"Fuck yes! Die, changeling scum!"
>Be Floor Bored, NEET Extraordinaire
>Your days are filled with carefree fun
>Vidya, pirated movies, imageboard shitposting
>No responsibilities to be heard of
>Lately, you've been playing a MOBA called Equimancy
>You're not one for competitive games
>Usually, you prefer single player
>Public lobbies are packed with normies and it's not like you have any friends
>You hate interacting with other ponies, and that includes online
>Even the boards you frequent are free of usernames and monikers
>You basically have no traceable internet presence
>Except this one game
>You picked it up after watching one of the few streamers you actually enjoyed
>And, as you are wont to do, you got hooked, HARD
>Something about kicking other ponies' asses at something made you feel powerful
>You didn't get to experience that feeling much in NEET life, so you chased that high
>Down the rabbit hole you went, letting the game consume your life
>It was during one of these marathon gaming sessions that you encountered user AnonSense
>He sounds like one of those generic assholes in team chat
>Bossing everyone around, thinking he's hot shit
>You resolve to show him up
>When he inevitably dies, you drop by his post and demolish the changeling warlock holding his outpost
>You immediately swing back to your section of the map, having done his job without ceding an inch of your territory
>His voice crackles through your speakers
>"Aw, what the hell? Who stole my kill? randompony583?"
>Quickly clacking at your keyboard, you type out a message in chat.
>randompony583: @AnonSense git gud
>Immediately you hear him give a seething huff
>"That was my XP you stole!"
>randompony583: your KD is 2-7 you werent gettin that kill
>Exasperated, he pauses, obviously unable to dispute the numbers
>"Why are you using keyboard chat anyway? Go voice if you want to coordinate attacks."
>Ugh
>There was no way in hell you were enabling voice chat
>You haven't had a voice conversation in... weeks?
>When did that census-taker stop by?
>You would have just ignored him if it weren't a federal offens-
>Oh, shit!
>You're getting ganked! Move, move, move!
>You struggle to escape the barrage of abilities being laid upon you
>Out of the corner of your screen a new figure swoops in from the skies
>A griffon ranger by the name of AnonSense
>Expertly, he deftly flanks the two opponents and bombards them with attacks
>With them slowed, they can't spin around in time to defend themselves
>You watch as this guy shreds your attackers to pieces, saving your skin
>"THAT'S how you kill-steal."
>Holy shit that was actually pretty cool
>randompony583: @AnonSense thx
>After the match (a resounding victory), you get a message
>Wait, who the fuck's messaging you
>AnonSense: gg got to admit you actually carried the team
>That's weird
>You're not used to getting messages
>You're definitely not used to other ponies acknowledging you carried them (even though it's usually true)
>randompony583: gg np
>AnonSense: want to team up? need somepony to help me out of ELO hell
>Okay, that's a first
>You definitely don't want to pair up with some gamer bro stallion
>But
>He actually impressed you back there
>It's definitely easier to climb the ranks when you have a teammate you can coordinate with
>But most shockingly, for perhaps the first time ever, a stallion has actually shown a modicum of interest in you
>Fighting against every anti-social impulse in your body, you type out a response
>randompony583: sure