Merriment 18 | Video

[mynameisallen]

[Allen had just finished training for the day. It wasn't like his usual workout as he was slowly working his way back to to that. He was still honestly tired after what happened even if he didn't do an awful lot beyond talking.

But to him talking can be just as exhausting and yet here he was with a smile on his face.]

Hello... So I don't normally talk on here much but I'm trying this new thing called... being open and it's been going well. Sort of.

[He has his moments.]

So I decided why don't we all try giving a fact or two about ourselves. They don't have to be super serious or anything. Just anything will do and we can talk.

I will go first with some facts:

One: Back home we had a situation where people became zombie like and so to deal with something... I hit on a male robot to get him to do it. It worked.
Two: I have a bone to pick with Cupid. They're an asshole and I don't like them.
Three: I've cheated pirates out of money. Like a lot of money.
And finally Four: I once stabbed myself with my own sword. I thought it wouldn't do anything... I was very very wrong.

[All rather odd facts about himself that he was comfortable with sharing. The smile till on his face.]

So whose going to be next if anyone.

Comments

[zombiemessiah]

Okay, so. I got questions before I got facts. Are you talking about the actual Cupid? Like god Cupid? Or just the idea of love being messed up. You're probably not wrong either way.

Also if the robot was into you, you should have kept him around. What sort of 'zombie-like' situation were you dealing with?

And last but not least, I'm sure you're not the only idiot here who's thrown himself on his own sword to prove some point or another so you should console yourself with that.

[eyediot]

What kind of pirates were they?

[controlsthedie]

Eros is a menace and a meddler.

[ Let's not ask how Thanatos knows Eros's Roman name is Cupid despite being from ancient Greece. He has a bean mouse named Mort which could be French for Death or based off Mors, Thanatos's Roman counterpart.

And, somehow, Thanatos is still willing to express his dislike of Eros and all the trouble he's caused him despite his current unemotional state. ]

[stillnewatthis]

Why would romantic overtures to an omnic fail? Unless it was one with a highly-limited AI, of course.

[tactlesstantei]

On one hand, I want to know more about this stuff, but on the other we’re supposed to be sharing info about ourselves, so…

I can play a basic scale on a guitar, but that’s about it. A friend of my brother showed me when I was younger.

I also studied in America for a few years before moving back to Japan on my own since I wanted to move back.

[That second one is a lie, of course.]

[sos_pilot]

Hey, good on you! Cupid, zombies, and pirates can all be jerks, so no worries there.

Hmmm... Let's see... I blab so much about my life already, what don't you guys know?

Oh, how about some family trivia?

One of my ancestors invented golf! ... And then got it banned from Scotland for a little while because of all the temper tantrums he'd throw during the game.

[jan_ken_hacking]

Mnnh...Cupid...the god, cupid? [she has to ask. She has to.]

...Do you want just as many facts in return?

[dreamtamer]

There are pirates in your world?

[Because this was clearly the most important takeaway from that.]

Facts about myself? I don't know if I can think of anything as interesting as yours. [Takato thinks.]

1. My parents own a bakery in West Shinjuku, and we live in an apartment over the store.
2. Guilmon was a picture that I drew before he was real.

[irrationally]

[ ...

Alice just stares as she hears that message across the ICPs. Staring so hard at the wall that it's like she's putting a hole straight through it.

Then she sighs as she drags herself over towards the nearest terminal to reply. ]

Allen. What are you doing.

[ There are so many more specific questions she could ask here, but there's so many of them that she doesn't even know which one to begin with.

Hence this one coming first instead. ]

[acapriciousthing]

Gods are very good at enraging mortals.

I have two goldfish named Slim and Wandsworth. That seems to surprise people.

[She works all the time they're the sensible pet choice]

[blitzcheer]

Question. Did you only stab yourself with a sword once.

[ He's ribbing ya, man. ]

But alright. Uh- I got thrown in jail, and they tried sentencing me to death via getting bored in an underwater system. Or getting eaten - one or the other.

[ You know, same difference. ]

We convinced the leader of the big religion in the world to send himself off to the Farplane, all 'cause we trashed the system they had that sent people to their deaths.

Annnd - I guess I was a guardian? Now a legendary guardian, back in Spira! I know, I look the part.

[ Heheh. ]

[so_dark_a_road]

Zombies, Cupid, and Pirates! Whoa, what an interesting world you must have come from!

You stabbed yourself with your own sword? OUCH!!

If we're listing facts about ourselves, let me see if I can come up with anything. Hmmm.

One, I'm of the Elven race. We are said to be immortal, and I'm 2805 years old. We have long lives, but we aren't really immortal. Back in my world, I didn't know anybody who made it beyond, say, 25,000 years.

Two, I was a wild child. I used to fling myself out of bed and hurtle myself out of the house into the natural environment, and I wrestled with my brothers and cousins often, and I often got into trouble for disobeying the household rules. For example, I sneaked out of the house at 3:00 a.m. to climb the clock tower on the other side of town, but I fell and broke my arm.

Three, I'm not much different now! I have frenetic energy, and I can't stand doing nothing for long. If you find me in the Garden Carriage meditating, that's a sort of exception to the rule. Or if you encounter me on a vacation world, and I'm contemplating a forest or the ocean.

Four, I learned music from my brother, Maglor the Bard. And now I play the harp and the flute. You might have heard me practicing in the Garden Carraige, and if so, I hope you liked the tunes.

[jingyeets]

... Are we allowed to ask questions? Because I don't think I understood most of that...

( Is he. Supposed to share. Random facts. He crosses his arms and grimaces at the ICP. How is that going to make sense? )

[sevenyearsasleep]

You stabbed yourself with your sword? Where?

Oh, right! I'm Link. I'm a swordsman, I was raised by a Tree and a bunch of eternal fairy children, and my brother is Shadow. He had a slightly different upbringing.

I can also play the ocarina, if anyone wants to listen sometime.

[motherofresistance]

Facts about ourselves, hmm?

[Leia takes a moment to think. What are some unusual facts about herself that she's comfortable with sharing?]

Let's see...

I've met incarnations of the elements Water and Fire.
In several other dimensions unrelated to mine there are fictionalized accounts of parts of my life, though I have yet to see them.
My family history reads like a bad holo-novel.
My friends and I became honorary members of a tribe of Ewoks after they mistook my droid for a deity and nearly roasted my brother and then-future husband for dinner.

[eternalinquiry]

[ This Lan Wangji has never used this system before and it takes several attempts to make it work. ]
If you managed to mitigate the zombies, then whatever action you took was worth it. [ Maybe, not that he would ever try that himself. ]
I am curious as to how you thought stabbing yourself would not have consequences.

Facts in return;
One, I am convinced that most technology hates me.
Two, I live in a museum of which I am effectively an exhibit.
Three, I have suffered through four embellished accounts of my own life as classroom material.
Four, I have a file in the local government that is thicker than my wrist, however I am immune to any threat from them.