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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

[owapplesapples]

Conversation. [He shrugs.]

[smellslikecherries]

Only you would count telling me your safe word as "conversation."

[owapplesapples]

[Grins.] It does tend to kick start verbal exchange.

[tofufu]

[B-badtouching?! HE ALREADY TOLD YOU HE'S NOT A HENTAI. OR A PEDO.]

Tsk, tsk. Such strong words from a helpless little boy. You couldn't possibly bite me to death even if I freed you.

[HE DOESN'T LICK BOOTS, HE LICKS-- UM. OTHER THINGS. HAVE YOU TASTED SHOE POLISH? IT'S DISGUSTING.]

[not_like_the_rest]

Good to know.

[sacredpenance]

Why don't you think it fits you?

[wallets]

Can you get a job like this doing that? Because I think I might have gone about this the wrong way.

[wickedwarlock]

Where did you hear something like that, anyway?

[letxequalnull]

There is nothing I require.

/keywords

[baremycross]

My night job? I don't want to talk about it.

[anklebiter]

[THEN LET HIM GO. OTHERWISE YOU'RE GOING TO BE LABELED A HENTAI FOREVER.]

Then why don't you let me go so you can find out?

[OH YEAH? SO HE LICKS PINEAPPLES INSTEAD, HUH? SURE DIDN'T KNOW THAT HE HAD A FRUITY FETISH... ALONG WITH BEING A PEDO.]

[theliar]

Oh, okay.

[She can respect that. There's a lot of things she doesn't like to talk about.]

My job just issues uniforms and patches. It's a little less... binding.

[baremycross]

So what do you do now?

[kindofademon]

Problem?

[smellslikecherries]

My partner's a writer. Though to be fair, the city doesn't actually pay him. He gets all the pay he needs by antagonizing me, anyway.

I figure you got into in in a more legitimate way?

[theliar]

I dabble here and there. And I save the universe on a fairly regular basis.

[baremycross]

I helped save Earth once. Sorta pales in comparison to the whole universe, though.

ack, sorry for the delay!

[gingerphones]

More or less.

[He tilts his head a little, watching Joshua.]

...it's better than it would have been if you'd never been my partner, anyway.

[forgivethemtheirpain]

Yes.

No worries!

[hisgame]

Why the exception?

[His eyes narrow slightly, curious over the other's scrutiny, before the corners of his lips quirk up in another smile.]

Of course it is.

[theliar]

Yes, well. I've always been a little bit of an overachiever.

[gingerphones]

The exception is because trusting you doesn't change that it's kind of hard to immediately get over being shot.

[hisgame]

Does it look like I'm going to do anything of the sort now? All I'm saying is you should trust me when I say I won't.

[gingerphones]

And I'll keep that in mind. You can't just... expect someone to trust something like that though, not for a long time.

[hisgame]

Fine, fine. Have it your way. I can be patient if it's really called for, after all.