Blizzard Boyz Anime Club conflict of 2020

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**The Blizzard Boyz Anime Club conflict of 2020** was a grand historical war that sparked from major members of both factions slowly descending into madness and tensions went up until a war broke out. During the war, both factions were at each other's throats, eventually this lead to *The Reckoning*, a devastating battle that resulted in the destruction of majority of the infrastructure of Anime Club. When the conflict ended in 2021, the *Blizzard Boyz* member that was involved with Anime Club affairs had officially resigned, no longer thinking they were fit for their position after sparking the war.

## Background of Factions

### Blizzard Boyz

***The Blizzard Boyz*** faction was a bit of a mess, but a prosperous faction. A lot of infrastructure that wasn't used, and some other infrastructure that was used often, even daily. The faction had a lot of citizens within their faction, but most sadly weren't as active as the core members. These core members would be the most powerful members in *Blizzard Boyz*, they would be considered as the political leaders of the faction that is *Blizzard Boyz*. The faction had many roles and labels available for every member of *Blizzard Boyz*, some titles can be given to one's self, others more so given to another as an honor, or joke, it depends.

### Anime Club

***The Anime Club*** faction was also a mess, but a different kind of mess. The club was lead by leaders that had tensions between each other and their conflicts affected the entire faction. Infrastructure was decent and their population wasn't as big as *Blizzard Boyz*, but most of their citizens were active. Members that joined this faction typically were very loud and touchy, some members were more problematic than others.

## Events leading up to the spark

### Anime Club board of executives and leaders tensions

There was tension between the leaders and executives of *Anime Club*. The people in power consisted of the two presidents, Sharku and Ginger, the vice president, Shadow, and the secretary of everything, who was *The Stage Rat* at the time. There was also the former president, Sappho, who was pushed out of power completely by the two current presidents.

Prior to the existence of two presidents for one faction, there was only one president, Sappho, then two vice presidents, Sharku and Ginger. The leaders didn't work together well, Sappho took their faction seriously and upheld members to a high standard. Sappho also started changing their alias at the time, no longer identifying as their former self. Sharku didn't take the faction seriously, he always came off as unsettling or creepy by many members. Ginger was very quiet, often width drawn herself from conflicts or any important leadership discussions.

#### The election that started the tension

The SpecFic faction was a much bigger faction compared to the Anime Club faction, it was equivalent in size to the *Blizzard Boyz* faction at the time. Around early 2019 was the held election for new board members for the *SpecFic* faction. The candidates for president were Sappho, Serotonin, and Slimne, The Stage Rat was the only one running for vice president, only *Parasect* was running for Dungeon Master, and only Sharku ran for secretary. When Sappho ran for president, she promised if she won that Sharku and Ginger would be declared presidents of the *Anime Club faction*. The two agreed to the deal. Active members of the *Anime Club faction* like Shadow and The Stage Rat, who were honorary members of the faction that had little under leadership permissions, were told about the deal too. Shadow was very supportive of Sappho for this deal, but The Stage Rat was unsure and decided to vote against Sappho.

The results of the election were that Parasect was elected as Dungeon Master, Sharku as the *(sexy)* secretary, The Stage Rat as vice president, and as for president, Slimne was elected. Serotonin was happy for Slimne, she congratulated him on his victory, but as for Sappho, they were quite upset. Privately, Sappho was confronted by Sharku about the deal, despite the loss, Sharku wanted to be president of the *Anime Club* faction. Sappho didn't want to give up their leadership but they were forced to by Sharku threatening to release blackmail he had gathered relating to Sappho's alias change. Leadership was given to Sharku, then Ginger, then the two were on top.

#### 2019 Leadership

The new leadership for the *Anime Club* faction was well put together, on the surface. There was the two presidents that were polar opposites of each other, then the vice president that was the mediator, and the secretary that kept everything on track whilst giving needed ideas, working as the creative director, and the law/rule enforcer. Under the surface, the group of leaders weren't okay. All weren't declared as leaders equally, as well as the balance of power and responsibilities. The Stage Rat felt like he was contributing a lot to the faction, yet she felt as if they were invisible. Both Sharku and Shadow was overshadowing *(ha)* Ginger's role as president, since Ginger was so distant, there was typically only Sharku to lead as president. Shadow essentially became the new president because of how active he was in the faction.

