Falling. Tripping. Face planting. Cuts. Bruises. Burns. Sprains. Broken bones. All things that Bennett himself has encountered. His bad luck is really an annoying thing to possess.

Whenever the boy trained with his sword, he would either cut himself or his sword breaks. Whenever he's training with his vision, he either burns himself or sets something on fire and needs every hydro and cryo vision in the area to put it out. (Ayaka's sakura swirl was really effective last time)

But today was a new day, as the bad luck weilder had an idea... Join the school play! But not for a role (as he would forget even a one-word line), he would be part of the crew! Now this cast and crew isn't just any, ordinary group, all of them have visions!

One day, Fischl brought up the arts and Bennett thought 'oh, I have a pyro vision, maybe I can make light with fire!' A thought that consumes all the yummy logic anyone can possess. So he asked to join the light crew... AND HE GOT IN.

He soon realised that there were only three people in the light crew- including himself. One of the other people- wait no, thing? Was none other than... EMERGENCY FOOD and Amber, and then Venti and Kazuha can help when needed for height. Paimon and Amber perfect for the job, and Bennett soon realised that he should memorize what other people's jobs were. (and apparently teachers can join in on the crew)

Run crew: Xiao, Yae Miko, Keqing, Kujou Sara, Raiden Ei, Yelan

Set build crew: Mona, Ganyu, Diluc, Fischl, Klee, Dehya, Rosaria, Noelle

Sound crew: Venti, Kazuha, Itto (he even said that he could play an instrument!), Barbara, Lisa, Dori, Al Haitham

Light crew: Bennett (me!), Amber, Paimon

Prop crew: Beidou, Xiangling, Xingyan, Nahida

Injury healer (for those who take 'break a leg' seriously): Qiqi

Video crew: Albedo, Aloy, Gorou

Stage managers: Ningguang, Kokomi, Zhongli, Kuki Shinobu, Jean

Dance crew (they make the dances): Heizou, Nilou, Childe (TAR-TAR-TAGLIA), Eula, Collei, Hu Tao, Kaeya

Leads:

Yun jin, Razor, Thoma

Chorus/Ensemble:

Ayato, Ayaka (she wanted the lead but stayed for her brother), Candace, Cyno, Yoimiya, Chongyun, Xingqiu, Damslette (The La La La girl), Scaramouche, Signora, Yanfei, Aether, Lumine

Animal cast (acting as animals): Tighnari, Timmie, Sayu, Sucrose, Cyno

Side job of animal cast (just one scene): Yae Miko, Gorou, Fischl, Diuc, Kokomi, Collei, Amber, Kujou Sara, Dori, Itto, Ganyu, Diona

That's a lot of people, Gorou, Yae Miko, Fischl and a lot of other people even have two jobs! I hope I can become friends with all of them... Though I heard that one of the leads isn't the nicest... I bet I'll meet the later with my luck.

"Oh, ow, where'd that come from?" I ask no one in particular after a rock found it's way to my head.

The first meeting I was called into was the third one- well, really I was supposed to be in the second but I didn't receive the email because I broke my computer again.

"Adventurer Who Bears the World's Curses," A unique voice announced, startling my thought process.

I turn to see my amazing friend, Fischl!

"Hi! It's been a while," I exclaim, pulling her into a short hug.

"The Prinzessin der Verurteilung has consumed TWO jobs," Fischl says, holding up two fingers, then going into more shakespearian nonsense, "unlike the meterological device of the curse bearer that of which weilds the worst of luck, as even one day may be as bad as a lifetime,"

"WOAH, I understood EXACTLY what you said!" I was so happy, she was talking about me! The bad luck/curse bearer!

Fischl grinned at the fact that I didn't have to use her 'Fischl Dictionary' for what she said.

"Only thy honored servant of the Pinzessin der Verurteilung shall bid understandment to thou blessed words," Fischl put her hand up to her eye patch and flicked one of her pigtails out of her face.

"Are you making your words more understandable for me?" I ask, and Fischl freezes.

"Maybe..." She mumbles.

