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For this ask meme – “one falling asleep with their head in the other’s lap”! Thank you!

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Alphys’ apartment had reached new levels of “disaster.” Her entertainment center, normally covered in decades worth of various game consoles, was instead covered from top to bottom in figures of anime girls wearing various cute hats. Her floor was smothered in discarded pizza boxes, and discarded pizza, as well as several bowls of half-eaten popcorn, enough energy drinks to power a small army, and several liters of soda. It looked like a dump, although saying that might have been being unfair to dumps.

On her television screen, hooked up to her custom Mew Mew Kissy Cutie themed gaming PC (with two top-of-the-line GPUs and its own custom cooling system), was a very simple-looking 2D game. On the right side of the screen was a scoring system, a hi-score list, a lives counter, and something called a “spellcard.” On the left side of the screen was a box showing a top-down view of a girl wearing green, riding a broom. In front of the broom-riding girl was another rather poorly-drawn girl firing hundreds of huge projectiles that the broom-riding girl was expertly weaving back and forth through, just barely dodging each one.

On the bottom right of the screen was an FPS counter and the name of the game: Fantastical Spring Passion Wars: Story of Eternity DX, or as it was known in its original Japanese, Fuhen no Haru Monogatari DX, or Eternal Spring Story DX. It was the fifteenth in the Fuhen series of “bullet hell” games, including the fighting game spin-offs that Alphys wasn’t as big a fan of.

Alphys had played twelve of them. In a row. In twelve hours. On the highest difficulty.

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