Finish Th3m: F@t@lity

[Erin Hackett]

Erin was hanging out in the student lounge with her PS4 and some of her video games, trying to be all social and play some video games with people. Really she wanted to go back and play games all alone in her room like usual but as her father kept telling her; try and make some friends. So what better game to try and make some friends with then Mortal Kombat. She even had the newest one, Mortal Kombat X and had two controls ready to play the game. It was a simple game that allowed you to get your frustration out and also have a bit of fun. Plus who didn't like a fatality cut-scene?

School was coming to a close with people working on finals or projects so there was a lot of stress in the air. Plus there was the whole prom thing that was around the corner to worry about; well Erin was not worried about prom. Not like anyone would ask her to it and if they did it was not like she would even go. It was a place full of people, you were supposed to dress up, dance, and well that whole idea that you got laid on your prom night. That would be an achievement that Erin did want to score a trophy for, but she was not trying to think about that too much.

"Umm...anyone..." Erin started to say but lost her nerve almost immediately as she looked around the room and saw a few people hanging out. You got this, just ask and if no one comes you can play by yourself. Simple. Erin told herself, trying to give herself a pep talk. "Anyone want to play some Mortal Kombat X with me?" Erin asked again, making sure to speak up so she could be heard this time, and of course she was already started to turn a little red.

[Kamillia Engel]

Kamillia had just finished up most of her studying for the day, because that had been a thing she had been avoiding for the past couple days. Sometimes she wished that she was one of those people that didn’t have to study, and was just smart on their own. However, that was not Kam, and she had a heck of a time remembering things that she really did need to remember. But now that was behind her for the moment, she needed to get out of her dorm and do something that was actually fun. Socializing was pretty fun for her, with the right people. The one place she could think of was the student lounge.

Coming into the student lounge she heard the girl ask for a gaming partner. Kam grinned, not many girls played games like Mortal Kombat, so that one thing kind of surprised her. It could be a good surprise, she might actually like this girl, or you know Kam could find her annoying… However, Kam was the type of person to give anything a try, this was no different, and she will try to be as nice as possible. “Sure! I’ll bite.” Maybe not the best way to response to an invitation, it was funny though. Walking over to the couch she tipped her head to the girl in a friendly way. “I haven’t gotten a chance to get this game, or even play it. But I’ve played all the other Mortal Kombat games.”

Sitting down, she looked at the girl, “If you don’t mind if I join.” She took the extra controller, if the girl did decide not to play with her, she will politely put it back. “I’m Kamillia by the way. Most people call me Kam though.” Somehow people said Kamillia was too long of a name to say all the time; which Kam didn’t understand at all. However, she didn’t care at all what someone called her by.

[Erin Hackett]

A girl spoke up for being game to join Erin in a bit of gaming. Why did it have to be a girl?! Of course Erin was not going to complain or anything because just talking at the moment was proving difficult. Erin kind of just stood there for a moment, mouth hanging open as he eyes drifted over the girl that spoke up and was coming closer. She was hot! Well most girls were hot, but the fact still remained that this girl was hot and she was up for playing video games with Erin. Why were there so many perfect girls here?

"I-it’s the best one yet. The PlayStation 4 really makes the fighting stand out, with the high definition everything. The details on each rip break, to how the brain fall to the ground and just the right balance of blood and gore." Erin said, managing to keep her voice normal and not stuttering as much. Okay, this was easy. If she was focused on the game then it was not that hard to talk to a pretty girl that totally said that she would bite. I would like that...focus Erin! Erin quickly scolded herself as the other girl sat down and introduced herself.

"Of course not...I asked after all, so yeah. That would be L33t." Erin said as she nodded several times and let the other girl take the spare controller. She cleared up her throat and debated offering out her hand when Kamillia gave her name. It was a unique name, pretty even. "I'm Hackett. Erin Hackett." Erin said, holding out her hand but then took it back and held tightly onto her own controller. "Would you prefer if I called you Kam or your full name?" Erin managed to ask as she started to look through the characters she wanted to play this round.

[Kamillia Engel]

Kamillia smiled at the girl as she looked at her. Well that was a little awkward. She chose to ignore the awkwardness of that moment. She really wasn’t used to that response to her. Maybe it was because the girl hadn’t expected another girl to want to game? Especially a game like mortal kobat; but she really couldn’t say, she didn’t have that many girl friends.

“blood and gore, My favorite.” She chuckled, she really didn’t mind either. She actually liked horror movies, well she preferred horror more than chick flicks. However, she did like a good chick flick; just don’t tell anyone. “Anyways, that does really sound amazing. Then again it amazes me that they can make any game look as well as they do now. “ Kamillia was starting to like this girl, she was cute, in that awkward shy type of way. “So you like the PlayStation better than xbox? Or was it just the station you grew up with?” Kam knew some people preferred one station more than the other, oh she knew all about that war. Yet, there were people that just grew up with one station and never switched; and then there were the people that didn’t care at all.


