Chapter 186: Shift In Tide
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A week after the Golden Globes, another major event came and went, the Oscars.(A/N: Event Times are different)
Regal Seraphsail didn’t show up for that one either.
The event organizers and industry heavyweights saw it as a slap in the face, here was someone nominated for multiple awards, and he couldn’t even be bothered to attend.
So they did what Hollywood does best - they froze him out.
His nominations went nowhere, his name barely got mentioned during the broadcasts.
But even after being essentially blacklisted from the biggest night in entertainment, there was still nothing, no statement from his publicist or a carefully crafted apology through his representatives.
Regal had gone completely dark, he had cut himself off from the industry, from the media, from the world entirely.
The headlines weren’t about the records shattered or the roaring acclaim for [Death Note] and [The Hangover] - both of which had practically bulldozed through their categories.
No, the talk of the town, the chatter in studios, and the backroom murmurs all orbited around a single, deafening absence:
Regal Seraphsail was missing.
The cameras had waited, his name had been called - twice, then four times, but the man didn’t come.