User blog:Gnomehunter/October Writing Challenge-Youtuber Tries MGE Roulette (Hinezumi)

Any resemblance that you see between the youtuber character featured in this story is coincidental and unintended. This character is simply an amalgamation of practices and behaviors that can be seen in a wide variety of youtubers, from their manner of speech to their (albeit necessary) habits of self promotion. He is definitely a bit of an exaggeration, meant to seem generic but characteristic of creators within the medium.

The premise of the monster girl roulette is taken directly from an idea by a user named Iron Beast, who's stories are or were at some point, located on pastebin.

Niko gave a big yawn and stretched his arms. It was the middle of the day, and he was ready to check out the newest upload from one of his favorite youtubers. He clicked on his subscription feed, and located the video. It was titled “I READ THE MONSTER GIRL ENCYCLOPEDIA??????” in all caps. The man running the channel himself was making the biggest youtuber pog face, hands on his cheeks and mouth agape in the stupidest surprise expression he could muster. But whatever, this was the direction that these people needed to take. And wait.

“Is he the first person to actually talk about that stuff on youtube?” He muttered to himself. He’d seen all sorts of chatter about it on the news and various socials, but there wasn’t actually anything about it on this site yet. Clicking on the video, it opened to a screen showing off the man himself, in his trademark sunglasses and a particularly iconic hat. Despite the young man showing up in camera for all of his videos, he was still partially secretive about his real identity. He never took off the sunglasses, nor had he ever revealed his real name. What’s more, he seemed to have done an impeccable job of scrubbing his personal data off the net, to the point where no one had even a clear look at his face. All they knew was the moniker he chose to go by…

“What is going on youtube it’s your boy Jojofan#68! Today I got a very special video for you but first, I should let you know about today’s sponsor! Squarespace is a website that lets you-” (his voice was cut off by an audible record scratch) “Aaah I’m just kidding! No one is going to sponsor this video! I don’t even think there’s a way to monetize it! But I don’t care! I’m going to bring y’all a video about a little game you might have heard about, that’s right it’s the Monster Girl Roulette! Hey, if you’re new to my channel, especially from this video, I wanna make a little request! Just scroll to the bottom of the screen, see that thumbs up button? Give that button a little tap! A gentle little tap! That’s right, just one is fine, and then why don’t you head on over to the subscribe button right next to it! Give that button a little smooch, we’re gonna be talking about smooches a lot today! Yeah, alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright! Let’s just get right into today’s topic! If you haven’t already heard, everybody and their mother, wait. Are mothers getting these emails? I need to figure that out! I think this topic might be a little unimportant to mothers, specifically. But I mean, most of us, have been getting...an email. From an unknown sender. But he calls himself the Blue Wizard. Funny little cartoon wizard who starts talking to you when you click the link. Hey! Why don’t I show you!”

He opened up an email program, the camera cutting out any details about his address, and moved to one of the most recent messages, below all the junk spam mail from stores and businesses and such. Clicking on it, he read the message allowed. “Dear reader, congratulations on receiving this message! With it contains a most wondrous opportunity for you to meet the girl of your dreams! Or at least, the girl of someone’s dreams! Click on the link to take you to the Monster Girl Roulette! Spin the wheel to receive a monster girl visitor from another world! With over 200 species of alluring and exotic women, all desperate for the company of a nice young man, you can't lose! If you’d like, you can also peruse your copy of the Monster Girl Encyclopedia, wish you should have received alongside your email. This book will give you detailed information about every single species of monster girls that exists, as well as a wealth of information about the world they come from! But be warned! There is no do-over or refusal for the roulette! The girls on this side are putting an equal amount of faith in whatever man they end up with, so you need to be prepared for whatever lovely lady comes your way! Good luck!”

