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DISVENTURE CAMP S5 FVF EPISODE 3 SPOILERS: BE WARNED
It’s been a couple of days since Oliwia Morawska, along with 23 other individuals, competed in the grandest Disventure Camp season ever, Fans Vs. Favorites!!!
That sounded like a dream to her, not only would she compete in her favorite season for a million bucks, but also she could have the possibility of arguably more important to her than the million is making some genuine friends over the same show she’s been hyperfixating on for years on end.
That’s what she really desired in life: friends.
Sadly, it’s always been a massive struggle for her to make friends; the best case scenario is just a conversation or two with someone, but they quickly lose interest or get weirded out by her. She didn’t care if she won or not; she wanted friends more than anything.
Now she wasn’t expecting to make friends right out of the gate, but she expected to have at least a positive relationship with her team, but that was anything but that. Her only friend, Aubrey, was the first one outta here, which was unlucky, but it seemed everyone on her team had forgotten she existed (a good or bad thing is to be determined), and she couldn’t even cast a correct vote thus far. Oliwia felt like every day in this hellhole of an island was slowly making her crazier and more unstable as a person, and she didn’t want that to happen.
As everyone processed Ernesto’s elimination and went to sleep, Oliwia couldn’t sleep at all. There was a nerve, a nerve she feared ever since as a child.
The main thing that kept her happy was her job as a taxidermist; stuffing animals was always satisfying for her. It helped her a lot more than people otherwise thought, but since she couldn’t do that, she was left with the reality of the empty world of Oliwia Morawska.
Funny thing, it was only her. She didn’t want rest; she needed to preserve an animal, and she wanted to. Quietly, she snuck out of the fans' campsite and went into the jungle, she went trying to find any dead animals and materials too.
Minutes turned into 10 minutes, and those turned into an hour just hunting for anything that could help her taxidermist part of her brain that shut up for once during the entire time she was in DC. Slowly, she got more and more desperate and crazier by the minute on an worser scale than usual.
“Come on, where are they??” Oliwia, panicking, said quickly, looking at every nook and cranny for dead animals. “Ugh…” She disappointingly said, finally giving up and trying to make the right call, as she felt tired, but then she found,
A dead rat.
“Oh, thank god… found something, anything…,” she said, feeling relieved, but that happiness only lasted for so long as she started to lose her balance, and she started to get dizzy. A downwards spiral, if you can call that. However, she somehow managed to stumble her way towards the rat.
Blurry vision, shivering hands, tears coming out of her eyes.
She grabs and tries to cut open the rat, but everything comes back to her.
The loneliness, the bullying, every single little DAMN mistake she ever made while doing taxidermy, the only thing that keeps her SANE.
Trying to slice open the rat, she felt the pain, the worthlessness, the suffering she felt.
“What was I thinking… joining Disventure Camp?” She blurted out, feeling exhausted. “What a great fucking idea, Oliwia, great IDEA.”
As her thoughts start to consume her, she stops slicing the rat open, weakly throwing the rock, leaving just a halfway sliced rat, and Oliwia is still left.
She didn’t care if she won or not; she wanted friends more than anything.
She needed FRIENDS, she wanted friends, but no one cared about her.
That’s what Oliwia thought of, what she had been thinking about for the last couple of years, but she kept believing it wasn’t the case. Now it finally hit her that it was always just that.
Her reality will forever have just herself in it, but even that’s a debate for her. Eventually, Oliwia got too dizzy and fainted, so she was one with the jungle until morning struck. Or that’s what she thought was gonna happen.
“Hey… Hey, um… hi??” A mysterious voice said, which the fainting Oliwia heard and then, after a bit, woke up, breathing uncontrollably, and almost was gonna burst into tears too.
It was still the middle of the night, and then she saw the genderfluid jester, Ren.
“Ren?” Oliwia questioned just waking up from the short-lived rest she had. It was still nighttime, so safe to say it was still late.
“Oh, hi, um… Oliwia, right?” Ren awkwardly said, trying to sound happy, seeing poor, tired Oliwia. “So how have you been… seems like you clearly wanted to sleep with nature, huh?”
“I mean, I guess so. Why are you talking to me, and also how did you find me, huh?” Oliwia said a bit aggressively towards Ren.
“Dang, are you alright?” Ren said to Oliwia, with her still looking panicked.
“Whoops, sorry, I just feel like no one likes me, you know? The only person out of this team that really liked me was Aubrey, and well…”
“Oh yeah, I remember you talked to her a bit before she got out, does suck that she was your friend and then got first boot,” Ren said supporting Oliwia as they attempted to climb up a treee but wanted to listen to Oliwia.
“A-and I don’t know. I thought someone would like me now. I feel lonely and sigh… I’m probably gonna be lonely for the rest of the game.” Oliwia sadly said.
“You know, I don’t normally really find anybody when climbing around the jungle. I assumed everyone was asleep,leep but I guess I was proven wrong. But yeah, I do get it, feeling well lonely.” Ren said.
“Really?” Oliwia said, curious.
“Yeah. Sometimes you feel like you have all of the friends you can have, which is nice, but it can also make you feel really lonely, like Ernesto. And hey, even if you are lonely right now, at least Aubrey is still here, so it’s not all bad. I bet she’s still rooting for you. So I wouldn’t worry too much, try to treasure the friends you have, even if it’s only one friend.” Ren reassured Oliwia.
“Well, see here’s the thing, Ren, it’s only just her. None of my entire team even cares about me, and hell, I already know who I was, literally, Aubrey is the only one that cares about me,e and that’s how I felt like throughout my entire damn life, no one cared, and that’s fine with me, I suppose!” Oliwia Yelle, I'm starting to get a bit emotional.
“Whoa there. Didn’t know it was like that, and I’m sorry for what you had to deal with,” Ren said to Oliwia, who again was almost in tears.
“Ren, no one finds me interesting. I don’t know if anyone cares about my taxidermy hobby or my life to begin with, and ugh, I’m just complaining about pointless stuff that you probably don’t care about,” Oliwia said to Ren, who’s trying their best to comfort Oliwia.
“Hey, I do care, you know? Again, you seem like a cool person, and hey Taxidermy sounds cool, you know? My one friend also does Taxidermy too, you know?” Ren said.
“Ooh, another taxidermist? That sounds so cool! I have to meet up with them right away!!” Oliwia perked up and started getting excited.
“Man, I wish I could see them again. They were cool. Anyway, so… after Ernesto’s booting, I do need a new ally for Dunia and me, so do you wanna join our alliance? Clearly, it seems that you're the odd one out in our team.” Ren offered.
"Wouldn't Dunia think I’m still weird after our interaction today? I did sound a bit crazy earlier today towards her.” Oliwia embarrassingly said.
“I’m sure Dunia is chill with having you in our alliance. So I’m assuming you're in?” Ren said, offering a handshake which Oliwia shook their hand.
“Thank you!! It’ll be great to have friends you know!” Oliwia declared.
“Shhh… It’s still midnight. Also, I would love to hear about your taxidermy hobby with me, Dunia, if you're comfortable talking about it, night.” Ren said to Oliwia as they started to climb up the same tree again, trying to find vines to swing from.
“Well, at least I’m not all alone.” Oliwia smiled as she walked back to camp, looking at the night sky as she finally started to feel a teeny bit happy and also tired too.