Lockdown - A series of Equestria Girl Short Stories
Based on Nico-Stone Rupan’s Sour Sweet Stories
Gamer Girl
Sunset’s New Job
“It’s okay Sunset, you’re a gamer, and you’ve worn strange outfits more than once,” Sunset said to herself as she looked at the mirror.
What she was seeing wasn’t lost on her. The skin tight suit didn’t hide a single curve. It was masterfully designed to look like the same bodysuit that Rei wore in Neon Genesis. Her normal job had shut down, thanks to the lockdown, and so she was trying to find a way of making some extra money. The decision to do this came when she looked online at Twitch, after a friend had suggested it, and saw more than a few gamer girls that dressed as various anime characters and seemed to be pulling a decent amount of views and donations.
It certainly wasn’t her first choice, but since she already had a decent following on Youtube for her various Let’s Play, and New Challenger videos that she had recorded, edited, and published online. There were enough views, and subscribers that she did manage to make some extra money from the ad revenue, or did until Youtube began to demonetize Let’s Play videos by the hundreds. There was an email explaining that it was a mistake, it would be corrected, and during that time she had lost a good chunk of what had been her income.
There was still some ad revenue coming in from the New Challenger videos, but it wasn’t enough to pay for everything that needed to be paid for. She had basically pounded the pavement until she found something that would work as a part-time job, and then from there she worked about three nights a week to finish supplimiting her income. The result was having enough money to pay bills, rent, and get the basic needs.
The job she had gotten wasn’t that much. She was working in a small call center that reminded people that their warranty was about to expire for their cars. When the state began to lockdown, thanks to the Outbreak of Covid-19, the call center simply closed up, laid everyone off, and she was left without even unemployment because she hadn’t been working there long enough. She had talked about it with all of her friends, but it was surprisingly Rarity, well actually Vignette Valencia that had suggested the idea of doing a Twitch Gamer Girl session.
She breathed in, took a look at the mirror, and felt herself die a little inside. She was fine with Cosplaying. Actually, she had been to more than one Comicbook convention, and each time she went she ended up doing a decent Cosplay of one of her favorite characters from various animes that she loved. The last time she went, which was before the pandemic, she had dressed as Albedo from Overlord.
She had considered doing that Cosplay, but Vignette had mentioned that Neon Genesis was making a huge comeback, and that now would be the time to take advantage of it. Rarity had watched a few episodes of the series, and made her Rei’s body suit. She had the head band that looked like the mental connection ports for controlling the Eva. Rarity had made the bodysuit perfectly, but it didn’t have much room left for anything under it, so she was actually just wearing the body suit itself. She walked to the computer, put on a wireless headset, and logged into her Twitch account.
Vignette had spread word around about the Twitch stream, and of course she had made a New Challenger Video and told her fan base about the upcoming Twitch event. She started the game, which there was current trend of playing some of the favorite previous generation games, and the one she selected was a fan favorite.
She was going to search for Eldorado, The City of Gold in Uncharted. She smiled at the camera as she went live, and waved.
“Welcome! This is Sunset, and we’re doing a Let’s Play on Uncharted. Since this was one of the most requested games I thought we’d walk through it together, and of course I’ll give my personal spin on what I think, what I’d do differently, and why I like, or dislike the game.”
She saw a few posts pop up from some of her long time fans.
“Belle’sButton08, always good to see you posting!” she exclaimed, “And yeah I love the Uncharted series.”
She saw several new names pop in, and she realized that they must have been from Vignette’s circles. She smiled, waved, and felt less tension as the numbers of attendees climbed to be about sixty. It was a good solid beginning and if she kept this going for the next four hours she could get some solid donations going.
She saw a post from a new member, and she read it as it appeared, Wow, Vignette wasn’t kidding, you’re a decent gamer and sexy to boot!
“Ummm, thanks Papasmurftastic01, I always like a compliment.”
She saw a donation, and smiled, twenty dollars, already, and it was from one of her normal subscribers, “Thanks for the donation Belle’sButton08!”
Of course she had done her normal fist pump, and in doing so didn’t realize that with no support one of her girls had been fairly well exposed under the bodysuit. The exact shape, present for the world to see. Another message came on from Papasmurftastic01.
She read it, I’ve got thirty bucks that I don’t mind donating if you can stand and play.
She stood, stepped back, and began playing. Of course as normal she would lean, bend, jump, and stoop as she moved the character along. And as she did this she began to notice a few more donations coming in. Some from the new folks, but also more than she thought she would get from her own subscribers. As she played the donations continued, normally between ten and twenty dollars, but then she saw another post pop up from Papasmurftastic01. She looked at it, and saw that he was offering her fifty dollars if she would give a side profile while bending at the waist.
