Double Black

love's a game, wanna play?

A/N: work contains way too many genshin and star rail references, but no spoilers 

Lately, online streaming on various platforms has been such a popular career and hobby, hasn't it?

All these streamers on Youtube and Twitch and what not; they were also rapidly gaining popularity amongst the usual viewership, just by choosing to stream the games they happened to be playing. The general audience seemed to be rather interested in watching such game streams as well.

Now, of course, full time streaming was definitely not an easy job. Not only did they invest a large fraction of their daily time into providing live entertainment for their views, but they also had to plan well in advance for such long streams. Then there was also the matter of funding, sponsorships, advertisements and all the other technical stuff, that could be considered as the adult job-like parts of the... Well, job?

That aside, being the public eye also meant not only did they have devoted fans, but also haters,  criticising their every move if possible. The more famous streamers definitely were rather prone to having their audience and fans analyse not only their gaming skills, but also their personal relationships and such on social media. 

Two specific streamers in the gaming community had become quite popular lately. And naturally, it was could be suspected that part of the reason for their immense popularity was the very evident rivalry between them. 

On one side of the rink, an avid enjoyer of FPS games, Nakahara Chuuya. That was just his real name, though. Not super important or anything. He was better known in the community as 'gravityresearch'. But then again, that was just his username and people really usually just referred to him as Chuuya.

Even though he started out his streaming career with various FPS games, he'd made a recent shift into experimenting with the new popular adventure and fantasy-based game called Genshin Impact. He hadn't really expected to like it as much as he did when he started out. But the gameplay was well designed and the character lore was way too interesting; there was no way he couldn't be invested in such a game.

He started playing quite late, after the release of Sumeru actually, but he'd been quick to catch up with the game. Of course, that meant that his viewership got a lot of content in the span of a few weeks as he 'speedran' the game, successfully not missing out on any of the lore of dialogue. His audience often suspected that maybe he was an actual PhD researcher, who probably specialised in the field of physics and astronomy, as his username suggested.

Anyway, currently, he was up to date with most of the game's main content, and was very insistent on making sure that everyone was aware that he was a Wanderer kin, and hence main-ed him as well.  Naturally, he still hadn't done the quest to rename Wanderer in the storyline.

"It's too much of a responsibility! What if I pick the wrong name?!"

"Chuuya-kun, they literally allow you to change the name once."

"That's even scarier!"

Apparently, he had a niche for the dramatics. 

Anyway, on the other side of the rink, there existed Dazai Osamu, who on the complete contrary, happened to primarily stream MMORPG and story-based mobile games. While he played otome games and such too, he also ventured into FPS and more action based games every once in a while. 

As for his username, he tried to have 'doublesuicide' as his, but for rather obvious reasons, that got shot down and he was suspended for a few days. After that, he reluctantly changed his username to 'nolongerhuman', all while complaining about how these online platforms were restricting his creativity and his true self. Which was, definitely concerning, but then again his viewers could hardly tell when he was joking and when he wasn't.