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season 1
Lightbulb was 15 at the start of season 1 of inanimate insanity, most of the contestants were around that age during filming with the acceptions of contestants like bomb,paper,oj ,salt and pepper who were 17. She joined the show due to a less then stellar homelife , she soon learnt alot of the others joined for similar reasons. Her parents were overly homophobic and religious, she was taught from a young age that showing when she was anything but a happy go lucky boy was unacceptable so..that's what she showed the world.
During season one while she had fun she felt like she was lying to herself, she watched as the girls like salt and pepper did their makeup and hair and wore fun dresses and she wished she could do stuff like that but if her family found out she would be dead so she stayed the same. She hated it, everything about her felt wrong, she hated her hair being so short she couldn't do fun styles with it, she wanted to do fun sparkley makeup to make her shine brighter , she wanted to wear fun dresses and skirts instead of the itchy jeans and boring t-shirts her parents bought.
There was also that feeling of being alone while she was in the game, sure she had her team and they were friendly but then again she had no real close bonds with any of them to start with , marshmallow and painty were close, baseball and nickel were best friends ,paper got voted out quickly and knife was...knife. soon enough she was eliminated for the first time due to misspelling from viewers, she got closer to baseball while on idiotic island (in this its a campsite not a cage) but still she could tell he found her energetic nature abit much. She rejoined after awhile and tried to get close to painty and marsh but it still felt hollow, everything started feeling like it was hollow but she kept smiling, she had to keep smiling.
After she got eliminated again she saw knife drinking something out of a flask late one night , " oh it's scotch , want some?" He asked smirking " how you get that past security?" She questioned. "Eh I have my ways plus it helps calm the stress from the competition behind the cameras and have some fun" knife told her. Lightbulb knew she shouldn't, it was wrong to drink when your a minor but.. everything was getting to her so..she took a sip and then another and another.
That was the start of a long tricky path