“Damn. OK! That’s the challenge! Let me just…” He clicked on the link, which took him to an image of a stage with a spinning wheel on it. A button that read “spin the wheel!” with a text box next to it. “So I think this is going to be where you actually have to spin the wheel. Wow. I just want to click in and see what happens. But no! I’m going to wait a bit longer, because today…” He pulled up a large book from off camera, “Today we’re going to be reading a bit out of my encyclopedia! Look at this sucker!” The large, hardcover book had a brown cover, and it was clearly heavy with how many pages it had. It was embossed with what looked like gold lines and gold lettering for the title, and there was a picture of what looked like several unbelievably beautiful women. With...decidedly inhuman features. Like one who had green skin and seemed to be sitting in a flower. Or one woman who clearly had horns and wings. “Let’s take a look at this thing! Can you believe how nice it looks? Like I don’t know who was making these things, or how you even get the money for them all. Or how they’re sending them out to people. But hey, there’s like video clips from the news where they’re talking to people who’ve won, there was that guy with what looked like a big dog woman, or that guy with a girl who looked like she was made of water? Guys I don’t think it’s a hoax. But I’ll tell you what, I’m just going to flip through this book and I’ll see if I find anything interesting!” Cut. There was a picture of a woman who looked like she had hooves and furry legs like a cow. And a cowprint top. “Holstaur”, the page title read. “Oh, she’s got some big milkers there!” Cut. A picture of the green flower lady from the cover. “Al-ROWN? Al-rawn? Al-roon?” He tried to sound out the name. “Huh, well, I hear some people like to keep plants in the house. And some people have girlfriends. Now you have a girl who’s both!” Cut. “Slime toad”. “FROOOOOOOOGGGGGGGEEEEE” The man yelled, cutting away immediately to another page. “Angel”. “Oh! We found one for the good boys! Oh but be careful”, he flipped to another page, “Cause she could turn into a bad girl!” “Dark Angel”, the page read, showing off a similar girl to the previous page, except her white garments and feathered wings were black, and she had a nasty look on her face. Cut. “Mandragora”. A scared looking plant-like girl who’s legs tapered off into large fibrous roots. “You guys like feet? This is the best you’re going to get”. Cut. “Ok, I found the dog girl I was talking about”, he showed off a picture of an enormous woman with dog-like features, including dark fur all over her body, making a wide grin. “She’s nice, doesn’t really seem my type. I’m more of a cat person!” He flipped to another page, showing off a rather plain looking catgirl. “Werecat”. “This is what I’m talking about! Catgirls will not do you wrong! Uh, they actually have a few other more standard monsters you might recognize. Like uh, dragon, elf, centaur, vampire, which is like the hottest lady ever! Who wouldn’t like a scary goth lady to invite you to her castle? She can drink my blood any time she wants!” Cut. “Ok, guys, don’t look at the witch profile. Sorry, maybe people want a cute witch gf, but like. Look at the Dark Mage page instead. The witch is...uh, she looks a little on the younger side if you know what I mean”. Cut. “Ok, I found my waifu. “Jinko”. “I don’t know what this name means, but I want the bug tiger lady. Look at that beauty”. Cut. “Ok guys, I think that’s enough for today”, he tried to hold back his laughter. “I found a. The. I found the tentacle monster for ah, some of you. I’d rather not get this one. Don’t wanna think about where those tentacles could go”. The page showed what looked like a girl with green skin, except her lower body was practically made of multiple slimy tendrils of all kinds, Niko jumped when he saw the monster.

“Wow. That’s a little bit much for me too”.

“But hey!” Jojofan closed the book. “There’s like, 220 girls in this book, If there’s one you don’t like, let’s pull up a calculator, that’s .4%! There is such a small chance you’ll get any particular girl, I think it might be worth a try! But not today! No. Share this video with anyone who’s having doubts, and for my five million subscriber milestone, I’m going to try this roulette! I’ll see what I get! Alright, thanks for checking me out, remember to like, subscribe, and comment below which monster girl you’d like to get!” The video ended. Forty minutes? Niko hadn’t realized it had been that long. He got up and stretched. He had no idea what kind of monster he wanted. It was almost a little scary thinking about it. It still almost seemed too good to be true. Who would believe that all these monster girls were real, or that they’d be happy with whatever guy they ended up with? He shrugged. Maybe he’d wait until the next video. Jojofan was already up to, like, four million nine hundred thousand subscribers. It could come out tomorrow.

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It took one week. One week later, and Niko was looking at another upload, titled “I’M GOING TO ROLL THE MONSTER GIRL ROULETTE! FIVE MILLION SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL!” Niko clicked on it.

