#absentlynice

Phasing into the game was weird. At first. Especially when everything got so bright so fast. Plus moving limbs in a game was always a little strange at first. But once he got back into the virtual reality swing of things, it was pretty great. Akihito had saved up for at least four months for this dang game– it'd better be good. And so far it was. His avatar looked just like him, if maybe a little taller.. He swears he's gonna hit his growth spurt any day now. The weirdest part of it all was that before he'd even finished fully phasing into it– still waiting for arms and legs and whatever else to be fully loaded and functioning.. He'd found his crystal. Or crystals, he should say. It was really just one but it looked like at least six, especially when it caught the light..

Once everything was up and running, Akihito jogged over to the dumpster the crystal was half hidden under, picking it up and examining the muddied red color. Before looking into it further, Akihito sighed, turning back to face the cluster of small buildings– probably houses, they were supposed to have houses weren't they?

"Niiiice, are you coming or what, slow poke?"

Name one of your guilty pleasures.

Shapeshifter: What would you change about yourself?

"Hmm…what would I change about myself?” Marco pretended to mull it over, all the while though what he was actually doing was trying to think of another answer to the one that stood out most of all. And no, it wasn’t the freckles! He’d actually grown to like them as he’d gotten older.