It had been a fun summer. Andrew had treated it as any other summer after a working so hard the school year. He had graduated from college and gotten his B.A. in English, and was excited to start his career as a novelist and news writer.
But when fall came, things were not as Andrew or any of his emotions expected. He was still lifeguarding, and still living with Mom, Laura, and Michael, and hardly ever worked on his two novel ideas.
He had taken June and July off, and not truly seriously searching for jobs until August, after his Dad knocked some sense into him. He met with Dad for an afternoon on his boat, where Dad spent hours berating him, expressing disappointment in Andrew for not finding anything better than lifeguarding, feeling as though he had wasted his money sending Andrew to college. The entire afternoon drove Sadness and Anger mad, creating radiant blue and red memory.
Andrew put more time and effort into job searching since then, but even then, he could not find any available news reporting or publishing jobs like he wanted, and the ones he did find and applied for did not show interest in him.
Sadness was the one controlling Andrew the most these days since then, as Andrew felt sad about many things; his Dad's disappointment, which practically felt like Andrew had been disowned; he himself felt just as bad as Michael for not moving out and finding a better job than lifeguarding, feeling like less of a man. Andrew started feeling lonelier as he still had no girlfriend or sexual partners, and he began to see his other friends less and less.
Fear was almost always in a tizzy, fearing that Amdrew would never move out on his own and keep living with Mom and Laura just as Michael was, unsure of what the next big step in Andrew's life should be. He would also distress over not knowing what jobs to apply for or how exactly to apply for them.
Anger was frustrated with one of four things; Andrew's poor luck at job searching, Andrew's friends finding success, and Michael writing his fanfics while Andrew was struggling, boredom from lifeguarding, and Andrew's critical and berating father.
Andrew slowly began to drift apart from many of his college friends, leading to the Friendship Island core memory starting to fade. The Writer's Island memory began to fade as well as Andrew put less time and effort into his novels. Andrew stopped caring about his body and rarely did any exercise, causing Workout Island to fade and crumble completely.
Most of the mindscape had been taken over by the cruel and violent Darth Revan, Dark Lord of the Sith and the anti-hero of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Andrew had started playing the game over the summer, and loved it because Joy and the other emotions loved it. Characters from the game spawned on Fanboy Island as memories were created.
Sensing that Andrew was unhappy with his life, Revan had sent messages to Headquarters, promising to make Andrew happy by controlling headquarters and keeping Andrew obsessed with the game. Desperate to make Andrew happy again, Joy was intrigued by Revan's promises, and accepted his offer. Revan and his associates would board the Train of Thought, or their own ship, The Ebon Hawk, and arrive at headquarters to take control of Andrew's thoughts, driving his obsession with KOTOR deeper, keeping him from thinking of anything else at times. Most often they would visit Headquarters when Andrew was lifeguarding and didn't have anything better to do or think about. Battle droids and Sith troopers would patrol all around the mindscape, asserting Revan's rule, guarding the important memories in Long Term Memory, ensuring Imagination Land would produce only daydreams and thoughts Revan approved of. Fanboy Island became Revan's fortress.
After finishing one playthrough, Andrew would always start another thinking "I should have gotten this item" or "I should have done this mission with this character. It became a cup that could not be filled, athirst that could not be quenched, an obsession, an addiction.
Under Revan's reign and influence, Andrew became complacent, stagnant, sluggish, lazy. When he was not lifeguarding, he would either play his games, binge watch shows on Netflix (My Little Pony, Orange is the New Black, The Walking Dead), or go out with his two best friends from high school, Ethan and Austin.
Fear, Sadness, and Anger openly spoke out against Joy and Revan, for they knew Andrew would have to move forward at some point, and they would see him through it.