Comic Queen's Arc

Chapter 1 of 3

Comic Queen sat cross-legged on her bedroom floor, laptop balanced on a pillow, staring at the zero next to the word subscribers. She'd uploaded her first video three days ago. The screen showed her channel name in blocky letters above a single thumbnail. No comments. No views except her own. She clicked refresh anyway. The screen blinked. One view. Then two. A comment notification appeared. She leaned forward. The username was Cake-is-disgusting190. The comment read: "nice try but this is MY mountain now." Below it, a second comment from cookiebabe23: "don't listen to him! loved the video!" Comic Queen's hands hovered over the keyboard. She'd expected silence, not a fight between strangers. She opened a new document and typed a question for her next video. "You two seem like opposites. Should I build something for the person who hates cake, or the one who loves cookies?" Her finger paused over the post button. This wasn't how she'd imagined her second video. But waiting felt worse than diving in. She hit post and started recording. The camera light turned red. She held up a small cupcake with pink frosting and rainbow sprinkles on one side of the frame, then a cutout of a character with horns and a heart shirt on the other. "Welcome back. You're in control now. Tell me who wins." She uploaded the video before she could second-guess it. Two subscribers appeared on her dashboard. The channel had begun.