So...you want to learn about The Starverse's irl history? Here's your spot!

Warnings: Mentions of Rape and self-harm (important detail of a story)

Where to begin...maybe sometime in 2010. We were about six or seven at the time. We got into Pokemon big time the last few years prior and discovered our favorite pokemon; Eevee! We learned to draw well just to draw eevees and other pokemon. We saw a video by a youtuber, called something along the lines of Leafeon and Glaceon. They had two of the titular pokemon doing funny things. It was the best thing to me. And it's like god was speaking through me when I declared, in the middle of my mom and dad's room "hey, I think my purpose is to create characters!" So from that point, I created so many, MANY characters. I thank those videos for helping me discover our passion. Even if we cannot find them anymore.

Sometime in 2011, I learned to draw stars. That changed my life forever. I would draw them everywhere and they became a part of our core identity, apparently, haha. So I made a persona character for ourselves; an eevee with magical powers named StarEevee. There's a youtuber by that name now but I still hold the name close. I still plan to go by it on a game, but you'll hear about that later!

I think I moved away to Missouri by the next point in the story. By then I used my characters as imaginary friends. They kept me company through learning that the world was lonelier than in the cartoons on tv. But I took characters from anywhere, not just my own creations. I remember liking Bowser Jr. a lot! I had my own little canon for him, even if the only thing I knew him from was that Sonic and Mario at the 2012 Olympic Games game on the 3DS (I still have that intro playing in my head from all those years ago...). He was actually rebelious against his dad! A good kid, actually! He wasn't the mean little brat that the games show him as. I had Silver from Sonic hanging out with me, flying next to the car as we drove on our dirt road.

During this time, I created a little world for my stories to take place in. Called The Starverse. StarEevee was the queen (because I was too scared to call her a goddess...screw you, religion! She's a goddess!) and she was the same age as me, going on adventures, meeting people, helping people. Trying to survive, indoctrinating people into her religion helping people into her little community/kingdom/thing. I had characters from all over the mediaspaces I was in there! They were all special and had a place.

Sometime in 2011-12, I was at my cousin's house. She had a PS3 and a copy of a game called LittleBigPlanet. It opened up my world to creativity! You could create levels and share them online! So about a year or two later, I got my own PS3! I soon found a community of people who were like me! Full of little kids who loved eevees and eeveelutions! Making love stories and otherwise dramatic little tales with love, sadness, death, and life! I went by the name StarEevee and by the time I left to move onto other things, I think I had...150 Hearts? Which are the game's form of followers. All from being active, being friendly, finding people on LBP.me by looking up "eevee" to find new people to welcome and help. I often crave a community like that, but I know how much it's not worth it anymore with toxicity now. I tried.

During my time on LBP, I made many stories. My favorite being one named Hybrid, but that's besides the point! I would encorperate my world I was building with StarEevee the character. She would be mentioned, or be an important character. A lot of my stories had characters I created in it. It was fun! But no one really quite got it. People would be confused why CatDog was in my little eevee love story. Or why I was following Warrior Cat naming themes (but getting it wrong; I thought the heart suffix was used for deputies!). I was a little autistic child who wanted all my interested in one. But people would only be there for eevees, and that's okay!

Small things happened. Like me joining DeviantArt and being banned for being ten-years-old. But I do know I created a world of cartoon characters and video game characters where they lived together but there was a war going on! Many died and this story lasted for months, maybe even a year. Until I realized I wrote a character wrong; he was out of character. That taught me something; don't use characters that aren't your own. And even to this day, I feel wrong writing characters that don't belong to me.

In 2015, I got tired of eevees I wanted a break from them for a while. So I needed a new speical interest. So guess what my brain did? It decided to cling to pikmin. Not just the games, the species. Something drew me to them and I could never explain why. But that changed my life drastically. I quit LittleBigPlanet and moved onto Miiverse where I started making my army of pikmin ocs, telling myself I wouldn't make a million. Just a few. A few, right?

