So 2016 is now over. I gotta say that this year has been rough. Might as well wrap it up with me talking to some characters about this year now. Also, Chara is a girl while Frisk the boy in this.
In the middle of the room was a young man. He had tan skin with small mustache and a beard that passes as a goat chin. The male has black hair that, while appearing short, is long to that its length is the same height as his palm. He does have some bags under his eyes, due to lack of sleep and his internal clock. Currently the boy is wearing a long sleeve, thin sweater of black and gray horizontal strips with blue jeans. To end it, he has black shoes that fits perfectly in his feet.
"Man, about time this year ended," he muttered as he sighed in relief. "2016. I gotta agree with Gigguk. This year is when the world as a whole became a parody of itself."
"I don't know about that, buddy." The man turn around to see a young male with pale skin, brown-reddish eyes and an amused grin in his average yet handsome face, a distinct knight-like themed body with a long coat. His color scheme predominantly features white with black in the center of the torso and the face of the head. He has long, pale pink hair rising from the top of the helmet that reaches his feet. He has detachable arms, which feature gigantic hands with black spiked wrists and razor sharp claws, which held a giant, body sized pink three-pointed blade.
"Hey there, dude" the man said to the young male. "How was 2016 been for you?"
"Somewhat good. Still hate how it's going to be."
"Same. And just when graduating from high school was over, Life decides to interfere like a bitch."
"So what are you gonna do for New Years?"
"Wanna talk to some of our favorite characters and fill them in 2016."
"I'm in."
The two young men worked together as they brought some of their favorite characters to appear in this room. With a machine, that later made noises, did they succeeded, causing a distortion to cause a warp of the space time continuum happens. They stayed calm, despite any normal person freaking out at the sight of one.
When it ended, it reveal to be a bunch of people. The two of them knows who are these people and decided to greet them.
"Hello there, strange people," the blacked theme man greeted with a grin. The other just rolled his eyes with a smile and said the same thing as well. The people, that appeared, soon got up and wondered where are they at.
"What the!"
"Where are we?"
"What is this place?"
"I'm hungry."
"Oh c'mon!"
The people were continue to being confuse before seeing there is a person is front of them and around each other.
"Yo," the young man replied back.
"So, who the heck are you kid?" A man, probably older than him, asked. He was wearing black and red clothing. Some noticeable features are his hectochromia eyes, white hair and giant sword.
"The name's Imaginary Guy," he answered to him
"And I'm Danmaku Overlord," the other young man said with a smile. Ragna was confused before having a gut feeling it's better not to ask.
"OK, so how about you take us back to where we live," said a Japanese brunette teen.
"Can't do that since I want to talk about the year that is 2016," Imaginary Guy said to them. This cause confusion before a buff guy in red and white with a giant lighter came up. He had wild brown hair with a belt buckle of 'FREE' and a metal headpiece with 'ROCK YOU' on it.
"Now what makes 2016 so interesting?" This made the young man to smile sadly but still went on.
"A lot, but first your names, mister..."
"Sol. Sol Badguy," the man with the long ponytail said.
"Ragna the Bloodedge," the white haired rebel said.
"Rachel Alucard," a little girl in a goth attire with ribbons on her head that makes her a rabbit.
"Issei Hyoudou," the brunette answered.
"Aika Kiryuu," a brown haired, glasses wearing girl said.
"Seto," the another brunette said, this time in a blue sweater.
"Rin," a white hair girl that can pass as Ragna's little sister.
"Ichika Orimura," a boy with black hair said.
"Cecilia Alcott," a British girl said with pride.
"Natsu Dragneel," the dragon-slayer answered.
"Kagura Mikazuchi," the attractive woman said.
"Kirito," the blacked haired boy said with black clothing.
"Saito Hiraga," the blue clothed boy said.
"M-my name is Siesta," the maid said
"Ruby Rose," a girl in a Red Riding Hood said. "This is my sister, Yang, and the rest of the team, Weiss and Blake." They each said hello, though the white theme girl muttered she can do it.
"My name is Jaune Arc," the blonde said. Yang glared at the young girl of ice cream color as she took out a notepad that said Neo.
"So what's so special of 2016? I thought it was an okay year?" Ragna said, seeing nothing special about.
"Well in you world, no. But in ours, it was hectic," Overlord said.
"How so?" Ichika said, curious.
"Well, let's start something that Sol here will be sad to hear," IG said.
"And why is that?" Badguy asked, finding this a bit frustrating why he was first notice.
"The fact that David Bowie, who sang with Queen in the song Under Pressure, sadly past away from cancer three days after releasing his last album," IG answered. That send horror to the usually grumpy Sol as he fell on his knees.
