Chapter 56: Comic Production!!?
Sling!
Seth crawled out with a foul face, Joseph himself was startled despite knowing Seth, by far, was the strangest of the players. One day he was happy and jumpy and on another, he was angry, upset or sad.
"What happened!"
"The damn thing is too hard!" Seth grumbled as he walked away to prepare for a workshop meeting. Before Manuella's lesson, he will be having meetings with the project organizers that Anna initiated.
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Seth sat beside Adamina who was tense, her face was frowning and she was glaring at everyone.
Well, he has things that concern him too so he ignored her. Anna has thrown him a heavy project that was beginning to disturb his personal time.
Making comics and manga was the project and he couldn't believe that their mother agreed to those things.
Well, he had known about it for a long time, and he was forced to read some manga and comics to familiarize himself, but he never took it seriously until today.
Tsk!
He clicked his tongue, trying to find a way to extricate himself from this but thought as he may, there was no way. His family were in for venturing into many things since they have the means.
The moment a car came into the garage, Seth noticed Adamina becoming tenser, she looked at her phone and began scrolling aimlessly.
She was nervous!
Noticing three printed documents, Seth understood what was going on in this girl's head. She will be presenting some of the novels she has been hiding, for that, she was scared shitlless that she may embrace herself.
Seth swiftly grabbed the 3 documents and her reaction was hilarious. Exaggeratedly, she threw insults uncontrollably while grappling with Seth to take away the document.
In just a few seconds, she took them, leaving him on the floor.
He froze being very close with her in that manner because he had never been physically in touch with any female outside his immediate family.
Adamina too, due to her nature, loathed any closeness with anyone. Not even a hug from her mother when she was very young.
And, now, she literally squeezed him to get the damn thing off him. Seth glared at her as she hugged her stuff like a mad woman.
"Hey, you got to help me up!" Seth queried.
That woke her up from her tense situation. She bent and extended her hand and helped him to sit down.
That little wrestling exhausted his whole stamina, he was already feeling sleepy. He leaned back and closed his eyes, which made her uneasy.
"I'm sorry!" She said, Seth smiled and he said, "I used to hate myself. I hate nothing more than walking out of the house—those eyes… they make me feel inferior!" Seth told with a sigh.
Living as a cripple wasn't the most glorious thing. Sympathy and disgust invoke the same thing; self-pity and downward self-esteem!
One will always feel inferior and downcast compared to others. Some may end up developing an inferiority complex, and anger toward themselves and others, and that may lead to self-harm and suicidal tendencies.
Seth has been through that phase many times and even now on certain occasions, he disdains himself. That was why drowned himself in games and Art in the past. And now he was working hard to make something of himself, something that will give him confidence.
He glanced at her, she was one of those that were disgusted by his mere presence, then that disgust turned to pity. Due to gaming, they later became friends.
"You are only going to show your talent to them. What is hard about that? My advice was, just consider them as just pieces of shit. If they consider you good, then respect them, if they don't send them a middle finger, even if it's in your head. That's what I sometimes do!" Seth told her his strategy.
He used to have an internal insult dialogue for anyone that looked at him the wrong way. But when he began to develop his self-esteem, he gradually stopped unknowingly.
The pep talk got into her and she relaxed. Just the minute after Anna finished discussing something with them, they came.
The conversation was long with a lot of debate between him, Adamina and Comic Artists. He, in particular, didn't take things seriously until Anna glared at him.
The whole case was about choosing a suitable sellable story and turning it into a comic. Seth will join the artists and help with design and other colouring aspects.
Adamina was here to convince the group to pick one of her stories and sadly she was doing a bad job at it. She has no communication skills that will help convince the people that her story was good.
As for Seth, they claimed he might be good at drawing, but it was hand drawing not using a computer. By that logic, they claim he will only hinder them.
From what Adamina and Seth understood about the artists was that they wanted to take the project and lead it in every way by themselves. But what Anna wanted was that the two of them must work together with the artists in every step but they have to prove their worth.
Amidst the long conversation, Seth dose off. He was tired of the meaningless debates. Sadly, they took that as an insult and disqualified him immediately.
When he woke up, he learned about that. Anna was about to concede and allow the artists to be on their own but she held on until they had another meeting.
"So that's what happened!" Anna explained, dejectedly. Sarah, their mother, Adamina and her father, and then Sam, Anna's husband were the listeners.
"As the producer, you should have insisted that they join them even if it was for kids to learn. From what I can see, they have a lot of pride in what they do, so telling them to work with those that were complete novices might have a blow to their ego!" Sarah reasoned.
"You are too kind. I think they just don't want anyone to work with them from the family. Since they have the expertise they just wanted to hoard everything to themselves!" Adamina's father said. He was upset that his daughter was rejected. He was hoping that she would mingle with Anna and her activities more, which may allow her to enrol in University with ease just like Seth.
One needs to know that, only Anna's family were elevated to Class C, the rest of the side family are Class D and were subordinate to them.
"Since they know their stuff, we should give them credit for that. At least perhaps begged them a bit!" Sarah said. She was a simple woman that wanted things to go easy without some skirmishes. Well, except for things that clashed directly with her interest.
"Begged them!" Seth held the urge to roll his eyes. His mom was more of a….he refused to think further, "We don't need them. Things like this are easy to learn. They are puffing their chest because we are just novices!" Seth scowled.
"Hey Adamina, you still have that scanner!" He asked.
With the gold coins she exchanged from the game, Adamina bought a high-tech scanner that can put realistic items into a computer.
"Yes!" She answered.
"We can use it. It may take a lot of work to wrap my head around the ideas threatening to flood off my head but it was doable!" Seeing he had their attention he sat and explained.
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received Weekly Power Status
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