You retreat back behind the black curtain that separates your part of the room from your roomie Dip’s. As you slip on your headphones, you let out a sigh of relief, flopping onto your bed as your favorite band, the Gorillaz, blocks out any outside noise. Your roomie Dip has been practicing a new trick with his contact juggling and has a tendency to drop the ball and curse loudly. You need to think, it’s been a long week.
           A small voice pops up in your head, “Maybe if you weren’t such a weirdo someone might ask you.” You stomach sinks as you fill with dread. Usually the music is enough to drown the voice out, but apparently not tonight. The voice is of course only you, but unfortunately you tend to be a major bitch to yourself and rather harsh.
           I want people to appreciate me for who I am.
           “What a load of bullshit, we both know that people won’t appreciate who you are cause you are weird. You know what people appreciate? Normal people.”
           But in all the great stories the characters are unique.
           “That’s fine and dandy in books, but I don’t see books getting a boyfriend. I don’t see books succeeding in life. I don’t see books becoming someone great.”
           Maybe I don’t want to be great. Maybe I just want to be fine.
           “You know what that sounds like? That sounds like a loser who in ten years will be sitting on the side of the road asking for money cause their job at McDonalds didn’t work out. Is that who you want to be?”
           No…
           “Then stop sitting on your ass and get a date to that dance.”
           But you said no one liked me.
           “Don’t be you, go find someone who you haven’t ruined with your freakishness and fake a new personality.”
           No, just shut up, please, just shut up.
           “Doesn’t matter, I got my say in. Try to get a life loser.”
            She’s been pretty bad this month, but at least she’s left you alone so you can do your homework. You pull over a drawing pad and start doodling a sober Gamzee for Dips, while you let your mind wander. You remember when the voice first started talking to you. She would make you cry from her abuses. Now you’ve just become dull on the inside. Her words always echo somewhere in the back of your head, leaving your emotions in a constant numb pain. You don’t cry any more, it’s a waste of time. You haven’t expressed your emotions in a while. Except for when you got turned into a monster. When you were first transformed into a Cerberus, your emotions got split up between three heads. It jostled them and mixed them with some animal instinct that made you mad. Not your normal throw knives at the wall or meditate it off mad, you wanted blood. You took down a few small animals in the woods away from other students. You felt a little guilty, but it was overwhelmed by the immense satisfaction of releasing that anger.
           As you doodle up your Gamzee you know. You know that you’re going to that goddamn dance and you’re going to go however you fucking please. That bitch in your head can keep it in her pants because you’re going to go to that dance single. That’s the way you like it.
While youre lurking about the forest you come upon a manticore who denys you a high five, or just Endie, a fellow student. Although this turning into a monster business has you a bit freaked out you still must find more students, so you and Endie head into the forest.Â
While you search you come across a very large, very threatening fish. Since you cant speak you just have Endie talk to the giant tentacley fish thats fly-swimming in its own little bubble. This confuses you but whatever. After Endie talks to it you discover its Kavia, not a huge enemy you will most definitely die fighting. With Kavia is Sherry, you all join up. You name yourself KSED, so that you dont have to say everyones names.
Still lost and shelterless You all head towards a small cave in a clearing that Endie says is safe. After you reach the cave you all begin to act a little more like your monster selfs, youre not sure if thats a good thing. A giant three headed dog apporaches you, it knows who you are. After a few insults you figure out its your roommate, Fig. Man you wish you could talk, it would make life so much easier. After you integrate her into the group You all form the ultimate aliance, The KFEDS. You agree that you 5 will stuck together, through thick and thin. You have formed the AFA's first club.
After you head outside you go looking for firewood Yuuta, a Ghost who appears to be a student joins the group. He cant really do much besides talk but you like him. Hes a good guy, you go back to looking for firewood.
You find the single best thing in the world, catnip, since youre a cat, with wings and a devil tail. You have never experienced a more awesome sensation. Youre hooked, you cant stop rolling in it. Endie sees you and is intreigued. She doesnt know what its like. When she walks over she sniffs it. Boom, the catnip envelops our leader taking her to a magical far away place. But she has more control of herself, a bit embarrassed she gets up and begins collecting firewood. But you are way too into it. No you cant pull away, but you can hear the others yelling at you to pull away. You even hear Fig threatening you in some way or another, but they are innefective, the catnip is far too amazing.Â
Something unexpected happens. Kavia picks you up and yells at you. This is terrifying because shes about 10 times your size and vaguely reminds you of your mother. Plus she has some huge sharp teeth. After she puts you down you go into the cave with some bedding, laying out the moss so you have a comfortable place to sleep. You can hear everyone talking about how to light the fire. You let out a huge sigh which also lets out a bit of fire with it. This causes you to leap into the air in alarm. The upside of you almost pissing yourself, you can light the fire now.Â
Later Endie rounds up you, Kavia and Yuuta to go get some supplies. You make a plan to go to a trash heap in hope of finding something useful, then going to the river to look for some fish, then to a place with some fallen trees you can use for firewood.Â
After you get to the trash heap you find a blanket! Quite a score you think to yourself. Yuuta spots a shadow off in the distance heading towards you, hes not sure what it is so he keeps his mouth shut while you look for more supplies. Endie finds an old backpack and you find a only slightly broken cat toy when Yuuta decides its big enough to tell the group.
The little group waits and watches as a small dragon approaches. You let out a little bit of a flame to signify you want to fight. Unfortunately Endie has other plans, she orders you to run as fast as you can. You reluctantly run away. About halfway back Kavia gives in to her monster/motherly instincts. She attacks, with a sigh Endie lets you loose onto the Dragon.
Finally, you get to fight. Ever since you became a monster you have been itching to beat something up. You climb up a tree and jump on top of Kavia and spew fire all over the beast. In retaliation it attacks you with something youre not expecting, lightning shoots from its maw at you. Although it misses youre a bit stunned by the fact you are being attacked by a lightning dragon. You wish you could fly. Wait, dont you have wings? You do.Â
You take off, enjoying being airborn you breath fire at the dragon as Endie attacks its legs and Kavia is just beating the shit out of it. You dive at its face latching onto its upper and bottom lip, Firing the biggest fireball you can into its throat, it screams and wraps its tongue around you, hitting you with lightning as well. Before it pulls you into its mouth you stab its tongue with your tail. it releases you as you fall to the ground, you lose consciousness.
You are awakened by Endie saying we need to run very very fast, mammas on the way. But on the bright side we killed the dragon. When you reach the cave you see Yuuta trying to make a barricade at the enterance, because hes a ghost, he hasnt really done much. The KFEDS wait in dread of mamma finding them... To be continued.
    You stand outside the gates of your new school. It’s a fresh start for you. You’ve left behind your first name of Alex, which you’ve never really identified with and are now going by your last name of Fig, which you think is much cooler. It was a long ride from your hometown of Portland Oregon, so you are now exhausted. You are however super pumped about going to school.
           As you enter the gates, you spot a cat. You are a little wary of this cat because of recent updates in your favorite webcomic and the experience of growing up with a cat that is the living spawn of Satan. It scampers off into the bushes and you let out a sigh of relief. Your Dæmon Poviyemo (Po) crawls out from the inside of your sweater to your shoulder, yawning as he woke up from his nap. He’s in his favorite form of a weasel currently.
           The doors creaked open to the school. You peak in and see the other students mulling around in the hallways trying to get themselves situated. Then it hits you like a test you forgot to study for in Physics. You need to find a roommate.