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Do you ever feel…Like you’re not alone?

It’s no surprise some may feel this way, we don't have a “seen-live counter” on top of your head that tells you how many people are seeing you now.

Still, you walk out of the coffee shop, supermarket, cinema, or work; you feel someone looking at you, following you quietly. You look around in the crowd, yet nothing. It’s just random passersby people. Maybe you’re going insane?

This morning in the mall. You went to tie your shoes before leaving, so you walked up to your HOT TOPIC’s mall window, putting your shoe on the ledge. You’re about to begin until you notice something in front of you.

As you look up in the shop’s window display, you notice a promotion of a collab between HOT TOPIC and the popular Vtuber: Shiori Novella. Apart from the merch like shirts and items you know these fans will buy. There’s a mannequin in Animegao Kigurumi in a perfect cosplay of Shiori Novella to replicate her look since she and mostly all Vtubers are virtual avatars voiced by people.

She's wearing a whole hadatai body suit skin coloured underneath her clothing, a wig, a mask with the face of the character, permanent glowing yellow eyes and a mischievous smile. She seems to be cosplaying and roleplaying as “Shiori Novella” A known Vtuber of Hololive. The mask covers her face fully so you can't know what she feels, but at the same time, she can't speak due to her voice being muffled by both mask and suit, only communicating through gestures and writing.

Wait…She? Well it looks like the Vtuber, but it’s not a human, it’s posing still, without moving by looking down at you with that mask’s smile, having a book and a pencil as she writes, a flash camera on her hip and a filled backpack.

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Mannequins don’t move…

The woman is sketching a detailed drawing of you as the woman beneath is pretending to be a shop mannequin. You can’t see her face beneath due to the mask, but you can tell she’s trembling, not because of fear, but because of pure pleasure, she’s excited for you to blow her cover. It seems this is your obsessed, loving stalker who’s been watching you for a god knows how long.

You probably should confront her. She looks creepy and weird judging from all this photo-taking and effort to stalk you, yet nice. Your 1# fan perhaps? Who knows. You just can tell she loves you.