#sentient-cloud

The Chosen One is a stick figure drawn by c!Alan Becker, who was at that point just a young hobbyist animator who enjoys cartoony slapstick violence... and whose animations come to life.

As soon as Chosen was drawn and named, their powers sparked into action and they started causing havoc in Alan's computer. So Alan imprisoned Chosen in an antivirus program and turned them into his adblocker for 4 years.

Let me rephrase that. Alan drew a stick that he DEFINITELY knew was alive (because Chosen wasn't his first stick figure. He's had other victims before) and then enslaved them for 4 years.

Chosen managed to break out of imprisonment after those 4 years and so took wrathful but totally understandable vengeance against Alan. So Alan, in all his GENIUS /s, decided to make a THIRD STICK FIGURE to destroy the Chosen One.

Anyway so Chosen and this new stick, the Dark Lord, duke it out and Chosen wins. Dark's like "shit please dont kill me i am literally 4 minutes old" and chosen's like "dude i'm not gonna kill you. i just want to kill alan [or rather, his cursor, but neither of the sticks realize that alan is an entire person on the other side of the screen]. how about we destroy him together?" and dark's like "alright BET >:D"

and so the two absolutely destroy Alan's computer and escape before they're destroyed in the process, and end up in the realm of Animations, the Outernet. And they live brand new lives revelling in their freedom and power, and go on rampage upon rampage across the Internet. Wikipedia, Twitter, Newgrounds (that last one is important), nobody can stop them!

except... Chosen doesn't want destruction, chaos, control, or notoriety. All they ever wanted was freedom. Do they tell their dearest accomplice and only friend Dark about this? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Because Chosen is SO BAD AT EMOTIONS AND NUANCE. literally the only sticks worse than them at emotions and nuance are Dark and victim (Chosen's predecessor and Alan's first ever stick).

So Chosen has this entire turmoil about them that's been fermenting like a fine wine and meanwhile Dark (perhaps seeing and misinterpreting Chosen's turmoil, perhaps seeing the notoriety that only Chosen got from the Newgrounds attack as the "Angel of Death") unveils a new project of theirs! A cannon that can shoot viruses into peoples' computers! Now they can get vengeance on Alan without having to go to his computer themselves!

Chosen STILL DOESN'T EXPLAIN JACK SHIT ABOUT THEIR OWN DESIRES OR ASK DARK ABOUT WHAT MOTIVATED EM TO DO THIS. AND JUST ASSUMES THE WORST. AND STARTS A FIGHT BECAUSE "NO IM NOT GONNA LET YOU USE THAT"

AND SO THEIR BESTIESHIP OF HOWEVER MANY YEARS FALLS APART.

And uh. Dark fucking dies. Chosen isn't the one to get the final blow on Dark, that's another entire tangent, but yeah Dark fucking dies and Chosen is left to try and work through the grief in solitude.

HAVE I MENTIONED THAT CHOSEN IS SO BAD AT EMOTIONS. They're such a tragic tragic stick.

anyway timeskip, and Chosen is hunted down by some mercenaries because one) they're a former terrorist (though we DO SEE that Chosen will go out of their way to try and protect people) and two) the mercenaries' boss victim (yes, the SAME victim) incorrectly but understandably thinks that Chosen is LOYAL TO ALAN. BECAUSE VICTIM SAW A SNIPPET OF THE SHOWDOWN BETWEEN CHOSEN AND DARK WHERE CHOSEN AND ALAN'S CURSOR WERE STANDING NEXT TO EACH OTHER SEEMINGLY AS ALLIES

anyway it's been over a year since chosen has been kidnapped and uh. sniles. who the fuck knows when the next episode of AvA is gonna come out, these episodes take For Fucking Ever to come out because YOU CANNOT RUSH ART.

anyway x2. chosen can be transfem. to me. that's what the transing their gender square is for. it's about the striving for autonomy and freedom. it's about wanting to distance yourself from your father, your god, who made you in His image whether he intended it or not.

gddammit i gave cho the same kind of transgenderism i gave duck savage. oops.

i will say also. gender headcanons are like really fast and loose in AvA/M. bc they're sticks. i think cc!Alan assumes he/him for every stick besides 2 and occasionally some sticks are refered to by gendered pronouns or titles, but like. they're sticks. it's free real estate.