Aeon Nether & Idol Effigy

Chapter 37- Fan

It was before the third week began that Gaab found himself at home. He was 15 and was full of dreams for the future. Or rather he had been until he was made to face reality.

15 being the age that everyone was recorded for the competition shows they'd be on when they become 16 years olds. It was the stage where the dreaded teenage phase would be made to pass through the masses in the form of a scripted year.

Gaab wasn't much different from other people. He wrote a script and last year he went over the scripts he and his friends wrote together. It was a fun time for him. They decided which months they'd act in each other's scripts and left some time to adapt to the scripts other people in their year group would have worked on.

It was blissful. He had all sorts of plans and worked on a risk management powerpoint in case of problems occuring in the year.

But it's been about four months since the school year began and he had turned cold.

His friends had used his scripts and ousted him from them. It took Gaab a week to ruin the scripts and break the figurative third wall to expose them.

After that Gaab's bubbly and social personality took a nosedive. It would have been astonishing if he didn't have a change occur in a year where everyone had already made scripts catering to certain people in the school year and he happened to be betrayed by people who were his friends for years. He'd look bad if he'd tried to make friends with those people or even talk to them. He'd be an unwanted variable that went out of line and ruined other peoples scripts.

The value of the scripts in his school was ridiculously high, because his area's statistics and university students dissertations proved that more people watched them act out scripts as a new sub genre of teen movies.

Therefore, the written scripts that students were acting out were greatly prized as assets for their future.

Gaab was left alone to his devices and was watching his favourite person from this year's Idol Effigy. He'd liked her due to her first month of the training period when Gaab's world was falling apart. His favourite was conversing friendly to many different potential contestants in various languages, but still kept a lonely air around her.

It's been about four months from then and Gaab has firmly placed his idol on a pedestal.

Even at the risk of ruining the scripts of other people at his school and his ex friends' new scripts, he watched reality shows and found his eyes stuck to the strange girl who was oddly strong yet hid that she was sick. There wasn't one person in his vicinity that didn't know the name of the idol he adored.

Gaab's voice had been heard by all.

"Kyyaaaa, Aeon! Leave those background characters and compete with the Gods! Heheheh! Heh!"

It pissed people off, but every time they told him off for it he'd immediately do it again behind some closed door. It was unfortunate that the world didn't progress much when it came to sound proofing everything.

Funnily enough, they were beginning to regret having been pissed off at him in the past, because now he was either crying like he was mourning something or angry enough to give a lecture in swear words for all those that he passed.

It didn't take long until the whole surrounding area turned into a fan of Aeon Nether through the unintentional promotion provided by Gaab.

It took the beginning of the third week of dance performances that Gaab realised this and became the head of Aeon Nether's fan club. Most of his work focused on learning how to follow in Aeon's footsteps to complete dungeon runs safely and taking down the below average government that was making Aeon's life difficult.

Safe to say that the general public would have received a scare if they took a look at Gaabs activities through the mandatory live streams for 15 year olds.

Gaab was a scary person who was aiming for the law on some dungeons requiring groups to progress into them.

It seems that Aeon's support group was becoming a force that shouldn't be fought with little by little.

The third week began on Idol Effigy with negative rumours being spread about by others in an attempt to stamp on Aeon. This didn't escape Gaab's and the viewer's eyes. Even those that didn't like Aeon much as a character seemed to be uncomfortable with the rumours. Public unrest grew.

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