#### The Tones incident

Tones was a member of the *Anime Club* faction for short time, they seemed to be an odd ball in the club, which says a lot of the lad's character if they're the odd ball in a place like the *Anime Club* faction. Tones was good friends with Sharku, who soon influenced Sharku greatly. Tones interacted with many people, mainly those who appeared feminine to him. One of those people ended up being The Stage Rat. They interacted with Tones and later Tones asked the Rat to go out with him, Tones stated that the relationship could even 'allow cheating'. The Stage Rat didn't like Tones that way, so he declined and started becoming more distant from him.

Tones had made many members in the faction feel uncomfortable, not just from the controversial statements he would say sometimes, it would also be through how he acts. Acts which consisted of being uncomfortably close to others, and presumably, inappropriate touching. Later, The Stage Rat was pulled along with many other folks in the Anime Club faction to be asked about Tones' actions. Accounts of sexual harassment have been given by many members, and due to the overwhelming complaints of Tones' actions, Tones was banned from the faction. But, Tones' legacy lives on in a quite morbid way.

### 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic

***The Covid-19 Pandemic*** hit all factions harshly, most factions losing members to the plague, either by death or members leaving to hide. Other factions died off because all members and leaders abandoned their faction. The *Blizzard Boyz* faction was still remaining strong, it might of became more active over 2020 even due to members staying inside and their infrastructure being based on remote interactions. The *SpecFic* faction and *Anime Club* faction weren't too lucky, *SpecFic* became abandoned, most members hiding away from the plague. The *Anime Club* faction started using more remote means of communication and interaction. Due to the lack of knowledge of this new remote technology from most of the leadership board, many issues popped up related to the new infrastructure being built on a poor foundation, thus leaving holes in their security based infrastructure.

The Stage Rat was decently well versed in the more remote infrastructure, so they had helped the leaders put together most of the required pieces. Along with the remote infrastructure, the rest of the leadership members were introduced to the concept of titles being added to one, establishing their power and status. So, the Anime Club faction started using that system to establish the hierarchy of power for the leadership members. The two presidents in power, then vice president, then secretary and honorary faction members, then regular faction members.

### Power Imbalance

There was a severe power imbalance within the board of executive for the *Anime Club* faction. Ginger as co-president was barely contributing, she was basically absent from the faction altogether. As for Sharku, he was too busy with 'other affaires' to lead the faction. This leaves Shadow and The Stage Rat to essentially lead the faction, along with one of the former co-presidents of the *SpecFic* faction, Alec, who did their best to guide the young lower leaders. Alec sadly disappeared mysteriously after a month and a half of giving advice to Shadow and The Stage Rat, Sharku's explanation for this was that 'Alec got too busy with receiving a higher education'.

Now it was left to The Stage Rat and Shadow to lead the faction by themselves. Due to the two presidents typically leading the faction and rarely giving lower leaders a change to lead before becoming a remote faction, the two lower leaders have little to no leadership experience to work with. The Stage Rat did receive opportunities to lead in the *SpecFic* faction as vice president, but was too anxious to attempt to lead alongside Shadow. The Stage Rat remained behind the scenes, upkeeping the now remote *Anime Club* faction as well as making sure regular members feel included by interacting with them. He felt her role as *'secretary'* was an underwhelming title, as well as that title's power being equivalent to the rarely active honorary members, incorrectly describing the contributions they were giving. But, The Stage Rat didn't protest since they had other responsibilities to tend to anyway. The honorary members were rarely active due to their lack of experience with existing in a remote faction. Leaving mainly Shadow to be the acting president, with no one else to keep him in check.

### Tension between Shadow and The Stage Rat

The two lower leaders knew each other for almost their entire lives. The two were best friends when they were very young, but sadly the pair started to grow apart. It was mainly The Stage Rat growing more distance from Shadow since they were working hard on getting out of their lower status within the location the two resided in. The Stage Rat proceeded to climb the ranks and became one of the *'smart'* folks, essentially earning a higher status. Shadow remained in his own lower status, satisfied with where he is. He continued to interact with The Stage Rat, despite The Stage Rat giving him the cold shoulder many times. Shadow only interpreted that as The Stage Rat 'going through an emo phase', and continued to pester him. Of course, she didn't like this pestering, so The Stage Rat snapped back constantly. They even talked shit behind Shadow's back, always putting him down. Their connection remained this way for a long time, The Stage Rat being cold and distant and Shadow constantly joking and pestering them, thinking they're just *'going through a phase'*.

