To make this more fun to you the reader, I suggest putting on the theme from Video Game Confessions ( /watch?v=tCrrZ1NnCuM )


"This is Ryo Nazo Blackthorn, a Time Patroller and younger brother to Joshinari Blackthorn. Ryo works in the seven-star restaurant known as the Tori Dragon Palace (which is two blocks away from the Pixel Palace). Now it has expanded where all across the media, all around the multiverse, many pop in to have a drink. Sometimes, they share stories, and even secrets. Because—as we all know—what the bartender hears is confidential... isn't it?"


Episode 2 – Parsley

So here I was tending the bar, when in walked someone from that shitshow that everyone loves to mock in recent days. Parsley. For some reason, it's agreed that Parsley is the only good thing to come out of High Guardian Spice, but I guess the bare minimum is acceptable when it's shit all around. She comes up to the bar asking for a rum and cola on the rocks.

"I didn't think you'd show up in these parts." I tell her as I made her drink.

"It was bound to happen. My show is low hanging fruit." Parsley said bitterly.

So I ask her what happened after the show went bust.

"Considering it was revealed that the production was partly to hide money laundering, several people fled the country to avoid arrest. All of us ended up suffering a black mark on their records…not that it means shit. We lost our jobs, but Rosemary lucked out. She's a trophy wife to some high-ranking member of Crunchyroll, I think a casting director. She's a dense moron who doesn't even know where babies come from, but I guess she's 'perfect wife material'." Parsley said downing the drink. "Another."

I get her another and she goes on about what happened to the other. Sage runs a feminist webshow and Thyme ends up becoming an eco-terrorist. Neither making much headway, but then I ask about her.

"You know people think being a part of a big family is all good times. It's bullshit. I'm basically put through parentification. I was their meal ticket…and when the show failed…they just tried to get me to act in anything they could." She said as I had another drink ready for her. "Add the fact that they were not good with money, I'd be overworked. But the final straw came when they tried to get me in Arcadia Erotica production. They didn't have the nerve to tell what the movie was. Had it not for a fluke with the makeup artist, I would have been blindsided."

She looks like with this crushed expression asking if you had a parent just sell you out like that. I answered no. My father is a hedonist by all means towards our mother, but he at least did not sell us out.

"It all led to me leaving the family. I didn't want to at first, but I'd come to realize that I had to if I wanted to save myself. So I cut ties completely." Parsley said, trying not to cry. "Even if it hurts, at times."

I comfort her, of course. I even got her a piece of cheesecake on the house. I guess I never really thought of the fates of those poor bastards after the show ended. But something came up in my mind and I asked her what happened to Snapdragon and the others.

"Apparently, the self-insert professor was a creep, go figure…he got arrested for crimes I'd rather not say out loud. Mandrake went on a psychotic murdering spree killing most of the unimportant cast before being taken down by the police. No idea what happened to Olive as she just left. Snapdragon and Amaryllis left…and we're living together as roommates."

She finishes her cheesecake and pays for her drinks. But I ask her, what is she going to do now that they are all on their own?

"Well, we were actually living in your neck of the woods doing small jobs. We actually delivered your ice yesterday, but you weren't there that day. Tonight is our last night here because we're leaving the planet, sadly going our separate ways. Snap and Amaryllis are looking to get into working at a barbershop…maybe a salon. As for me, I found I got a talent for growing pot." Parsley said with a wink.

And she left. Never saw her again. It's likely they've joined the many refugees trying to populate DBG-22…but better there than nowhere.

You see a lot of strange things as a bartender, see a lot of strange things at the Tori Dragon. So, I see a lot of strange things as a bartender at the Tori Dragon, and that isn't no lie. Swear to it!


(A/N: High Guardian Spice. What a shitshow that equated to the poor man's RWBY. For some reason, Parsley is considered the one bright spot out of the four, though..I get why somewhat. Rosemary's a moron, Sage is a misandrist, and Thyme's diet Blake Belladonna in personality. As terrible as it was, at least it was original. Can't say that for certain other shows.)