Chapter 2: To be or not to be

As an avid novel reader, it is compulsory for one to immerse themselves into the protag's shoes. It is a wonderful place of imagined events and people that may or may not exist. As the privilege of the reader, one can comfortably admonish and criticize from the very existence of the protagonist to his movement of his left little toe…Yet when put into the same situation, one can hardly do any better.

This was David, an avid novel reader striving to make the lives of every author hard by using his above average brain to think of 'superior' choice of action, sprouting nothing but dogshit out of his mouth. He was proud to be a mouth shitter.

Since he wasn't much of a social butterfly, decided to immerse himself into another world through the depictions of the author. To him who had nothing to keep himself anchored to this monotonous world was unwilling to live his whole life as nothing but a figure in the papers.

Hence, his interest in the real world withered away the more he interacted with the fictional, 2D world. He felt that the women in real life were too boring, too cold, too hard. They weren't perfect enough and he was unwilling to go for a guy in a girl's body. Technology was not developed enough to give him the immersion that he needed, the excitement of anime and novels dies slowly as he ages.

David tried to do the typical protag bullshit of experiencing excitement through life threatening stimulus; he tried rock climbing, skydiving, fighting in cages to fucking girls of every race and age…Yet after all of this, he returned to the warm embrace of novels. A world ever expanding, limited by only your imagination and the chapter's word count…

He was truly tempted to kidnap an author and keep them in his basement for good… but apparently being 'inside' for too long was not good for one's imagination…huh, who knew…

"If one cannot find a novel of his liking, what is stopping them from making one themself?" David thought.