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The first thing the toy remembers is darkness. being surrounded by fellow toys like it in a trash can waiting to be taken away to god knows where, the toy only knows one thing. That it is different, no other toy was slightly moving like it was, it knew it was different. Was it even a it? It was normally used for non sentient objects and it knew damn well in its minimal knowledge that it was 100% not normal. It’s thoughts were cut short by two voices talking

“Whaddya think we should do with the fucked up toys?” A masculine voice said on the other side of whatever was keeping it from seeing him “Boss said to dump the messed Captain America dolls some random alleyway because and I quote ‘Some homeless kid might want one’” a slightly more feminine one recounted to the other. “Eh you know the boss is always weird, there is an alleyway over there just throw the bag in that trash can.” The masculine one said bitterly.

‘Captain America? Who is that? Is that me? No, that can’t be me. And what’s a doll? That has to be whatever I am. Wait, can I move? Is that normal for a doll?’ It thought as it started moving around by itself, for its limited knowledge and power it thought it was doing pretty good! It was snapped out of its thoughts as it was thrown around whatever it was in like it was moving.

“Done Marco. Are you happy? We went off our trash route just to dump some dumbass misproduced dolls IN ANOTHER TRASH CAN! Why do you even listen to our idiot boss?” The feminine voice screamed at “Marco” in anger. “Well I’m sorry Sharkie that our boss pays us to listen to them.” Marco said way to calmly to “Sharkie.” It could hear them continue to argue as they walked away.

It sat in silence questioning its existence for a little while longer until it decided to figure out how to get out of the darkness. It saw a little bit of light at the top of wherever it was at. So it began its shockingly tedious journey to the light, climbing the other dolls up toward the light

It emerged in a loud, bright world. It saw a lot of strange greyish red rectangles encasing it in a space, a big black barred gate closing it in the space, it tediously hopped down from the odd black bag inside the “trash can” to get a closer look at the things around it. It began on its journey in the enclosed space finding a lot of weird rectangular things with smaller rectangles that were white and had…words….what are words? It didn’t know yet but it will figure it out. There were other dirty dolls like itself there too but they didn’t walk like it did.

It has yet to figure out what it was, so it looked through the trash can to find more things to learn about and found a “mirror.” It doesn’t know how it knows all of this helpful information but it doesn’t really care anymore. It can see what it looks like. It has scruffy blonde hair, tan fabric, a button eye and a glass eye that moves where it looks, brown eyes that looked dull, and clothes that he couldn’t even begin to describe. When it looked at its back it had a…pull string.. it pulled it and it said what he was thinking at that moment! It was so confused but nonetheless looked okay.

It continued to look around the space it was trapped in, so it decided to look at whatever the weird rectangle was…it just realized it was a book! (It was still incredibly confused by why exactly it knew this information.) What was even more confusing was that it knew how to read! It actually understood what the “book” was saying and it was learning so many interesting things about players! Like that they can build in words they create themselves and that they can earn money by doing things for others! It was all so interesting! It also learned about player things like “pronouns” and “names” and “gender!” So it decided that it was now a he and that his name was now Jimmy! He didn’t know why he wanted to be Jimmy but he didn’t care he felt just a bit more human then he was originally!

Jimmy spent the next few weeks reading every book he could possibly find in the alleyway learning new things as time went on. He even learned that there were “God’s” and there was an entire hierarchy of deities in “Minecraft” what he learned the world he was in was called. He was sadly starting to run out of books to read and things to do in the alley so he needed to figure out what he had to do to get out.

The gate had a handle to get it open and he was disappointingly too small to reach and not strong enough to move anything to get to the handle so that was a fail. Back to reading he went for the time being…

He was reading one early morning coming close to one of his last books when he spotted a small glow out of the corner of his eye, so being curious Jimmy stood up and walked towards the magenta glow, he quickly realized that it was another book! His joy was enhanced quickly when he realized it was a book about magic and spells! Maybe it had one that could make him human or atleast make him taller! As he started flipping through the magical book he quickly found a spell that could enhance his height and strength! All he needed was to recite the spell and he would be the size of a human! Sure he may not be human but he was sentient enough?

He successfully recited the spell and got out of the hell that was that alleyway, spellbook in hand and a new mission: to be as human as a toy can get.