I started making what I now call "Sparklepikmin"; pikmin with markings or strange colors. The highlight of the beginning was Moondrop, my newest persona character. She was me for the longest time, but with shapeshifting abilities and the ability to survive the night to help lost pikmin. I loved her dearly and still do to this day.

I asked Miiverse "hey what should my interest be?" and that moment, I didn't realize where that dumb Nintendo social media led me to. I was active in the Pikmin 3 Community there. Drawing and being active, interacting with most noteworthy posts and people. I made "friends" (but had no social ability to get close to them...even if I tried. I didn't know how) and watched dozens of others. This will be important later.

The Starverse was still going strong! I still was working for stuff, but pikmin became a big part of it, and so did other medias, but mainly pikmin. They were my babies! And it showed.

I tried an app called Amino, but wasn't that active until 2017 when someone said they were active there. So I rejoined and was active on there. This changed my life for the better and for the worst. I made friends finally! Ones I talked to every day for hours on end! Just roleplaying with silly characters. I was happy! But then the drama started. It was always there, but it still hurt. I won't go into details, but I made and lost so many friends due to my immaturity and the immaturity of others. Most of us were dumb kids, with at least me being socially isolated growing up.

The Starverse never really took a backseat. I'd figure out how to link characters to it a lot of the time, although not always. I created Ven (named Steven for a while), Runa, Inferno, and many during this time. They all started out as pikmin ocs in one way or another.

I met my friend group at the time. They were different from the first one and we roleplayed basically all day. We meant a lot to each other and we cared for each other. But it was still full of drama...but I won't get into it.

A way I learned to figure out things was to write and research about it. It gave me an understanding things. But with that said, I was terrible with writing things. But I was about...what, 15-16 at the time? We wrote many cringy things and uninformed things. But the worst one was bringing up rape.

On a Discord server for the Amino, I linked a character on my Toyhouse. I had a warning for rape in the profile warning, and someone pointed out that the link wasn't allowed. And then people looked into it, dug into it and my characters, bringing up stuff and nsfw things I had on my profiles. They harassed me that day, I was demoted from mod, and I was severely traumatized. I even had art taken away by an artist; contacted Toyhouse to take the art down, saying I had no permission to use it. It was art that brought me comfort and stopped me from harming myself. I know I was in the wrong, but did I really deserve this? Most people don't think so, but deep down, I feel like I do. I was a stupid kid and I deserved what I had coming.

I was broken. I hid my characters in fear of them being attacked or taken away. I worked on my stories in private and with friends for years. Stuff happened on the Amino that led me to not liking Pikmin without having bad memories come back up.

Around a year later, I fleshed out a story for the community (yes, I was still active there...my idiotic mistake) that became an AU. Called The Land of Seasons. I later turned the world to be it's own thing; I planned to make a game called Spirits about a character in a world that had everyone but three people die and you had to help people move onto the afterlife or something along those lines. With time, that became Seasonstruck.

The story slows from here. It was mostly progress on Seasonstruck, Luminous (another world for a different game), and many other worlds. But the Starverse made slower, but steady progress! I worked on it in bits and pieces.

Around 2019, we discoverd our plurality. We also discovered that, to our surprise, that our ocs were actually real people; fellow headmates. They took over for a time and did their own things on ARPGs (art roleplaying games), but then and several others caused too many problems. Now it's just me that fronts now (the Persona). But they still are here, lingering.

In the years since the incident, we grew and got more comfortable with sharing my art and characters again! I do it more privately, sure, but I still share them! Progress has been made!

I feel bad that there wasn't much amazing progress on anything after the...incident. But it's been so similar for years that it's not worth bringing up the small things (if I even remembered them). It's just slow, stady progress as I go about my life. I mainly just daydream stories and develop from there. I also draw and write stories too! Small things that grow over time.

That should be it! Thank you for reading! :D