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[shinraownsyou]

the USERNAME meme

Journal names. They're something we all think about, and that we often try to make as fittingly torturous to our characters as possible. Isn't it nice that our characters never have to know they're wandering around with that horrible label attached to them?

...wouldn't it be fun if they did?

RULES

1 Your character is communicating with others through a journal community, just like how we're using them, and they are perfectly aware of that fact. Whether they think that's normal or not is totally up to you.

2 The also know that when they signed on to this community, they were automatically assigned a name that supposedly has something to do with their personality and/or history. They didn't have any say in what that name was going to be, they're just stuck with it.

3 Make a post with your character's reaction to seeing what their own username is. Do they think it fits? Do they hate it with a passion? Are they downright confused?

4 Comment to other people's posts with your character's reactions to everyone else's usernames. If they know the other character, they might have good reason to laugh at them or feel sorry for them. If they don't, this could lead to some pretty interesting first impressions, don't you think?

5 If you want to use a name that's different from your actual journal name, just mark that in your post. No need to create a whole new journal just to make your character's life worse for one meme. ;)

6 PROFIT!

Comments

[megamind]

[...yeah okay there are a lot of hate sites.]

Oh-ho-ho! You aim large, my diminutive friend! Best way to be. Aim for the stars. And if you can't hit them the first time, aim for them again until you shoot one out of the sky!

[curvy_swordswoman]

[She stands up, though her arms are still folded over her front.]

O-oh... I see. I'm sorry. [She bows her head politely.]

[sacredpenance]

Oh, no. I was thinking of it for you.

[sherlocking]

Quite literal, yes. As it were, I'd rather not discuss that at this point in time.

I'm sure she would be flattered if not for the fact that she already knows it. She hardly needs my compliments. I imagine the same goes for you. There appears to be many a similarity between the both of you- I'd wager not an entire coincidence.

[womanwhobeatyou]

No, but if you're as perceptive as you seem to believe, Mr. Holmes, then you should know it's making you admit such a thing that's half the pleasure.

[forcedreset]

Well I am a God, you know! Do not let my size fool you, I am most fierce, a veritable wild beast when enraged! Terrifying! Unstoppable!

But your words are inspiring, Mister Mind, I shall do everything I can to live up to them!

[megamind]

How does that work, being a God? [ He's never really underestood human religions okay. ] I mean, what do you do?

[vestalments]

Perhaps it's made for masochists.

[oh no was that sarcasm. Someone needs to separate her and Rose.]

While most of the time I would consider your belief that the universe is out to get you unfounded paranoia, in this case I think it's not an unreasonable conclusion.

[candyhorns]

It's not unfounded paranoia, Kanaya, it's founded on empirical goddamn evidence.

[forcedreset]

Ah, well, that would depend upon the god, I imagine. For the most part, they generally sit around shouting at one another, and making great big messes of the mortal realms! It's all great fun.

Not so much for the mortals, I'm afraid, but ah..

[wallets]

No, I mean when you were young - you know, dreams of being an astronaut or a super secret spy or a princess, or whatever.

[megamind]

Well, I'm glad I'm not a mortal. That sounds quite disastrous! [... let him have his delusions, okay? They're be pretty hard to take away from him in the first place... ]

[vestalments]

What evidence might that be?

[candyhorns]

My whole life is evidence!

[vestalments]

Are you referring to your place or lack thereof on the hemospectum, or some other detail of your life out of the majority I am not privy to considering I only met you in person once our game session began?

[she is trying not to smile because his righteous indignation at everything is bordering on comical at the moment, if morbidly so. as if it isn't always comical, of course.]

[whyamisobritish]

Out of curiosity, is any of them a Russian cowboy?

[Axel does look ridiculous enough to be a member of FOXHOUND...]

[forcedreset]

[ don't worry brosef he won't be the one to burst your bubble. ]

Well yes, that is convenient enough, for you! Are you an ice elf?

[ because, you know, the ears.. and the .. blue. ]

[megamind]

I -- [ oh shit we have hit real genuine discomfort because he doesn't know how to answer that. ]

I'm Megamind, and master of all villainy. Labels are so passe.

[ THAT DIDN'T EVEN MAKE ANY SENSE, SIR, cries Minion from afar, but is summarily ignored. ]

[candyhorns]

You've got the wrong conjunction, the one you were looking for was "and".

[He can tell she's laughing at him, but because it's Kanaya rather than making him more grouchy this gives him the tiniest inkling that he's being ridiculous--which he ignores, because fuck acting reasonable.]

SORRY RIGHT CHARACTER WRONG ACCOUNT

[smellslikecherries]

[She purses her lips, a little embarrassed.]

A super hero.

... I read a lot of comic books.

[forcedreset]

[ well you are in luck, good sir, that loki is a smart cookie, and very attentive to social cues and the nuances of body language (or, well, text language in this particular case)! and you are also lucky that he has no reason to use this against you!

in other words, he'll roll with these punches, if you will. ]

How right you are; I could not agree more! A man is what he makes of himself, and all that.

[wallets]

[thus she would probably know that Boy Wonder is not, in fact, Superman's sidekick which some of his friends seem to have a problem figuring out. Good to know.]

Well there you go - tell people you're a super hero, and that the smell of cherries comes from using your super powers.

[smellslikecherries]

[She would know this and be judge anyone who thought that ngl]

I don't know if I could keep a straight face. Besides, I think it'd be pretty easy to figure out I'm not actually a super hero.

[megamind]

Indeed!

[ except when you make yourself what you think you're supposed to be, because it's what everybody thinks you're going to be, ala blowing up a chalk bomb in the kindergarten for gifted li'l kids. ]

Yes, I can tell now that in five or ten years down the line I'll have to crush you to keep you from overwhelming my evil.

Game on, young man, game on!

[wallets]

With enough practice, you can say anything with a straight face. And who knows, you might convince someone. You could try it, at least.