To Dream
Eyeris was in deep sleep swimming through a sea of memories, good and bad swirling, her time with Aline, innocent fun, yearning to look for the eyes of innocence, Aline leaving without a word Eyeris followed the room turning dark, and another light turns on, Eyeris runs after the light.
Entering a cold room filled with toys, Zachary slouching down, Eyeris approaches him nervous the room turning warm as his flesh gains color. Relieved Eyeris stood there trying to speak. but no sound would come out. Zachary turned around his face turning from a bleak expression to the warmest of smiles, Eyeris took a step in hopes, but suddenly Zachary pushed them, and the floor vanished, seeing up falling as they saw Zachary’s face turn to dread, his face drying out until only a skull is left.
Eyeris continues to fall and millions of messages are all over the place, hate, love, dumb, interesting, she tries reaching them but all of them seem to be just out of reach. Until suddenly their fall is topped Eyeris hanging for hooks, looks up, and Phishingman appears, wearing a deformed mask of Zachary laughing. but as a trapped fish the jooks reel up, where Eyeris meets face to face with Pupil who is groaning and struggling against the hooks, desperately clawing in Eyeris’ direction.
The hooks holding Eyeris, Eyeris pulls and the hooks snap, and Eyeris falls to the ground, running away from Pupil who stayed behind. They closed their eyes and kept running until they hit something, finding themselves in the middle of a busy road everyone ignoring them, and even pushing them as if they didn’t even notice Eyeris was there.
Eyeris falls into the soft grass, they look at the floor until they feel the earth shake, a deep voice asking “Who are you?”, moving upwards, and looking up they see that they are actually on the giant pawn of Poppet, Poppet staring at them manically, His voice echoes deep with the increased size difference. With a smirk on his face ” Who is the little fucker now?”
Eyeris Daemon is on Earth
Eyeris opens their eyes, lights shine on their face, a strange feeling on itself, They look at their hands, they look different feeling completely contained in her avatar, they stand up noticing Poppet is just a doll, pick them up grinding their teeth before holding Poppet between their arms as a hug. Letting out a sigh and looking around the place before saying “You are the little fucker.”
Eyeris finds herself on the server, completely confused, how where they are outside the computer, they see the screen dark but they can feel it, Pupil is still inside the computer.
Eyeris’ hand approaches the screen stopping at the last second “I wish I knew how to help you. I will once I figure it out.”
Eyeris left the room, finding themselves in an abandoned house, They explored around the rooms, the house was not long abandoned in the middle of the city, and the building was taken as a mortgage and was planned to be put on sale.
Eyeris finally left the building with direct sunlight across their body, a unique feeling, they began to walk, through the streets with no direction thinking, * “What do Eyeris want?” , the question was not a simple one, while Eyeris strode around the city another thought appeared. * ”The city looks very different from outside”
Eyeris was walking through the ruins of a city that had all its technology destroyed, People addicted to social media had become irritated, no service, and no street lights. Society was crumbling down in a state of emergency, and Eyeris only got weaker as time passed, Lost in direction Eyeris’ physical body couldn’t survive for long, eventually Eyeris fell on the street hungry, their eyes slowly closing.
But a street vendor approached Eyeris as they were fainting, putting them inside their food truck, so they wouldn’t lay on the street. Eyeris struggled to keep their eyes open until they felt an energy nearby, suddenly they reached out to it. Draining it gaining enough energy to realize one thing, Eyeris had just fried a phone, and suddenly in their head began to play its saved information.
Eyeris was impressed, all this time they had felt alone, ignored, and even hunted for being a virtual entity, and on the device where a lot of saved recorded videos of virtual idols, of many kinds, funny, relatable, melodic, and chaotic. They were not being rejected, but loved even. Eyeris took the decision, that was their next objective.
“AAAAH! My phone?! shit, first all the lights around the city now my phone… how am I going to survive the blackout without my Oshi! I poured so much time making that collection!” Yelled the food vendor, with a plate in his hands, as they looked to the side, seeing Eyeris awake they changed their tone a few minutes after they stole the Phone from Eyeris’ hand.
“What is an oshi? I saw a video of someone called Chat saying that, to a live animated avatar” Replied Eyeris, starstruck by this, particularly by people from the H production.
