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◈ I Stream as a Hobby ◈
Chapter 16: Stream Break
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[Wayo in Pawnworld today lmao]
(A pawn doing nothing but research at the settlement)
Upvote if this cracks you up every time lmao
-fr lmaoooo
-Just stands there watching even when enemies invade lol
ㄴ That’s all part of What lol
ㄴ It’s What lol
ㄴ What’s What?
ㄴ Wayo -> waeyo -> what
ㄴ ?? Waeyo means why, dumbass
ㄴ That’s all part of What
[Wayo’s pawn traits]
(A trait panel showing Eccentric Genius, Noncombatant, Recluse, and more)
Seriously a perfect fit
-Wow, how did she even lol
-Can’t believe she found one exactly like herself lmaooo
-Doesn’t Noncombatant not fit, though?
ㄴ She’s a keyboard warrior, so it’s perfect yep
[Honestly, upvote if you like this guy more than Bro Seongwon lol]
(Nguyen in Wayo’s settlement)
Father Nguyen, the industrial hero who saved a dying settlement
-Seriously did everything himself
-Hard carried the whole thing
-Three wives too... The GOAT of all alpha males...
ㄴ On a whole different level from that beta male tin can with robot arms
ㄴ fr lmaooo
[But that game Wayo’s playing]
Isn’t it usually a game where you skin people? Looks kinda relaxing here
-Wayo just got lucky as fuck
ㄴ For real, the game bent over backward for her
-It did, but Wayo also followed a guide and played well
ㄴ And she’s amazing at combat for a start
ㄴ Combat’s the only thing this bitch is good at lol
-It’s all thanks to Father Nguyen
ㄴ For real, Father Nguyen did everything
[Watched Wayo’s stream for the first time yesterday]
Who’s Seongwon and why does she keep bringing him up?
Her pawn’s called Han Seongwon too
-It’s her boyfriend’s name
ㄴ ?? Seriously??
ㄴ Yep
-This guy doesn’t know Han Seongwon lmao
ㄴ Total newbie lol
ㄴ (So who is he? reaction sticker)
-You on a first-name basis with Bro Seongwon? That man nearly killed Wayo once
ㄴ Wayo Slayer, THE GREAT SEONGWON lmao
ㄴ That stream was seriously a funeral
ㄴ So who the fuck is he;;
[Breaking: Empress Wayo taking two weeks off]
Wayo dogs in shambles lmao
-Two weeks? Bet she’s going overseas with her boyfriend
ㄴ fr
ㄴ Fucking Seongwon;;
-??? Wayo’s taking a break?
ㄴ Says it’s next month
[February? That’s way too deliberate]
Guess her boyfriend’s semester starts in March
-Lmaooooo
-So that was it all along lol
-Is Wayo young enough to date a college student??
ㄴ Why not if she’s rich?
ㄴ Wayo’s a third-generation chaebol, so she can yep
ㄴ ?? Why would a third-generation chaebol become a VTuber?
ㄴ That’s why she’s Empress Wayo lol
[Official: “Wayodick”]
(An illustration of Wayo’s character)
-Upvoted lmaooo
-That fucking cartoon skin, seriously;;
ㄴ It’s pretty, why the hate??
ㄴ Lmaooooo
ㄴ Such fucking weeb shit, seriously;;
[The truth behind Wayo’s avatar]
(Wayo’s Live2D model)
This starts at ten million won minimum lmao
-?? That thing costs over ten million?
ㄴ Yep lol Wayo said so
ㄴ Wait, is she seriously some rich heiress??
-That’s what Wayo’s watch costs, why the hate?
ㄴ For real, it’s just the price of one watch yep
[But is Wayo actually going on vacation??]
Isn’t she just cramming all her work together because she’s been fucking around??
-fr lmaooo
-Does she even work a hundred days a year?
ㄴ She keeps saying she’s busy, but her streaming schedule rules out an office job
ㄴ Seriously, she stays up all night whenever she gets the chance
[So what the hell is Wayo’s main job??]
What kind of work keeps her busy in February and sends her on business trips at Christmas?
-She’s a director at a major company yep
ㄴ Is that true?
ㄴ What do you think??
-Seems like a freelancer
ㄴ That’s the safest bet
-We could make a guess if we at least knew what she majored in
ㄴ Did Wayo even graduate college??
ㄴ She says she only finished middle school
ㄴ Seriously??
ㄴ As if lol Listen to how she normally talks, she’s definitely a college graduate
[Wayo graduated college???]
(A clip of her charging to her death in Outwind)
(A clip of her getting solo killed, then yelling about the jungle diff)
This idiot went to college...?
-It is hard to believe lmaooo
-Lots of highly educated people switch their brains off
ㄴ For real, Wayo’s brain must be detachable
-She’s relieving stress on stream lol
[I don’t know about Wayo’s education]
But that mentor she mentions sometimes << definitely some fossil of a classical Chinese teacher
-fr lmaooo
-Her mentor’s got an insane batting average
ㄴ Seriously, seems like they only memorize the best quotes
* * *
Fashion shows.
They were important enough that it was hardly an exaggeration to say models spent the whole year preparing for that one event.
They were just as important to brands, serving as a stage to announce the image they planned to maintain for the next season.
