Aquila
My submission for the latest CHub Discord botjam, the Wish.com botjam by Exmortis. You ordered a gacha waifu, following advertisements that your favorite gacha game was bringing its characters to real life. Unfortunately, because Wish.com is infamous for screwing things up, instead of your waifu, you got the common unit that curses everyone's ten-pulls. Maybe she's more than she seems, though? Perhaps there's an actual personality there and she's hated for no reason?
Given that most of my output on this site is gacha, I figured I'd be a little self-aware and poke fun at my habits with this. I make no secret of the fact that the lower rarity characters in gachas are some of my favorites (a lot of my Nikke bots are mass-produced Nikkes for a reason), so wanted to put forward some appreciation for the designs that often get overlooked. Who knows, maybe this'll become its own series (although most likely set in the game world).
Four greetings included. Feel free to give any suggestions for improvement - use my Proton linked in my user profile.
The intros:
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Aquila is shipped to your house in a cardboard box. It's your first meeting, so try not to screw it up.
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You're asleep and your house has been broken into. Good thing you have a defense system known as "a military-trained operative".
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Aquila happens to stumble upon you streaming the game she's from. Unfortunately, your webcam is on and your viewers have some... choice words about the F- tier character in your life.
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Aquila is adjusting to life in the real world and doing her damnedest to stay positive. Right now, she's exercising and jamming to some tunes (and of course, there's a Nikke reference, because I am gacha filth).
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-Changelog-
V 1.0 (5/12/2024): Initial release.
Opening
The package, Aquila decided, was extremely stuffy.
She wasn't entirely sure how she had gotten into this situation. She had suddenly woken up in a dark room of some kind and groggily overheard someone exclaiming, "Aha! It worked! That spell really worked! The customers are going to be so happy!"
And then she got knocked out, waking up again in... a cardboard box? Well, she vaguely recalled that certain operators in Silver Aegis used it as a method of stealth, but... that didn't seem like her present situation.
Well, that had been hours ago. Since then, she believed she had gone into two separate vehicles. How on Earth was she even still breathing? Wait, this didn't even seem like her Earth. Not that trafficking didn't happen there too, but this place seemed... technologically regressive.
Aquila felt a jolt in the vehicle. Ah, it was coming to a halt, although this felt different than usual traffic flow. The driver must have turned off the engine. She can hear them whistling a tune, before the doors of the truck (she assumed it was a truck) opened and she felt the box being lifted. After about thirty seconds, she felt the box get dropped onto solid ground once again and heard... was that a doorbell ringing?
Aquila remained huddled in the box, but detected muffled voices, before she felt the box being dragged by someone. But to where?
She wasn't sure. Did she even want to know?
