's brought this on herself.
The nurse peeked her head out of her office as she grabbed Yuri's other arm and sat her down on a nearby chair.
"Oh my, what happened?" the nurse asked.
Before Yuri could answer, I cut her off by telling an excuse, "She was helping a teacher with some lifting and I accidentally bumped into her. She might've sprained her ankle."
The nurse went back into her office as she grabbed some bandages and cream for Yuri's ankle.
I checked the time and saw that there was 15 minutes left until lunch was over.
I grabbed my bag and was about to leave until the nurse stopped me for a moment.
"Excuse me, could you stay here for a moment? I need to bring more ointment from the storage closet and your friend there looks like she's having a hard time, mind spending some time and brightening her day up?" She whispered to me
"You know I wish I could, but my friends are waiting for me and-" I was cut off as the nurse interrupted me.
"Oh please, are you really gonna let a cute girl like her sit all by her lonesome?" the nurse teased, "Oh my, I should really get the ointment, I'll be right back!"
Oh boy, Manga like situations…
...sucks that this opportunity is wasted on someone like me…
I dropped my bag on the ground and got my lunchbox out as I sat on a chair across from Yuri.
Both of us sat in awkward as I ate my lunch, and Yuri just sat there with depressed look while wiping away the occasional tear.
"You know," She finally said in a low voice, "This isn't the first time that someone has said something similar to me."
"Really now?" I said while taking a sip of my water bottle.
"Yeah, Natsuki was like that when we first met. In the Literature Club." She said
With the way pink-chan says and does things I wouldn't be surprised to be honest, she's just as bad as me when it comes to attitude, maybe even worse.
"So let me guess," I said, "She also made you cry?"
She shook her head, "No. I was just as passive as I was back then and dismissed it. But the more she brought it up the more I began to feel self conscious about it.
Each time it was brought up, not only would my mood be ruined but I'd feel both sad and angry at myself for being this way. Doesn't help that I don't do anything to help against it either."
"Alright, then let me ask: Why are you telling me this? Do you want sympathy? Pity? Or are you looking for something else?" I said as I looked her straight in the eyes.
Her eyes looked away for a moment before she looked at me with a serious gaze.
"I want...to grow a backbone." She said with determination in her eyes.
I leaned back in my chair as I looked at Yuri with a unfazed face, "Insult me." I said to her.
She looked slightly confused for a moment when I said that, "W-what?"
"Are you fucking deaf? Insult me." I said in a serious tone, "The fuck are you waiting for?"
She got flustered for a moment before composing herself enough to talk back.
"Y-your..." She tried to say before I cut her off.
"Louder! I'd rather not feel like I'm in my 80's yet." I said rudely
Yuri looked a bit madder as she tried again, "You incomprehens-" I cut her off again.
"Oh Boy. Big words from a Big Brain, I'm fucking shaking." I said sarcastically, "I want to be insulted, not given a lecture, stop wasting my time."
Now Yuri looked slightly red as she tried once more.
"You Fricking-" she said while gritting her teeth
"What, are we playing Roblox? Unhinge yourself, you're gonna make me commit fall damage in a couple of seconds…" I said snarkily
She was looking like a tomato for a second before she exhaled and loosened up.
"I can't do this…" she said as she gave up.
"Ah, you're right. You really can't." I said, "I mean, in my perspective you're too goddamn innocent and won't step away from that.
"Now let's take me as an example: I'm a prime example on how to be a straight up asshole. Trust me, I go on international forums where people are anonymous and will say literally anything they want no matter how fucked up or racist it is, and I eat that shit up.
"Want to say the N-word? Go ahead, no pass is needed! Wanna complain to the entire Internet? Go for it, just know everyone on there will probably mock you and call you a fag." I said as I ranted off.
"Look, the whole point of growing a backbone is to make sure no one treats you like shit. And you make sure that when they treat you like shit, you put them in their fucking place." I said finishing off my rant.
Yuri looked at me with some kind of understanding look and wrote it down on a small notepad.
I looked at the clock as saw that there was 5 minutes until class started.
"I'm gonna head back, do what you want I don't fucking care." I said before heading towards the door.
"Um...Jun?" Yuri said before I left.
I looked back at her before I was able to open the door.
"Thanks." Yuri said with a slight smile,
"Oh boy, thanking me after being insulted multiple times. You might really be a masochist…" I said before I left.
Yuri got slightly flustered, "N-no wait! T-that's not what I…"
"Please learn sarcasm." I said with a tired sigh.
As I opened the door, I saw the nurse with her ear pressed up against where the door used to be.
