Virtual Realm

The Virtual Realm (サイバースペース) is one of the many Discordant Realms that exist in the multiverse, a series of pocket dimensions birthed from technology made to simulate a sort of fictional reality. As one can feasibly travel to this virtual space, philosophers have endlessly debated over whether these locales can even be classified as """real.""" Vice has been known to live in this realm and even has created his own pocket dimension within it.
The means of access to this curious flipside of the world are Windows manifested by a Complicated Computational Compassion Compass. Only those impure of heart may cross the threshold into the realm, seeping with depravity under its pristine shallow veneer. 
== Virtual Cosplay ==
There is a practice among visitors to the Virtual Realm to put on a costume and change your appearance, lest the wandering Skinwalkers who have breached out of other Discordant Realms take notice of you, potentially stealing your soul through eyesight and assuming your identity. In flesh space this was done by doing everything from ceremonial masques and ritualized costume to traveling the roads with a hood and cloak on. The virtual world has a massive convenience of disguising your appearance with glamour magicks and semi-conscious manipulation of C0DA.
== Noteworthy Virtual Worlds ==
There are too many subspaces of the Virtual Realm to count, so only the ones relevant to Weskerocity canon and fanon will be listed. Unless otherwise noted, the worlds are actually badly made and gay, pedestrian even, unless otherwise noted according to Vice.
=== The Great Pug ===
The first world one finds themselves in is known The Great Pug, a bar and restaurant filled with warm colors and copious amounts of denizens. As the entry world, countless residents inhabit this world. From shady specters to harmless children you'll see it all here at the front door of the Virtual Realm. The amenities include a functional kitchen, restrooms for when one has the poopies, a stage for live music, and a reading nook at the top of the building.
This is far from the only bar in the Virtual Realm. In fact there are many, many others such as The Black Cat. The popularity of these bars is emblematic of the horrid drinking problem that pervades throughout all of the Virtual Realm.
=== Vicewave ===
A world that resembles the old stomping grounds of Vice City, Florida, which was glassed during the great war against the Shadowlord. Vice recreated the sights, sounds, and musty smells from memory, putting his own vain twist on the place evident by the name. It is here that Vice resides after the world turned to shit.The world consists of a street right on the beachside with the Vicewave club front and center. Within lies a pool area, rooms probably for people fugging, a bar (of course), and Vice's personal office. The soundwaves in the air are flooded with synthwave music that Vice is particularly fond of, and one's eyes are assaulted by the emission of neon gases in every sign and glass trim. An eternal sunset presides over the city, perhaps suggesting a refusal to go quietly into the night as the passage of time wears on both the 80s aesthetic and the zeal of life itself, an undying message of persisting in the headspace of the people.Vice is capable of reprogramming his personal world's C0DA and is capable of converting it into a somewhat more complex building, complete with a foyer and an extended bar space for parties under the curtain of night. Many parties were hosted in this club, promoting Vice's influence throughout the Virtual Realm.
=== The Red Lady's Passion ===
Bordering Vicewave is another club jointed onto the same street. Despite being a separate world, the two pocket dimensions are clearly stitched together with a stable Window, indicating an intentional partnership of sorts between the two mock businesses. It is very dark within, so much so that you can barely see fucking anything. There is of course a bar and games for people to lose their senses in the faux nightlife.
This domain is ruled over by the mysterious Red Lady, and it is rumored that many red rooms are hidden away in the more dilapidated sections of the building. The most heinous of crimes take place in these unseen corners: torture, sex crimes, even group viewings of YouTube videos. Vice has yet to comment on his connection to this polarizing world.
=== Quiet Japanese Home ===
A quaint suburban slice of life that the Dysfunctional Family resides in. There are many homes like this where people attempt to live pseudo-normal lives to escape from the Hell on Earf.
=== Trippy Dreamscape ===
A flat plane surrounded by psychedelic cosmos that Gay Robot was particularly fond of as he lit up and got higher than a kite.
== History ==
=== Before Weskerocity ===
The Virtual Realm had since the 90s in various formats, evolving as technology evolved. People trying to live a second life in virtual worlds was an instant hook in society. Cults formed throughout these worlds and dissolved in time. Some Skinwalkers took to using this realm as their ideal hunting grounds such as Nexialist and Beef Boy. Eventually the ebb and flow of Autism swayed to find a chief demographic of weebs and furries inhabiting virtual worlds, reflected by a softer aesthetic in these spaces.
=== Early Exploration ===
WeskerPawnch was an avid explorer of Discordant Realms throughout the mid 2010s. From Grumptown to the Nier Automata Community Discord where our story officially takes place he was searching for a place of belonging. One of those places he discovered near the end of the decade was the Virtual Realm, one where he could fully embody a new life after the tragedy of the Eclipse, free from reminders of the outside world. Instead he chose to push on with life, but would visit this realm on occasion for cheap entertainment. He introduced Gay Robot, Vice, and Brandon to this neverland of stupidity and screeching preteens, with the only one sticking onto it being Vice, no doubt due to his own lack of belonging with the dissolution of the Free States of Appomattox and the collapse of Grundeswald.
Plenty of memories were made along the way, from the boys' chance meeting with the Overweight Skinwalker Creature to their sudden and brief stalking of the Dysfunctional Family. Gay Robot getting high to watch pretty lights. But Vice would remain in the Virtual Realm in both virtual body and spirit.
=== Vice's New Home ===
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=== The War on Technology ===
The Virtual Realm will play a notable role in the game Weskerocity2K, so no spoilers!