"No," he muttered. "NOOOOOOOOOO!" Sol shouted as he fell on his knees. "You fucking assholes! If only Humanity as a whole stop killing each other, then the cure for cancer and AIDS can be found!" He began to bang the ground. "Goddamn you!" Sol then hit the ground one more time. "God-damn you all yo Hell!" Issei flinch, not because of the Heaven reference but the guy freaking out.
"Uh, what so special about this David Buwie person?" Ruby asked innocently. Yet before the Guilty Gear snaps at her, they were saved by their host.
"David Bowie was both musician and singer who created tons of genres to music as whole. As well going above and beyond in terms of appearance. The man left a strong impact to the world as whole, and not just in terms of music," IG said to those who don't know about him. He then took out a radio with a CD and began to play the song, Under Pressure. "Just listen to this song to know about him. Sadly I didn't got a chance to listen to more his songs."
(Insert Under Pressure by Queens ft. David Bowie here.)
After the song, all of them felt their heart touch of a man that most may never knew until it was too late. Ruby began to cry as she felt guilty for not knowing about the fan. Some like Ichika and Issei felt guilty for not knowing this great man.
"That sad," Seto said with a depressed look.
"But he managed to do something he loved before kicking the bucket. So that's a plus," IG said with a smile but frown. "But sadly there was more. Like Prince, who, if I can remember, one of the few musicians that played ALL the instruments." That made everyone, but Sol, to look on in shock.
"T-that's ridiculous!" Weiss screamed. Even she luck out on the piano, and that took years. The fact that someone can play the rest at ease is astonishing.
"I may not had a chance, but from what I hear, he had good taste," Sol said with a smile.
"Yea, that's true," IG said as he skip towards the song. "Also, I burned this CD after buying the right songs. So this is fine for me to do."
"You sure?" Rachel asked with a smug smile. Overlord also smirked as he muttered Burn underneath his breath.
"I'm not going there," he replied back, knowing it's a trap. Overlord rolled his eyes and played the song.
(Insert When Doves Cry by Prince. Whatever version is OK, as long it's something Prince would have done it.)
That made it more heartbreaking to hear a song that made them really want to cry. Even someone like Weiss and Rachel had to admit that the song was beautiful.
"That's sad," Aika said, just hating how 2016 was for celebrities and their fans.
"It only got worse from there," IG said. "Some people that were a bit obscure but had great roles, like the person who played the original R2-D2 of the first three movies passed away, along with the man who played as Admiral Ackbar." He showed the iconic Star War characters next to their actors.
"No," Kirito said. "I like those characters, despite the Admiral's short scene."
"They weren't the only as even Princess Leia, Carrie Fisher, and her mother also passed away before the year even ended." That made Aika and Cecilia burst a tear. Carrie Fisher was a strong role model than today's celebrities in the long run. She did more than just acting. And the fact both her and her mother kick the bucket before the year ended is very depressing.
While others don't know who she was, the boy showed them short scenes of who their characters were and were deeply sad. Sol and Ragna did commented on it, showing respect to the movies and their casts.
"Others are include like Gene Wilder, who played the Willy Wonka movie," IG said. "Though he did appeared in more, those from my elementary school years will always remember him as Mr. Wonka."
Ruby lightly laugh, enjoying how Gene pull off this Wonka fellow nicely. As well with Neo drooling at the sight of the candy factory. Some kids also liked the sight of the factory too.
There are many people who passed away in 2016. He just made it easier as he showed them page from the website of NBC. A lot of them were sad to hear of those people who passed away. Some were people they never knew that were still alive by that year, which is amazing. Some included Fidel Castro, Don Juan Gabriel, Frank Sinatra Jr, Prince's protege Vanity, George Michael, just to name a few.
Imaginary Guy and Danmaku Overlord told them that it's sadly life is. After a while, they all, especially Ruby, agreed on it before moving on.
"The memes," Overlord said.
"What memes?" Yang asked, curious. Instead of answering, the hosts just showed them the memes of 2016. The guests were confuse at first before sputtering or straight up laughing at the jokes of year. These range from "Damn Daniel", Mannequin Challenge, Ken Bone, and especially the 2016 US Election memes. One in particular made even someone stone cold as Rachel to definitely LMFAO.
The picture, from what Imaginary said, was taken when Donald Trump was quickly escorted to safety during one of his rallies in Arizona. While it is unknown why he was escorted, the Internet believe due to two memes in particular that are connected to this one.