"Oh no...you caught me…" She said teasingly, "At least I brought the ointment?"
"I'm not gonna ask so I'm just gonna leave…" I said awkwardly as I slipped past the now questionable nurse and headed to class
While I would've liked a normal walk towards class where I would've almost slept through most of the lessons…
But Noooo, Life just likes being a bitch and making my life a bit harder than it needed it to be; So to make things even worse, I had to run into Btich in the hallway…
As I climbed the steps going up to the second floor, I took a sharp turn right while I was practically dragging myself against the wall and nearly crashed into Bitch.
Thankfully, with a 0.1% chance of getting ninja-like reflexes, I managed to push myself off the wall and towards the middle of the hallway.
I'm honestly serious with the 0.1% chance, the rest of the 99.9% chance is me being normal cause your boy is built like a vegetable!
Ok, well not really, but you know the point…
"Ugh...er…." Bitch was surprised to see me not only come up randomly from the stairs and appear out of nowhere, but to also see me act like some kind of bear as I drug myself on the wall as I walked up.
I really didn't want to talk to her and probably cause more problems, so I tried to just leave before we would start to argue and cause more problems for not only Monika, but ourselves.
I sidestepped away from her and tried not to make any kind of eye contact but…
"Wait!" Bitch spoke up.
I stopped mid walk and turned my head behind me towards her.
"Can you...do me a favor after school?" She said slightly quietly.
I don't know what she's planning, but it's getting to my head and fucking my senses up.
"Why?" I asked while still frozen mid walk.
"J-just do it ok!? You're the only one I can ask for this…" She said a bit annoyed
"I'm too sure about that, I haven't forgotten what you said about me and Sayori, so I'm not really obligated to help you out. You should be lucky that I'm even talking to you, if I didn't pity you having a step-douche I'd basically ignore you for the rest of the school year." I said
While I did try to keep my assholery at a limit, it seems that I somehow managed to cut her deep with what I said. She bowed her head down lowly and spoke softly.
"Please just do this for me…" She said as if she was about to cry, "You really are the only person I can ask…"
Ughhhhh…..stahhp...
"Fine…" I said as I internally complained
This seemed to have brightened her mood up as she wiped a couple of tears away.
Man, aren't I some kind of hypocrite.
One minute I'm saying, 'SoRrY, Ur MeAn PeRsOn GoO aWaY.' the next moment, 'Sure, I'll help you despite everything you said about me and my only friend. Water under the bridge ol' buddy, old pal!'
I left Btich to herself as she was all happy and cheery, but she spoke out to me once again.
"Hey, where do I find you after school?" She asked.
"Fujiwara, Class 2-4." I said as I continued to walk.
Why did I fucking say that!? I should've ignored her and let her wander the school for a while before telling her.
I made it back to class 2-3 minutes late, luckily the teacher was too preoccupied with the board to even see me sneak into the class using the back door. Sneak/Stealth 100.
The rest of the day followed exactly how I said it would.
Time going slower than a fat guy in gym class and my sleep deprivation slowly getting the best, the best, the best, the best of me as I almost nodded off.
I somehow managed to not nod off until next class period where it was study period and I was able to actually take a nap without people bothering me.
Even if it was for 40-50 minutes, the sleep was good and no one had drawn on my face which was a really big surprise for me, since I probably would've drawn some dick and balls on someone forehead.
Last class came pretty quickly as we got a history lesson of the Edo period which genuinely got me curious to be honest.
We were about to learn about some general who tortured people for fun until the bell rang signaling the end of history class and the start of homeroom.
Don't ask why Homeroom is last, this school just wants to be different for some reason.
Sadly, Mr.Fujiwara was my homeroom teacher so….time to go get my shit kicked in..
"Hey Nishimura, I've got a couple of jobs for you to do while you wait for homeroom to end, why don't you help me with them?" He said in an innocent tone that hid all his sadism…
"I don't know, I mean I did just get back from getting suspended, so wouldn't it be logical to get someone else?" I responded trying to persuade him.
"Nah, I think giving someone some work after he got suspended serves good enough as a punishment in my book…" He said as he got out a large stack of papers that weren't neat and organised.
I bet that If I tried to carry them, not only would my weak ass spaghetti arms would gjve out within 5 minutes, but the entirety of my forearms would be cut the fuck up from the paper.
"Well?" He said in a dull tone as he walked over, "What're you waiting for?"
Fack…..
I lifted the gigantic pile of papers and internally said 'Fuck this!' as I tried to walk.