"Aww, thank you!" I exclaim happily, but then a shout louder than my own busted through my ears.

"ITTO! PUT YOUR SHIRT BACK ON!" The angry voice belonged to a girl with green hair and a mask, who was shouting at a tall, buff male that was in the process of taking his shirt off in front of Kaeya.

"But we were going to compare muscles..." The buff guy with red horns said sadly, but slid his shirt back on anyways, continuing to pout.

"Attention please!" A voice through the speakers broke the mini argument.

"I am Ningguang, one of your stage managers. Today we called run crew, set build crew, light crew and the leads to attend today, if you are not in one of those groups then we will ask you to kindly leave," A steady announced, but then she paused.

"Unless you are Itto, who needs babysitting from Kuki," She finishes. I look over to the teacher. She was seated at a stand with three microphones and a couple of computers, Zhongli, Kokomi, Jean and Ningguang sat at the table, the other stage manager, Kuki was punishing Itto.

"We will now be telling your jobs, listen carefully as you are going to do this or the next hour and a half," Jean says into a microphone.

I stop whatever I was doing as other chatter slowed to a stop.

"The overall summery of what we're going to do is repeat the most important scene of the play- where the wolf, played by Razor, will try to give the lead, played by Yun Jin, a loaf of bread to her and say that he's sorry for eating her goat, played by Ganyu." The one speaking was Ningguang.

"Light crew, your job today is spotlights. Paimon, you will go for the light right above the stage, and try to keep you floating constellation sparkles to a minimum. Amber, you'll take the stage left spotlight in the catwalk, Bennett, you'll take stage right." Kokomi says, reading from a paper.

"Bye Fischl!" I exclaim, looking for a girl with red bunny ears to follow.

Of course, I couldn't find her so after a minute, I was pointed to a door with the help of Jean.

Eventually, I got up to the spotlight I was supposed to steer. Apparently, it took so long for me to get up here that everyone else was in their spots, even Itto was in his assigned naughty corner. I look down at the red seats, it was a really nice theater, expensive mics, lights and tall railings so even I won't fall.

Then the scene started.

"I... Am sorry," Razor said, gingerly handing a prop to Yun Jin with one hand, as the other held a script.

"I-is this for me!?" The girl, Yun Jin, was really go at acting, so good that I forgot to shine the spotlight.

"Stage right spotlight, do your job," Ningguang said through her microphone. Shoot, I'm stage right spotlight!

"Sorry!" I call, then begin to steer the heavy machine to the two leads.

The scene continued.

"It is... And I am sorry for eating your... Goat?" He questioned the last word.

"It's okay, this bread will feed my whole family tonight!" Yun Jin said, yeeting her script off the stage as she memorised the rest of the entire play.

"Lights off!" Ningguang shouted, and I try to flick the switch.

But there was a key word in that lest sentence, 'try', so as you might have guessed, the light would not turn off.

"What's happening? Turn that spotlight off," Jean said.

"It won't turn off!" I shouted down.

"I'll come up and see, continue!" Jean left her seat and headed up to the catwalk.

As he scene continued, a new prop came on, but I didn't know what it was so I leaned over the railing to try and get a better view.

"Bennett-" Jean's voice came from my left as my body started to feel weightless. I was glad that the fall wouldn't be far, but it still would hurt.

Everyone stopped their jobs to watch my quick fall from the catwalk. But my landing wasn't the hard, cold floor, it wasn't comfortable, but it was warm. DID I LAND ON A HUMAN!? Was my first thought, and that prediction was correct.

I landed on the loner, the meanest actor in the play... I got up faster than Xiao after hearing that they're serving quality Almond Tofu for lunch.

"I'm so sorry!" I exclaim, offering a hand to help him up.

Razor just stared.

The grey-haired boy got up by himself, and I was just about to walk away but I started to fall again. The wolf boy caught me.

"Are you alright...? You seem to... trip many many times," He asks with a concerned voice. Wow, he must really be in character to keep up the same type of speech.