"Donald Trump mocked Mitt Romney for not showing his taxes in 2012. Refuses to do the same in his presidential run in 2016. Hypocrisy at its finest."
"Hillary Clinton: Show us your Taxes, Mr Trump!
Donald Trump: I emailed them to you, Crooked Hillary."
The reason was that the last one, it is probably why he was escorted out from this.
"Secret Service Agent: Quick, Mr Trump! It's the IRS!"
After calming down, it was Frisk who asked the question. "But what made that man a joke?"
Instead of answering, Guy just showed them the Trump's announcement of the 2016 election. Even the American born bounty hunter Sol Badguy wondered what the hell. They saw his opponents and how he used tactics from TV shows to his advantage. What surprised them was the fact the man was throwing political correctness and social justice out the window. As well using cliché tatics that many politicians use behind everyone's back, or up front back in the day.
What surprised many was that despite the methods he used, he gain a lot of support, and not just from the suppose white supremacist movement. Minorities like Blacks, Chicanos, Asians, and women voted for Trump.
"Why would they vote for such a man?" Cecilia growled in disgust. Even Weiss and Blake found someone worse in terms of verbals compare to Jacques and Adam.
"I do believe it has something to with their home country, does it?" Rachel asked, though with a sense of rhetoric in it.
"Bingo," Guy said. "There is a lot of shit he said that did pissed many people off." Then he sighed. "But the guy had things going for him and stood up against Hilary."
"How so?" Kagura asked.
Again, IG just showed them videos after videos of how Trump was to everything. From name calling to talking about something else, to going back to what he said. This included from the a debate by Colbert with Trump vs Donald AKA the Dump Debate. Trevor Noah saying Trump is America's first realAfrican President with strong similarities. What angered the females the most is when he said by grabbing women by the pussy that made even Issei and Aika gasp in shock.
When they saw the election, with the prediction of Hillary winning, it was shocking to say the least. Actually, that would be an understatement.
Trump destroyed Hillary in the election. With no signs of gerrymandering and winning the states the media claimed she would win without a doubt. It was just flabbergasted to say the least.
While it was completely unexpected, they were taken back when every liberal, democrat extremeness took upon themselves to go crazy and cause anarchy. Yet, were making a complete fools out of themselves as the Trump supporters didn't brag and just went back to work like nothing happened but glad he won.
Before they even got a chance to asked, Imaginary Guy decided to put on a video that may explain why Trump won and Hillary lost. Appropriate called "Why Trump won the Election/Hillary lost the Election". In it, the man explained how Trump won through being charismatic, Wikileaks, using simple words, aiming for larger demographics in need, and the Shy Tory vote. While Hillary lost because of being an opportunist, scandals, corruption, stealing all of Bernie Sanders's ideas and saying it was her own, and the need for change. The man in the video also went into further detail in each reason, nailing the coffin shut with how the election went.
"Damn," Natsu whispered. Sure the things he said makes him a dick, then again anything related to politics is a dick to Natsu.
"I still find this shocking," Overlord said, just shaking his head.
"It's, rather salty to speak of it," Guy commented.
"What else happened in 2016?" Ruby asked, wanting to change the subject.
"Harambe," Overlord said as he facepalmed with a chuckle.
"Oh, Sun would be proud," Guy said as they showed all the memes and stories about the gorilla. While it was sad that the ape died, that didn't mean for everyone to make memes about it!
There was too many to count that, while tragic, was hilarious. Especially when during the US Election, 11,000 voters went for Harambe! Of all the candidates, those people choose a dead gorilla over an orange Ommpa Lumpa, lizard man or Hillbilly Clitoris! Even Sol laughed, agreeing that while it was waste, it was also funny. Another thing was whatever happened to him and his body. One meme said his body was donated to science and became Wiston of Overwatch! However, one of the dark yet somewhat funny was when Harambe's face was over Donkey Kong's with an alligator that ate a 2 year-old baby over King K. Rool's face.
"Harambe: Hey, if I ever get shot in the face because a kid fell in my cage, would you avenge?
Alligator: Say no more, Fam."
In the end, there was an awkward silence and people have no idea how to respond to this.
"I have no words to express this, hahahaha," Chara said, just laughing at the stupidity of 2016.
"Well there's more in terms of movies," Overlord said as they showed the movies of 2016. While it was going to be a lot, Imaginary saved the time by showing BlackCriticGuy's JeremyJahn's and Chirst Stukman's lists of movies that were bad and good in year.