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Jimmy has decided that humans are weird.

First of all, In the books they are depicted as people of harmony, that they rarely fight and are kind to one another!

What he’s seeing is very different.

Humans look at hybrids like they are the bane of all existence, that they personally offended them even tho they did nothing at all wrong!

And they look at him funny because of his eye and pull string. He doesn't like that at all.

His train of thought suddenly came to a stop as someone ran into him. “I am so so sorry!” A voice squeaked as they were trying to get themself together, the boy? (Jimmy honestly doesn't know) had a dark blue shirt with a white collared undershirt, black pants, black headphones with red and blue checkered on the sides of the earphone, dirty blonde hair, beady black eyes, glasses and very dull and messy parrot wings. They looked like they had just escaped from something, they probably did from how bad they looked.

“Are you okay?” Jimmy asked them quietly, wait did he just speak? He could do that? His voice sounded cool at least. “Y-yeah I’m okay….we’ll I am now. I just got out of a toxic server so I’m excited and scared at the same time..” They said almost too quiet for Jimmy to hear. Another thing sad about this world is the toxic and abusive servers. Jimmy thought they were nice though and he needed friends so he went for it “Well, I haven’t been around very long and you seem like you probably need someone to talk to so do you wanna hang out for a while?” He asked awkwardly, why is conversing harder then they made it out to be in the books?

“Y-yeah sure! I’m Grian, nice to meet you!” Grian said excitedly, good that worked I’m meeting people.. “I’m Jimmy by the way” Jimmy said as they started walking and talking about anything and everything. He eventually learned that Grian was a boy and came from a server called Yandere High School. His best friend was a psychopathic rabbit hybrid named Sam and that he stabbed his best friend..back to my original point that players are weird! He also learned that Grian’s feathers were normally bright but they dull with stress.

“So you know everything about me, what about you? I don’t really know much about you yet!” Grian said enthusiastically, he isn’t as shy as he was when he met him. “ Oh uh well, you know when we met I said I haven’t been around that long? Well I met that literally. I’m a literal sentient doll and have been alive for around a month…” Jimmy spoke awkwardly, he didn’t know how Grian would react to him being a toy but he hoped not badly because he didn’t want to lose his only friend. “Well that explains a lot” Grian stated simply “Wait- what?” He stammered in shock “Yeah well- you have the pull string and the button eye but I thought it was some weird hybrid thing I’ve never heard of, that’s actually really cool though you are surprisingly cool despite only being on Minecraft for a month!” Grian said enthusiastically

Jimmy was glad that Grian was okay with it, Grian was his only friend at the moment and he didn’t wanna lose him. Jimmy and Grian continued to talk for hours and hours only stopping to grab Grian some new clothes because seeing himself in the ones he’s in at the moment almost send him into a panic attack and Jimmy didn’t know how to deal with that

“Hey Tim, do you want to get anything to cover your toy-like features?” Grian asked absentmindedly as he was looking through the sweaters before stammering and correcting himself “I-I mean like you don’t have to but it’s just I know how normal players stare at people that are not “normal!” I’ve been around 17 years and I can barely stand it. I can't imagine what it would feel like if I had been around for like a month!” Grian spoke very quickly but Jimmy understood where he was coming from.

“Grian, Grian calm down. I was already thinking that you don’t need to apologize! I don’t really like the stares so I was gonna get a cape and an eyepatch for now!” Jimmy said enthusiastically in an attempt to calm Grian down. He wasn’t lying though, he really was going to cover it up because he knows damn well that some people aren’t as understanding and nice as Grian. So now with Grian calmed down he starts searching for a cape, there is a wide variety of colors but the one that catches his eyes is the red one with a white trim. It looks amazing and matches his color scheme so he grabs it to try on.

When he puts it on he looks sick. Grian had taught him a few words that he didn’t know and that one defined the cape perfectly. “Woah….you look so cool!” Grian said as he looked at the cape in awe. “it really suits you!” “Thanks, I’m definitely getting it!” Jimmy said as he began to walk out of the store, but then was stopped by Grian “Tim! You gotta pay for that!” Grian whispered as he glanced at the shopkeeper that was giving them the death glare “Oh, but I don’t have money-“ Jimmy spoke sadly but then was cut off by Grian “It’s fine I have some! It’s on me” He said as he went and paid for their items.

