Virtual Neverland

**Virtual Neverland** is the virtual online space created by the fairies following their exodus back to Earth. In stream reality after the rise of Nijisanji, it is merged into, and eventually becomes synonymous with, the Virtual World.

## History

For centuries, fairies resided in Heaven in a region known as Neverland. When the Belief Power of the fairies began to run out, God decided to repurpose Neverland and kicked the fairies out of their home in a fairy exile. The fairies were forced to settle back on Earth and return to their ancestral home, the Fairy Forest. However, because Fairy Forest had been redistributed all around the world at this point, the fairies themselves were split all across the world with it.

The fairies, seeking unity once more, found an answer to their problems of how to remain in contact with one another in the then new technology of the internet. Becoming early adopters, fairy engineers quickly learned how to use it and eventually created an internet of their own to exist parallel to the internet of the humans. This para-internet quickly became known as Virtual Neverland. It consisted at first of just chat windows and basic websites, but advanced as internet technology advanced.

By 2020, Virtual Neverland was a full on virtual reality experience fairies could join by wearing special VR headsets. Thanks to Virtual Neverland, fairies often had internet even deep into the woods of Fairy Forest so no fairy was left behind. That said, fairies were wary of using the human internet more than they had to, with the ones who did considering themselves "cultured fairies" who often warned other fairies about following a similar path. In Story Reality, after the veil was lifted, Virtual Neverland was merged into and became a part of the main internet where humans and fairies could interact easily.

In Stream Reality, when Nijisanji was first emerging, they allowed Virtual Neverland to also be subsumed into the larger framework of NIJISANJI SYSTEM. They did so because Virtual Neverland had all the right frameworks and settings already present that Nijisanji desired so all they needed to do was get the fairy's permission to import it all into NIJISANJI SYSTEM. In the process, it merged with the Virtual World creating the final version of the Virtual World. When this occurred, Virtual Neverland became the home of all Vtubers (or at least their virtual avatars).

## Characteristics

In the 1990s when it was first set up, Virtual Neverland consisted mainly of chatrooms and text only websites where fairies could chat and post blogs about their lives (yes, fairies blogged before it was cool!) This was a simple enough method for fairies to remain in touch. Of course, as internet and digital technology advanced, so did Virtual Neverland. In fact, due to the ingenuity of the fairy engineers who had built it, it advanced faster than the human internet did.

In 2020, Virtual Neverland was a full scale VR environment consisting of a single green island on a large oceanic planet. Fairies could put on VR and no matter where they were in the world, they could all interact with each other just like they did when they were in Neverland before their exile. While parts of Neverland acted as their inspiration behind Virtual Neverland's environment, enough of Virtual Neverland was made differently to Neverland to give it its own unique spin and also to avoid reminding fairies of what they lost.