“Alright, Now it's your turn Victor. What do you wish to do when you grow up?” It was a normal question to ask a 7 year old in school

As well as probably one of the most asked questions of all time, right next to “What's your name?” and “What's your favourite colour?”

“I want to learn everything!” I shouted out, nearly getting out of my seat from the excitement

“So you want to be a teacher?” I guess I can understand why she thought that now. Kids are dumb after all, and their phrasing is even dumber

“No! I wanna learn everything! Learning is fun!” I heard a few kids snicker at the back of the class at my proclamation “I’m gonna learn everything there ever was!”

The teacher seemed a bit surprised by my stubbornness, and the meaning of my answer, before he chuckled slightly

“Well, that's a good dream to have, Victor”

Those words really ticked me off

I don't know why but I really hated those words

Despised, even

Sat in my chair, I lazely scrolled through a few thousand lines code, before hitting the run button

I was currently trying to program a discord bot I had been commissioned a few days ago

It took me a few all nighters but I managed to get it done quite fast

Before I could even get to doing some more bug fixing, I heard a ping ring out from my computer, and a red notification on the tab that had discord open

I moved my mouse over and opened discord groggily

I was way too sleep deprived for this…

Looking at the notification, I saw that… Someone I didn't know direct messaged me?

Apparently they were part of a coding server that I forgot I had owned

[Faust: Hey! I started coding recently, and I made a little RPG, would you mind testing it out for me?]

That's definitely a virus

Block…

…

Maybe it was my sleep deprived mind, or the fact that I was excruciatingly bored and needed something to do, I refrained from blocking and opened up the link

“My anti-virus is strong enough to just shut it down if it's malware anyway, so there's no harm in it…” I mumble my thoughts to myself, as I find myself in a small semi realistic RPG screen

“Legends of Equestria…?” I read aloud, before pressing the start button. Being greeted with a character customisation screen

It kind of reminded me of the Sims, but it had way too many customisation points

Now first decision, male or female…?

I mean, Male is cool and all but Female characters have smaller hitboxes…

Eh I'll just go with Male-

[WARNING: MALE CHARACTERS ARE DEBUFFED IN SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES DUE TO A MATRIARCHAL SOCIETY]

Huh, weird…

Well, I've already chosen this so I'll just double down

Pressing confirm, I go to the next subject

Race

I press on the race button and find myself being flooded with different options

Pegasus, Unicorn, Earth Pony, Alicorn, Thestral, Draconequus, Dragon, Umbrum, Changeling… And so many more

I scroll all the way down, before finding the option I found most interesting

Mostly because there was a giant warning label next to it

[WARNING: THERE ARE ZERO HUMANS IN EQUESTRIA. YOU WILL BE SPAWNED IN THE WILDERNESS DUE TO YOUR RACE NOT HAVING A CIVILISATION]

Well might as well, it could be better if I pick this since I get spawned in the wilderness instead of someplace with other beings, considering how the male gender has a social disadvantage in this world

Confirm~

Next is… Actually customising the character

It kind of put me on edge how realistic the model they used looked

I spent much more time customising my character than I would have liked to admit, but eventually settled on a quite handsome looking fellow

He was skinny and was pretty tall, standing at 6 Feet 2 Inches, with a tan, dark copper like complexion resembling my real life skin

Neck length curly black hair combined with various scars all across their body. Blade ones, whip ones, burn marks and even a pair of folded up angel wings tattooed on his back

If I were to describe his body in one word it would be…

Twink

That was the first stage of character creation done!

I press the next button and it goes from a Sims screen to something resembling a Google forum…

A questionnaire?

Uh, okay I guess?

The previous screen looked like it took a shit ton of time so I'm assuming this Is legit, and not just a virus

It's definitely not a trojan though, since I'm still on a website and haven't downloaded anything

What's weird is that there were only two questions on it…

[Question 1: What is your name?]

I began to type out my answer

I would never use my real name, no that would be silly

However I do have a pseudonym

One that I go by on literally everything

“Darwin” I type the letters as I speak

I scroll down a little to the next and final question

[Question 2: What do you want more than anything in the world?]

What I want more than anything in the world, huh?

Well…

Money? No, I don't really want that. Fame? Not that either…

Now that I think about it, it hasn't really changed much from when I was a kid…

“I want to learn everything”

I press the next button as my eyelids begin to flutter in a downwards path

Oh… I really am sleepy…

Maybe…

Maybe I can just rest for a bit before actually playing the game…

I close my eyes for the smallest of seconds before my head smashes right into the desk

When I awoke, I found myself in a pure white void

Destitute of anything but a simple silver screen in front of me

[Name: Darwin
Level: 1
Race: Human
Class: God of Knowledge - Followers = EXP

Stats

Strength: 1
Agility: 1
Dexterity: 1
Endurance: 1
Reflex: 1
Intelligence: 1
Comprehension: 1
Magical Precision: N/A
Magical Power: N/A
Divinity: 1

Skills

[UNIQUE - God Of Knowledge: Allows you to know everything and anything you want]]

What's this…?

Oh I get it, I'm dreaming of that RPG…

What's up with my Class? And that skill?

“Is this acceptable?” I hear a feminine voice resounded through my brain

Since I already figured it was a dream, I wasn't all that surprised

“No” I respond

“Uh, E-Excuse me?” the voice sounded both flustered and surprised, as if they weren't at all expecting this

“I said I wanted to LEARN everything, not know everything! Knowledge is cool and all, but I don't care for it. What I want is the euphoria of figuring something out, of disassembling something to see what makes it tick. That feeling where you rip apart your brain and put it back together again with brand new information, incorporating new concepts or knowledge into your mind bit by bit. Theorising about something, thinking about how it works to be proven either right or wrong…” I stop my tangent before I lose track of what I was thinking of “The point is, this would be inhibiting me from doing that! If I already know something, what's the point in learning it? And if I already know everything, I can't ever learn again! That's like putting me in hell ya know!”

“O-oh… I, uh, apologise for that, I'll revise your status…” The voice sounded so confused and startled by my rant that I heard a sense of urgency within the myriad of emotions “Is this acceptable?”

[Name: Darwin
Level: 1
Race: Human
Class: Scholar - Learning = EXP

-Stats

Strength: 1
Agility: 1
Dexterity: 1
Endurance: 1
Reflex: 1
Intelligence: 1
Comprehension: 1
Magical Precision: N/A
Magical Power: N/A

-Skills

[UNIQUE - Genius: 200% Learning Speed + EXP Gain]

[UNIQUE - Unforgettable: What was once learned cannot be unlearned]]

“I suppose so-”

The moment I uttered those words I felt… Nothing

Absolutely nothing

And then I existed?

It's hard to explain…

It was as if I was erased and then remade, the parts in between the two events I couldn't make out, however I could most definitely tell I was somewhere else

Like teleporting, but with something feeling so incredibly, fundamentally… Off

Either way I was now standing buck naked in the middle of a forest…

Author's Note

New story time~

Like I always say... I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM I SWEAR 😭