Fun Sized and Extra Large
A short story about two friends who meet online.
This is my first short story and first post on So Furry and was meant to just some fun.
Constructive Criticism is welcomed.
The rain was heavy and the city glowed with a punk purple. Through a window of a small apartment the sounds of the TV help radiant the dark living room.
"You do realize that iron sights with that gun makes it basically redundant." squeaked a sanded fox through his mic. "You have bad range and longer to aim down sights, you're handicapping yourself."
"It's not about that." replied a towering chocolate brown bear. "It's more about skill and being able to land your shot without any scope."
"If you say so." shrugged the Fennec Fox.
Sounds of simulated gunfire and button presses echoed throughout the room. The Fennec Fox (called Kyle) always considered himself competitive when it came to video games. Having been attempting to speed run the early games to play and trying to get 100% completion. He didn't like attending parties in High School, viewing them as ways for stupid to kids to get stupid drunk and high. His idea of an 'party' was more in line with late night gaming sessions with the bois. That's not to say he was a complete social outcast in High School, he had a small knit group of friends. Most of them geeks, gamers and other social rejects that didn't fit in the plastic normalcy of society. Of course during the tail end of High School he had reduced his gaming habitats and focused on study. Kyle had a rough idea on what he wanted to do for college, game design always peaked his interest and was a small hobby of his. After getting into Oregon University with Game Design as his major, he struggled to make friends in the new environment. His roommate, a British Blue short-hair cat named Fritz, was more focused on getting high and partying than his college major. The online space was Kyle's saving grace for friendship as he found thousands of outcasts to bond with, one of those outcasts was a brown bear called Duke.
Duke was the oldest child out of 6 children his parents had. Duke was tall, big boned and had a polite and charitable aura. Duke grew up in a small town away from bustling and unforgiving streets of the city. It was your usually small town with the church used as the main point of community within the town. When Duke entered middle school he was casted into the geek and nerd cliques. The friends he made there showed him all the content that his parents looked down upon and viewed as 'corrupting the youth'. Anime, video games and sci-fi were some of the things that Duke loved with all his art and would constantly geek out when those topics came up in conversation. When Duke entered High School he focused hard on his academics, with the work paying off with high test scores and an outstanding GPA. Duke felt like the only way to escape the prison of a small town, USA was to go across the country to go to college. His parents tried to make him stay a gap year and 'work with your hands'. But Duke was done with living in a depressing dust bowl small town. Duke chose a college that offered great academic success and had an vibrant extroverted community. That college was Washington State University. When Duke arrived in Pullman he felt so liberated and free from the chains of small town America. The first months of college were filled with joy and socialization, Duke loved every second in WSU. Duke also got more into Internet fandoms as his parents often restricted the Internet to 1 hour a day for each child with a single family computer. Duke, being a social butterfly thrived on the threads and forums of the Internet with his geeky insight and hunger to learn driving his Internet usage to take up half of his socialization. One day on a video gaming chat he found a Fennec Fox who wanted people to play video games with.
"GG Duke you played well even with an attachments as awful as yours" remarked Kyle
"You only won because you got the Dogs killstreak" replied Duke
Kyle snarked, "An L is still an L!"