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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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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.]

[Karkat this is why you're entertaining. Of course, she never quite pities him, because that would be a little strange--it's a feeling she can't quite put a finger on. Perhaps the humans have a word for it, if she can find a way to ask. But in the meantime, she's content enough to look after him in her own way. A leader's nothing without his backup, right?]

[but she sobers a little, because even with dream bubbles it's difficult to talk about their fallen companions.]

And yet you're among those still standing, so I would count that as positive.

Yeah, but--that's almost worse sometimes, because it's like, wow, look at all those other people whose fuckups were so much less spectacular than mine, look at how they're dead and I'm still cluttering up the universe with my obnoxious excrescences, like how is that fair to anyone?

[That came off a little more sincere than he meant it to, oops.]

[there is it, the classic Vantas self-deprecation.]

You seem awfully certain of your status as an annoyance without consulting those around you first.

[That shuts him up for a second, while he struggles to come up with a way of continuing on his stubbornly self-loathing track without disrespecting her implied opinion, and finally he gives up.]

... OK, I guess I wasn't thinking.

I talk to myself so much sometimes I forget that what I say isn't what everyone wants to say.

And don't tell me that's fucked up, I know it's fucked up.

[she is giving him a Disapproving Look that Rose would probably describe as "maternal", though Kanaya has no clue what that actually means. But she can't stay upset at him, don't tell anyone.]

You should remind yourself you put an end to a murderous rampage with only a shoosh and a pap--even though I don't find myself particularly satisfied with the outcome and would like to have had a hand in it myself--the next time you feel like giving yourself less credit than is due.

[wow can any of their conversations end without talking about how much she wants to kill Gamzee. That would be a miracle.]

Ha ha, wow, you just smuggled your hatecrush into this conversation like a pro, look at you mastering the subtle art of snarky horseshit in a positive reinforcement sandwich.

Maybe you should write me a note, like, "Your Moirail Is Awful And Your Greatest Accomplishment In Life Is Making Him Momentarily Less Awful With The Application Of Your Surprising Soothing Talents, P.S. I Still Think He Should Be Dead". Then I can look at it when I wake up every evening and feel conflicted over my conciliatory role.

[wow gross it's not a hatecrush!!]

I assure you my hatred is extremely platonic. [she sounds like the words themselves taste awful.] It isn't my intention to make you feel conflicted and I have no desire to involve you in any conflict that may arise. Unfortunately as his moirail that is sort of expected of you.

Which is why I have been restraining myself.

[not because she can't find the object of her desired chainsawing or anything.]

That's great, I'm really grateful to you for that and I'm glad you haven't asked me to help you find him or anything, but it kind of sucks that I can't talk to my best friend about my moirail without feeling like I should be conciliating between you two or like I already am by accident.