"I-I'm fine! I'll be going now!" I shout, and ran off after my balance was regained. I think he was just being nice and would later be mean to me...

...

Two weeks passed and I fell on Razor TWO MORE TIMES. Yes, TWO. I haven't fallen on Fischl --the only person I hang out with-- that many times yet. Well, I fell on her twice, but I fell on Razor THREE TIMES TOTAL. But he isn't as mean as I thought he would be, and we normally take a snack break after act one, almost everyday, and I forget my snack and one time he asked if I was hungry!

He might be nice after all! Fischl asked her talking-raven-parrot-thing to spy on him to see if he really was nice after pleading to find out but he heard Oz flapping his wings right away! As if he could hear like a wolf!

So today, I will ask him to... Be my friend! Because I'm desperate!

...

We just finished act one, and it was snack time, today, I triple checked my backpack and made sure that I brought my snack, and success! So I run towards Razor. He normally sits in the back (cast and crew sit in the theater's seats at snack time) alone so he was easy to spot.

I caught him staring/glaring? At me as I neared.

"Did you, umm... Bring snack?" Razor asked as I neared, a little surprised.

"Yeah! For the first time in three weeks I have brought a snack!" I cheered.

"Good for you," He says, and goes back to his own snack.

"Soooooooo," I say, and Razor looks up at me again, "I heard from rumors that you were a mean person and-"

"I am?" He asks, a little hurt by my words.

"No! I was just about to explain that those people were wrong! I was about to ask if you wanted to be my friend?" I ask. If he denies, that's fine, right?

"Fr-friend?" He tries the word, as if he had never heard it before.

Then he realises the meaning of the word and begins to smile slightly.

"Like Lupical?" He asks happily.

"Uhh, what?" I was insanely confused, I knew I had bad grades and never understood anything in the Language class but what the heck is 'Lupical'?

"Do you want to be my lupical?" He asks again.

"Did you get a friend, Little Wolf?" A soothing voice suddenly asks, I turn my head and see the librarian, Lisa, approach us.

"Hello miss Lisa!" I exclaim.

"Hello, how's my book doing?" She asks.

"What book...?" Her expression grows cold and I begin to sweat buckets, or should I say- Bennetts. Hahahaha. I should stop hanging out with Cyno.

"Oh I'm just joking, you should have seen your face!" She does this weird giggle snort chuckle when Jean comes up to us.

"I'm going to steal her- I hope she didn't bother you," Jean gives us an innocent smile then drags the complaining Lisa away.

"Do you think they're dating?" I whisper to Razor.

"Day-ting..?" He repeats, trying out the word.

"Yeah! Like, they'd live together and love each other forever," I start to shout but then whisper again- no one should hear us!

"Do you want to... Dating?" Razor asks innocently.

"No, you misunderstand, dating is when you kiss and hold hands, being friends on the other hand is when you just have fun together- but without the kissing," I grin.

"So you want to... Be friends?" He asks.

"Of course!" My grin spreads even further.

"Bennett be quiet!" Kuki shouts.

"Sorry!"

...

I introduced Razor to Fischl. I find it funny, they both are electro and they talk funny- and they're both friends with me! But Razor couldn't really understand Fischl for he can't even understand english too well.

I learned that Razor wasn't mean, just that he had trouble communicating with others his age or people who didn't have patience. He was adopted by the governor of the city Mondstadt, and learned his little english from him. Razor apparently was raised by wolves? I don't know if he's lying because that happens only in fairytales, but why would he lie about that? So I believe him. But I've also been having weird butterflies when I fall on him, or when he scootches closer to me while I'm retelling a story that one of my dads tell me of their adventures and how they met.

Maybe I'm feeling what my dads felt when they were younger.

But it's only been one day sinse Razor and I are officially friends! And it's been soooooooo fun!

"Bennett!" A harsh voice shout.

"Eek!" I was startled by the noise.

"Yun Jin gave up her role for you," Kuki says, walking up to me with Yun Jin beside her.

"I'm so sorry- wait, WHAT," I shout.

