Oriane has a minion!

Miff the Tchataka

Work in progress

Thanks a lot to Eia for adopting Alicritia out to me !

TL;DR : Oriane in 3 sentences

Alicritia is the video game avatar of Oriane, a 16-year-old girl. Oriane tries to explain her family and friends she is not a geek and that having a high-level character on a MMORPG isn't necessarily a sign of a video game addiction. She came up with her avatar name by making a contraction of her second name and Lucretia, whose story she learnt in Latin classes.

Story

It was dark in the camp. The smell was terrible, a mix of the sweat and excrements of goblins. The place was dangerous when alone, however a small winged boy from the healer race was picking medicinal flowers. He was moving carefully, avoiding groups of goblins, but he made a slight mistake and found himself engaged into a fight against a large group. How unlucky, Alicritia thought, but that will make him learn it's not a good idea for a healer to wander here alone..

"Please, help me !" the boy screamed.

After a sight, Alicritia entered the battle. A piece of cake in spite of the numerical disadvantage. Her equipement was good and the healer knew his job. I was over quickly.

"Woah you're so good !" the boy said, "can you help me in my quest ?"
"Sorry I'm better off without you. If you want to gain experience, do it with people of your level."

After giving her names, the boy disappeared. Alicritia was one of the best warriors in the region, and young warriors wanting to cling to her annoyed her. She was already part of a small group of comrades anyway.

Tired of the masculine domination of the world she had trained her strength as her first characteristic, to show them she didn't need a boy to protect her. Her secondary characteristic was speed and defence came after. Her magic and resistance were lacking, but for that she could count on her wife, a specialist of magic shields who was occasionally using a bow. Their best friend Nini was from the healer race but had decided to specialize in offensive magic and insisted in holding a kusarigama to fight with instead of equipping a wand. Last part of the group was an "inoffensive" granny who fought with a shovel. Group of women in a men's world, they took pride in relying only on themselves. Sometimes, they would take other girls along (like that weird panda girl which was insisting on fighting drunk and/or with a fishing cane), after warning them they liked to chat as much as smashing monsters, which could slow the group down in some rooms. That wasn't the case that day. Her friends were waiting for her. But when she met them, she disappeared suddenly, only leaving a message behind her : "parents, g2g, soz."

"Oriane, you're on the computer ! Again !"
"Mom !"
"You didn't go out at all this week. All you do is staring all day at your computer like a brainless idiot. We are very worried about you."
"Stop with that, I'm not an addict. It's not all day, it's several hours a day. And why would I go out when it has been pouring all week ?"
"What about your cousin ?"
"I'm not cousing Geoffrey, I know what I'm doing ! It's not the same thing at all ! He used to skip classes to play Counter Strike, and then it was WOW. Totally different."
"It's worrisome and unhealthy. No matter what you say, we'll see a therapist. And we will cut the wifi after 6PM."
"Dad !"
"We won't change our mind. Now go to bed !"

Oriane was fed up with this situation. Girls at her school were superficial and uninteresting. She had friends, she met them in karate classes and they were all older than her. Her in-game friends were older than her too. Granny was even acting motherly with her. They wanted to meet each other in real life but her parents were totally against it. She hadn't talk to them about her wife, she knew they wouldn't understand. She wished she knew someone like her in real life. She was intelligent, highly cultivated, always funny and never taking herself seriously...

I'm not an addict, she thought. Nor a geek. Nor a no-life. I have friends, I go to the cinema with them, to museums, to long walks in town. How can they be so blind ? There is this boy at school that I like but we never talk of deep things and he doesn't take me seriously. Moreover, he is always with his male chauvinist friends. I'm not a frail girl in despair, nor a tomboy. Is it so hard to believe ?

Art :

Nini by grim

Credit

The MMORPG Oriane plays is Dofus (it's a disastrous one but the characters are funny).

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