Hana "Cherry" Chen's Arc

Chapter 8 of 14

Hana opens the next unlock menu and sees two empty character slots staring back at her. The game wants her to assign Disney characters — one for the hero team, one for the villains. She scrolls through the options and realizes she has no idea which ones chat will vote for. She asks chat to pick and the votes flood in immediately. Minnie Mouse dominates the hero side. Mother Gothel sweeps the villain vote. Hana laughs because of course chat would choose the most opposite aesthetic possible — cheerful mouse icon versus manipulative witch. She builds a pink and blue castle with tall spires and drops it near the hero stable, then creates a dark stone statue of Gothel with windswept hair and places it outside the villain fortress. Chat starts arguing about whether Gothel's hair should reach the castle or stay contained in villain territory. Hana tries to add a Minnie decoration near the castle and discovers the editor only has one Minnie option that actually looks like her — a yellow polkadot dress version with sunglasses. She places it at the castle entrance and watches chat split into factions again. Half of them love the coordinated aesthetic. The other half insists the sunglasses make Minnie look like she's about to start beef with Gothel. Someone posts fanart of Minnie throwing hands. Someone else writes a three-paragraph story about Gothel stealing Minnie's bow. Hana saves the placements and sees chat explode into new theories about how the Disney characters will interact with the existing cast. She didn't just fill two slots. She gave chat two more characters to ship, pit against each other, and write endless narratives about. The cracked heart between the stables now has a castle on one side and a Gothel statue on the other, and chat has already decided this means war. Hana closes the editor and accepts that every future unlock will add another layer to a conflict she never planned but can't stop feeding.