“What is good youtube it’s your boy Jojofan#68-” Niko mashed the arrow key to skip through the intro, god, like five million subs was a lot of people but it didn’t matter. He had to see the roulette. He reached the point where the email and roulette game were open. “Guys I’m going to hit the button”. His cursor hovered. “I’m scared now! What if I get that tentacle girl?” Jojofan paused again. “Fuck it. YOLO!” He clicked it. There was an animation of the wheel spinning, though it would have had to be impossibly large to fit 200 slices. The wheel stopped and a name appeared in the text box. The “spin the wheel” button was gone. “Hinezumi”. “Huh? What’s that? HEE-NEY-ZOOM-EE. Y’all I’ll be honest, I have no idea what this one is. I’m just going to wait and see what she’s like! Remember what the wizard said. No redo or second chance for the wheel! You have to be committed with whoever comes out!” Cut. He was in the center of the screen again. “Ok guys. Listen. She’s here. I swear. Thing is, she’s shy. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I wanted to do this right, but she won’t show her face to the camera, she’s kind of new to everything, so I don’t want to make her do anything she doesn’t want to. I’ll make another one as soon as she’s ready, ok?” Niko stopped the video. It was so disappointing to not see whoever ended up in the roulette.

The video came up a week later. “MEETING MY GIRLFRIEND!” He skipped to the part that actually showed the girl. “And here she is! This is my girlfriend, Chyou!” She bowed to the camera.

“Greetings, viewers. I have learned a lot about your world ever since I showed up here thanks to the power of that magical roulette. I’ve learned that there are a lot of people who are watching me, so I hope that I can meet all of your expectations. I would like to make one small correction. We monster girls, or mamono as we refer to ourselves in my own world, develop a very close relationship with the man that we take for our own. It is akin to marriage, so I would rather that it be understood that I am his wife”.

“My bad. Yeah, I’ll have to fix that. So could you tell us something about yourself?”

“Of course. My name, as you introduced me, is Chyou. It is said as one short syllable, and it seems to be consistent with some of the names that people are given in the region of your world called China. I hail from a more simple country, simply referred to as the Mist Continent. Owing to the great amount of fog that surrounds us from all sides. Mamono run freely, often intermingling with humans and spreading their power and influence. That’s where the name of our home comes from. It surrounds us and protects us from invaders or attacks from abroad, and only permits entry from those who know how”.

“And you told me, uh, there’s some kind of big powerful nation that you’re concerned about over there?”

“That’s right. The Order is a militant religious organization that has absolute control over many regions of the world further West of my own home. They have never managed to set foot on our territory but I worry nevertheless, for their efforts to broaden their control and influence over other nations where mamono are welcomed”.

“Well hey, I don’t know if we could do anything about them, but you don’t have to worry about them here. Not everybody is happy about mamono but they can’t do anything about it. We don’t let people invade other people’s countries like that”.

“I see. That makes me feel more assured. I’m sorry to have brought such a heavy topic of discussion into focus”.

“Hey that’s fine! Is there anything you wanted to tell about yourself?”

“Oh yes. I have features of a mouse, as my kind, “hinezumi”, are born of a legend that has been passed down for generations. There was an obstinate princess who refused the request of a visiting prince to marry. She set him with impossible tasks, one in particular being to find the fur of a fire rat. A woman, whom many believe was a daughter of the Demon Lord”

“Sorry, I just have to cut in for a minute, did you say the Demon Lord?”

“Yes, the Demon Lord is the opposite side of the Order, she wants everyone to be happy and find one to love, which has led her to spreading her influence to turn humans into mamono so that they can all find their one true love. She may have some more extreme methods, but I believe that she has the best intentions not only for our kind, but all humans. She will be the one to bring lasting peace to our world”.

“Alright. I just had to ask about that. Please continue”.

“Anyway, there was a woman, many believe her to have been a lilim, or a daughter of the Demon Lord, the most powerful mamono of them all. She was so frustrated with the princess’s unfair demands that she turned her into a fire rat herself. This led to the man being easily able to complete the task, and from there, the princess realized her desire was hidden behind nervousness and embarrassment. She accepted the man’s proposal and from there, we have the birth of our kind”. She pointed to her mousey ears on the top of her head, and swished a thin, hairless tail around in front of her. Our kind are covered in a coat of flames, and we turn all of our energy toward martial arts. However, I knew I was going to be uh. Involved with whoever I ended up with from this roulette. So I’ve begun to teach my husband the ways of my fighting style. I look forward to the day that he can match me on more even footing”. She smiled, and reached out to hold his hand.

“So anyway guys, I have a Stand”. Jojofan grinned at the camera. Chyou looked up in surprise.

“Oh husband, I don’t think we should try so soon”.

“Come on! I know people are going to want to see. You could try some of your own moves?”