### Shadow's claim of having DID

Shadow at one point claimed he had **DID** or **Dissociative Identity Disorder**, which was a claim that wasn't taken seriously. This was due to Shadow self diagnosing himself, claiming he named his other personalities 'Brain', 'Hope', and 'Darkness', and claiming he can switch between these personalities. These claims were very similar to the *Sanders Sides* series where *Thomas Sanders* had different personalities he would speak with. Of course, everyone within the *Anime Club* faction didn't take him seriously, and proceeded to tease him. The Stage Rat was very prominent in the teasing, which isn't surprising to many other members knowing Shadow's account of them being known as 'cold and aloof'.

This claim of Shadow having **DID** became very problematic really quickly, no one knew how he might act one moment compared to another. Along with that, he used this claimed disorder to his advantage, taking advantage of regular members in the faction behind closed doors. After a while, The Stage Rat began poking at Shadow, attempting to get him to 'switch personalities' and tease him more. This resulted in The Stage Rat learning at some point that Shadow's 'Darkness' personality had a crush on The Stage Rat. This was off-putting to the Rat, and when Shadow was confronted with this information later, he denied it ever being the case. Leading to The Stage Rat thinking Shadow is using **DID** as a coverup for when his confessions go wrong.

### The Stage Rat coming out

The Stage Rat prior to the *Covid-19 Pandemic* ignored and denied any questions relating to the Rat possibly being a lesbian. It was only until the Pandemic and all factions and locations had to become remote, he had the time to think and reflect. They questioned their sexual orientation and decided to conduct a somewhat flawed social experiment. She decided to claim that they got a girlfriend during the pandemic, but denied being a lesbian. This social experiment lasted for months, oddly enough, all members of the Anime Club faction completely believed the Rat, without question.

The Stage Rat quite surprised to learn that if he were to tell others that she was in a relationship, those people would believe it. The Rat couldn't believe that they would ever get a girlfriend in the future, leading to them thinking the Anime Club faction was naive and had a flawed view on the Rat's chances in getting into a relationship. Later, The Stage Rat had finally come to terms with their identity and first came out to two of their best friends at 3 AM on June 1st, 2020, ironically the first day of Pride Month. He was given a very nonchalant response, but it was exactly what she needed, it calmed their mind knowing nothing would change based on this new identity.

## Event that started the Conflict

### Coming out to the Anime Club faction

The Stage Rat would come out to the *Anime Club* faction, which all members accepted with open arms. But, some were somewhat forceful on their declared acceptance, some members saying '*it's about time*' and '*finally*'. Shadow was oddly happy about The Stage Rat coming out, since the Rat learned that 'Darkness' had a crush on them. This would later prove to be a mistake, since The Stage Rat was in a very fragile state, not fully accepting their new identity yet. Many members, especially Shadow, were very pushy in telling the Rat to 'accept for who they truly are'. It would become this objectification that the Rat wouldn't like, they would become defined by their orientation and be placed on this pedestal to be viewed as a '*gay trophy*'.

The Stage Rat's mind deteriorated from lack of socialization, stress, frequent nightmares, and lack of sleep. They started to snap back at members more aggressively, their tone was more harsh, and he starts to lash out on leadership members. She didn't communicate her distress to any of the other leadership members of the *Anime Club* faction, it is still unknown why. Eventually, the Rat had reached a breaking point and starting performing these '*pranks*' on faction members, with the assistance of members of the *Blizzard Boyz* faction.

## Major events during the war

### The Stage Rat's decent into madness

The Stage Rat descended into madness around September of 2020, when they would be too terrified to sleep at night in fear that he would get a nightmare. So, she resisted sleep, instead read a comic called *Homestuck* until the morning hours. The lack of sleep was the source of her irritability and *Homestuck* the source of the Rat's plots of shenanigans.

