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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!

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Well, of course. It's the inside that counts and all that.

[He waves his hand dismissively.]

All I'm saying is that some people deem it important to have that outside reflect their inside...and others then pick up on it.

Yeah, well, I'm not one of those people.

[And, for the record, that dismissive hand-wave is quite possibly the single-most irritating gesture ever. At least until he finds another one of Joshua's gestures to be offended by, anyway.]

[even more irritating than his giggle? Because he's going to be doing that right now.]

Obviously. As I said, you're too straightforward. It's almost refreshing, actually.

[Oh god the giggle. The hand-wave is the most irritating gesture and the giggle is the most irritating sound.

If Joshua did both at once, Neku would spontaneously combust with rage.]

How can it be 'refreshing' when you phrase it like an insult?!

I didn't say it was a bad thing. If you interpreted it that way, it's no fault of mine.

[Now he's feigning innocence. This must be some kind of unholy trinity of Joshua's Irritating Gestures.]

If it's 'too straightforward' then that's too much, and how can you not mean that as a bad thing?

[Joshua he is going to strangle you if you keep this up. And he's going to enjoy it.]

"Too straightforward" to bother with the nuances of fashion or usernames, is what I meant. Try to keep up, Neku.

[Not like Joshua made it easy to do that at all.]

Hmph. Whatever you say.

[He still feels like he's been insulted somewhere along the line. Although, admittedly, he's pretty sure that's a general thing for anyone who ever talks to Joshua.]

Either way, how is something like that refreshing?

[Of course, backhanded compliments are his specialty.]

Well, with everyone trying to project the image they want to be seen as, it's nice not to have to wade through all the layers sometimes.

[Of course they are.

Neku hesitates a long moment before eventually deciding on;]

Thanks, I guess.

See? It wasn't an insult. I'm a little hurt you'd assume such a thing.

Maybe if you were a little more straightforward yourself then you wouldn't have a problem.

It's not my fault some people jump to conclusions. Or can't read between the lines.

Obviously it's just because I'm so straightforward, huh?

I don't know if that aspect of it is you being straightforward as much as dense.

[and yes, that was an insult.]

[Well, so much for even backhanded compliments.]

Maybe it's just you being ridiculously overcomplicated.

I'm not overcomplicated.

[not if you were already fluent in Joshua-speak, but who the hell was?]

You just want things to be too simple.

I want things to make sense, is all.

Everything I say makes perfect sense, Neku.

Maybe to you. But, for the record, most people aren't you.

[Thankfully.]

What a pity. That would make everything so much easier, wouldn't it?

[another giggle.]

[No, that would be the worst possible thing in the entire world. Ever.]

Or not.

[Good thing Neku is likely unaware of all the other Joshuas running about in all the other alternate universes.]

That does defeat the purpose of individuality, doesn't it?

[That's okay, so long as he never has to meet them.]

...sure. That works.

[That can totally be his issue with it.]

Or can you not handle more than one of me?

[Neku could barely handle this Joshua, much less all of them.]