Cheer Kid

Session #63: Mystery Skulls

Session #71: Haunted Fred Myers

**Cheer Kid** is one of the first minor antagonists that the Archive players have encountered, Informed through text roleplay, mentioned several times over the course of two months. Warnings given by their Overseer, Vesper, with general dislike and her own team member, Absolute, but defended heavily by Jimmy. During the Halloween Event, it was revealed that he is the Lesser Aspect of Addiction thanks to Christopher Vasquez, God of Friendship and Ingenuity.

## Background

Majority of what is known about Cheer Kid and his origins was revealed by Murphy's team (Vesper, Jimmy, and Absolute) all on different occasions. An addict picked up on a mission as a joke who quickly became the resident healer of that team with a rather addictive personality. Described as a monster by Absolute, and a gaslighter who stabs at emotional wounds and drugs others only to blame it on the fact he's a recovering addict once sobered up. This apparently having gone on for ten years.

Despite these details, several characters, including Jimmy chose to stick around, be it because of the gaslighting and normal manipulation, as thought by Vesper and Absolute, or something more sinister. The man seeming to create as many connections and cards to pull from so to speak (such as hacking to join private group chats) including Florence, one of our Players.

It wasn't before long Halloween was coming up, and Cheer himself promised to be on his best behavior on Halloween or he will be dealing with a kick from The King of The Underworld, his Overseer, Murphy.

## Halloween Event

The party's first interaction and encounter with Cheer Kid in a voice session, and it being the group gathered up in their costumes on Halloween, portal being opened up by Vesper dressed as Ruby Rose (RWBY), Absolute as ???, and himself as the Once-ler. The portal opens up and quickly the group splits off into groups to see all the events and more.

The group that ends up with Cheer being Mutt and Florence, along with Jimmy.

They set up at one of Jimmy's food stands manned by Kyle, and meet Dave Strider, who seems to hold dislike towards Cheer Kid, it ends with Florence shaking the hand of Cheer, and Mutt, noticing the tenseness, trying to sense what is going on, only to get pulled in by Cheer and both of them becoming ADDICTED to the man. Mutt is unsettled by this weird trust, Florence, unbothered by it, Dave, however quickly leaves the scene. Vriska joins only for a moment, then leaves. Soon Alexander Varias, and his daughter Bailey enter the scene, not staying long, leaving rather quickly to take a sleeping toddler to bed, and coming in his place being the God of Friendship and Ingenuity himself.

Cheer dislikes it, but is quickly scolded by Jimmy and quickly, a fight among them all ensues.

Christopher noticing the warped friendships he has with the people in the area and snapping that band, making Mutt, Florence, and Jimmy as well realize something was making them like Cheer. He quickly reveals to everyone that Cheer Kid is in fact the Lesser Aspect of Addiction, and those who are Aspects, transform, that being during this time only Florence and Cheer here.

The battle ends rather quickly, before it even starts, Cheer about to take a pill ~~and everyone dies~~ only for it to get shot out of his hand by Vesper, speaking of time travel.

Cheer leaves the scene taking his corpse friend who seemed aware of his abilities already, and the Halloween event ends here in an emotional scene.

## Current Status

As of recently and now, *Session #38: Jax and Dexter 2*, Cheer has made a small come back when one of our players, PRISM, rolled wild magic and ended up meeting face to face with The Lesser Aspect of Addiction. An exchange happens that ends with the wild magic sorcerer taking what was presumed to be a normal metaserum only to be with hit with the facts after the dosage that if he doesn't keep taking them, by buying them from Cheer, he will deal with severer withdrawals, and will loose said power on top of gettin ADDICTED to Cheer. It being the same metaserum and drug from *Session #30: Marvel*, or at least similar to it.

Of course, the team doesn't know of this, but thanks to the effects of PRISM being high for a while, and a rather on guard character when it comes to any sort of drugs after being addicted once, and the keen eye of of Florence who recently gotten under the influence of Eldritch. The healer of the Team tries to help, and his brother Nicolai looks over PRISM's phone when he throws it, but, upon looking at PRISM's phone, as attempted once by Nicolai, results with the knowledge if those words are looked at, he will permanently die. Phone is dropped, and the dread and memory is blocked to protect the psyche. Later, a deal is attempted after Florence threatens to reveal his association with Cheer kid, it back fires, and it leads to Prism loosing that trait because of Lady Luck. He reveals it to Alexander when he in turn lets Mutt know.

Alexander holds PRISM's phone for him, and soon gets text messages from Cheer.

Despite being aware of Cheer not being a good person, being ADDICTED to Cheer, and being told about him from Lady Luck herself, PRISM continues to interactions when he asks for his phone back and no longer suffering withdrawals. On Christmas, receives a gift from Cheer Kid and that being a Felimiliar who PRISM named Gill, when Cheer attempted to convince him to name the feline after what Florence is afraid of, Flügel.

For a while during this, Alexander gets text messages from Cheer, and an attempt is made to try and manipulate the too friendly Dark Elf and gain some ledge when it came to trying to the Eldritch Issues, but it's prevented thanks to Mutt who had informed him of his assumptions of PRISM being associated and Amelian Koester. Eventually, interactions with Cheer and Alexander come to a stop.