The movies were good like Doctor Strange, Star Wars' Rogue One, Your Name, among others. There were hit and miss like Suicide Squad, Superman v. Batman, X-men Apocolypse. As well there being insults in general like Jane got a Gun, Ghostbuster 2016 that was so insulting that even strong women like Chara and Kagura found it embarrassing. As well some that are just plain no, like Gods of Egypt and Norm of the North. In terms of movies, the year was a mixed bag for it.
"Gotta say that some of movies are shit," Saito said, since what the hell.
"Even though I have no idea how movies are, I can tell some were either miss potential or sadly horrible," Siesta said.
"What about games?" Kirito asked, since he is a gamer at heart.
"There is a shit load, but I managed to find a lot of gaming stories and anything related about it," Guy said as he showed them about the 2016 gaming stories.
Some were good stories while others were amazing. Like the announcement of the Nintendo NX, or Switch. The release of Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1, which the execution was great. Others were with the return of the FPS God that is DOOM on, ironically enough, released on May 13th, which was the Friday of the year. The downfall of Call of Duty with its Infinite Warfare debut. The crashed that was No Man's Sky and the silence of the developer. There were scandals like the Counter Strike Global Offense's lottery. The release of Blizzard's gamble that is Overwatch. The Pokemon GO hype, which made the Japanese to look with great interest at the things happened like trespassing to private property to get that Mew!
The drama of 2016 was also ridiculous as the memes and the US presidential election. While it was sad for Brexit, people actually, actually thought there was going to be another referendum. Even someone like Ragna knows how serious it was, and the UK citizens just thought of it being practice. Cecilia never felt more ashamed then ever to be British. Along with many more like the Panama Papers, where the wealthy used illegal loopholes to escape taxes to stay rich. If that wasn't bad, then there was a bit more like like the failed Turkish revolution. The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was a failure due to its habit of bursting into fire or exploding in general.
There were a lot of things, but thankfully for IG, he managed to find a comment a youtuber named phgoil with a comment that at least shed light for 2016.
"There's an Ebola Vaccine now
Child Mortality - Down across the globe
+9% survival rate in pacreatic cancer sufferers
Gene responsible for ALS found
Volunteers in India planted 50 Million trees in 24 hours
Suicide rates down globally
The Ozone layer is repairing itself
The Rabbinical assembly issued a resolution affirming the rights of trans and non Conforming individuals MIND CONTROLLED ROBOT ARMS
Leo got dat Oscar
Wild tigers numbers up FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 100 YEARS
Giant Pandas - No longer endangered
A solar powered plane did a fucking world trip Global
Malaria down by 60% Measels ERADICATED from the Americas
93% of the world's children learned to read and write - the highest percentage IN HUMAN HISTORY
China plans to be completely renewable by 2020 and has a global plan for by 2050 Huge global push in renewable energy
Norway committed 0 deforestation
Every major grocer and fast food chain in the U.S pledged to use cage free eggs only by 2025
Manatees - No longer endangered
Wild Wolves - Back in Europe
Wild Salmon spawning in the Connecticut river for the first time since the American revolution
Columbian white tailed deer - no longer endangered
Green Sea Turtles - NO LONGER FUCKING ENDANGERED
Sea World no longer breeding captive killer whales
Humpback Whales - NO LONGER ENDANGERED
Global aid - up by 7% Americas most generous year EVER in charity and aid
China's most generous year EVER in charity and aid at $15 goddamn Billion"
That comment manage to make them smile at the good side of 2016.
"Amazing," everyone murmured as Sol, Rachel, and Ragna smiled proudly at that.
"Did you knew about this?" Overlord asked.
"Nope, just found it in the Top 10 Facts – 2016 by LeMMiNO. I also asked his permission but knew many won't know if I made that up or not," Guy answered.
"Can't blame ya there," Weiss said. "At least you gave him credit."
"Is there something else before we can leave?" Naruto asked.
"Just a couple of things, actually," Overlord said as Guy came back and showed videos of different new source. Natsu began to like true news than mainstream news. At least true news isn't annoying like someone say Jason back home.
In it, they saw how ridiculous 2016 was in terms of drama. Team RWBY, Jaune and Neo nearly face faulted in shock that racism does exist, but in a weird way. Instead of another race, it's humanity hating each other because of the color of their skin or gender preference! Blake, being a Faunus and a victim of discrimination, finds this extremely insulting. To think that humans would still be racist is the most ridiculous. Especially when their world use color to express themselves! What was more sad yet true was when blacks, former member of Malcolm X and Black Panthers, find BLM stupid.
"What the Hell!?" Weiss shouted in shock.
"That's just insulting to our world!" Neo, surprisingly enough, said in anger.
"And to my race," Blake growled.
