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#YanaKaeJourney Part 12

I had to move on from the bad rumors. I couldn't defend myself as the people didn't want to listen to me. I moved on to focus on the main side of the Purple Lotus. But even there, something began to build up.

Yana temporarily disguised herself as a new face, Ichii Q. A disguise of my character that is mostly retconned at this point. I wanted Yana to disappear for a bit, yet secretly be this individual you see below. It felt like a fun idea, a cool story, but never would I have guessed the damage this one decision would cause.

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#YanaKaeJourney Part 11

I honestly thought I had found a place to belong at the Purple Lotus. But the more time I spent there, the easier it was to see the cracks around me. I started another romance RP with somebody, only to be returned with more negativity.

"Your story is going too fast, it's not for me." Something simple like this should have ended with our characters moving on from one another. But it ended with individuals becoming toxic toward me without listening to my own side of things. Rumors spread, bad ones, making the cracks only grow in size.

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#YanaKaeJourney Part 10

Roleplay was extremely fun. I created a lot of bonds, made fun stories, and got my OC Yana to the point where I wanted her in the VRChat RP Metaverse. Yes, it has the same name as the commonly known Metaverse, this actually came first.

But slowly, drama and negativity started to rear its ugly head. One person got mad at me for wanting to retcon a pregnancy after the individual basically said, "Our characters will never interact again." I got a lot of hate for this. Hate for 'spiking their depression' when all I wanted was romance RP.

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#YanaKaeJourney Part 9

I'd eventually worked at the Roleplay establishment of the Purple Lotus. I met a lot of wonderful people and generated new aspects of my novel using ideas I created through roleplay. Things between Roleplay and Writing weren't 1:1. However, it helped with not only my mental state but creativity as a whole.

For months, I had refused to join VRCRP due to drama. I knew what would eventually come but at least till 2021, I didn't experience a drop of it. So I simply kept working on my OC and creating bonds I still have to this very day. <3

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#YanaKaeJourney Part 8

In 2020, Covid had started and I lost my job. The company I worked for couldn't afford me as a worker and nearly went under. Due to this, I had little to do and a lot of time on my hands.

An individual known as Satchi invited me multiple times in the past to join VRChat RP. He hosted a lobby called the Purple Lotus and said that I could visit or even work there going through the RP hiring process.

Editing a 3D model, giving myself Elven Ears, and a dress; I joined the lobby as my OC. I didn't know at the time this would affect my lore.

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#YanaKaeJourney Part 7

Time would pass while I wrote my story, worked a daily job, and balanced out my life in VR. These years were some of the best. Simply meeting up with friends online, creating bonds, and living a life I never had in the real world.

Years would pass before a major change came up. But those years were filled with blessings and hardships. I gave Yana plenty of outfits and made a name for myself in the VR Community. One that has likely been forgotten these days, but one that is found deep in its history.

Shoutout to my VRC Daughter Kitten~

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#YanaKaeJourney Part 6

Through my time in VRChat, I would eventually get some change to my model. I wanted something for my VRC experience only, unknowing that it would later come into my Roleplay experiences and my novel overall.

I had commissioned a 3D model that would have wolf features. It was nice running around VRC with people giving head pats and whatnot nice. I worked on some outfits and enjoyed being Yana Kae the Wolf.

I wouldn't integrate the wolf aspect into my story yet. Instead, I kept with the Fae aspects for a time. But something had started~

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#YanaKaeJourney Extra 1

I am going to add an extra from time to time. These add extra bits of info that are short and not enough to throw into their own daily post.

Yana v2, the character, was designed by a lovely individual known as TsunMuffin. Despite the backlash the character got, they designed such a cool version of Yana I will never deny the existence of. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have moved away from Human with my OC.

I just want to thank them and show off the lovely sketch they made that helped with the commission process. Thank you~<3

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#YanaKaeJourney Part 5

One of the worst feelings came soon after. People really did not like the design of my new Yana. I was told it didn't feel like her, that I destroyed who Yana was, that I changed characters despite it still being Yana, and I was told I had changed too much.

Yana v2 was the most disliked version of my OC. Few people complimented her. Despite being canon and in the story, I moved past Yana v2 pretty quickly. Can we get a bit of love for her?

Despite the bad memories, I still love the design. But what came next would change Yana forever.

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#YanaKaeJourney Part 4

I was still in the stage of finding my identity. At one point I decided I wanted to change Yana up to be more than just a human. I wasn't sure what I wanted to be yet, so I wrote a situation where Yana bounced back from a loss, a near-death experience, through a change of bodies.

Yana became a type of Fae. I damaged her Owl Pendant and give her White Hair as she was no longer in her previous body. She evolved in the body of this Amazoness. This bit was meant to be about her return from death, one day destined to dye her hair red again.

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#YanaKaeJourney Part 3

Those with a keen eye may notice that Yana looks humanoid. In fact, my OC started out human. It would be a bit longer before I'd become the Firewolf you know today.

Continuing to write my story, I commissioned my first art piece that heavily represented the starting look of my OC and main character. I then commissioned a $300 piece to 3D model my character afterward and used this to casually run around VRChat.

Between writing my book and using Yana as an OC, changes in us slowly started to take effect.

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#YanaKaeJourney Part 2

After creating Kuro, I started to resonate with them. I found that I was creating somebody I wished I could be. Their personality was the better version of my own.

Realizing this, I decided to change Kuro to a female. I wanted the character to be me, but not, something I could aim to become more like. I wanted to not only evolve the character but myself as well. A single art commission later and I created my OC and other self, Yana Kae, in 2018.

I made her my face for streaming. Then, I continued to write my novel and better us both.

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I want to do a journey. Let's slowly talk about my #YanaKaeJourney from start to finish. I'll do these posts occasionally. Some text-heavy, some will involve art, and in the end, I'll tell my story from start to finish. So if you want to keep up, keep note of my hashtag and follow. <3

The story started in 2016, I started to write a novel about Kuro. He was going to be a clumsy bandit in a fantasy setting. In Jan 2017, I commissioned an art piece of him. Little did I know that I would eventually replace him with my future OC, Yana, further down the line.

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