The Reality

"Linri are you okay?"

Once Max or rather 'Linri' heard his father's voice he came out of the trance he was in.

"Ye-Yeah, I am okay... I just need to take a shower and get this nightmare out of my head. Sorry for making you worry dad." said Linri while trying to calm himself.

His father looked at him weirdly but didn't say anything else and left still looking worried.

"Kids these days. They grow up so fast. Now he doesn't even talk about his nightmares anymore. I don't know if I should feel proud or sad, being a father is really hard *sigh*"

His father said that in a low voice but not low enough that Max couldn't hear it. At this point, he wasn't sure if that was intentional or not.

Once his father or rather Linri's father, Arkady left Max quickly locked the door and started to inspect himself in the mirror but more thoroughly this time.

The face looking at him was that of a teenager. He had white hair and azure blue eyes. His face was still immature but it was already showing the trace of Linri's handsomeness. I mean it's not like he was gonna create an ugly looking character so it was kind of a given that he was handsome but the thought of creating a good looking person kind of made Max feel cringey inside.

After confirming that he was really Linri, the next thing Max wanted to do was confirm if this was the reality and not another nightmare. He knew that pain was a catalyst to waking up most of the time so he cut the tip of his fingers with the scissors he found on the counter. It hurt a little but he still didn't wake up.

Max was still not convinced but then he remembered a fact he heard in one of his college lectures. He wasn't sure about if it was true or not but he remembered his professor saying something along these lines.

'Humans can't read while dreaming because reading is a function of the right side of the brain while dreaming is the function of the left side of the brain'

The only reason he could remember something like this was because he was a literature geek himself so this fact had left an impression on him back when he first heard about it.

So Max searched for a shampoo bottle or anything with text on it. He saw a shaving cream on the counter and he started to look through its ingredients.

For the first time in his life, Max was devastated to discover that he could read. This was the moment it had finally dawned on him that everything here was real and not some kind of nightmare.

He was frustrated, angry, sad, all of these things at the same time. He wanted to shout and cry but not a single sound was coming out of his mouth. He just didn't know what to do. So he just opened the hot water in the shower and started to cry silently.

Everything was gone. His family, his friends, his girlfriend and his whole LIFE! He was not Maxwell Walker any more. He was Linri Harclaw. The person who had snatched everything from him; and he was forced to live his life. This was the moment Max, no! 'Linri' had made an oath that he was going to take back everything he owned along with that bastards life! The only question was how could he kill him without actually committing suicide?

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After getting out of the shower Linri still felt like crap but he at least had a sense of direction of what was going on now. So he tried to remember everything related to the club or rather this world and Linri. He put on a black shirt and pants. Normally he would hate this colour but right now it didn't seem too bad. His hand searched for his father's military tag that was always around his neck but couldn't find it and Linri became restless. That was just another reminder to him that this was not his world any more.

"Linri breakfast is ready! Don't make me come up there"

This voice was foreign to him but Linri still instinctively knew who it was. She was Linri's mother Lyra Harclaw. He had created her as a prodigy Kitsune who had to run away from home after uncovering some sorta 'secret'.

Even Linri himself didn't know what kinda secret that was because he never got around to flesh out her character. She was just a background character in Linri's and Arkady's backstories.

In the Autumnfall High school RP club, you could only role-play with 3 characters, 1 Teacher and 2 students. His student character was obviously Linri and as for his teacher character he had decided upon using Arkady because his concept was cooler. At least back in his edgy and somewhat cringey RP days, Arkady felt like it would be cooler to RP with.

"Linri, don't make your mother angry after all you are not the one who has to deal with her" said Arkady sarcastically.

It was obviously a joke but Linri could swear that he heard a loud *tong* noise.

Of course, the victim was his father, Arkady. Linri had based this character on his real-life father. That was also one of the reasons why he had favoured him compared to Lyra.

Arkady was from a large Werewolf Clan known as Arctic Wolves. He was actually the son of the clan's Alpha. He had met Linri's mother when she had requested the services of the Arctic Wolves mercenary company. At the time Linri had felt that making werewolves as mercenaries made sense because he had also given them a racial curse the 'bloodlust' so they had to periodically kill people in order to keep their sanity.

He wasn't sure about this part but Arkady might be the only one who survived Lyra's mission which started as a 6 men cell. After that, He fell in love with her and finally left the clan which angered the Alpha and now they were hunted by both the Kitsune and Werewolf clans.

Linri finally arrived at the breakfast table and saw Lyra for the first time. She had long white hair and she also possessed crystal blue eyes. This kinda explained where Linri's features come from. As the creator himself, he had never paid attention to these details. The other important aspect was even though she was supposed to be at least 35 years old she still looked around in her early 20s. If they saw Linri and Lyra side by side most people would think they were siblings.

After looking at her for a while Linri couldn't help but remember his own mother and start to tear up a little again. After that, he got up and hugged Lyra. Whether he liked it or not she was Linri's mother and honestly right now he needed love no matter who it was from.