“Oh...alright. Just a few though”. Cut to a wide open field. Chyou was standing out in front, with Jojofan out of sight. She performed a small demonstration of moves, kicks and jumps and even an impressive flip. She ended by landing on her feet in a wide, low stance to the ground, holding her arms out at her sides. You could see masses of flames surrounding her arms and legs as she moved, and they dissipated as she completed her demonstration. Jojofan clapped and cheered. Cut to him in the center. From off screen, Chyou shouted. “Just this once! Remember to keep your feet planted beneath you!” Jojofan struck a pose with his hands up in front of him, going for an action movie karate kick.

“Stando Powah! Through the fire and the flames!” He jumped, kicking his legs out. A trail of flame burst out and shot through the air, as he landed on the ground, holding his arms in the pose. Then he relaxed his arms and bowed. The video cut back to the two in their room. “So, is there anything else you want to talk about?”

“Yes!” Chyou’s eyes grew serious. “My sister...she wasn’t happy about my decision to leave. I’m afraid that at this time we don’t know how to return back to my own world at this point. So I knew that I would be separating from her and the rest of my family. But I hope that she will make her own choice to come to this world. And when she does I wish to reunite with her! It seems silly but...she would not like me sharing her name. Instead, simply tell any others of my kind that Chyou wishes to see her sister again, and hopes that she will find the same happiness that I managed to find’.

“Ok. I don’t know how we’ll manage that, but I swear if she makes it over, we’ll find a way to bring you both together”. Jojofan went into the typical formalities of ending the video, and Niko closed it out.

“Wow”, he muttered. “That was so cool”. Before he knew it, he was opening up his email program, and locating the message that he’d already seen, but was too nervous to investigate. Opening the roulette, he hesitated for a moment before clicking the button. The wheel spun, and there appeared the name of his chosen mamono. “Hinezumi”. “No fucking way. Oh my god. Ok. What do I do”, he panicked, looking around, but his apartment wasn’t particularly large, and he was sure he’d have known if someone showed up in his home. It was early in the evening, so he decided to take a walk and see what would happen in a few hours. Locking the door behind him, he got into his tiny beat up car and pulled out of the driveway, heading for a particular park that he liked to visit.

Hours later, he returned to his home, and got out of the car. Walking toward the front door, he realized the light was on. He unlocked the door and stepped inside.

“AH!” There was a woman sitting in a chair in the main room.

“AH!” He shouted. There was a woman sitting in his home!

“How’d you get in here? The door was locked!”

“I am sorry sir, but I arrived here a while ago and there was nobody else around, so I decided to wait until someone else arrived”.

“You’re a hinezumi right?” He asked, noting her mousey ears and dress that seemed to match the kind that the other hinezumi wore. Now that he was so close, he also realized that the air around her seemed to have a much greater temperature, and even her skin seemed to glow faintly.

“Oh! You are familiar? Then you must have been the one to roll the mamono roulette prepared by that wonderful wizard”.

“Yeah. I’ve actually seen another of your kind somewhere recently. I rolled it today, and I got so nervous that I had to leave for a while. Sorry I yelled at you”.

“There is nothing to be sorry for. It is true that I am an intruder in your home, but I hope that I will be welcome now that you know who I am”.

Of course! What’s your name? I’m Niko”.

“Daiyu”, she said, giving him a small bow.

“Hey uh. Can I ask you a question?”

“Of course”.

“Do you have any siblings? Especially a sister?”

“No. I am an only child".

“Are you sure?”

“Of course I’m sure. How would I not know my own family?”

“I don’t know. Maybe you have a long lost family you didn’t know about?”

“And what makes you so curious about the matter?” She asked, visibly annoyed.

“See, that other hinzeumi I was talking about, she said she was looking for her sister, who she’d left behind when she tried the roulette. She said, uh, ‘Chyou hopes to reunite with her sister, and that she finds the same happiness she found’. Something like that”.

“Well as I said, I have no such siblings, certainly not any that I’d be upset about leaving me behind. Besides, there is absolutely no similarities between our names”.

“Huh?”

“Many families like to name their children in complementary terms. ‘Chyou’ means ‘autumn’. ‘Daiyu’ means black jade’. Absolutely no connection”.

“I see. Ok. Then I guess you really aren’t the one”.

“As I could have told you”. They were silent for a while. Then they began to talk, Niko managed to impress her with some modern cooking equipment and rudimentary cooking skills, making a simple meal for both of them. When it came time to sleep, Niko tried to sidestep the issue of sleeping arrangements.

