Chapter 181: Too Easy
Once the title card faded away, the scene cut to the fake Sunny living out his mundane life. It was... quite normal. He went to school, lived in a decent household, and did other stuff a teenager would do.
Sunny thought it was strange that they were calling him a sixteen year old when he had only been thirteen when he got infected by the Spell, as well as the fact that his fictional parents seemed to not have any presence in the movie, but he ignored it.
The fake Sunny was... very bland. The only traits that could be found was that he was excessively average in everything and lacked talent, while desiring a more exciting life. He had no friends — which was an uncannily accurate representation, even if it was for completely different reasons — somehow lived a middle class lifestyle despite having no parents to mention, and considered himself to be a background character.
’What a loser.’
"What a loser."
Sunny nodded, thankful that Seele voiced his thoughts... perfectly? Could she read minds?
"Yeah... wait, I’m nothing like that bastard!"
Seele snickered as Sunny shouted in outrage.
Suddenly, the actor just... went to sleep. There wasn’t any build up until the fake Sunny was infected by the Nightmare Spell. No drowsiness, no loss of sleep, or any sudden detachment from the real world. It looked like whoever wrote this movie didn’t really care about realism.
In the Nightmare, the fake Sunny had an Aspect called Shadow Champion, and took the role of a knight under the Lord of Darkness... whoever that was. Sunny doubted that there was anyone in the Dream Realm’s history with such a ridiculous name.
It looked like he was going on an expedition with a few other forgettable characters conjured by the Nightmare as they faced hordes of Nightmare Creatures. At the end, fake Sunny faced a Dormant Demon and killed it with his bare fists... somehow? Sunny didn’t think it was possible to kill a Dormant Nightmare Creature in such a manner as an Aspirant. After all, there weren’t any Aspect Abilities, and he doubted that any Attributes could turn a practically mundane human into a battle-hardened warrior.