"You have no idea," both Imaginary Guy and Overlord said.
"And the fact that Black Lives Matter also spread to the UK and Japan is scary," Issei said, not liking it.
"They are just insulting to every black in general. I bet even MLK will hate these people," Sol said, seeing disgust.
"The fact they was segregation is also devolving. Even more so than Ragna here," Rachel added her 2 cents.
"I'll let it slide, Bunny Leech, as even I don't see the damn point of separating," Ragna replied to her.
After that was done, and watching videos like Sargon of Akkad, Amazing Atheist and Mundane Matt, it was interesting on how it was the drama was.
"So what else you guys wanna talk about?" Saito asked, curious on what's next. Imaginary Guy sighed as he look at Overlord to do it. Rolling his eyes, since he knew it's his turn, he might as well do it. Plus, Guy forgot bring his magic.
"To make a long story short, we are from a different alternative world on how things are viewed. As well the fact we have plans of making more universe of your worlds." Overlord explained as he showed them the most mind boggling thing ever.
.
About an hour later that most are sadly suffering an existential crisis.
"So quick?" Overlord asked as the guests were freaking out.
"You think?" Guy rhetorically answered, and for good reason. RWBY is having a meltdown when they heard Monty Oum died, their creator. Sol and Ragna hates their fanfictions fill with gay shit, especially the Flame of Corruption. The Grim Reaper just wondered why. Everybody else are either OK or more confuse. Issei and Saito is the only ones that were OK, somewhat.
"Stupid fans choosing bratty OCs than mua himself," Issei said with a pout. Aika just giggled at the misfortune.
"At least they made me less of a fool," Saito said.
"Oh c'mon!" Ichika growled, hating his since there are some with him dating his sisters! "Am I really a siscon!?"
"Well, I should have seen this coming," Kirito said.
"I do like that one," Natsu said as he read the one story of Kagura comforting him during Valentine's Day.
"Wanna talked about it?" Overlord and Guy asked, only to get death glares from Rachel, Sol and Ragna.
"If it is about these, forget it!?"
"It ain't yaoi, we promise."
"Prove it!"
And with that, both authors began to talk about their plans with how they want the stories done. Which wasn't that bad once they saw how it was going to be.
"We do have a lot of plans with RWBY, but I thought we might as well stick with one," Guy said to them.
"I do find this concept scary," Jaune said as he re read it again. "A world where no man has Aura is scary."
"Well Jaune there are two stories about you being that man," Overlord said, making him to gawk in surprise.
"Only Boy will be a good story, but I'm still debating should you be the main star," Guy interjected.
"Will the main boy have a bunch of girlfriends?" Yang teasingly asked.
"Maybe actually," Guy answered, causing most of the girls to blush as Issei yelled that man being the luckiest SOB.
"What about us?" Both Sol and Ragna asked.
"We talked of it being a reincarnation fic," Overlord answered. "Say this: Sol dies in the end of Overture. Your fight with Valentine was more harder than expected. That Man failed to save you and as a result, you died in the Backyard. But due to the intervention of Amateratsu, your soul was saved and became Ragna the Bloodedge."
"It's cliche, but a good idea I have," Imaginary guy said as he showed a picture of the "Freddie Mercury" designs. Both men in red did nod, liking the concept and not something that is gay.
"What about me?" Seto asked.
"You are in a huge crossover with RWBY, along with R+V, Saito, Kirito, Frisk, Issei, Ichika and Bell from Dungeons," Guy said as Overlord still likes the idea.
"Now that's something I wanna see," Kirito said with a smile.
"Another is with you in Fallout, due to a reviewer saying your world is like the game," Guy said, remembering that one review from Gamespot. "But I do have one with Issei and Ichika being rivals."
"Why us?"
"He said that you guys are somone who would be huge Nintendo and Sega fans," Overlord said with a smile.
"Plus I do have the story of both you Issei and Aika being girlfriend and boyfriend," Guy said, causing both perverts to blush.
"What? Why- Wait! It's because we're both perverts, isn't it?" Aika said.
"Yes!" Guy said with a smile.
"Hey look," Overlord said as they look at the clock. "Crap, looks like we need to end early."
"Yep," Guy replied before looking at them with a smile. "Wanna join in the New Years? It's gonna end 2016 and onto 2017. Also my cousin is the New Years baby, literally."
Seeing on how things, might as well do it with people that are one step away of being friends.
"10."
"9."
"8."
"7."
"6."
"5."
"4."
"3."
"2."
"1."
"Happy New Years!"
Happy New Years! 2016 ended and now we have 2017 coming. I wish my fellow Americans to be strong.