“Uh. You can take the bed if you want. I’ll sleep on the couch”. He moved to offer her the bed, but she took his hand, pulling him closer to her body. Niko tried to avert his eyes as he felt the heat rolling off her body, but she wrapped her arms around his sides.

“Now wait a minute. As husband and wife, it is only right that we share a bed”. She looked up, slightly shorter than him, catching his chin so that she could look right into his eyes.

“I think it’s too small”.

“Then we will have to make do”. She led him over to the side of the bed, and lay down on one side, beckoning him to join her. He tentatively lay down next to her, finding that they barely had enough space to both lie there without falling off.

“Well as long as I don’t move too much”.

“I will hold you very tightly”. Daiyu hugged him again, leaning so close that their faces were almost touching, and placed her lips on his, giving him a very gentle kiss that burned with the same heat that the rest of her body did. He lay there motionless until she parted, and they both stared into each other’s eyes. He just managed to stand up long enough to check that the door was locked, turn off the lights, and return to the bedroom. In such a short time, Daiyu had somehow managed to undress herself down to a single garment, and he couldn’t help but blush at the sight.

“Your face is nearly as red as my own!” She said, with a smug little look on her face. She leaned back so that she could show off her entire body to Niko. Her body glowed enough so that he could see her even in the darkness. “Forgive me, but I must ask one more thing of you. Do you have much skill in fighting?”

“Uh, no. I’ve never really needed to. I did play a lot of soccer when I was younger”.

“Is that a type of martial art?”

“No, it’s a game. Two teams trying to kick a ball around and get it into the other team’s net”.

“I see. Well then, I hope you’ll allow me to teach you some of my own arts? It would be wonderful to have a partner whom I could spar with”.

“Yeah I’d love to do that”.

“Wonderful. Now then, enough distractions”, she smiled and gestured to him to come closer. “Now come to bed with your wife so that we may do things properly”. Niko stepped closer. He slowly tried to lean over so he could take the place next to her, but Daiyu grabbed his hand and yanked him down on top of her, embracing him and giving him another red hot kiss.

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A week later, and Niko stood in the kitchen preparing breakfast. He had found himself in the position of being responsible for meals. But it was fun, especially now that Daiyu was there to help him think of new things to cook. He heard a noise from the bedroom, and from the hallway she appeared, with unkempt hair and a half awake look on her face. She approached him and gave him a big hug. “That smells really good”, she mumbled”.

“Thanks! It’s all thanks to you that I got all these ideas about what to make. We can eat whenever you’re ready”.

“Then I think I’ll take a quick shower”. She turned back toward the bathroom. “Unless…” she paused, looking back at Niko, “You’d like to join me?” Niko turned back toward the stove.

“Not enough space”.

“Ooooohhhhhh darling you said that about the bed! Haven’t I assured you that I want to be joined with you as much as possible? I wish that you’d get over your timidness”. Niko wouldn’t answer. “Fine then. I will wait for you to realize your foolishness. Just remember. I would be more than happy to have you join me at any given opportunity”. She said her final line with a bit of a teasing manner, and entered the bathroom. Niko finished cooking, and sat down to wait. Not more than a few minutes and he heard a scream. He jumped up in alarm and ran over to pull the door open. There was Daiyu standing in the shower, clutching her arms to her sides.

“What’s going on? Are you ok honey?”

“C-c-c-cold! How is the water so cold?” He reached the handle and turned the water off.

“I’m sorry about that”.

“How can such incredible technology of yours be so faulty? I know I had the water turned up”.

“Oh. It does that sometimes. When someone else in the building is using the water too”.

“Guh! It doesn't matter now. There is only one thing I request. I need you to pour as much of your spirit energy into me as you can manage. My coat of flames has gone out. I don’t know how this was possible. I assume we haven’t spent enough time together to nullify the effect that water might normally have on me”. Niko scratched his head, feeling a little guilty.

“I’m sorry about that”,

“Please do not fret! Just give me what I need! I know that you will enjoy it too”. She tried to smile at him but she was still visibly shivering. Niko got a towel, wrapping it around her so she could be a bit more dry. He lifted her up and brought her to the bed, laying her down and putting his hand on her chest.

“Woah! You are cold!” He hastened to make himself ready, and climbed into bed with her. He lay down upon Daiyu, trying to press his body against hers. He kissed her, and she embraced him tightly. Then she broke the kiss for just a moment.

“Take me Niko! Make me yours!”