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Shrimpo started his morning at 6:00 a.m. when every other toon wasn't awake as usual, trying his best to avoid everyone. He took his breakfast in the fridge and immediately went back to his room, planning to stay in there for the whole. He had been doing the same routine for almost 2 years, only leaving during Ichor Operation hours.
This lifestyle began after a couple years of Gardenview shutting down. Originally, he had continued his raging personality from the show, screaming and blaming everything at the toons every time he went for operation runs. But after a while, the burning fire in his body started to fade away as he started to realise how useless all of that was. He knew that playing the 'bully' role was another thing he was forced to be even after the shut down.
He hated a lot of things, maybe even everything, but the thing he HATED the most, was the whole place itself. For some unknown reason, his physical abilities become weak when he goes for runs (I mean, he could punch through walls whenever he felt like doing such). He thought it was because of all the energy used to scream at everyone, but even when alone, it was still as terrible.
That first realization made him hate everything and everyone even more. He didn't know what or who was causing this, but it could be anything! It would slowly start a chain reaction of finding out more secrets. What shocked him the most was that the whole operation was just another show that only he didn't know. It only took him to crawl in the vents (because Yatta stole his bricks) to eavesdrop on the Main Toons discussion about the show. It made him feel as if he was just a joke to everyone, the Toons and the fans.
After finding out, he started to talk (or scream) less towards other toons, avoided operation runs and began isolating himself. The other toons only prepared necessities for him everyday after realizing his sudden isolation. They didn't mind his sudden change of behaviour (since he doesn't scream at them anymore) so they completely brushed it off as just a weird occurrence.
Now all that he does is eat, swim and surf on the Internet using the 2000s PC he got as a hand-me-down from Boxten (a while after he started isolating himself). He likes to swim, no doubt, but it gets very repetitive and boring if he's only swimming in the same tank with nothing in it other than water everyday. So surfing the Internet is what he would usually do. He would either search up anything related to Gardenview (now called "Dandy's World" on the Internet for some reason) or anything he found interesting. When he finally found the platform used to show these operations, he discovered the other toons apparently had the ability to communicate with their fans.
He decided today he wanted to look at the comments of the recent set of 'episodes' of "Dandy's World" (the name just doesn't roll with his tongue).
"OMG GOOD THING THEY ENDED THE RUN BEFORE MY FAV GLISTEN DIED!!! 😆😆😆", a fan commented on one in which Glisten replied back. "Oh thank you, wonderful fan. I could've gone longer if it was for a Twisted Goob at the floor were on."
He scrolled down to see the other comments made.
"V33 IZ S0 C00L 0_o BE5T T00N 3VAA!!"
"mid ep 😐"
"Twisted Pebble is soooo annoying bruhh.."
"ASTRO X SHELLY MENTIONED! 🌙💖🐚"
Although he finds it questionable on why children these days are more interested with seeing cute characters put in horrific situations (or why they were so into making romantic relationships between two Toons), he wouldn't even care less since he can't even do anything about the Ichor Operation and anything related to it. But one particular comment that garnered a lot of likes and replies caught his attention.
"wheres shrimpo? its been years since weve seen that guy appear. absolutely funny character."
"ughhhh... I hate my life.", he told himself, pissed people agreed that he was funny.