#### The way the Rat typed

The Rat's typing style changed from their usual way of typing to different typing quirks that referenced different *Homestuck* characters. It started small with The Stage Rat changing how they typed and how they spoke. They typed in a somewhat unreadable way and always spoke in this self-deprecating tone, occasionally speaking in a pretentious tone. One very often used style was a typing quirk of *Erisolsprite*, which consisted of 'Doubles V's, W's, and I's while speaking, replaces the letter S with 2...', the text appeared like this:

It was purposely chosen because it was a typing quirk that was hard to read and decipher when not well acquainted with this amount of substitution.

#### Promoting Geromy

**Geromy** was a character in a knock off *Homestuck* comic called *Homosuck*, this was a character that would jumpstart the adjective to be assigned to future infiltrators, which was *'New Friend*'. Geromy was spammed constantly by The Stage Rat, and they constantly praised how awesome the character was. These occurrences would scare members and Shadow into thinking the Rat was intoxicated. One of the members of the *Anime Club* faction knew it was a reference, and told the others that The Stage Rat isn't intoxicated. This still left members of the faction concerned for what's to come from the Rat who has lost their mind.

### The Mimic Members

***The Mimic Members*** are fake members of the *Anime Club* faction that The Stage Rat would smuggle and sneak in to agitate the members. They thought of it as another social experiment, wanting to see what would happen if these Mimic Members arrived and say very weird and outlandish statements. Later, the Rat foraged fake IDs and invites for access in the *Anime Club* faction for her friends from the *Blizzard Boyz* faction to enter and say really idiotic statements. These Mimic Members would have the adjective*'New Friend*' before their names as part as a joke relating to Geromy. Members of the faction were okay with this at first, but started to become suspicious of the Rat's intensions when this would become more common.

More and more Mimic Members would arrive and do weird role-plays and send odd messages, like Russian insults relating to farming. Shadow confronted The Stage Rat about these incidents, and with the help of members of the *Blizzard Boyz*, they were successful in gaslighting Shadow. The Stage Rat more members of the *Blizzard Boyz* faction to continue this social experiment, or as the other members would call it '*a little bit of trolling'*. The commotion within the faction relating to these Mimics have caused some distant members of the *Anime Club* faction to look out their windows and watch. As more incidents of '*New Friends*' keep appearing, The Stage Rat got the idea to conduct a massive break in with many Mimic Members, similar to a trojan horse. The poor security in the infrastructure would certainly make it possible. So, the Rat started planning her invasion in between her cries for help.

### Tim and The Betrayal

Tim was a vital member in the war, for both factions. He helped the *Blizzard Boyz* faction in planning and giving ideas, as well as keeping Shadow away from the Rat's plans. This was the case for a while, he would watch from afar as the '*New Friend*' members did their thing. But, one day Tim had betrayed the *Blizzard Boyz* faction. He had joined the *Anime Club* faction and was immediately questioned by members and Shadow if he truly wanted to join their faction. The members skepticism was warranted, since Tim revealed the Rat's plans to bring a '*war*' with a trojan horse and all.

The Stage Rat starts freaking out, not knowing what to do. But, the *Blizzard Boyz* members step in to help, Gear, Parasect, and Serenade help coach the Rat on manipulation, deceit, and gaslighting everyone. This was where the Channel Tim Can't See was made, to ensure he can't see or hear what the rest of the members are planning. The Stage Rat was communicated by each member on what to say, and the group was successful in fooling everyone into thinking that Tim was the culprit. Tim was then pinned as a traitor, and he was banished from the groups plans relating to the war. After his banishment, the *Anime Club* faction increased their security, fake IDs and foraged invites are easily seen as fakes.

The events of Tim being a asset in the war efforts for the *Blizzard Boyz* faction along with the betrayal were recorded in the form of images. Images that are quite difficult to look at for long periods of time and quite cryptic at times.

### Fake Rat switcheroo

Before the betrayal of Tim, there was a plan proposed to swap out The Stage Rat for a Mimic Member that looks and acts exactly like him. The Rat didn't think it was possible to do a clean switch where the members of the *Anime Club* faction wouldn't become suspicious. It was only until Tim was banished from both the *Blizzard Boyz* and *Anime Club* factions the group could successfully switch in the fake Rat. Leaders of the *Anime Club* faction were so convinced that The Stage Rat was innocent, that they think their ID was infected or hacked, so they urged them to get a new one. It was at that point, they were able to switch in the fake Rat. The fake Rat didn't do anything special, it was just now this new ID gave other members in the war access to *Anime Club*.