She didn’t pretend not to understand what was going on. It was an invitation to become a camgirl. She had swore that she would never end up doing that. She was a gamer purely on merit, and damn it her subscribers loved her on Youtube because she was witty and filled them in on her thoughts. Not to mention sometimes she would just kill the sound for the game and fill in with her own voice overs.
But this, this was a step away from stripping on Twitch for donations. She looked at it, fifty dollars, it wasn’t stripping, and she could keep it from getting that far. She was already at two hundred dollars. Bitting her lower lip she turned to the side, bent at the waist, and continued to play. She saw the donation, realized that she had swallowed her pride and did something she wasn’t completely comfortable with, but at the same time it had yielded some great results.
That was when another poster, Reismywifu posted something for her. She looked at the post, I’ll donate forty dollars if you can do an impersonation of Rei and say a few lines from Neon Genesis.
She smiled, this was just fine with her, “Reismywifu, here you go,” she said as she cleared her throat and channeled her best impersonation of Rei Ayanami, “Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire. He creates life by diminishing the darkness.”
As soon as she finished she saw the donation. She continued to play, the donations still came in, but less frequently, and then she saw one from one of her subscribers. Belle’sButton08 posted when you finish the current area, could you jump and fist pump? I’ll donate forty-five dollars.
She shook her head, and she was indeed about ready to finish the current objective. She had found the old Uboat, and she had explored it. Right after this was heading back and then the cut scene. She got to the cut scene, jumped and fist pumped only to receive her forty-five dollar donation.
Suddenly there was a bid war on her hands, and she realized that all of them were clambering for her to do more. Bend over suggestively, lick her console, open the top of her bodysuit, just a little, wink and kiss at the camera, turn around and bend over allowing them to get a good view of her posterior. She stood surprised as the stated donations climbed. She shut down a few that were pushing her too far.
Take it off, and the donation would be eighty dollars. Perform felicalo on the controller, even for sixty dollars that was a hard pass. But Papasmurftastic01, Reismywifu, and Belle’sButton08 were each trying to outbid each other in order to get the next act for her to do. Despite her previous feelings about more or less doing cosplay, and posing, while streaming she couldn’t deny that she was making more than enough to supplement her income. In truth it was entirely possible that she could, if she really went for it, turn this into her full time job. But was that what she really wanted to do with her life?
She saw another few join the stream, among them was DrSweetPerson. She wondered why Sour Sweet was on the Twitch stream, but a moment later she saw a post from Sour Sweet. I’ve got a hundred bucks if you say that Asuka is better than Rei.
Which she saw another post from Reismywifu01. No, don’t do that! I’ll match that, no I’ll give you a hundred-ten to say that Rei is the best character in Neon Genesis period!
She was about to comment on that before a new name popped up again. She looked, and the name seemed familiar. Anon’sPublishingBooksBitches posted a single message. I’ve got two hundred bucks for you to stop being a tease and just get nude already.
She looked at the message, “Yeah, no. Sorry Anon, but I’m not that kind of gamer.”
Then she watched as DrSweetPerson made another comment. Hey Anon, how’s it feel to know that you lost to a superior author?
And that started a flame war. Anon’sPublishingBooksBitches began calling out DrSweetPerson, and her husband, on their relationship, his writing, and how it was obvious that out of the two of them he was far more talented than her husband was. He then explained that he would be willing to let her hop on his joystick and find out that he was likely better in every way possible. Sunset felt glad that people couldn’t reach through their monitors and pull anyone else through, because she had a feeling if that was possible that DrSweetPerson would be beating the holy hell out of Anon’sPublishingBooksBitches right now.
She looked at the time, and then at the donations. She was up to six hundred dollars. She had to be shutting down in about twenty minutes. After all she wanted to unwind, thank Rarity for making the bodysuit, and then maybe get a pizza and chill out with a good movie. Honestly the Princess Bride sounded awesome, although she could go for watching Cowboy Bebop as well.
“Guys, we’ve got twenty minutes before the stream is going to end, so I’ve got time for one or two more requests,” she said.
The flame war between DrSweetPerson and Anon’sPublishingBooksBitches seemed to be going pretty steady, but she saw a single request. It was from SavioroftheUniverse. She looked at the name, and she sung a bit of a song that had that lyric in it. She smiled when she realized that it had to be Flash.
I’ve got thirty bucks if you don’t mind to sing your outro.
She grinned, “You’ve got it SavioroftheUniverse.”
♫Who’s been pwning noobs,
Who’s never shown her boobs,
Who’s gonna get the sick stats
And who’s never gonna show her rack?
Who’s gonna play a mad game
And who’s gonna prove some of them are lame?
Sunnybuns that’s who!♫