"Yun Jin saw that you can communicate with Razor and that would be great for the play, we have a couple weeks to go before we finish the whole thing and its not too late to switch roles. You just need to learn the dances, songs, what to do with the animals and props and your actions. Yun Jin offered to tutor you in everything, especially in dance because Childe gave her a hard time, singing weird song parodies that were completely irrelevant to the play," While Kuki explains, I lose my mind.

Me, the one who signed up for LIGHT CREW, gets to be the LEAD. WHAT. I never wanted to do this. NOOO. There were so many talented people who didn't get the leads, like the Kamisato siblings, and Aether and Lumine, they are CHORUS. And I over ALL people get to be the lead? This must be a joke! Thats it! Its a joke!

"Nice joke but-" I start.

"This is not a joke, starting from today you will be called everyday along with ther other leads, Razor and Thoma; and practice your lines with them," Kuki says, completely serious. Shoot.

"But I just joined the play to have fun doing an easier job! I have a terrible memory, I can't possibly remember all the lines in time!" I explain, everyone worked so hard on this play- I didn't want to ruin it!

"You'll do just fine, don't worry, we took off some unimportant lines that didn't really affect the show and made more physical interactions with Razor," Yun Jin says, smiling all so innocently. They made CHANGES to the ENTIRE PLAY!?

"Okay, but I really don't want to ruin the play..." I say again, hopping that Yun Jin will keep her role.

"That's why you'll practice." The two girls say.

...

Everyday after school, I practiced my lines with Yun Jin, I even came before school on Monday and practiced interactions. Yun Jin was a great teacher, she told me what expressions, tones and gestures I should use for each line.

I was taught the dance I was supposed to perform after may horse, I was so excited when I got it down! I also found out that Thoma would be my girlfriend in the play, so I appologised to Ayato repeatedly, even if we wouldn't kiss in the play.

I bonded quite well with Razor, and still kept my friendship with Fischl, who also made a new friend who predicted that Klee would blow up the tree that she worked so hard on. Her name was Mona. She was a teacher only five years older than us but treating us as if we were the same age- she even tried the Fischl talk and didn't completely fail!

"Okay, animals, go to your designated lead! Run crew, take note to deliver the animals to the right person!" Ningguang said through the microphone. Is the run crew going to CARRY people acting as animals!?

"Wait WHAT-" I shout, the fact that I had a microphone slipping my mind.

A high-pitch echo flooded the whole theater, its source? My mic. Again. This is the third time that has happened today. Just TODAY. I feel like it isn't just my bad luck now, do I have amnesia!? Just kidding! I'm not that much of an idiot! Wait- did I just call myself an idiot?

"Bennett please refrain from shouting, it is unnecessary," Zhongli says calmly.

"I'm sorry..." I mumble, looking at the floor. I messed up again.

"Benny," A voice said beside me. "Do not be sad, you... Will be hap-ey soon,"

"Thanks Razor," I try to smile, and try to brighten my mood, just by thinking of happy things can make me happy!

"Did you pick the person that will be acting as your uh... 'Lupical'?" I ask him.

"Yes. We look very similar and he does good at being wolf," Razor says.

"Oooo, what's his name?" I ask.

"Sign-oh...?" He tries the name, but I'm assuming he didn't pronounce it entirely right as he shook his head.

"It's okay, I think I know who you're talking about, Cyno, right?" I say and he grins and nods.

"Coolie," I grin back.

"Restart scene! Change of plans!" Jean shouts.

"Run crew will practice bringing the animals over to the leads, this way we can capture mistakes early," Zhongli explains. I get into position.

"Hey Yin," Thoma waves to me, somehow doing a very feminine voice.

"Hello Helena," I respond. I succeeded at my line! Yes!

"Shall we go for a walk?" Thoma asks, holding out his hand for me to grab. I grab it. I can feel a death stare burning holes into my back.

"Of course," I smile to Thoma, as my character, Yin, always does for this scene.

We walk a little bit on the stage but then we see Razor's fake tail coming from a bush.

"Oh my, honey, what do you think that is?" Thoma acted surprised, and I did too.