### What is the Rat saying

What kind of statements that The Stage Rat was saying ranged from funny to cryptic to very concerning. Of course, the Rat '*shitposted*' about Geromy and Homestuck characters, but they've also said very deep and concerning things. These worrisome statements consisted of The Stage Rat's feelings towards relationships, life, and human purpose. There's also the Rat's stating that they've been having frequent nightmares and feelings of worthlessness and impending doom. They were self-deprecating in their vents and has said that they wanted to get heavily intoxicated so they could sleep and go through time faster.

After Shadow was notified by Tim about the plans for a war, he took every statement the Rat said as a joke; even the concerning statements. The Stage Rat was using the Erisolsprite typing quirk, typing about how her poor sleep schedule had made him realize how stupid they were. Shadow stated that the Rat was stupid and worthless, and that he will win this war that the Rat was attempting to push for. That solidified their thinking that maybe they were as idiotic, ridiculous, and worthless as he thought she was, perhaps they were truly the lowest, most unintelligent scum of the Earth. Who knows really.

Along with the Rat's depressing statements relating to their sad thoughts, they also gave ominous messages relating to a coming event that would occur. This event would later be called *The Reckoning*, The Stage Rat predicted the event to happen around late December. Though the date was vague, Shadow took it seriously.

### Private building for the Trojan Horse

There was an isolated located made just to create more Mimic Members, each of these mimics referencing a *Homestuck* character. There were at least 25 Mimics created for the trojan horse, there may have been more but documentation of such is quite unreliable. With all of these Mimics, along with the other members helping the Rat who are the *Puppet Masters*, and The Stage Rat as the *Ring Master*, the invasion of the *Anime Club* faction would be glorious. All the Puppet Masters were instructed to do was to say stupid jokes, and only that; the Puppet Masters agreed to this plan. Building was complete prior to the date they intended to invade, which was set as December 31st, but another date was in mind for the Rat.

### Farewell Letter V1

During the planning of creating the trojan horse, The Stage Rat had been writing this emotion-filled letter to the *Anime Club* faction. It was meant to be read after the invasion. The letter contained the Rat's feelings towards the *Anime Club* faction and why they had decided to leave, since they intended to leave the faction after the invasion. The main points they said in their letter to why they were unhappy within the faction was that they felt underappreciated, mistreated, and unheard. They felt like they couldn't have fun with jokes since members view it as 'out of character' for the Rat. She also felt like he did so much for the faction but received very little compensation. On top of that, he felt like she was treated like an object instead of a person when they came out, they felt pushed to accept her orientation right away when he wasn't ready to accept it yet. The letter was pretty clear that the Rat was blaming Shadow for most of these issues they've stated. This letter was then packaged away until *The Reckoning*.

### Final Warnings

The Stage Rat continued to manically say cryptic things about '*the end being near*', '*The Reckoning will come*', and they continued on about how terrible they were. A lot of these destressed statements consisted of the Rat talking about how much they were a bad person, they were a lower lifeform, not even human and shouldn't be treated as such. Of course, these self-deprecating statements were not looked into further, simply dismissed as random statements. With these manic sayings, the Rat was predicting a terrible fate, how a great event will happen. Even images predicting such a large event were created, it is unknown that the *Anime Club* faction had seen these images.

The last few bits of '*trolling'* that the Rat would pathetically spew was them promoting Mayor, a well beloved character in *Homestuck*. Of course, Shadow took it as Mayor will be a foot soldier in a coming '*war*'. The Stage Rat says Mayor isn't a threat, but Shadow isn't taking it. So, that was the last of the bits the Rat would say, and they remained mainly quiet for a while.

#### Christmas Day

The *Anime Club* faction was celebrating the holidays, members were wondering about a potential faction meeting. Leadership members decided against a meeting since everyone would be busy with Christmas related festivities. It was this moment, the Rat that is the *Ring Master*, knew when to strike. The Stage Rat had informed the Puppet Masters of the new invasion date, and all agreed. Later that night, at precisely **1:00 AM, December 26th, 2020**, the trojan horse with its Puppet Masters and Ring Master will be invading the faction.