“Sorry you must be still hungry, here have this I hope you like spicy food, should shake you awake, be careful though tell me if you don’t like it…” Replied the food vendor giving the plate of food to Eyeris, he then began to explain, what H company, chat and a lot about Vtubers, Eyeris knew she had hope, Aline praised Eyeris’ artistic skills, and they honed it until they where even praised by strangers online.
After Eyeris was fed, they split ways with the food vendor, the food did help her physical body recover energy, but it was nothing compared to the energy on the phone, and the newfound purpose.
From Home to Home
Eyeris eventually began to work on different jobs, until the connection in the city was restored, and they transferred back to the internet, they bought the abandoned house with hard work money, and they didn’t want the computer to be disconnected or Pupil to be let on the lose, though unaware of Eyeris, Pupil already had begun to advance further, trying to connect to external devices, Pupil energy would continue growing slowly.
Eventually, once everything was settled Eyeris, looked at the computer they bought, they reached out touching it, hoping to transfer themselves back, then pushed further, and as if they slipped they dragged themselves inside the computer. Their body felt relaxed, they realized how much energy it kept them to have a physical body, connected to the web, after so much time it was strange but peaceful in a way until a voice interrupted “Finally a body, I can finally cause mischief and chaos again, what took so long?.”
“well I’m the one busting their ass off working, it is not easy you know?” Eyeris replied as if they were pissed, but they were truly glad to hear their companion’s voice again.
Going Live
Soon Eyeris then began their work to become a virtual idol, redesigning again and again their avatar, to present to people, contacting and making friends that had similar desires online. With all that energy Eyeris was still nervous, her debut stream would be in a few days, and they wondered if would people accept them like all those other virtual idols. They tried to keep realistic expectations, but they were too nervous to ignore the feeling, first, they tried to simulate a stream with Poppet, but they made awful viewers too much chaos and mischief, and well they were going to be the pet many virtual idols had pets after all.
Eyeris studied other streams and soon used energy stored from their new connections/friends to gather trying to make a copy of Poppet with a different personality, more akin to regular chat. But it was more difficult than it seems, making Poppet a daemon took too much energy making one from pure energy was absurd. Still, Eyeris tried, changing them making them smaller until they finally took a shape.
“cute, and fluffy, good alright let me make a few more.” Eyeris focused on making more. They couldn’t make a lot with the energy they had at the moment but, enough for their practice stream.
“well they may be cute but I’m more cute and more fluffy, but I shall not make enemies with them, together we will strive towards fun, mischief, and chaos.” Replied Poppet taking the virtual seat where Eyeris was supposed to sit, and the little creatures cheered him on.
“All alright buddy but I go over there scoot over,” Eyeris said as they took the place from Poppet, and then rested Poppet at their lap.
“I’m technically still at the throne, so all of you must still obey and cause all the mischief” Poppet replied, smiling excited about the idea of having what he would perceive as minions.
“no, all you don’t, and is not a throne is a streaming chair, you all need a name, hmm you are all small, even smaller than Poppet, how about bytes?” Eyeris replied calmly, mostly out of worrying about how would they pretend to stream. But the little creatures agreed.
Eyeris kept practicing, doing art and even commissioning other people to help them with their debut, and it was finally the day. They keep shifting on their chair rethinking their introduction, Poppet is strangely quiet, it might be a coincidence or Pupil is more aware of what it was thought, but at the time Puppet caught interference from Pupil with both Eyeris and Poppet themselves unaware of it, as if Poppet caught a command form Pupil.
“Now that I think about it, it doesn’t make sense why Pupil didn’t destroy the server we were all on. they were on a rampage, right? shouldn’t their explosion thing be a complete chaos and destroy everything?” Asked Poppet strangely sounding with genuine curiosity.
Eyeris was surprised by the question but they were more worried about the stream at the moment it was about to go online, still, they tried to answer quickly. “Well Pupil was a newborn when they met Dad but, knowing Dad, he installed a very good safe lock that prevented them, from destroying themselves, so basically it destroyed all computers it could reach minus one, and if there is only one computer well”
“it’s 0 don’t treat me like an idiot, I think is a bit of a waste though powerful, it would cause more mischief and chaos if it destroyed every electronic device” Poppet replied, after taking control of themselves. going back to his usual smile.
“shut up you little fucker, you better act good, I’m about to go live!” Yelled Eyeris as Poppet kept distracting them, while friends began to arrive to watch the stream. they keep their eyes unblinking and finally hit live. “Hello Everyone my name is Eyeris I’m your local techno daemon and it is a pleasure to meet you”