2 - Alice Liebern

I was born with a heart condition, the doctor said it was treatable but my child body was too weak to undergo the surgery. So I had to grow up until I was ready for it. I endured years of suffering and occasionally stayed in the hospital, giving up a normal child's life.

One night when I couldn't fall asleep, I was randomly watching videos in MagicaTube until I caught a stream.

"...Ah, can you hear me?... mic test 1 2 3... looks like everything is good.

Welcome to the stream for tonight. I'm the MagicaTuber working in the shadows to bring joy to my clients, Alice Liebern."

It was just a normal singing stream, using her guitar to play songs requested by the viewers. The soft strumming on her guitar and her peaceful voice was so comforting that i ended up falling asleep midway through it. However, it felt like I had a good night sleep in a very long time.

The next night, I went to her stream again, and the night after, and so on. Before I knew it, I had become her fan.

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"Welcome to the stream for tonight. I'm the MagicaTuber working in the shadows to bring joy to my clients, Alice Lied. I have gathered many MagicaMallows shared by the viewers today. So, let's go through them together..."

It was one of Alice Lied's usual chat streams where the fans send in random things to talk about. It's normally an enjoyable stream for all but I had to send in my feelings.

"Next up is from Anonymous-chan.

'Hi Alice, this is actually my first MagicaMallow ever since I became a fan a month ago... kinda weird to admit it now...' "

I was absolutely embarrassed for writing that out.

" '...I'm going through a major surgery tomorrow for my heart condition and there's a low success rate. I'm scared that it is going to fail and this might be the last time talking to you. But I want to thank you for all the wonderful streams that helped me to get through the hard parts of my life.'

Anonymous-chan, cheer up. Even if there's one percent chance, I would still do it because I want to meet you here. So don't think that you won't make it through tomorrow but think of tomorrow's stream and the good news that everyone that is waiting for.

The tears in my eyes swelled up, flowing uncontrollably but through my blurry vision, I can see the 'Thank you' that I typed out.

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Needless to say, the surgery went well. Although I was in a mini-coma for several days but there was nothing wrong with me anymore, my heart condition was completely cured.

I was ecstatic and wanted to send a message to Alice immediately to thank her for the support but...

There was no channel with that name on it...

All traces of her, her channel, her social media accounts, all completely disappeared without a trace. No one knows when or why did she disappeared nor do any of them had any answers. It's just like Alice Liebern had never existed in the first place.

Eventually, people stopped trying to find clues, her old clips slowly got buried by the sea of new content and she became forgotten by time.