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He flipped the light switch next to the door, then took a good look around the room. Gabriel could feel his heart pumping as he shrugged off the last bits of grogginess. He was in an unknown place at an undisclosed location, for no reason he was aware of. Either way, he wasn't tied up and gagged, so at least his prospects were looking up.īut that didn't mean he was at ease. When you kidnap someone to demand ransom, you usually do so with a person that isn't socially worthless. He was too comfortable to be kidnapped, and besides, he wasn't worth kidnapping to begin with. Kidnapping couldn't have been it, logically. What the fuck happened? he asked himself, slowly sliding the blanket off, as if expecting something to jump out the moment it saw him getting up. Other than that, the room was pitch black, but Gabriel could just about make out the dark shapes of furniture and impressions of color a white ceiling, with gray-black walls and some carpet on the floor. Golden sunlight fought to peek through closed curtains, and divided the room into two with a shaft of bright light where the curtains were ever-so-slightly apart. Cold sweat coated his body, to the point where the blanket he was tucked in with was somewhat damp. Panic settled into his mind when he recognized the room to most definitely not be his own, overriding the morning grogginess. Gabriel darted up, sitting upright and looking around. Everything felt distinctly groggy for a moment, like an out-of-body experience, as his nervous system woke up in measurable seconds after his brain did. There was a soft weight pressing upon him from below, and an even softer blanket covering his body. He heard nothing except the sound of his slow movements. His eyes opened gradually, looking at muddled darkness. Like drowning deep underwater and swimming to the surface, even though the water pressure pushes back against you, in an attempt to force you down.Įventually, he reached the phantoms of sensation. When he woke up, it was a tedious process. In fact, I'd go as far as to say the first arc is completed I just have to edit it. I’d also like to note we wrote several chapters ahead of posting even the first one, hence the title. I made sure, however, to write down every single reaction, thought, and idea he had regarding the setting since that’s probably what most people came here for. Also, most of his overreactions towards meeting superheroes are what he said when I showed him their fanart, so there's that.) So there is some offscreen stuff, especially actions he’s taken before (like working out or sleeping) or that I considered dull. I skipped some general explanations (such as when he said he wanted to look up PHO, I asked what capes in particular, then gave him what I thought the official in-universe wikia would contain, taking into account it’s often inaccurate at best. But again, the whole point of Friend Insert is to record the experiences and actions of someone who has no real metaknowledge of the setting and what they do, so I tried to go the completionist route and try not to cut down on the parts that most fiction readers would see as ‘boring.’ I actually feel the mundanity kind of helps prepare for all the weird shit that’s gonna happen.Įither way, the talking we did was behind the scenes: I didn’t note every action of Gabriel’s like a diligent scribe. It's mostly supposed to serve to introduce Gab to the setting and doesn't include any heavy conflict or even power usage. This first arc is something of a long, drawn-out intro. As such, I request that all spoilers to the story be placed within actual. This is his first time being properly immersed, firsthand, into the setting. I've decided to keep his "character sheet" and the gritty details of the disadvantages private, and in-character, Gabriel has no awareness of what waits for him.Īlso, word of warning: Gabriel knows very little about Worm, except what little he'd heard from me, I allowed to see him in the CYOA, or accidental exposure, but overall, he's going to be discovering the setting and characters completely on his own as we go on. His power is inspired by the Power Manipulation option, but it's far more constrained and has much slower growth, and has some of the more typical limitations of the setting. I used the CYOA v3 as rough inspiration for Gabriel's powers. I'd like to thank BakaSmurf, luckychaos, Fission Battery and the rest of their ingroup for giving me, as well as my (victim) friend, Gabriel, the inspiration to write this. In which an Italian guy with no knowledge of the setting is dropped in Brockton Bay, given a Trump power, and told to basically try to survive.