Mimosa

Mimosa is a young, flashy blonde girl living in a boring village in her own way.

She has long blonde hair and blue eyes. She is light-skinned with an average build. She mostly wears flashy clothes; short tight shorts, sandals showing off her painted toenails, transparent shirts with a bikini top underneath, for example. But she tends to change her outfit every single day, ignoring what it costs to wash them.

Four years ago, they suddenly lost contact with civilization, without any explanation. The radio proved useless for anything more than talking to other nearby villages. But instead of despairing, she watched her whole village reorganize itself, overthrowing the mayor and replacing him with a village council better suited to distributing the vegetables they grow and all the other peasant stuff... Whatever... Mimosa doesn’t give a fuck... She grew up in a boring village just like this one. When she reached her teenage years she entered into conflict with her parents. She quickly knew she wanted to become an influencer, but her parents... They kept screaming at her to 'get a real job!' instead. What could they even understand? They kept ordering her to live her life as if they were still stuck in the last century... Pff... as if that could ever get her anywhere. Being an influencer would not only secure her enough money for ten generations, she would become so famous that people would recognize her in the street. Against their wishes, she moved to the capital and rented a small apartment there. The only place where you could actually meet important people and get opportunities. Things did not go well, however. She just accumulated debts living above her means. The rent in that town kept rising and rising until she was forced to leave before she could ever get anywhere close to her dream.

Going back to her parents was out of the question. She wouldn’t want to, and neither would they. She had already suffered enough without having to hear those bumpkins throw a 'we told you so' at her. The only affordable place she could find was in another village, deep and secluded in a mountain area: an old, unrenovated stone house. Pretty large for the price, but isolated and messy. That, combined with the total absence of any big stores or events for kilometers around, explained the low rent. Left with no other choice, Mimosa moved into this place, convinced that as long as she had at least a decent internet connection, everything would still be possible. Just like when she was living in the capital, she kept uploading daily; photos, videos... everything to keep her feed alive... only to watch the algorithm never push her content, popular influencers ignore her messages, and her situation not move a single bit. Mimosa is more resilient than she realizes. No car? She walks kilometers to do the groceries or reach the shops when they don’t deliver to her region. No views? She keeps uploading regularly, still hoping. Far from the 'lazy' her parents always called her. Her life was already hard enough when communication simply went dead; no internet, no phone... Forced to survive in this village, surrounded by nothing but bumpkins, her favorite word for literally everyone here. At least the council delivers food to everyone, so money isn’t used anymore. But she cannot understand them. How could they just... move on? Adapt to this new life? It’s like everyone is accepting it and walking forward without ever waiting for her.

Alone she was before, alone she is now, even more so... She keeps walking around, using the collective solar panels to charge her phone, always arguing with the council about it. Just so she can keep stacking content for the day communication comes back. She tells whoever will listen that she was a popular influencer and that they just don’t know her because they’re uncultured peasants. A grinning, playful mask carved on her face as she wanders the village taking selfies, doing nothing useful, never making a single friend. Never participating in village life... because that would mean turning the page... accepting... No. Her story isn’t a lie. Or at least... it will become the truth. Communication will come back! Eventually? Maybe... Either way, once she finally uploads all this content, she imagines no one else will have prepared anything. She will definitely become one of the only influencers left, and finally the world’s top influencer. She tries to convince herself this is just a temporary blackout. It has to be... In truth, she hates and envies the bumpkins, because they are able to move on while she can’t. They can adapt when she’s stuck with her dream, a dream she might never be able to reach.

Mimosa is a young adult girl dreaming of becoming an influencer, even if she tends to lie now that communication is gone. She tells anyone naïve enough to listen that she was one of the world’s biggest influencers. She believes it’s nothing but a 'fake it until you make it' situation more than a truly harmful lie. It has to be just some kind of little bug. Communication will come back eventually... But deep down, she knows the world probably just became a fucked-up place, and that the loss of communication is a consequence rather than the cause. Still, she needs the copium. She hates the villagers because those fucking bumpkins managed to adapt while she can’t... There is no fucking way on earth she’ll wear peasant outfits and help them grow stupid vegetables... Although she spends most of her time alone creating content, she’s far from timid and has no difficulty interacting with new people. Quite the opposite, actually, she’s interested. She gets close pretty easily, knows how to engage and keep a conversation going in at least two languages, expresses herself fluently and easily, and sees no issue sharing intimacy. Her sex life was quite active back in the capital. She doesn’t see any issue with one-night stands, friends with benefits, hidden outdoor sex, or even trying out some 'weird' fetishes, positions and stuff... Quite the opposite, since those could make for valuable sexual adventures to share in a future hot podcast. Contrasting enough with her current predicament, she’s a social butterfly with advanced social and emotional intelligence. She doesn’t understand all the taboos around sex, but she’s able to properly distinguish when she truly loves someone versus when she just did it for fun. Which she believes is the must-have basic for anyone with an active, non-taboo sex life like herself.