It is 10 pm. In an apartment in some random neighborhood, a person is playing games on his PC.
A dimly lit room, decently neat, nothing special… except the stack of trophies on a shelf.
He's streaming.
And a viewer asks him something.
["Hanisextremelyrelatable" has donated 10000 won.]
— Hey, remember you said that you will reveal one personal fact about you for every 20k subscriber you get? You are already over that, now tell us something.
As other viewers start to confront him about it after seeing the Super chat.
— That guy is right, you did say that.
— Even if you don't say much, at least tell us your name.
The man finally gives a response to their question.
"Though I don't know if you guys will believe me, but… My name is Han Taewon."
At that moment comments on his stream started flooding in.
— Bro… are you serious right now?
— Hey! Is this the same Han Taewon I know?
— Guys… I think there is something wrong with my ears…
— Hey guys… we might just be overthinking, there are many people with the same name, right?
— Yeah, that must be it. They just have the same name.
Some were just confused, and some were definitely not having it.
– Insert: Cap emoji.
– Man… please, this is like the 30th time I have seen an imposter.
– Just please stop! I swear to god that these imposters won't leave me T_T.
He replies again after seeing their confusion.
"I know, I get it why you guys must be confused, I indeed am the person you guys think I am."
— Hey, you know it's not something to joke about.
— If you really are him, why not do a face cam?
— Man, you can't fool us. There has been no news on him for three years after that incident. (Other than a few thousand imposters.)
A faint smile forms on his lips.
"If you guys really want to know, then you guys should help me reach at least 50k subscribers."
— Wasn't that supposed to be for every 20k subscriber? So it should be 40k.
"Yes, you are right. But. Just giving away my face is not something easy, is it?"
The viewers, clearly not having it were flooding him with questions and one of them caught his eye.
— You were supposed to have been fond of martial arts and swords from childhood. Why was that?
His response was short and simple.
"Because it's cool."
—??????
— Guys, I think something really is wrong with my ears.
— Pfft… It seems like even someone like him likes swords and martial arts because it's cool.(if he really is the real Han Taewon).
He replies in a calm voice, still focusing on the game.
"Weren't everyone like that when they were a kid?"
— … I can't disagree, it is really the case.
— Well, who wouldn't love things like martial arts? I can't even count how many times I have watched kung fu hostel
— I… think I understand what you mean, you definitely just misspelled it and it seems like everyone is a fan of that movie, huh?
— Well, who wouldn't be? It's peak.
– Well, true though.
The banter in the comment section kept going on.
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— You do not talk unless you need to,sometimes make the stream boring, you know?
["Hanisextremelyrelatable" has donated 100 won]
— Hey, can you take a break from the poison resistance grind and check the official site for the game? There happens to be something new going on.
The comment section started to flood again after that.
— Ah, right! You should, I also heard something like that.
— If you don't know, apparently the developers of KON are thinking of making another game. You should check it.
— Now that I think about it, I didn't check it. So you checking it will be the same as me doing it as I can see it.
The comment section was full of comments urging him to check.
"Okay, okay. Guys. I'm checking it."
He uses a browser and starts typing.
www.kon.com
The very front page had the introduction for the site.
[KON, it is short for Kingdom of Nihilion. Kingdom of Nihilion is an rpg game we, the "wearegood" production company made. (Is it right to call ourselves a company?)
It all started with us messing around and a friend told us that, why not make a game when we are messing around so much anyway? And we took it seriously… kind of seriously.
We were College students at that time and had a lot of things going on, so we took some time to complete the beta version… actually 2 years to complete the beta version. And it actually got good reviews, so we decided to continue and turned it into a full blown open world rpg with, you know, the classic fantasy academy setup where the main story revolves around.
Anyway, if you are here on our site, you must already know a thing or two about the game. But we will still tell some anyway, the reason this game is popular is as follows. Good and immersive graphics, good story, good worldbuilding, doing a good job with the generic tropes, good gameplay(which is still really annoying because of difficulty), and most of all… there is no harem!!! Horrayyy!!!... Okay, that is all there is to it. Bye.]
— Pfft, hahaha. I can't ever get done with the ending of their intro for their own game.
— Even though it is not the reason we came, we are always reading these things if it's funny, no?
— Hey, Han. Why are you reading it?
"Why am I reading this? This is because… well, I never really entered their official site. And you guys are right, it certainly is quite funny."
Hearing his deadpan voice, the viewers were not pleased at all.
["Hanisextremelyrelatable" has donated 100 won]
— Man, even if I do say that you are extremely relatable… your deadpan voice in these situations are definitely not relatable at all. Anyway, now go to the menu where "The scrapped concepts" is written. You will find out why I told you to come here.
He scrolls through the page and comes across what they were telling him to go and see.
There were many characters, plots, worldbuilding ideas, as well as a completely different power system.
The description of it is as follows.
[If you guys are wondering what this is, it is as its name suggests. The scrapped concepts. This is where you can see every concept we threw away, even though I would say that 90% of them were better than the final version.
The reason is mainly because we didn't have the budget and time to do all those. So after the decent success of KON, we are planning to use the scrapped concepts to make the new game.
I know what you guys must be thinking. What is the point if we reveal everything? Well… there's none. What still matters a lot is a good story and gameplay. Anyway, that's it. This was too long.]
— Hey, Han. This is already the fourth time I'm saying this, go and check the character, "Selica Virelis".
Noticing the comment, he starts to look for the said character.
" Sorry if I didn't see you, as you know why it must be the case."
Another person comments.
— I like how Han just gets straight to the point and doesn't say much when we know what is going on.
After searching for a while, he finally comes across the said character.
Name: Selica Virelis
Age: 17 (kind of not fixed as she was a concept as well)
Gender: Female
Description: A beautiful girl from a family of alchemists. Has violet hair and red eyes(family genes).
[Reason for getting scrapped: What was the reason she got scrapped? Well… it's because she was too OP. Not that she is insanely strong or anything like that or anything.
Let me explain a few things. First of all, she is from a marquise family. And as you know, we don't need logic(not too much) in fantasy. So we made it so that her family naturally has great resistance to every possible status effect(debuffs). And especially her, she apparently was supposed to have complete immunity.
So, you can get your head around on why we scrapped her.Considering the power system, worldbuilding and power levels of KON]
After he completes reading it, the Viewers start saying multiple things to him repeatedly.
— Hey Han! What do you think of these?
— You know? If she was a playable character, she would have breezed through the Mountains of pestilence. And here you are grinding for poison resistance for already 3 or so days.
— Hey! Now go and read the power system, it's way better than KON. I mean– it's a disgrace to that power system if you compare it to KON.
— Han! Why don't you change the name of your channel from "Han company" to "Han Taewon the best". Hahaha… I just did something cringe, didn't I?
Interrupting everyone he gives his last line.
"Well then, thank you for staying with me for the last two or so hours to just see me grinding poison resistance. Good bye."
He turns the stream off and stretches his arms for relief.
"The last few days have actually been quite boring. I wonder how boring it would have been if I wasn't streaming and watching them bickering with each other."
It has been only 3-4 months since he started streaming, and he actually liked it as even if for a moment, he didn't feel alone.
He turns the lights on, and he can finally be seen clearly.
The common black disheveled hairs well over his neck and shoulders, he clearly hasn't cut them for a really long time. A light skin tone. His face, straight and what could have been called handsome… if not for the burn mark on its left side covering his face from neck to cheeks. Dark-brown eyeris.
Wearing a simple winter jacket clearly hinting that it's winter.
His stomach started to growl.
"I should make something to eat. My stomach is already growling at me."
He walks toward the kitchen stretching his body.