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Zack attack!

Time for me to hijack the book!

I'm probably the most obscure character to ever become a fictive lmao, a side character from a virtual world game that doesn't even exist anymore. If you played Moshi Monsters as a kid, you might know me. But even then, I was only unlock-able if you had membership, or the magazines, so yeah, pretty obscure.

My name is Zack Binspin, I was a pop star in my source and am very much not a human. My species was created by and for the game, known as a moptop. I'm sorta??? Teddy like??? Short, slightly fuzzy, like peach fuzz kind of texture. My nails are more claws than nails, I have human shaped feet but with paw pads. Pigmented nose and cheeks, droopy ears and fangs. I don't think my species is based on any one particular animal, like a lot of moshlings were. Another character of my species was based on a beaver, but I'm definitely not a beaver so?? I guess moptops are just generally small, fuzzy creatures.

Moshi Monsters had this running gag, their in universe celebrities were parodies of real world ones. So we had characters like Simon Growl, Banana Montana, Dustbin Beaver, all dumb puns like that. But I wasn't based on any one particular celebrity, more the genre of the 'late 2000s teen boy heartthrob'. Think like, One Direction, Justin Bieber, 5SOS, that kind of thing. It is possible the name Zack was taken from Zack Efron who was still really popular at the time though. The swooshy, long hair on boys was the cool thing all the celebrities had at the time too, so my emo boy haircut was a reference to that lmao. Along with my debut song literally called 'Moptop Tweenybop (My hairs too long)'. My entire existence in game lore, was to be a parody of tween heartthrob idols of the era.

And when you got a 7-10 year old playing Moshi monsters every day and buying the magazines, who happens to be a developing system, someone was gonna stick. That ended up being me because my song was the hosts favourite.

Obligatory song drop:
((Ignore how pre-pubescent I sound, I was literally like 13))

AND I got a second song a year or so later

I definitely don't look like that anymore either, I'm a grown ass man now lmao. Artistic rendition of grown up me:

So yeah, I've been here a long time. Had a little period of dormancy during a time where a lot of us childhood alters were either vastly changing as we aged or going dormant to let others take over for a bit. No more Tweenybop, no more pre pubescent voice, and hilariously no more trash dwelling. Literally my whole species is meant to live in trash, raccoon style. I mean hello my last name is literally BINspin. But splitting into a brain that's a major Autsim clean freak made me ditch the dumpster diving pretty quick.

My in source lore is pretty fleshed out for a kids game actually. I was born into a lower class family and immediately took to music, so as I grew up I'd take gigs as backup vocals for bigger artists or busk on the streets. Until I eventually got scouted by (who I now know is hella sketchy) Simon Growl and signed to his record label. Another in universe celebrity, the rapper Blingo saw major potential in me and taught me how to navigate the music industry, looked after me on tour and basically became my industry dad. My parents weren't around much as it was, so I relied on him a lot on the road. We definitely ended up with that "you're not my DNA but you're still my son" type of relationship. Of everyone from source, I miss him the most. He had a rap verse in both of my songs and I cameoed in his, obligatory plug:

From there I kinda just grew my track list, toured, got famous etc. standard pop star stuff. I got caught up in the occasional villain battle but was never seriously hurt. But that's how I found out Simon was,,, sketchy. Because WHY would you frequent a hotel where a known C.L.O.N.C. (the villain league of the game) works, and WHY would you sign one of them to your label?? Look... I can't even lie, Strangegloves song SLAPS. But girl, he's literally trying to MUTATE moshlings... I AM A MOSHLING. You have TWO of them on your label!!

Yeah after that me amend Blingo kinda started side eyeing Simon and getting suspicious so we dipped once our contracts ended. Blingo was a whole adult with a career by then anyway so he made his own label and I joined him instead. There's another in universe celebrity I was friemds with, Missy Kix. She's the one briefly at the end of my second music video. Canon tried to imply I had a crush on her buuttt,,, nah. I just needed someone for the music video lol. Wasn't into girls at that age (or ever, lmao boy kisser). Unfortunately Moshi Monsters shut down before the story ended, so I have no idea what Simon was doing with the villains. No idea what became of me, Blingo, Missy, anyone. My last appearance in game was during one of the super Moshi missions, where I basically out-sang one of the villains at a music festival to stop them brainwashing the crowd. You know, casual kids game stuff. And that's it, no more lore on me after that so I got no idea what became of canon me.

System me though, I was a soother when I first split. I existed literally just to have fun and distract us from stress. I played my own game a lot, and other virtual world games like spark city and poptropica. And Wii games, mostly just dance. I've always been a diva, always have to be performing even if it was just in front of the TV. I dipped for a bit once we left primary school, because shit kinda started hitting the fan and a lot of us original alters couldn't handle it. We were there to handle kid problems, not adult ones. By the time I was back, I was older and able to comprehend our plurality better. I actually started becoming my own person and not just 'Zack from Moshi Monsters'. Decided I was a boy kisser, found my interests other than singing, was able to communicate better with other alters. I'm still very much Zack Binspin, but I'm grown up now and more than just a parody of a teen idol. I'm still very much into the internet though, just,,, old internet. Like 2008-12 kind of era. Flash games, blingees, old Instagram and vine, AMVs all that stuff. So I do a lot of digging through old websites and looking for old flash games and stuff we used to play. I listen to a lot of music from that era too, recession pop slaps so hard. Big frutiger metro enthusiast, and while I'm not the main graffiti expert of the system, that's Angel. I do like it too, and like making tags and slap stickers. I don't have a set role nowadays, me and Ahk are the oldest fictives and amongst the oldest alters in general. Pretty sure Aries is the only one older than us that's still active. So we're considered legacy alters, we don't have set roles anymore since the situations we split for have passed. But we're still here, and still hold a lot of childhood memories.

It's actually quite surreal, looking at childhood photos and being able to tell when I was fronting because I remember that photo being taken, or the body is doing something in the picture I was known to do, or wearing something I was known to wear. If child us is doing a peace sign behind someone's head, 'bunny ears' we called it, it was probably me in the front. That was the thing I did whenever a camera was pointed at me. Over the past 5 or so years we've been very slowly piecing together repressed memories and figuring out who was active at what time, and I've been around so long I'm used as a touch point. You're either a "pre Zack" or "post Zack" split, since I know roughly when I first showed up.

I'll stop yapping now, this is getting long. But I've been hogging the front lately thanks to the boom in old web nostalgia posting pulling me out more. So I figured I'd FINALLY introduce myself and if anyone actually remembers me and my songs I'll be genuinely surprised lol.

Stealing the phrase from my industry dad, We iz out! Bye!