I can find no trace of this recent WIP I loved. Dan is a Uni dropout, struggles with mental health, works at a grocery store [where he met customer Phil] run by his flatmate's father. After a bad day he is fired and evicted and he moves in with Phil. Dan plays a VR immersive role-playing game with a name like Harvest Moon? His character is short, wears light blue, I think was named Cloud, and decides to become a Healer. He also knows Phil as a character in it but doesn't realise it is him.
What Life Could Be (ao3) - Nocturnella
Summary: Dan’s life has not gone as planned. He’s trapped in a dead-end job with no formal education and no real life outside of losing himself in video games. Enter disaster in the form of Phil.
Meanwhile, the release of the new virtual reality game Half Moon Village gives Dan the escape he’s so desperately been looking for. In the game Dan can be whoever he wants, and as Cloud he meets the heroic and adorably awkward Fylgon who saves him at every turn and is always quick to share the spoils of his adventures. The only problem? Fylgon is in love with someone else. Oh, and Dan isn't even sure he's a real person.
- Christy