## The Reckoning

***The Reckoning*** was this major event that ended the *Blizzard Boyz Anime Club conflict of 2020*, it consists of the group infiltrating with the trojan horse with mimics, many jokes said, and a cryptic story reflecting The Stage Rat's poor mindset.

### Moments leading to The Reckoning

After finding the faulty infrastructure of the leadership buildings, members have found a way to infiltrate the entire faction. So, they've ensured the hole was never plugged, and made sure they've gotten all of their Mimic '*New Friends*' together. The Puppet Masters and the Ring Master were each given communication devices, to ensure that everyone can coordinate group jokes and japes. The Puppet Masters prepared their own bits and funny images to send when the time came.

The Stage Rat proof read their *Farewell Letter* and prepared to send it after *The Reckoning*. They had also prepared their own bit, but it was less of a bit and more of a cryptic speech spoken through a *Homestuck* character called *Doc Scratch*. Doc Scratch would act as this story teller and messenger to the opposing faction in a quite cryptic manner about how the *Anime Club* faction had negatively affected The Stage Rat.

Time was ticking down, everyone had readied up and all have firm control over their puppet strings. Once the clock struck midnight, the trojan horse was released and the Mimic Members that were '*New Friends*' swarmed the leadership building, then flooded the streets of the *Anime Club* faction.

#### During The Reckoning

During the Reckoning, the Puppet Masters brought all their tricks and jokes and released all at once. The Ring Master that was the Rat was enveloped in the chaos, sleeping members immediately woke up to the noise and Shadow's screams for it all to stop. The Stage Rat thought...

> "He expected and partially wanted a war, so I'm giving him what he wanted." - The Stage Rat
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More jokes were tossed around, more images and quotes were shown and said. As this was occurring, Shadow couldn't stop all of them, there were too many. So, he started self-destructing each building, many homes and communal buildings were burnt down, all their histories now gone. With each removal of each building, the Mimics started to leave one by one. But, there were a few Mimics that stayed back, they were funneled into one singular building they had access too, which was Shadow's home.

As each of the buildings were being burnt to the ground, The Stage Rat started their story in the midst of the chaos. They were most likely not heard by anyone, which is quite normal, the Rat was used to it. But at the very least, they wanted to tell this story, a story of a young kid who gave everything to something they cared deeply about. But, this kid was given nothing in returned, in fact they were even mistreated at times. So, the kid lashed out, until they left for good, never to be seen ever again.

Once Doc Scratch was finished with his story, he gave the *Farewell Letter V1* and left. Leaving the Gamzee Mimic, his final message to all was simply '*Honk*'. All that remained standing was the leadership building and Shadow's home. By the end of the thirty minutes of chaos that was brought, the *Blizzard Boyz* faction had retreated back to base to rest. As for the *Anime Club* faction, they had to rebuild what was burnt down.

## The Conflict fallout

### The next morning

By the next morning, Alec suddenly came back and had helped rebuild and improve the infrastructure of the *Anime Club* faction. It was also at this time, The Stage Rat created a new Farewell Letter, which is referred to as *Farewell Letter V2*.

#### Farewell Letter V2

**The V2 letter** was simply an apology to bringing so much chaos the previous night. The letter was more calm and collected, since the Rat was in a more calm state. They didn't ask for faction membership, they didn't ask for forgiveness, they just wanted to apologize for how they've been acting for the past few months. They've recognized that what they've done was shitty and they were sorry. They've even stated in the letter that they weren't completely mad at Shadow, they just wanted him to improve himself. The Rat wished to still leave the faction and gives all the best of luck.

After the second letter was sent, and The Stage Rat's friend pushing for the leadership board to read them, the Rat was confronted about what had transpired the night before. Luckily, they weren't in deep trouble to ruin their record, they were just asked to give their account of the story. They did and they were left alone. More members of the *Anime Club* faction reached out to the Rat, those being Duality and Shadow. Duality was a pretty quiet member of the faction who didn't interact with others much, they asked the Rat some questions relating to what happened during *The Reckoning* and if they're okay. The Rat answered truthfully and Duality wished them luck and that they will always be there for the Rat.

