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[aspectbrowser]

imagine you're someone who's a little arrogant sometimes deep inside (okay but let's be honest sometimes our egos all take a lil' break from having being squashed all the time) but you don't like to show it - cuz you KNOW it's not a good thing being too proud and all, and you like to think you're humble since........well, yeah, you're the typa person to think 'ah these people are def all so good' and 'theres so many people who are so much better, why should i be proud' ykyk

imagine you're the type to really, really wanna say "oh fu- off i can do this and that so you can stop boasting in my face unnecessarily" sometimes, or jump up and announce your spectacular achievements (because you do have them) so that people in the room would actually know what you're capable of - but you never do that since you just wanna keep your ego in check

and like every time someone compliments you you inflate a bit before you settle down again (i mean it's a compliment, so receive it.)

and like, from those urges despite your ability to really do keep yourself low-key and blend in (with the background wallpaper....), you surmise that oh, maybe your arrogance can only be kept in check by yourself and no one else could do that

now imagine that one day this world we're living in gets a lil' touch of magic to it, somewhere magic came in, fantasy came in, you're not a normal person anymore

and you - you're, yk, one of the preetty strong ones since you are - you volunteer for this excursion thingo where you have to complete a mission elsewhere, but to ensure your safety in case ANYTHING goes wrong and they have to resurrect you through abnormal means, you each have to leave a little piece of you behind

this 'little piece of you' has to be some pure emotion - that shows a portion of the truest you - but this little piece of you can ALSO grow as it's let loose and unmonitored by you yourself. The expectation is that you basically choose the smallest type of 'pure emotion' that you have, so that everyone can keep it in check for you until you come back and merge with it

and if it grows too much, then you're not you anymore, and it's a painful process after that as you'd need to try and control it back to its original size

so basically some people chose to leave behind the version of themselves that's 'pain', some chooses 'grief', some chooses 'love' (idk who did that man don't ask), some chooses 'arrogance' and you're part of that

and yea to be fair your arrogance HAS been kept in check pretty nicely up to now, so it takes shape of a tiny, kid version of you, a little cute a little pouty n' a little angry, and your friends kinda just crowd around and be like "aww such a cutiee~ we'll take care of it dontcha worry" and you're like ok i trust yall then

so the group sets off and you do too

and OH in the follow days do everyone regret keeping your lil' arrogance buddy here

like for the first few days it's just your friends who are - like - getting absolutely bashed by that little demon with no remorse, and it runs around giving trouble

after that your friends couldn't contain it by themselves anymore, so they seek help from some of the more superior people - stronger, more experienced, high ranking and whatnot, and boy they're like "how this maniac grow so much already" it's practically near your actual size already

after THAT they get defeated too since some of the things mini-arrogant-you boast about is just - on another level yk, and basically each time people aren't able to find a way to counter 'your' comments mini-a-you grows a little more

so funnily enough by the time you come back from the excursion....

well, everyone else just goes off and takes control of mini-them again, some have a little bit more trouble then others - but it's all good. They can have a short brawl with them and by the end mini-them would be properly punched and disciplined and merge with the original people themselves

but when YOU were running around trying to find mini-a-you (the 'a' in the middle stands for arrogance), you end up heading inside this theatre/stage place designed for those really important announcements or grand celebration nights that are held within the more powerful people in the community ---and you're met with the sight of mini- no- GIANT-a-you who's now a bit TALLER than you and is enjoying having people paint its nails or give it a massage and stuff

and you're like "holy- what happened" (but you don't say that out loud)

you walk up and you're like "sooo are we done here" (said to minigiant-a-you) and instantly everyone has this mixed look of relief and stress on their face (mainly relief cuz now you're back you're gonna deal with it yourself, but also stress because how is this thing gonna shrink)

but minigiant-a-you is like, startled and scared somewhat, and looks at you alarmed and thoroughly caught like a child caught stealing candy from the candy box by its parents

and like - you contain it so easily usually, and beats yourself up usually if your ego inflates too much - that it gives 'arrogant'-you a bit of a trauma whenever it inflates, so now you're back it's super scared and stuff

and everyone just WATCHES in disbelief as you - a cold smile on your face and all cuz DOES EVERYONE THINK YOU'RE EASILY SUPER ARROGANT NOW?? , despite having to look UP at 'arrogant'-you but you still somehow hold this aura of 'don't mess around w me' that utterly paralyses 'arrogant'-you

and you're like "dude r u gonna shrink or what"

minigiant-a-you is like "NO! I DONT WANNA"

and you huff "so like two options, either you shrink yourself and we merge, or I shrink YOU myself and wipe you out of existence and we won't be merging"

and minigiant-a-you frowns and points out "but not merging with me will harm you too, do you think i'd really fall for that" cuz technically it's still a part of you and not merging with it for too long would kinda 'change' you so you'd have to fight against that until your mind and body makes another piece of 'pure arrogance'

but you're like "oh but not merging with me would harm YOU more than ME and i know you don't wanna cease to exist"

so in the end everyone just watches with their jaws on the floor as minigiant-a-you reluctantly turns into a sphere of pure emotion (i like to think of it as a kinda dreamy mixed colour of pink and a hint of blue) and shrinks a bit, then a bit more and another bit more as you just raise an eyebrow silently conveying 'do you really think i'd merge with you when you're still that big c'mon'

and in the end it becomes this tiny ball of around a table tennis ball and you merge with it

story ends. everyone is like 'dam'.

---idk this thought just jumped into my mind and it's so ridiculous i had to write it down

its so ridiculous its kinda funny ngl