Alex didn’t need an OLED Nintendo Switch; she already had a standard Switch that went underutilized even before she got herself a PS5. But when Nintendo offered her the Splatoon 3 version of the console as a gift delivered to her door, it wasn’t like she was going to send it back. It was a gorgeous console, and the note that came with it had a little hand-drawn Raymond from Animal Crossing on it; the dapper cat boy with thick-rimmed glasses and two differently colored eyes. The note was hand-written by Shigeru Miyamoto, someone who Alex had listed as her hero once or twice in public interviews.

The note read;
Dear Alex,

I heard in your interview on Hot Ones that you only had one game for your Nintendo Switch. And while Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a great game; I feel like you might be missing out on the many fun games releasing on the Switch every day.

In this care package, you’ll find the new OLED Nintendo Switch Splatoon 3 Edition, a copy of Splatoon 3, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Nintendo Switch Sports (we’ve heard how much you loved Wii Sports!) Hopefully, this will get you to use the Nintendo Switch more!

Thank you for always supporting us here at Nintendo.

P.S. Raymond says hi!

Sincerely,
It's-a-Mi-yamoto.

The way the note was signed made Alex laugh; she had said that once jokingly on Hot Ones while she was dying from a burning tongue and runny nose, and wasn’t thinking too hard about what she was saying during the interview. After reading the note, Alex opened up the box. It felt like Christmas morning and her face glowed with every goody that she pulled out. It didn’t take long for the tigress to start playing the games she was sent. Much to her manager’s dismay, she brought it with her on tour, too, which made her get a little less than the recommended amount of sleep and go on stage late more than a few times.

“Alright, that’s it, you get this back AFTER this leg of the tour,” Logan snatched the Switch from the tigress’s hands after she started playing it when she got into the makeup chair. It was less than five minutes until showtime and if she started another Splatoon match now, she would have just two minutes to get from the dressing room to the stage. A run would get her there, but starting off a show out of breath because she had to run from one end of the area to the other was a no-no.

“LOGAN GIVE IT BACK!” Alex said in an almost angry tone. The tigress, all dolled up and in her full-body fishnets, neon-colored sports bra, and extra sporty custom Adidas sandals, tried her best to get the Switch back from the raccoon.

“Nope, not happening, missy,” Logan said as she shook her head. She held the console over her head and moved it around to dodge the feline’s attempts to hop up to snatch it back from her. Alex eventually gave up and went on stage to perform, but spent the rest of the tour trying to find where that raccoon had hidden her Switch; she never did. Once the end of the European leg of her tour came, Logan came walking into Alex’s hotel room with the coveted Switch in her hand. When she opened the door, she saw Alex brushing her hair in the mirror, wearing nothing but a pink bra and matching panties. The tiger turned around to look at the doorway of her hotel room where her manager stood and rolled her eyes.

“You could have given it to me last night when I had absolutely nothing to do after the show,” Alex said with a grumble before she turned back to the mirror and continued brushing out the tangles in her post-sleep head of hair. The raccoon closed the door behind her and walked up to the tiger. “Oh come on… You can’t tell me that you didn’t need that rest. How was that sleep by the way?”

Alex set her hairbrush down and spent a couple of seconds looking at her reflection to make sure her hair was looking good. Once she was sure that it was, she turned to face Logan and snatched the Switch away from her. “I did need it, but I would have preferred knocking myself out with something, instead of watching the BORING hotel TV channels.” The tigress rolled her eyes before she pressed the power button on the Switch. She was ready to jump right back into gaming, but after she pressed the button, the screen turned on just to tell her that the battery was dead. She furrowed her brow and gave the raccoon an accusatory glare.

“What? I’ve seen you perform this tour a billion times, what else am I supposed to do for hours at a time?” Logan chuckled and gave Alex a coy smile. The look on Alex’s face shifted from being accusatory and suspicious of the raccoon to a pouty frown directed at her instead. “I hate you.” The tiger grumbled.

Logan couldn’t help but chuckle and nodded, “Yeah, just for now, but you’ll love me again when I book you the Super Bowl.” Her smirk widened and her big bushy tail waved around behind her almost as if she had already booked the gig for the tiger.

“Yeah, you’re right. You sure are good at your job.” Alex laughed. She shook her head and turned around on her heels to go find the charger for her game console. Logan shrugged her shoulders and adjusted the jacket of her pantsuit to make sure it was perfect before she turned around and walked toward the door. She played with her ponytail as she approached it but stopped as her hand wrapped around the door handle. It looked like she had just thought of something, like something she had forgotten just popped right back into her mind. Twirling the end of her black bundle of hair, she turned around to look in the tigress’s direction again. “Oh, by the way, your flight isn’t until Monday, so you have a few extra days here to chill, and your friend… Uh… Charles? Anyway, he got on that flight, and should probably be here right about now-ish…” She pulled her wrist up to check her watch and nodded. It was 11 AM, so the mouse’s flight landed about an hour ago, which meant he was either already at the hotel and making his way up to the room, or he was in the car on the way from the airport. The raccoon was good with managing time, she had to be, it was part of her job after all.

“Charlie, not Charles.” Alex corrected her, plugged her dead Switch into the charger, and left it on the floor to refuel. She stretched her arms over her head once she stood up and walked to the bathroom to brush her teeth. “See you back at home,” the tigress shouted from the echoey bathroom.

“Enjoy your weekend!” Logan shouted back to her, turned back to the door, and pushed down on the door handle to let herself out. She would have stayed to finally meet this Charlie person, but she had some work to do if she was going to get Alex booked for the most coveted gig of the year. And since this year’s Super Bowl already happened, the clock was ticking and the biggest war for agents and managers had already begun. Her heels clacked as she made her way through the hallway to the elevators and she pulled out her phone to get started.