“Thanks G…” “No problem Tim..”

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“Hey Griannn- I uh finished high school??” Jimmy told Grian who was currently staring at Jimmy in shock “I’m sorry, WHAT.” Grian tried not to yell.

It has been 5 months since that fateful day of “oh, I’m alive cool” and Grian and Jimmy moved in together! While Grian was going to college and training to become a admin Jimmy was going through all of school! He skipped up to seventh grade and started…he was done with middle school in a week. So that’s fun, and it only took Jimmy 2 months to be done with Highschool! It would have taken less time but he was absolutely TERRIBLE at math. If math wasn’t a thing it would have taken him 2 weeks…

“How are you done with all of school in 2 months?!?” Grian almost screamed in shock, startling Jimmy, making him stumble back. “Well I finished all of my other work in 2 weeks math was just extremely confusing…why do I need to even know what the hell math is?!?” Jimmy replied, angry at the universe for making math a relevant thing.

They both stared at each other for a little while until Grian finally said “What. The. FUCK. TIM?! HOW?! HOW SMART ARE YOU?!?” Jimmy stared at Grian for a minute before he said almost the dumbest thing ever, “Wait…was I supposed to go slower….?”

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“TIMMY TIMMY TIMMY!!” Grian was yelling while running into their living room, Jimmy was currently studying for his doctorate degree in Minecraftian History, and he was almost done with it! It had only taken him 6 months, not the normal 6 YEARS to get it! So that was great.

“Yeah Grian? What’s up?” Jimmy replied. Grian was practically vibrating in excitement as he said almost too quickly for Jimmy to understand “OH MY GOD I PASSED MY ADMIN TEST AYYAYAYAYAYAYAYSYAYAYAYAYAYAYFGDUDBJDB” Grian was STILL vibrating as Jimmy’s nonexistent mind caught up “Wait wait wait, YOU PASSED?!? OMG WE NEED TO CELEBRATE!” And now Jimmy was vibrating in excitement alongside Grian as the went to get ready to celebrate! Jimmy dawned his casual outfit, a Jean jacket, white t-shirt, some old ripped jeans and a black cape. Grian put on a slightly newer red sweater and some black jeans.

“Where do you wanna eat Grian? My treat!” Jimmy asked as they began to walk around the hub. Jimmy had gotten a job as a middle school history teacher (cause he hated himself and liked kids /j) He didn’t get paid very well but he didn’t really care! His and Grians combined income made them more than stable!

“Hmm, some hibachi sounds nice!” Grian said as they conveniently passed a local Hibachi restaurant nearby. They were greeted by a nice vex hybrid who had way to many scars on his face to be normal. “Hello there! I’m Scar and I’ll be your server for today! Can I start you with some drinks?” The vex named scar said as if he was passionate about being a server for some reason…? But whatever that’s besides the point! “I would like some water, what about you, Grian?” Jimmy said to scar as Grian looked like he was in an entirely other world. “Uh grian? What do you want to drink? Jimmy asked as Grian snapped out of whatever trance he was in. “Oh uh yes! I would like some sake and water please…”

“Coming right up!” Scar said enthusiastically as he left to go get their drinks. “Grian are you okay? You look a bit red..?” Jimmy asked, genuinely confused as to why Grian was combusting “I-oh nothing! Nothing at all, I'm great! Fantastic!” Grian responded, turning almost as red as his sweater as Jimmy finally put the pieces together what was going on. “Oh. My. God YOU LIKE HI-“ Jimmy almost finished as Scar came over and Grian threw a hand over his mouth.

Scar set their drinks down and Grian almost chugged his Sake in one big gulp. “So would you guys like to order yet or not?” Scar said as Grian was just staring into space, Jimmy decided to take initiative and ordered 2 hibachi steaks for the two of them. Scar wrote down their orders and walked away.

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“Haha ur in looooove~~~” Jimmy sang in a mockingly sweet voice as they were walking back to the apartment “Shut it Tim!” Grian almost screamed back at him.

“At least I got his number…..”

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Hey gang! forgot abt this fic BUT ive posted a rewritten first chapter so go see if you want! <3