"An animal tail is my thought," I kneel down as I say this, and I can see Yun Jin giving me a thumbs up for following her instructions correctly.

"Do you think its dead!?" Thoma shouts, making a disgusted expression.

I grab a stick (prop) from the floor and poke the tail. Then Razor stands and comes out of the bush, glaring at us both in a very scary way.

"Why disturb my peace?" He asks, adding an angry tone to his glare.

"Y-Yin, let's go!" Thoma grabs my arm and lightly tugs it towards the opposite direction, where we came from.

"Are you the wolf that killed my goat?" I ask, narrowing my eyes at him. I hated this scene, as I would act line I hated Razor, even though I love him! Platonically of course! Heh...

"The goat did not have any h-uman... stuff to it. So I ate it," Razor growls.

"But- umm..." I try to think of my line, "Uhh..."

"Do you need your line?" Jean asks, holding a script in her hand.

"No, I got this!" I exclaim.

"Are you sure?" Jean asks.

"Give me the start of it," I say.

"But you still-" Jean starts, then I remember the rest of it!

"-shouldn't have eaten a goat, you're in the wrong," I say to Razor.

"I... am...?" Razor asks, breaking a little character as he stops his glare and angry tone.

"I'm sorry Razor! That's just me acting!" I exclaim.

"Bennett! That was his line!" Ningguang says through the mic. I freeze.

"O-oh! Sorry!" I shout.

"Razor, back to your line," Kokomi says.

"I... am..?" He asks.

"I'm sorry, but unless you want to- AhH! Another wolf!" I shout.

"Great work Bennett!" I can hear Yun Jin shout, and I can't help but grin.

"What hap...ened?" The other wolf, played by Cyno, asks.

"He ate my goat!" I point a finger to Razor.

"I was hungry..." Cyno explains.

"Yin! Thyme, Piggy, Sour and Sweet are here, don't let the wolf eat them!" Thoma guards the animals by spreading his hands out as a shield.

The character were like this: Thyme - Tighnari, Piggy (pronouned like pidge-ey)-Timmie, Sout - Sayu, Sweet - Sucrose.

This was a weird scene that didn't make much sense to me but it was still a necessary part of the play.

"You wolves better not eat them," I warn.

"I will not, you have... My bread," Razor says, passing a burnt bread prop over to me.

"Did you... Steal this?" I accuse.

"No, he made," Cyno corrects.

"Well I guess all wolves aren't bad... Maybe we can make this bread suffice for the milk the goat provided," I say to Thoma.

"I guess so, but we need to get our own animals back home, and piggy might fly away again." Thoma says, gesturing to the little boy in a pigeon costume.

"Well let's go home, I hope we can be friends later on, wolf," I smile at Razor naturally, so this scene was easy.

"You call me.. Keen," Razor says, then elbows Cyno.

"I can be, uh. Scarab," He says.

"Nice to fully understand and meet you, we'll be off," I grin at the two, then face towards Thoma.

Thoma and I both walk off the stage together, doing the motions of trying to keep the animals together that were there for no reason.

"Good job everyone! Paimon, kudos to you, I couldn't see any of your floaty sparkles," Kokomi compliments.

"Everyone did great for their lines," Kuki says, making me feel a little guilty.

"Good use of props," Zhongli comments.

"Now everyone, tomorrow is last rehearsal without a crowd," Jean announces.

"Wait- WhAT!?" I shout.

"What's wrong Bennett?" Jean asks, looking a bit concerned.

"It's my dad's birthday in two days, I can't miss it! I've always skipped school to go hiking with him!" I exclaim.

"Bennett, it's fine, we can talk to him and ask if he wants to see your show," Jean says.

"But he's stubborn and I haven't told him that I got a lead!" I say.

"Bennett.." Jean sighs and pinches her forehead.

"Just get him to come, I can force him if I need to," Jean says.

"Okay," I sigh as well.

...

"You have to come! I love going on hikes with you but in two days is our opening night and-" I start, but one of my dads puts a hand on my shoulder, making me stop talking and look up at him.

