Yumeship
Dude x Viveca
Background:
Viveca spent the first nineteen years of her life isolated from the modern world. Her parents had joined a strict, deeply controlling cult before she was born, meaning her entire childhood was defined by rigid rules, uniform clothing, and constant brainwashing. She was taught to fear the outside world, but as she grew older, her natural independence and sharp intuition made her question everything around her. She realized that the life her parents chose was a prison, not a sanctuary.
At nineteen, Viveca reached her breaking point. Risking everything, she slipped away from the compound in the dead of night with nothing but the clothes on her back and a few dollars she had managed to scrape together.
The initial days were a blur of overwhelming sensory overload. She survived by navigating a web of long distance travel buses, moving from town to town, terrified of being found but determined to keep moving forward. The outside world was loud, chaotic, and completely foreign to a girl who had been sheltered her entire life.
Eventually, Viveca's journey crossed paths with a kind-hearted elderly lady who noticed the exhausted, quiet girl at a bus station. Sensing that Viveca was running from a difficult past, the woman took her in.
For the next year, this unlikely mentor taught Viveca the absolute basics of modern survival how to open a bank account, use technology, navigate public systems, and unlearn the rigid conditioning of the cult. More than just survival, the woman gave Viveca the space to discover who she actually was. It was during this time that Viveca finally got to choose her own clothes, falling in love with the alternative, dark, and indie fashion that allowed her to express her newfound freedom.
By the time she entered her 20s, Viveca felt confident enough to stand on her own two feet. Wanting a fresh start entirely on her own terms, she packed her bags and moved out, eventually settling down in the bizarre, sun-baked town of Paradise, Arizona.
She landed a job working the counter at a local diner, blending into the background with her sharp wit and deadpan demeanor. It was a tough town filled with eccentric characters, but after surviving a cult, Viveca wasn't easily rattled.
It was during a standard shift at the diner
likely handling a chaotic rush or dealing with a strange customer that a towering, trench-coat-wearing man in sunglasses walked in. The Postal Dude ordered a cup of coffee, the two exchanged some mutually dry, sarcastic banter, and the rest was history.