Holo-Worlds: Prologue

The Tear

Far into the east, the island country of Japan had always been known for its unique forms of entertainment. One such that travelled across the world was anime: 2D drawings brought to life through animation that held a staggering amount of genres across all ages. Some meant for children; others meant for adults.

The popularity of this genre of animation has also spawned yet another form of entertainment, one aimed mainly at the platform Youtube: Virtual streamers.

Using 2D or 3D anime-styled avatars, people have begun to entertain people on streaming platforms with games, singing or just talking to the audience. Its different take on live streaming has taken the world by storm, resulting in multiple countries also birthing virtual streamers as well.

However, its origins in Japan have never been forgotten and one of the companies that have cemented its popularity across the waters was called Hololive.

Originally pitched as a virtual idol group, Hololive gave rise to several generations of virtual YouTubers or Vtubers for short. After 4 successful generations on their Japanese branch, the company had garnered fame at a rapid pace globally and in a short time, their talents had become very well known overseas. However, not for being idols, the talents' popularity was due to their chaotic world, a group of females who were no better than the rest of the common folk who enjoy the genre of anime. Idols by title, but really were just regular people or rather comedians trying to entertain others.

The talents of Hololive were all different races when it came to their avatars: some were human; others were humanoid, like beast girls; the rest were straight-up, angels, demons, elves and some others.

The first of the members was a human girl named Tokino Sora. A young girl who had a dream of becoming an idol since she was little. However, while she wanted to be an idol, she was a big fish in a pond full of little fish. Being the senior of all of the members, many of Sora's juniors took special care not to let their crazier sides be heavily exposed to her, often trying hard to stay as pure as possible for her image... trying being the keyword.

Though what the members didn't know was that their senior wasn't exactly pure herself. Sure she's done things that would put her purity in question, but she did break one rule of being an idol: she regularly hung out with a boy.

Not just any boy though, this was a boy she was secretly interested in.

Obviously, this was detrimental to her career as an idol, so she held back a confession for years. However, as time went on and her group's reputation changed from idols to crazy comedians, due to the members becoming more comfortable in their own skin, Sora thought it was high time she also did something for herself for once. Unfortunately, her step was still a bigger one than the others' because none of the other talents were dating a guy, if anything they were more or less dating each other.

Yet that didn't stop the girl from going to her male companion. Even just as friends.

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One late afternoon, after recording with some of the other members of Hololive, Sora was invited by her fellow Vtubers to get some food. However, she quickly apologised and told them she couldn't since she already had plans for the rest of the day before sprinting off ahead of the others.

Out in the crowded street, the girl jogged through the many pedestrians, not once stopping her tread, even when waiting to cross she would just jog on the spot. She made her way downtown, to an area lined up with little shops and stopped in front of a chocolate coloured one with a hanging sign that read: "Clockwork Cafe,".

"I just made it," she cheered before placing her hand on the doorknob and opening the door.

A small bell rang on the other side alerting the young girl's arrival to a middle-aged looking man on the counter. He wore a white dress shirt that was topped with a black vest and tie.