#poppin

POPPIN, ISSUE ONE.

ethan landry x black fem reader

summary: another one of chads big parties leads to the nerdy, quiet, (kind of a loser) boy ethan running into you. little do you know…

tags: black reader, thick reader, extrovert x introvert, perv ethan, scream movies, ethan landry, p in v, ethan with a stutter

a/n: continuing at 30-ish likes ??

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YOUR POV

when chad invited you to one of his stupid costume parties again, you thought it would be like all of the others. booze filled, overcrowded, and countless men trying to throw themselves at you.

however, this was different.

not many people had gotten the party invite, only closer friends and people in his frat. so when you walked into the party clad in a cute ass clawdeen costume, you thought you’d see bunches of people. well color you surprised. you came in late and there still weren’t as much people as you expected. whatever. you had one goal anyway.

find chad.

after scanning the room, you find the area hes in and walk over to him, greeting him. “hey chad!” you look to your side and see another guy next to him, and you just give him a small wave.

“you made it!” he hugs her, setting a fire in ethan’s eyes. after you broke the hug, you noticed his eyes looked greener than ever. hey, your intuition was never off once, you thought to yourself-

“h-hey…” he shyly greets you, almost coming out as a whisper.

“chad, who’s this?” you tilt your head at him, having never seen much of him.

“oh, this is ethan. he’s one of my best friends, but he doesn’t really go to parties that much.” chad explains, rubbing the back of his neck.

“and why did he come to this one?”

ETHAN’S POV

well, to be honest. he didn’t do much in his free time besides stalk you. all it took was one mention of you by chad and he was stalking your instagram posts like a loser. he accidentally liked one and sweared he would kill himself the same day.

besides the point, his problem got worse. he turned from just stalking your frequent posts to stalking your normal routine.

snapping out of his trance, he speaks up.

“uh.. don’t know. i-it was a last minute decision.” he makes up an excuse on the spot, almost mentally facepalming himself for his tone.

“oh, cute.” you’d smile at him. did you just smile at him? gosh, your smile is so hot. wait- did you call him cute? no, that’s one of her catchphrases, i remember that one, he thinks to himself. he just gives a small smile back in response as if he’s not thinking about you in every which way possible.

“what’s your name? ooh yeah that fit you girl…”

“w-what’s your name?” ethan would ask, fiddling with his fingers and acting like he hasn’t heard it and fucked his hand to it countless times. your name would roll off your tongue, and it would off of his as well. it didn’t help his case that your name and face were surreal amounts of beautiful, if that even made sense.

“this is the first time i had a girl who’s looks set me on fire…”

truth be told, he felt insanely hot, and his awkwardness wasn’t helping his case either. scanning up and down your costume, he felt himself impossibly harden. this was gonna be a looonngg night.

Great news! Not much progress again! Did some drawing and writing this month involving some other project. It's not been a good month otherwise. My "I" key is loose and won't snap into place, my headphones broke and don't sit right on my head, my dog ate my homework... you get the idea.

What little I did get to was planning on Chapter 7. Finalizing what obstacles I want and how often they'll appear, deciding if extra enemy types are necessary, and spriting out the bases for obstacles.

Hmmmmmm what could the level theming for this area be... probably disco-related or something.

I did start plotting some of these elements down into level design structure. It's a unique chapter, like a I mentioned before, in that it's a point-of-no-return, so no chest puzzles and purposefully linear. The challenge is meant to be an endurance one, collecting the scant health drops and stocking up on drinks before going through a gauntlet of hazards and enemies to reach the end. I feel like it's going to be a short chapter that'll probably need a lot of refining afterwards, to find the right difficulty.

But for now I'm just figuring out functionality.

Something else I did was finally setting time aside to start a proper debug mode object, something that'll let me toggle settings and pick out rooms rather than binding a bunch of random keys. It feels pretty dumb I never did it this whole time, usually focused on other aspects of the game...

That's about it. Like I said just not a good month. It's all mental stuff I've brought up before; it feels like 3-4 major things happen in the past 4 weeks. The Boys ending, TADC ending, Mina the Hollower coming out, Deltarune chapter 5 coming out, Mouse P.I.... not that I played any of those games, but I do keep up with and it does weigh in a lot on my mind about my own game. I never feel like I'm doing enough, and it always seems pretty modest to me.

My approach with obstacles wasn't trying to come up with something super wacky/innovative, or being overly punishing. I tried to stick to pretty straight-forward stuff that feels more conducive with each other. It would easier to justify all of this if Pocket Adventure was made in 2 years instead of over 10, but idk. I really wanted to make something that fell like a full game, I'm hoping people don't find it underwhelming or annoying.

Next month, I'll be working on chapter 7 object functionality and level design. Hope your summers are going well!

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