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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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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..

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... ]

[ 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. ]

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. ]

[ 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.

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!

I most assuredly look forward to all the the attempted crushings, O Great and Most Evil One! I shall work very hard to ensure that I am worthy of facing you!

[ .... yeah you're totally not evil at all are you, bro. ]

[ Not really. Kind of amoral by necessity, but not really evil. ]

And I look forward to vanquishing you!

[ he can totally level with you on that, bro. ]

Then until then, Mister Mind! I do hope you prepare yourself fully for my soon-to-be greatness!