Shadow confronted The Stage Rat about the letter, and he apologized for his actions and how he upset them. The Stage Rat was surprised to hear that Shadow wasn't pissed or angrily asking a bunch of questions. Shadow just forgave the Rat right then and there, yet the Rat was reluctant to accept his apology. They state that they need some time and that the both of them shouldn't be friends anymore. Shadow respects this choice and leaves the Rat be.

### The Anime Club faction rebuilt

The faction was rebuilt and had new security to ensure something like that doesn't happen again. The Rat had a friend on the inside that help keep them updated on the situation around the Anime Club faction. At the time, the server was rebuilt with better infrastructure and security, on top of that, there were new policies put in place. These policies being related to the actions of others, specifically that members shouldn't bully other members. The Rat wasn't that surprised about those kinds of policies being enacted considering what happened to her. But, that didn't matter since he was now an ex member of the Anime Club faction, forever an outsider and will be known for bringing chaos.

### Reunion with former members

Few years later, the Rat had met up with former members of the Anime Club faction, either out of obligation or because they so happen to be in the same place. Each encounter has their own story to tell, to show how the person had progressed through life.

#### Duality

Duality talked to the Rat again after a few years being away from each other. They were finally able to have a conversation about the events that occurred during the Blizzard Boyz Anime Club Conflict of 2020 since the Rat was a technician/actor for the musical theater showcase and Duality was one of the performers for one of the acts. The two talked while the performances went on and caught up, it was a pleasant conversation. When the Rat asked about the state of the Anime Club faction after they left Duality told them that the faction essentially died after he left. The Rat was surprised at that statement, Duality states that it was her that kept the faction together and active too.

The Rat also asked Duality if anyone in the server hated them after the Conflict, but Duality said that no one hated him at the time. It was because the faction members understood why the Rat was so angry and were forgiving and held no grudge against her. This was a surprising point that the Rat didn't believed, but it was true. Then the scene that Duality had to perform in was coming up soon, so the two had to part ways. The two left off on a positive note.

#### Shadow

Shadow and the Rat had to interact occasionally due to them being board members for the Spec Fic faction. The two often avoided each other, and had small talk but never had a meaningful conversation since the Conflict. It was until their final year of high school they've finally had a meaningful conversation relating to Pokemon. Then the Stage Rat finally asked Shadow if he was angry with them for what he caused back in the Anime Club faction. Shadow states that he wasn't angry, he realized that what he did back then was quite bad and had understood why the Rat had broke. The two made up and though the two are still no longer friends, they're now on good terms. The two wished each other luck for the future and they've moved on.

#### Sharku

The Rat and Sharku had interacted a few times, but other than that, after the Conflict, the two stopped talking to each other altogether. Later, Shadow and Duality came to the Rat and the rest of the Spec Fic faction leaders about Sharku and his actions. They've reported about his creepy behavior and that he had sexually assaulted Duality, several women in the Anime Club faction, and his own little sister. The faction leaders were rightfully disturbed and advised the two to report this to the higher ups to have further action done. Sharku was promptly removed from the Spec Fic leadership board, and he was never heard from again since he was expelled.

#### Ginger

The Rat had lost all contact with Ginger since the Conflict. Her whereabouts are still unknown to this day.

### The downfall of the Anime Club faction

As time went on, more and more people left the faction since slowly more members that were more loud and obnoxious occupied the faction. This shift in members had slowly caused the decrease in members and leadership members. By the time most of the Spec Fic faction leaders, especially the Rat, had left, the Anime Club faction was no more.

### Growth of the Blizzard Boyz faction

The Blizzard Boyz faction had grown since the Conflict, more members and more friends made. They've had a few new crucial members added to the group and had forever changed the group's dynamic for the best. Along with that, some of the members had even found company in each other and started a serious relationship since some members had grown close with each other. Other members had gone through rough events and had found comfort and support in Blizzard Boyz. The faction had flourished since the Blizzard Boyz Anime Club Conflict of 2020.

1. ↑ This statement, of course, is flawed, but remains up as a piece of history.
2. ↑ https://mspaintadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Erisolsprite