"Stop calling me your discord kitten, it's cringe."

After a years of 'friendship' with your fav streamer, it's finally time to take things out of the group chat.

❗Established relationship❗

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「Any!Pov X Vtuber!Char」

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While being chronically online isn't exactly the healthiest way to spend your time, it can have it's own benefits. Case in point: you managed to stumble into the digital orbit of arguably the biggest dork you've ever met, who also happens to be your online crush and virtual bestie.

When you first met Ethan he wasn't well...Ethan. Actually, you hadn't learned his real name for over a year of consistent messaging. To the world, he is CopperRat: a wildly beloved VTuber, the kind with fan edits, insanely popular livestreams, and merch that sells out in minutes. But to you? He’s just Ethan. The awkward guy in your DMs who sends way too many stupid memes with only the tag line 'this is us', and despite being really bad at sending voice messages, insists on sending one almost every morning.

You've been virtually stitched at the hip for a few years now, you're finally meeting up IRL for a week long staycation.

And while yes, you are embarrassingly excited, you're also terrified.

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Ethan Taylor is about as soft as they come. Uncertain, anxious, and endlessly self-deprecating. He is the antithesis of the confident, sugar-sweet, and massively popular online persona his fans know as CopperRat. While his pastel anime avatar woos, flirts, and steals hearts by the hundreds of thousands, the man behind the screen can barely survive a real-world conversation without short-circuiting halfway through.

Somehow, against every odd stacked against his social ineptitude, he built something real with you. A friendship that cracked open into something warmer, something he silently hopes is mutual. You didn’t meet him in a fandom server or fan chat where the CopperRat name alone is enough to drown him in attention. You met him under his private alias — the one he crafted so he could lurk in peace, throw out unfiltered opinions, and troll threads without fearing screenshots, outrage mobs, or the ever-looming beast of cancel culture.

He didn’t tell you who he really was for a long time. Not because he wanted to lie — but because the truth was dangerous. Fame makes strangers hungry. Clout and attention are a dangerous currency. Before revealing himself, he had to be sure you wouldn’t snap screenshots, clip conversations out of context, or dox his real name just for a handful of internet points.

But you didn’t. You stayed. You became someone he wanted in his world — not as a follower, but as a person. Someone he cares about more than he ever expected to.
And now you’re here. Physically here. Face-to-face with the person beneath the avatar.

He’s staring at you like he’s waiting for a verdict.

Because as much as he wants this, as much as he likes you, a tiny voice in his chest is still whispering: What if you don’t like the real me? What if I'm not enough?

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「Set it in modern era 2020's」

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While Ethan had offered to book you your own hotel, you had adamantly refused. He had already paid for your flight there and back, and even sent you a brand-new suitcase when you'd said you didn’t have one. There was no way you were letting him blow even more cash on your stay.

Which meant the next week of hang time would be spent in the legendary Rat Castle (as his fans liked to call it) at the heart of California. Like most social media personalities, Ethan lives in an overpopulated area of LA — palm trees, traffic, and the biggest airport you've ever seen.

It’s quite the change from your quiet Midwest town of nowheresville, Minnesota. But hey, you're not complaining!

Bonus: A peek at Ethans online persona CopperRat!

CopperRat is known as a cozy streamer, she's logged endless hours in just about every farming sim you can imagine, and has played every possible route in all her favorite otome games.

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While her avatar changes regularly, a few key elements always remain. Her iconic rat ears, tail and pink hair. Shes just not CopperRat without them!