“Leet? What’s that?” Was that some knew slang word that Kam had yet to learn? Or was it a different language? “Erin, cute name.” She smiled at the girl, “Oh, my last name is Engel, if you were curious..” She wasn’t sure why Erin would be curious; she did give her own last name. At least Kamillia figured it was her last name. Kam was about to take Erin’s hand to shake, but the girl took to back; which was fine. “Oh, I don’t really care to be honest. Most of my friends call me Kam, if that helps?” Would it really though? “What character would you recommend?” She asked with curiosity as she watched Erin go through the characters.

[Erin Hackett]

A girl that was fine with a bit of gore and blood in a video game? This girl was after her heart! Okay, well she had already been after it the moment she agreed to play the game because who played Mortal Kombat and didn't know about just how gore and blood filled the game was. Even back when it was just an arcade game it always had the blood and gore. Now there were times that even Erin was not a fan of too much blood and gore, but that normally was when they just went unreal with it.

Like in one game she played a person's arm was torn off and somehow not only were the bleeding an insane amount, but they also apparently had organs in their arm. Now she was not big on all of the biology stuff but she was pretty sure you didn't have organs in your arms. "They just keep making them better. Getting realistic from the way things look to even how things looked when they are touched or stepped on." Erin quickly added before biting her lip a little. Don't get too excited, you will scare her off. Just ease into it, play it cool. You got this. Erin thought to herself, giving a tiny pep talk.

"Well they both have qualities that make them pretty good depending on the kind of game you are looking to play. I will admit that I play a bit more PlayStation then I do Xbox." Erin admitted. It was one of those topics that could spark a big debate and it still did on the internet. Erin was fine with both consoles, but if she had to pick it would probably be PlayStation because she had more games for it. Erin started to blush a little at the question, of course most people didn't speak L33t after all. "It basically means like really awesome, it’s uh...Leet Speak is what it called and its basically replacing letters with numbers and symbols. Depending how deep into ‘the speak’ you want to get." Erin explained, as she started to mess with the end of her shirt.

Erin could not even respond when the girl told her that she had a cute name, she just short of blushed a bit more and nodded her head several times. She then proceeded to check out for a moment as she thought of how the girl thought her name was cute and how she liked blood and gore, and how they were so perfect for one another. Okay, she was not thinking that far but she was thinking a lot about the girl and was only pulled out of her little fantasy by the question of what character to play. "Well I was going to play Scorpion...and I would recommend Sub-Zero if you had not played the game in a while, since he is awesome and uses a lot of moves that freeze you in place." Erin suggested as she already selected Scorpion.

[Kamillia Engel]

Kamillia like all types of blood and gore; Her favorites were with old time horror movies. The blood just looked so fake it made it better to watch. Now with videos games excessive blood and gore wasn’t all the different to her, she liked the fact that it might look too fake to look real, even if it was excessive. For her it just made a serious/scary game a lot less serious and scary.

Nodding along with the girl, “Oh yes, when I started playing dragon age inquisition I was thoroughly impressed with the way they made everything look realistic. I mean even the grass, and the way they put splattered blood on their faces.” Little details were nice. “But Mortal Kombat is like the best at making those small details; and making them look really good. I guess that’s why it’s so popular, because it’s so good. Even the older game’s fatality moves were pretty detailed.” Kamillia was pretty good at geeking out over things, the girl won’t scare her off unless she said one of the girl characters were fat and ugly.. Then she was out..

“You are right about that. I like both stations, I think the Playstation as always been more user friendly then the xbox though. But that’s the only thing I have to say about the difference.” She shrugged; Kam wasn’t really into the whole xbox vs PS war going on. She just wanted to play video games. Kam listen to the girl explain leet speak, then it kind of made sense. “Ohhh… Like how with the no hate movement they put H eight” Kam kind of hoped she got the basic of it. If not she guessed she was just going to sound like an idiot.

“Oh yeah. Sub-zero and scorpion were always the coolest characters.” She ran through the characters till she got to sub-zero and selected him. “There’s probably a lot of fanfiction of these two…” She chuckled, “Now only if I knew the combos.. So, how much more experience do you have with X than me?” of course, Kam and no experience, but she wondered how much the other girl had played this game.

[Erin Hackett]

Erin was more than stoked to hear that the girl played Dragon Age Inquisition, that game was absolutely beautiful. Erin was nodding her head a lot as the girl explained how just amazing the graphics were. Erin was a sucker for some good graphics, on top of the fact that they allowed you to make your own character in the world, it made it that much more easier to care about or feel something in a video game would that way.

At least that was Erin's personal opinion on the matter and she had a habit of scooping up all the games that had character customization in them. "Yeah, both games are really well detailed. They really bring out the potential of the PlayStation 4." Erin said in agreement. She would not deny she played more on that console then the Xbox 1, but they still each had things that made them good for gaming. It was so l33t to be able to geek out with another girl like this, Erin was already crushing on her for sure. How many girls did that make that she had a crush on now?

