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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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[Clearly someone who spends all his time studying fish and bugs and fossils. He stops his excited rocking, frowning slightly.]

Ah. That does seem a bit disappointing.

It cannot be helped.

[ it is the way of forgotten gods and evil spirits, in a land where magic is slowly thinned away every day. ]

I suppose not. Most creatures do settle into their adaptations, so long as it continues to suit their environment.

[Look, though, he's still excited about the idea of someone potentially being old enough to have been around to see the fossils before they were fossils, though. But he has just enough social skills to realise he probably shouldn't let himself get too carried off on that thought.]

The habitats of Middle Earth rarely change, save for a cataclysmic event.

When you say it that way, it seems as if you may have witnessed such a thing.

I have witnessed a great many things.