Naturally, it wasn’t an unfamiliar stage for me.
Sure, I’d basically spent the past year taking a break from work, but how many years of experience did I have?
I’d done overseas fashion shows before, and this wasn’t my first contract with an international brand.
“So you’ll fly out on this date, and once you arrive in Paris...”
The meeting went smoothly too.
I’d cleared my schedule ahead of time, or simply avoided booking anything in the first place. I’d also done my best to prepare physically.
Of course, if Andel asked me to lose weight, I’d have to.
But there hadn’t been any comments so far, so that probably wouldn’t happen.
Anyway.
My main job was going very smoothly, just as you’d expect from Kim Ahyeon, a veteran model in her seventeenth year.
But something else wasn’t going so well.
“Hmm. What should I do?”
That was my work as Wayo, a little baby VTuber still in her first year.
[Free Princess Wayo!!]
[Are we seriously entering an ice age???]
[#WayoAgain]
Ever since I’d announced my streaming break, the message board had been full of people staging virtual sit-ins and making a fuss.
It was a pretty long break, after all.
Of course, my viewers probably understood that I had a main job and couldn’t help it.
But reason and emotion were two different things.
More than anything, they were complaining because they liked my streams.
Honestly, I felt bad, but there was nothing I could do.
I took streaming pretty seriously too, but modeling was my main job.
During fashion show season, I needed to be professional and give it my full attention.
Still...
“Hmm.”
I kept thinking about how much gloomier than usual my viewers had been at the news of my two-week break.
...They were people who regularly came to watch a tiny streamer like me.
For some of them, watching Wayo’s streams might be the only thing they looked forward to all day.
And I wasn’t taking just a day or two off, but two whole weeks. I could understand why they were a little upset.
That was why I was still worrying about it.
Wayo was a cold city woman whose MBTI results were nearly seventy percent T, with icy reason flowing through her veins instead of blood.
But she was warm toward her viewers.
“Roselia.”
“Hmm?”
“Have you ever done anything for a special occasion?”
After turning it over on my own, I asked Roselia.
We were on our way to the next meeting.
Driving the van casually with one hand, Roselia glanced at me through the rearview mirror.
“Are you dating someone, Ahyeon?”
“No. I’m thinking about something for my stream.”
“Right. I wasn’t expecting anything.”
...What was that supposed to mean?
Ignoring my raised eyebrows, Roselia looked back at the road and spoke.
“Hmm... I only know French-style ones.”
“Really?”
“Actually, I haven’t really done many in France, either.”
As she spoke, my eyes drifted to her arm.
Despite it being winter, Roselia was wearing short sleeves in the van, where the heater was blasting away. I could see the muscles in her forearm as she held the wheel.
...Who would look at that and think she was a mother in her forties?
It was like looking at a female athlete’s arm.
I had a feeling Jun would be skipping his rebellious phase.
For the record, Jun was Roselia’s ten-year-old son.
He was a quiet kid, but very cute.
He had the sort of face that would break plenty of girls’ hearts when he grew up.
“Oh, right.”
While I was lost in thought, looking at Roselia’s powerful arm, she smoothly turned the wheel and casually offered a suggestion.
“Valentine’s Day is coming up. Why not make some chocolates?”
“Huh?”
Valentine’s Day? Uh... Oh.
Come to think of it, it was coming up.
I’d forgotten such an important day.
“That’s a great idea.”
It was the perfect event for my pouting viewers.
* * *
Valentine’s Day.
Usually, it was that typical holiday when couples exchanged chocolates and everyone else was left out.
But things were different in the VTuber industry.
Valentine’s Day was already a big deal in anime and related subcultures, so viewers had their own romantic dreams about it.
And VTubers, who embodied all our otaku dreams, couldn’t possibly pass up the chance to hold an event.
Was this what people called giving back to the fans?
Making chocolates by hand and handing them out on Valentine’s Day had become something of a VTuber tradition.
Of course, the usual Wayo, an isolated island of a VTuber and a lone wolf, would’ve simply hit the Rift.
But with a two-week break coming up, I’d decided to join the trend just this once for my viewers.
“Why’d you call me over?”
However, cooking streams were full of danger.
Especially in a kitchen, where dangerous objects reflected light at every turn. Ladles and spoons, for example.
It might be fine for an ordinary VTuber, but I had another main job. And since an internet search would bring up my face, the risk was huge.
Imagine if my face accidentally appeared in a spoon.
These features of mine, which seemed to have passed some kind of singularity, would leave a strong impression on my viewers even through a spoon’s distorted reflection.
And that one impression would give internet users more than enough clues to find the photos of me scattered all over the web.
But I couldn’t exactly do a cooking stream without a camera.
So...
“My dear Aseong.”
“...What is it?”
It was time to put that younger sibling of mine to work.
The timing was perfect. Aseong had gotten into college and had nothing else to do, right?
“You know how to make Dubai chewy cookies, right?”
“No, how would I know...?”
“You’d better know.”
“...”
Even if Aseong didn’t know, it didn’t matter.
I’d be the supreme commander of that day’s stream anyway.
Footnotes:
The “What” replies deliberately botch a wordplay chain: Wayo sounds similar to waeyo, Korean for “why?” Someone translates it as “what,” and the others turn the mistake into part of the joke.
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