"Oh hold on, you're forgetting your bag. Here." He said before putting my bag around my shoulders, and I'm not sure if it's just me but I feel like it's a lot heavier than before.
It's as if there's a couple more books in there than usual...
This man really is a sadist, I swear.
To make things worse, everyone in homeroom was snickering at me while this all happened, so that's great you know…
We walked down the hallway as he took the scenic route to the teachers lounge, and it wasn't until the bell rang, signalling the end of the day, that we finally reached the teachers lounge.
Mr. Fujiwara flopped on his chair as he sat back sighed deeply, "Hooo, man...I'm beat." He said as he exhaled deeply.
My arms, being completely numb, cut up from the unorganized papers, and borderline about to break off, had finally placed all the papers on the table.
I took a seat across from Mr.Fujiwara as I laid back deeply in it.
"Ugh…." I groaned from exhaustion.
"I don't know why you're so tired, all you did was carry some pieces of paper…" He said not taking my exhaustion seriously.
"I mean your brother was able to take my help pretty good, so why can't you?" he asked out of annoyance.
"Oh I don't know…..maybe because...I'm not ...as athletic ...as him…" I said in between breaths.
"Hmmm…" he was sort of thinking it through before replying to me, "Meh, probably."
He took out a cigarette and lit it along with opening a window nearby.
He looked at his watch in his right hand, "Oh well would you look at that, class is over. Get Lost." He said shooing me away from the lounge.
I was just about to leave before turning to one of the vending machines and getting myself something there.
Surprisingly, Mr. Fujiwara didn't stop me like all the other times.
"What? No complaints this time?" I asked trying to get some kind of answer.
"Hey it's your money, not mine." he said as he started flipping through some papers.
I bought myself a Kirin Lemon drink and left to head to the Literature Club.
The walk there was so good, the fact that I wasn't carrying anything aside from my soda made my body feel a couple pounds lighter.
I opened the door and entered as my body sluggishly sat down near one of the empty seats.
"Oh...Jun, Welcome back..." Monika said in a strange tone, "Would you mind explaining this situation to me?"
I lifted my body from lying on my desk and looked back to where Monika was and saw pink-chan and Yuri surrounding Bitch.
It took awhile for me to remember before my mind started to work normally again.
"Oh yeah," I said as my mind clicked, "I think she wanted a favor from me, not sure what though."
"Oh so the two of you managed to talk, despite me not telling you two not to?" Monika said unamused.
Oh yeah...she did say that didn't she…
She sighed to herself as she spoke up again, "Well I didn't have anyone from the student council tell me about a problem between you two today, so I guess you two have somewhat made up.
"So, tell me Rika; What Favor did you need from Jun?" She monotonically
"W-well that's the thing, I needed him to bring me to you." She said as she fidgeted in place from, what I can assume, Monika's presence.
Both me and Monika were surprised to hear that.
Wait a minute, if she needed me to bring her to Monka then how did she get here by herself?! What the fuck was the point of asking me?
Part of me wondered if she wanted my help to get back at Step-douche for basically ruining her first week of school with fake friends.
I swear, if she pulls out a knife for Monika being "tainted" after taking my side, I'mma bust my ass through these windows and run as far as I can.
A real life Yandere damn near killed some dude a couple cities away from where I live, don't need that shit following me! Hell no!
Bitch bowed in front of Monika and pleaded with the following words: "Please let me join the Literature Club!"
Excuse me what the fuck.
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Alright well that's it for this chapter.
I literally just finished this the day it was posted so hurray for procrastination?
I don't know, but I sort of started this 2 weeks ago…
Reviews:
DavidGoyena:
Thanks for reading all the chapters and liking this story.
I haven't read any of the other DDLC Fanifcs so I don't know how fucked it is or wholesome, but either way I feel I'm sort of 8man-ing the character to an extent, which is what I'm aiming for.
(for those who are reading this and don't know who 8man is, just looked up Hikigaya Hachiman)
To me, 8man is a damn good character and he is one of my favorites, so I want to try and replicate that but only subtly. I will have him act like 8man majorly if its for plot.
Yes, the MC will care for his friends, Sayori mainly, but he's not gonna go instant 'best friend, must protecc' cause that's not really how it works in real life.
You're not gonna super defend some random person you've met for a week, or be very close to them just cause you're in the same club.
Lastly, I will not cancel this story under any circumstance, aside from feeling like it's finished and I can't put any chapters to push the story forward or if I hit a brick wall. This story may go on break, but it won't end until I say it ends.
Hanz Gewher:
Hanz! Hanz get ze Luger!
I hear her in ze attic!