The question on everyone's mind: "
How does popularity work?"
Well, to answer that in a nutshell, I say that you need to know your place. YOU can't decide where you belong, FATE does this wondrous job for you. But in case you were confused on exactly WHERE you're located on the scale, I've taken the liberty to break it down for you. Now, if you recognize where you belong and you don't like it, you can always make the effort to change that, though may I say, this task ranges from moderate to challenging.
Part 4: The Stepping Stones
If you're in this category, then you can consider yourself the "
bouncers" of the inner circle. You, unfortunately, aren't exactly in the inner circle (
though you do enjoy all the perks without the title), but your job is to decide
who's in and who's out. You make or break those within the inner circle. People may refer to you as a
gossiper or a
major bitch, but that's just the negatives that come with the job. You may also be used to:
- Being taken advantage of
- Backstabbing within your group
- Big secrets
- Major lies
- Sudden change in status
- Trusting few
Outer circle members tend to
use you to make their transition into inner circle territory. You can either
let this happen or become
vigilant and aware to when this is happening to you or another fellow stepper. A Stepper's personality tends to
resemble the one of an inner circle member: cool, collected, well liked. They develop closer friendships with '
O'uties and inner circle members. Though most steppers run in the
same group with the inner circle, some
don't even know each other, though they are forced daily to
interact in various outside social situations such as dinner outings. Steppers are sometimes competing against
each other to make it into the inner circle, which you'd think would be a
fairly easy task considering they're around each other all the time, but it's
not. Steppers tend to try to weasel their way into inner circle territory by
dating inner circle guys/girls, which usually works because after their breakup, (
which will be gossip for the next week or two) the stepper can make their way into the
sympathetic arms of other inner circle members. Some steppers are only steppers because of a
"15 minutes of fame situation" where they did something that has everyone talking for a few days, thus taking
full advantage of this
short lived popularity, and sinking back into '
O'utie territory right after. Moving into inner circle territory for steppers is
60-80% likely.
