The Other Firefly

March 25 2024

I was in the entrance of the hotel room, where I found a scrapbook.

I opened it and saw various photos inside. Each one had the image of the same girl: She had blue hair. She even wore a blue jacket with purple stripes on it. Her art style bears a resemblance to the Scott Pilgrim series. Dream logic told me she was my friend. Her name was MA11 or something, but eventually changed to something else.

The most notable thing about her was her eyes. They were a mixture of blue, green, and pink. There were no highlights. She had faint rings for irises as well.

There was one notable photo of her, which was her in the middle of a tropical forest. It was clear it was a screenshot from the Pokemon Sun & Moon anime, because Ash Ketchum can be seen in the background if you look hard enough.

I flipped through many photos of her, and I saw a familiar picture:

I woke up this morning, and quietly wept.

Why?

Last night, I was playing Honkai Star Rail when I finally managed to beat the Nightmare Beast (Thanks as usual, Sampo! 😎). Thanks to the assistance of two special women, I managed to progress smoothly in the dreamscape. When I finally caught up to my good friend Firefly, the Nightmare beast showed up again and impaled her right in front of my eyes! I was the most emotionally upsetting thing I ever witnessed in a mobile game, because she was the kind of person I would protect with my life. By the time I'm typing this, I'm pretty sure she's dead.

So when I saw the last page of the scrapbook, I was convinced the blue-haired girl was basically a reincarnation/spiritual successor of Firefly. If I can't save her from fading away from existence, then I will do anything I can to preserve proof that she indeed did.