Looking for games, voicetesting (X-posed to dear_player)

[colorful_distractions]

Turn off the punk music, dude, or I'm out already. Punk is for rebels-without-a-clue who need to reaffirm their independence through false pretensions of toughness and masculinity that ultimately result in a codependent need for validation via their subculture.

[The fact that Joey said all that in one breath probably has a lot to do with her rapid-fire, clear enunciation and steady tone; clearly, she's had to give speeches before, and equally evident is her disdain for having to do so. Adjusting one of the many, many bracelets on her arms, she fidgets slightly with mostly-concealed nerves, waits for the music to change to something she can use to focus her own thoughts as well as drown out the less useful ones.]

Right. So, I'm not sure pointing out why I don't want this personally would work. Instead I'm gonna go with trying to be logical: what games need a technomancer? Now narrow that initial search's results by 'would allow OCs' and 'wouldn't drive me right over the edge'. I need my music, my beads, all that stuff that I use to unwind, or I start making poor decisions. I certainly can't go anywhere without computers since then I go from a loser with a skill that makes me worthwhile to that chick with too much hair dye and no people skills.

Besides, I have a helping-people-thing. Call it a complex if you want. I mean, I wouldn't, brosef, but you've gone ahead and called everything else I do an escapist complex or a coping mechanism or other fancy terms utilized to attempt to cover up your vast lack of knowledge of the psychological and sociological phenomena that make up my life. I need to be useful or no dice. I've made some bad decisions in my life - glitch-hop, anyone? - but I always make it a point to crash and burn the bad guys. It's all I've got to get me out of bed in winter when the live show season dries up, y'know?

Get it for me or get out of my face. I've got a new DJ Kutski set to listen to.

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[colorful_distractions]

Dude, don't say 'witches' like you speak for all witches ever. That's a huge leap. That's like saying I speak for all technopaths - which I promise I don't, because I've never even heard of two who hold the same opinion. This is what I mean about dividing people into groups too much in your head.

If this is a standard gauge of your lack of filter, you'll tell it to me again anyway, man.

I look after everyone I can even when it drives me to the point of blacking out from exhaustion but I don't hand my life story out to anybody who I speak to, I don't go into the ways my powers cost me a normal life and I don't bring out all my inner demons for sympathy points at random. You're not the only one who's got baggage, brosef, but you may have noticed there's a serious lack of other people going around playing the here's-my-life-story card, and that's because it's really, really not a normal thing to explain your family history, title, powerset and personal tragedy to somebody whenever you meet them. You know most people have conversations more to the effect of 'how are you, what do you do, what do you like', and build from there, right?

[destinedheir]

[Sighs.] Well clearly we got off on the wrong foot here.

[colorful_distractions]

I dunno, it was an honest foot, if anything. So there's that. Do you really do this to everybody you talk to? 'Cause I'm gonna need a break to go hammer out my life story if we're exchanging those. [She's never really thought about giving out that much information about herself in one go. It's not really how any human interactions she'd had work. Maybe witch society was just so radically different that this was the norm, though; that was always a possibility. What an exhausting culture to be a part of.]

[destinedheir]

Honestly? I never share any details about my powers or family relations. I'm living two lives, one where I'm just a regular working dude, and one where I save humans and others from demons. Besides my family and other witches, I don't share. Pretty much the only ones I'm ready to share a little with outside of those are Practitioners. They're humans whom believe in spellcraft but have no powers of their own. Wiccans.

[colorful_distractions]

Sounds to me like you're overloaded. You need a night off. Dance, drinks, loud music, no demons and spells and all that. And maybe therapy afterwards. A lot of it. 'Cause bro, on a scale of 1 to 10 you're always at an 11.

[destinedheir]

[Sighs.] Well maybe I do. Unfortunately neither demons nor charges respect free time. But I can give it a try.