𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐑, karl jacobs ( ON HOLD. )

two . . .

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chapter two

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"hi chat!" i exclaim happily to my stream. i wave my hands excitedly despite my lack of webcam. 

i take a small sip of my white monster before switching over to my laptop. i open minecraft and open the hardcore world i have recently been working on. 

"i think we are going to do a bit hardcore today, chat. what do we think?" i ask. "i will answer a few questions first and then we can get started." 

my chat is slow enough for me to read as having about 40k followers leaves me with a 1.9k average viewership. i love my small community as it does not become as toxic as i know many streaming groups do. the negative side effects are nothing i desire so i do not mind keeping my community small. 

user1 - what/who inspired you to begin streaming?
user2 - do you have plans of collabs or joining any smps?
user3 - pog!
user4 - merch?

"who inspired me to begin streaming?" i read off from my chat tab. "i guess just watching other streamers like rae or jack and even pewdipie was really inspiring. maybe not just streaming but also youtube. i think it wasn't so much of an influence to begin streaming but it definitely was encouraging. becoming a streamer was more of a decision on my part as a way to help myself feel accomplished but also to help others feel like they have a comfy corner of the internet to hide in.

"as for collabs or joining an smp i don't have much plans. im currently a part of a hardcore smp with my friend graecie which i play on pretty often—and i do plan on playing after this. i don't collab much with other people but if anyone ever reached out im sure i would!

"merch is coming, don't worry!"

i answered a few more questions in chat before logging onto the hardcore smp. i had to hide my screen as i was logged into a few servers, including the dream smp. 

i had logged on to the smp a few times back when it had just began, helping dream start to build the world off stream. i had built a small cottage for myself concealed by a few mountains and surrounded by flowers. im sure you could find it in the back of a stream somewhere but nobody has ever pointed out the small house. i have not logged into it in a long time and have no plans to as i do not consider myself an official member of the smp. 

as soon as i log in a continue to collect supplies. i have been helping my friend graecie expand her cottagecore-esque village. 

she is a senior in highschool and a minecraft streamer i met a few months ago. we stream together every once in a while as our streams have similar vibes to each other. she is like a younger sister to me—as i do not have any—and chat loves watching our interactions.

i never have had any siblings, but clay his sisters definitely made up for it. we grew up just down the street from one another and we continue to hang out to this day. i eventually moved out of my house with my dads and clay moved next door to me as soon as the house next to me became available. the two of us go back to have dinner with our families often, having to constantly insist we are most definitely not dating one another. 

my dads have both raised me since i was young. my mom passed away when i was 9 years old and my dad got married about 3 years later to my other dad. it was an adjustment for me to have two dads, especially when it came to friends and school, but im more than happy that it worked out. 

chat buzzes along as i hum softly to the music in the background. i don't have any camera on today as it would only be showing below my neck and is really pointless. i continue to answer more questions as i build. 

"hey, mai?" a voice calls from downstairs, making me falter. "you home? my sisters here and wanted to come around."

"yeah," i hollered back, my voice laced with nervousness. "im streaming by the way!"

i heard a loud curse from my friend and a mocking laugh from clays sister, brook. chat buzzes past faster, curious as to who the stranger calling me is.

"i think im going to end here," i say softly into my microphone. "my friend is over, as you can probably tell. thank you for coming around the stream today and i hope you have an amazing rest of your day!"

i blew a kiss to my audience and ended the stream. i walked toward my door and to the stairwell leading downstairs. 

"clay, you stupid fuck," i yelled down the stairs. brook laughed loudly again as clay mumbled a few things under his breath. "you're lucky you used my streaming name or i would skin you alive in a cold dark room and carve out your fingernails."

clay faltered again before letting out a loud wheeze. "WHAT?!"

"i wouldn't try to mess with her if i were you," brook mumbled jokingly. i smiled affectionately at the girl and ruffled her hair. she groaned, quickly swatting it away.

the two of them followed me into the kitchen as i supplied them with a bunch of baked goods from yesterdays cooking stream. 

we chatted a bunch as we ate the food, about streaming, brooks school, covid, and any other topic we could think of. it wasn't long until the night turned dark and clay had to return her home. 

today was a good day, i concluded.

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WHY ARE FILLER CHAPTERS SO HARD TO WRITE
im so sorry if that was boring lmao. 
im hoping to start some actual plot soon.

also graecie is based off of a real person (Graecie on twitch). i love her so much and was a big inspiration of this character, mai/bryn. however, i don't know a whole lot about her so everything will be pretty much made up (i only know her age/location and online persona!). 

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