"Yeah, I have to agree with you there. Plus it’s been out longer and I feel like Xbox only really cares about it shooter games." Erin added to what the girl was saying. Still she would play on both systems but Sony and her computers tended to get a bit more attention. She then tried to explain l33t speak and the other girl seemed to get it for the most part. "Mmm...no I think that would be more so text talk. Text talk does that to make things shorted. Leet does it to be...well I would say different. Like you would turn an e into a three and an l into a one. Things like that. Then if you really want to get into you. You would say hate like..." Erin stopped and she pulled out her phone and typed it in before showing it to the girl.

|-|473

"That’s how hate would look in full out leet speak." Erin explained. It was odd to explain it to someone, odder that the other girl actually seemed to care enough to want to know. Or at least pretended to care. Erin then nodded in agreement at the girl’s statement of the coolest characters, they both were pretty cool. "Oh, you have no idea." Erin said, chuckling a little as she thought of just how much fan-fiction was out there for those two characters. "Oh umm...I forget what button to push, but it bring up the list of all the combos that you can bring up during a fight. As for my experience against you...I only played it a few times and not on this character so it should be pretty even in skills." Erin confessed. That was why she picked to play this character.

[Kamillia Engel]

Kammilia always had many reasons to love a game. It was just the way the girl's mind worked when she like something. It was the same when she diliked a game, she could pick out a lot of ways why she didn't like it, even if they were small. Graphics, game play, and story were three of the main things for her to like or dislike a game.

Character customization was a very fun part in any game that had it. Kam would spend hours in that part of the game to make everything perfect. Well perfect for her anyways, sometimes she would start the game and then have to make a new game because she didn't like how the character looked. That part was always frustrating To her. But she loved iteven so. " yeah, its pretty amazing how far we have come when it comes to graphics. And not even just in videos but in movies and tv shows as well."

" yeah xbox plays to first person shooter while playstation plays to adventure and rpg games. But they both do well with those types of games. I guess its a business stand point, they are both playing to different types of people." Which was compeletely fine, going back to how the game stations are both very good depending on what type of game you want to play. Kamillia chucklded,at herself mind you, " ah well I thought I would sound dumb. That acctually sounds pretty cool. it sounds kind of like morse code, just in a different format, kind of..." again she was kind of talking out of her ass. She had no clue what she was talking about Really.

Looking st the girl's phone, kam's eyes widden as she made out the word hate. "that is so cool! It really is like a code.. if you hadn't explained it to me I would not know what I was looking at. How did you learn, or well figure this out?" Kam really did think it was cool, cooler then anything she has ever seen. She rather text like that then then chat speak. Kam raised an eyebrow at Erin's fanfic comment. "Oh.. someone into fanfiction, interesting." Kam listened intently to her explain her experience. " oh well I'll just mash buttons till I figure things out. Andvi see, you are kindly lowering your IQ for this game just for me, I feel kind of special." She smiled aat the girl, she wasnt making fun, or being sarcastic. She truly found it nice that the other girl would go out of her way to play on Kam's level as much as she could. Not many people would do that.

[Erin Hackett]

Erin nodded her head a lot in agreement. She held back from gushing about the subject, because she didn't want to talk the girl’s ear off. True they could game and talk at the same time but she didn't want to end up talking too much. When she talked too much she ended up slipping up and saying things that were supposed to be inside thoughts. Everything was already going pretty well with this other girl; this Kamillia, and she didn't want to mess things up by letting it slip that she thought the girl was beautiful.

"Yeah, you hit the nail right on the head. I find it funny sometimes when the ones that are strictly one console go at it with one another." Erin said as she chuckled a little. She never got why people sometimes wanted to battle it out to which one was better. If someone was a hard core fan, you could say whatever you wanted and it was not going to change their mind. That was just the way the human mind worked. "You’re not dumb at all, I bet you are really smart. It is sort of like a code, if anything it just makes things a bit more complex but you know." Erin said as he tried to assure the girl of her intelligence.

She sort of chuckled in an embarrassing manner as she felt her face getting red again. It was still hard to get used to talking to a girl like this, with a conversation that she could go on and on about. Yet, it was perfect at the same time. She actually hated when there was that awkward silence between her and another person, so this was working out great. Erin was over the moon and out to Jupiter happy when the other girl said that it was cool. A girl that things L33t is cool! Match made in heaven! How did I have such luck?! Erin thought to herself, doing a little bit of internal screaming in the process.

"I actually taught myself. A guy my dad worked with used to write it all the time and I got frustrated that I didn't get it so worked hard and figured it out. Use it a lot when I'm on the computer and talking to those who get it." Erin admitted. She started to ideally play with the end of her shirt with one of her hands, keeping herself calm and awesome. Erin was pretty sure she was as red as her hair once again when the girl pointed out that she felt special that Erin was lowering herself to play on the same level as her.

"I would not really say it’s lowering my IQ, I have not played this person, you have not played it in a while, and I like to think that was fair. It's not a fun game if I'm just crushing you if your button smashing plan does not work. Right?" Erin said, stuttering a little bit and talking fast. She quickly hit random on the battle match for them to play and left it to Kam to pick the next one so they could start the game.