To make up for missing an update, I decided to make a nice and long chapter. I'm gonna be diving into the story that lead me here in the first place. If you don't want to read all about my cringy Gacha history then that's fine, though it kinda defeats the purpose of the long chapter.

(Btw this started all the way back when I was 7 or 8 years old and I'm almost 13 and a half years old so some of the info is just a fuzzy memory)

So all of this started back in 2018 (at least I think, it could be 2019) when I first discovered Gacha Life music videos on YouTube. This is the very first one I've ever watched.

I thought that this was freaking emotional and I even cried the first time I saw it. Now compare this to an hour long voice acted Gacha Club movie or even a simple 1-3 minute fandom Gacha Club video. (I'm gagging from the cringe, help me!)

The first gacha game that mom put on my computer for me(I didn't have a phone yet) was Gachaverse, and I think it's an old game and it got deleted because I can't find it anywhere anymore. The first thing I did was make an OC of myself as a gacha, and this was when my hair was cut up to a little higher than my shoulders(I think at least?) and I had a red streak in my hair. I can only remake these OCs in Gacha Club since I can't find Gachaverse and I don't have enough space on my phone for Gacha Life.

I kept the first design of my OC for a while before changing her again to who you know as the Blue Basenji(originally named Gacha Bel because I was a basic, unoriginal and cringe little sh*t). The first Gacha story that I made in 2020 was called "Nature's Spirits" because I couldn't think of a good name. I usually think about the storyline and then create the name based off of it. But it was simply made up of 6 cringy Gachaverse music videos so it didn't have the best storyline(the songs' names in the order that I used them were Dynasty, Saints, Darkside, Birds, Devils Don't Fly and Ignite).

The characters had the dumbest names too. The main characters' names were literally just Fire Spirit and Ice Spirit.

(No image of Ice Spirit)

The thing is, I know that this isn't her correct colour palette(Or even her correct design. I was checking for spelling errors after finishing the chapter and saw that I forgot to give Fire Spirit wings and a tail but I'm too lazy to fix it now TwT). I'm gonna have to see if I can find the story again on my computer because I can't exactly remember(once the damn screen cable is found). This story was supposed to be based off me and an ex bestie of mine, Crystal. Ice Spirit represented Crystal and Fire Spirit represented me because I thought that we were soul sisters and would always find our way back to each other

(I was full of sh*t, okay!? T^T).

I thought I did wonderful for a while, but overtime, I couldn't help but notice how I put so many errors in the damn thing while being too lazy to fix them and it started to p*ss me off every time I watched the story.

And then I started noticing every every little unfixed error and every frame that didn't match up correctly with the music in other Gacha videos such as the one shown above. A while later, mom let me get Gacha Life on her phone(it took me forever to figure out that Gacha stories can't be made on a computer) so I could actually make Gacha videos with the Gacha Life app because incase you didn't know, Gachaverse is pretty much Gacha Life, but with less options for everything and there is no life mode or games mode. At first I tried making my own Darkside, Saints, Devils Don't Fly video, but due to not having a video editing app I couldn't make videos so I stopped. I can only remember one character and it was a boy called Allister who was white like snow but his eye colour changed corresponding to his emotions.

Once I got a video editing/making app, I made other Gacha Life characters and decided to actually create a storyline with a Roar music video at the end of it.

It was a story about a little hybrid girl named Ella who was left at a stranger's house along with a note by her mom who was being hunted by scientists. Fortunately the stranger was the kindest person in the neighborhood, Cassidy.

Cassidy even helped a homeless woman named Beatrice who was abused by her ex boyfriend before getting kicked out. I can't remember much of it, all I remember are those parts of the story and that in the Roar music video, Ella would reveal her true self at a school talent show and use her hidden power to release the hybrid part of everyone.

I decided to make only Cassidy and Beatrice because I can't remember Ella's design.

(Once again, wrong colour palette for Cassidy. I'll work on that)

(Eventually ended up deleting that too because I got lazy)

I wanted to stay away from Gacha Club because I thought it was way too advanced, but I eventually decided to try it out(this was after I got a phone).

This next part is where the path to today really started...

In the beginning of 2021, I started making a story about a human-tiger hybrid girl named who lived with her grandma and built a sanctuary for hybrids who need a place to stay while living out of the reach of scientists. It was also about a half demon half angel(based off an OC I made of Crystal) who was brought to the living world and spawned in the center of the sanctuary after getting caught in the midst of a serious fight between her parents. I once again lost motivation and didn't continue it. Though part of the story I imagined in my head was that Naomi would get help from the other hybrids to become the most powerful creature all humans has ever seen while fighting the scientists alongside the demon-angel because her grandma was killed by scientists. I started thinking of how I could remake it and I discovered My Inner Demons and it inspired me. I started to think of all sorts of ideas and came up with a story called "The Guardian". Like "The Hybrid"("The Hybrid" was the name of the original story with Naomi), but a bit more like My Inner Demons. I really took a liking towards the character Noi and started just imagining what it would be like if My Inner Demons was merged with The Guardian. I soon was imagining animated music videos and That's where The Universal Guardian and Crossovers' plot all started. I thought it would be fun to make Minecraft series where Naomi is in control of the entirety of existence, like a lot of universes and realms all in one single pocket that Naomi controls. Like an entire dimension...

Picturing Noi and Naomi as siblings inspired me to also give her siblings in the series. Jaxx is Naomi's younger brother and is based off of Noi. Their younger sis is named Elayne, but in a certain part of the story where she disguises herself as someone else she's just Ellie. Elayne is based off of another ex bestie of mine, Drew. Y'all already know who Zaxx is based off of. I eventually scrapped the music video series idea because I found it cringe and started thinking of a proper storyline. One idea lead to another, and another idea lead to another and another and another and another and another. That's just how my brain works, okay? I like watching My Story Animated videos and in a certain video was where I discovered Wattpad(I found it in June 2021). I eventually decided to make an account in November and read a bunch of stories. By then a bunch of ideas were whirling around in my head and this was around the time where I had OCs that were phantoms. (one of me, one of Drew and one of mom) I read a bunch of stories for a while and eventually managed to settle with a basic Gacha Club design for myself and started writing a book originally named "Spirit Talkers". The first chapter was just about asking you guys about whether my OC should be a galaxy demon, an elven princess, a witch or my zodiac sign. Certain people may also remember this from when I was still a new writer.

Bel The New Writer...

We've come far, haven't we?