"Bennett, do you have an old calendar again? My birthday's tomorrow," Dad says.

"Oh, good," I sigh in relief.

...

Opening night! I can't wait. I always double check my lines before entering, but I can't find my script!

"Bennett," The voice of Fischl says.

"May you be sanctified by thou brilliant illuminence of the 'light crew'," Fischl says, handing me a script with a ripped edge.

I take the script in my hands and look at the cover, where everyone is forced to write their name.

It said 'Fischl' in loopy, elegant handwriting.

"Thank you Fischl! May the brilliant luminescence sanctify you too!" I grin, pulling her into a hug.

"You have no idea what you're saying, do you?" Fischl asks me while returning the hug.

"Nope!" I release the hug and head to my spot backstage. I mean, we already were backstage but in my specific spot backstage, where nothing can fall on me as easily as other places.

Then the scene starts. The story teller, Venti, memorised the lines in a few days and even changed it to rhyme a little! Once he's done telling the beginning of the story and plot and stuff, it's my time to go onstage with my animals in a barn. In this scene, every person(?) with ears heads onstage and do little intiractions.

For example, Gorou and Yae Miko play a one-ended tag, and Collei and Amber play pattie cake.

"Hello, lovelies," Thoma says to the animals. Some cheers can be heard as the lead comes on.

"Helena, where are you going?" I ask, holding a bucket prop that was made from foam so it wouldn't be loud if (when) I drop it.

Some more cheers could be heard.

"Wait- where's Willy?" I look around for Ganyu (who was supposed to be offstage).

"Do you think she escaped?" Thoma looks at me worridely.

"I really hope a wolf didn't eat her..." I mumble, setting my bucket down and running offstage.

...

The play was fun, we did some dances and finished. I felt accomplished. And yes, we finished the play, I know, I know, timeskips can be annoying and all but really, I had fun.

At the end, all the thespians (a synonym for actor/actress but with no restraint on gender) leave the area after running through the ailes between the seats and head out into the main common area where guests arrive and the thespians take a break to eat during rehearsals.

"Woo!" Someone shouts.

"We did it! High five!" Someone else says.

"Razor, good job!" I walk over to Razor, who looks a little more down than usual. "What's wrong?"

"Lupical.. Could not come," He says in a pitiful voice.

"Well, my family couldn't either, they took some of my luck and there weren't any tickets left for any of the shows," I explain, trying to get him happy again, I mean, we just completed the play successfully!

"But...!" I say, bringing Razor's gaze up to mine, "My dads did bring me some steak and ham with a side of potato chips!"

"Have fun.. Eating? Them," He says.

"Oh no no no! You misunderstand, I'm inviting you to come eat with me!" I exclaim.

"Really?" If Razor had a tail, it'd be wagging rapidly.

"Hey Wolf and Yin, can you pose for a picture?" A voice interrupts us. I turn to look at them.

"Dad!?" I ask.

"Even after practicing, you can't act un-surprised," Dad chuckles.

"Un-surprised in not a word, Dad," I correct.

"Well, it seems that you made a friend, I'm proud of you," Dad says, putting a proud hand on my shoulder.

"Yeah! We were gonna eat the meat and potatoes in the lonely corner over there! Wanna join?" I ask excitedly.

"Oh no, I couldn't disturb you and your friend," He says, chuckling.

"Oh yeah, and what about Father?" I ask, referring to my other dad.

"We couldn't get two tickets so he said that I should go because it's my birthday," Dad explains.

"Well that's cool, we're gonna go eat now," I point to the corner.

"Okay, okay, I'm leaving," Dad chuckles and exits the school.

"I didn't know you had.."" Razor struggles to find the right words, "two lupical,"

"Oh, you mean my dads? Yeah, I don't know my real parents so my dads adopted me," I say with my same excitement.

"I did noot know you were... Like me," Razor says.

"Yeah, but I'm getting hungry, let's eat!" I exclaim, pulling out a whole roasted pig and a huge slab of steak with two bags of potato chips.